Beta: AnarionRising27 and Lord Farsight
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Next Day 1000, Kumogakure Forum Tower
On the highest platform the Fourth Raikage was looking at the military parade proudly which displayed the Kumo's increasing might and power every year. In front of him were fifteen battalions of a thousand ninjas, the battalions marched one by one towards the Kumogakure Forum. They were then followed by Kumo's latest war machines.
Finally the best of the best: the Golden Horn Force. Since Naruto gained access to the Kyuubi's power three years ago, the Kumo leader came up with this parade idea. It was to satisfy his ego as well as that of the council, and to solidify support from the councillors. It also increased everyone's patriotism, slaves no exception.
Most of the villagers and all the slaves must come to the Forum to celebrate the Kumo Foundation Day. Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Sayuri and Asuka were all sitting in the slave section, looking up the Hyuuga could see her Naruto-kun standing on a platform of the Forum Tower. When the entire military formation was complete, all shinobis and kunoichis snapped into attention and dropped their right knees to salute, and all villagers and slaves stood up from their seats and bowed deeply.
"ALL HAIL KUMOGAKURE NO SATO!" The thundering salute made A and his councilmen smile.
"Magnificent, aren't they?" Tamiya asked in amazement. He was the councillor in charge of the pharmaceutical department, which was responsible for developing the growth acceleration and the fertility pills.
"Even Iwa doesn't do this kind of stunt," Kurotsuchi whispered and Sayuri nodded to agree.
"Sshh…" Hinata whispered in reprimanding tone. "Don't let anyone hear you say that!"
This year was the ninth year of his Ten Year Plan. The military parade was held on the Foundation Day every year, next year the parade would be bigger in number due to the baby booms, and next year they would display a new type of force that would surprise and inspire the crowd. Standing behind A were his Kumo councillors, and on the lower platform stood his six appointed generals including his three jinchuurikis: his brother B, Yugito Nii, and Naruto Arashi, C, Darui, and T- the leader of the Golden Horn Force.
In A's mind, he was the Commander in Chief of the Kumo forces, B and C would be his two main Chiefs of Staff. The Golden Horn Force would serve as the commandos, and Darui, Yugito and Naruto would become his field generals leading the armies. Two more years and the Plan would be complete with another ten battalions.
Naruto stood impassively with his hands in his back, forcing himself to hide his disgust, as the Raikage gave out the speech about sacrifice, commitment, glory, and honour.
'Same old crap,' the blond thought bitterly. 'But look at the bright side, this military parade has done me a favour: many ninjas must be tired for celebrating this day. The Kumo leadership's ego will be their undoing.'
Naruto had sent a high-level shadow clone with a large storage scroll to sneak into the sewer network. It then created additional 99 low-level shadow clones and split into two groups based on the underground infrastructure information. The first group went to the Kumo leadership's houses and the second group went to the armouries and other military installations.
The groups placed high explosive seals Havoc on the top sections of the sewer and the manholes. Havoc seals would be able to blow with enough strength to crack the ground. Incendiary seals Hellfire were placed in the sewer as well.
The Havoc and the Hellfire seals were learned by Naruto from one of the Uzumaki technique scroll. These seals were invented and used during Uzushio's Last Stand.
When all the shadow clones dispelled, Naruto struggled not to look sick by the sewer experience. The pleasant thoughts of him sabotaging the pills distracted him from the nasty sewer experience. Two months ago, he had separated and dumped the sterilization ingredients into the pill plants and the water supply each month. The new pills had been slowly destroying the male's sperm and the female's eggs in the village, and no one had even noticed it yet. If he was correct, at least over half of the people had been affected, and the pill plants would become history tonight.
'You can kiss your baby boomers goodbye,' Naruto thought as he looked at the Kumo leader.
There would be an evening festival district where most of the villagers would come and the district was not placed with any Havoc or Hellfire seal. The civilians were innocent, but those leaders were not, and many Hellfire and Havoc seals were placed around their luxurious living places. Not only for punishment, but it could draw as many ninjas as possible to help their leaders as a distraction.
There were the extra fireworks Naruto prepared for the Kumo's Foundation Day.
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1830, Naruto's House
Naruto, Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Asuka and Sayuri had finished their last meals as Kumo slaves quickly and were finishing packing. Hinata was packing up Naruto's things too while he was downstairs creating several shadow clones codenamed: Black, White, Yellow, Red, Orange, Grey, and Blue.
"Yellow, you go take care of B-sensei and Yugito-sensei and my old teammates," Naruto gave him two large storage scrolls.
"Black and White, you go to the power plants and pills plants respectively," he handed them each a large storage scroll. "When you gain entrance, you deploy your shadow clones and order them to place the Havoc seals over the machines and the buildings. Black after you blow up the plants, you immediately go to the Raikage Tower to collect the weapons, all of them, then blow up the basement with the Havoc seals. Try if you can also get the classified files at your own discreetness."
There was no harm to grabbing additional copies. The tracker seals on the Mist Kiba swords indicated they and other powerful weapons including his father's Flying Thunder God kunai were stored in a basement room, and the information Naruto read last year confirmed their location.
"White you go to the archive library secret basement safe to get all the confidential documents and destroy the library too with Hellfire seals." It would make it look like the fire destroyed the confidential information files. "You two put the files into the storage scrolls, then immediately go to the evacuation tunnel entrance and hide them or give them to Hinata-chan if they arrive early. Remember, henge into the Raikage when you are near the places." The two shadow clones nodded as they received their orders.
Naruto turn to look at his Orange and Red. "Orange, you are responsible to the ANBU headquarters and the Research and Development center. Red, you take care of the Golden Horn Force, and the Egg and Sperm storage facility."
Looking at Grey. "You go to the General Hospital and send my regards to those doctors. Lastly, Blue, you will escort the girls to the Slave facility to liberate everyone from that place. The fireworks start at 2000, and we will start our own fireworks at 2030."
The blond turned to his last shadow clone- Yellow. "You MUST complete your task before 2030 when the fireworks start and dispel to let me know the situation. All of you except Blue, go!"
The shadow clones disappeared and went towards their respective targets.
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1900
As most of the shadow clones left except Naruto and his Blue one, the girls already finished packing and all went downstairs.
Naruto looked at Hinata. "Thank you for packing up my stuff, Hinata-chan."
The Hyuuga smiled. "You're welcome."
Naruto looked at the girls. "Ready?"
They all nodded, and he put his right hand on Blue's shoulder. "This shadow clone of mine named Blue will escort and help you to liberate H's facility. First of all, you girls go to Kimura's house and stay there. His house is the closet to H's facility. We'll commence our fireworks at 2030. You can start your task then when you hear my 'fireworks.' Anyway you girls must be at the tunnel entrance before 2300, understood?"
"Yes," the girls nodded again.
"Good, I'll take care of the rest: the Raikage and the elite jonins. I'll see you at the tunnel entrance. Stay safe."
"You too, Naruto-kun." Hinata said and they both smiled to each other.
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1930, Jonin Bar
Naruto couldn't send a shadow clone to the bar, because of C, who was the best sensor in the hidden Cloud village. He must be neutralized by Naruto personally. The whiskered blond saw C and Darui were sitting in a far corner with several other high level jonins when he entered the bar. Much to his shock, the Raikage was here as well.
'Shit, gotta change the plan…'
"Yo, Naruto," Darui was holding a saucer and took a sip. "Aren't you supposed to have a party with B, Yugito and your teammates?" The dark-skinned elite jonin's question made the Raikage raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, but not now. It starts at nine o'clock and it's too early to get there now. I bet B-sensei is rapping right now, I will arrive there very punctually, not one minute earlier."
A and all jonins burst out laughing. The jinchuuriki took a seat and ordered a drink. "Raikage-sama, I thought you would be at Mabui's home to have some fun time?"
"Yeah I would like to, but she still has some works to do in the tower."
"Oh well, there is still some time left before the party. I don't mind having some drink and chats with you guys before the party. Do you guys want to come to the party too?"
"Not when B will be rapping at the party," everyone answered together. Naruto laughed lightly.
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1935, Kumo ANBU Headquarters
"Greeting Fox-san," the ANBU guard said. "What are you doing here this evening? Aren't you supposed to be enjoying the festival or going to a party or something?"
"Yeah, I am going to go to a party later," Orange dressed in Naruto's ANBU uniform replied. "But I am here to pick up some of the stuff in my locker first."
"I see," the guard nodded and let the shadow clone enter the headquarters.
The kage bunshin walked quickly into the underground locker room. He placed many Havoc seals in his boss' locker, and the lockers of those Naruto knew were currently away for missions. He also placed seals in every dark corner he could find. As he left the ANBU building, he saw fireworks in the sky.
'The fireworks have begun, it's now 2010,' Orange thought as he looked at his watch and quickly departed for the Research and Development Center.
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1940, The Golden Horn Force Barrack
Commander/General T was now having a celebration party with most of his fellow Golden Horn Force members. The rest would come and join in later. The Raikage had increased the funds for his unit, and in two more years the Golden Horn Force would double in size.
"Hello Naruto," T greeted as he and all the other party participants were slightly drunk.
"The Raikage told me to bring you this box of sake," Red said in a cheerful tone. "It is his present for your party!"
"More sake! Good!" All the party participants cheered and began to take out the sake bottles from the box. "Give our thanks to Raikage-sama!"
"No problem," the shadow clone put the sake box in a corner where all other garbage was placed. Unbeknownst to T and the rest of the Golden Horn Force members, the alcohol was spiked with tasteless paralysis drug, which would come effective later. The alcohol box inside was filled with Havoc and Hellfire seals.
Furthermore, Red had secretly placed three more Havoc seals under the tables as he left the room. The shadow clone raised his head and saw the village fireworks already started. It was 2010 now, and he had to hurry to go to the Egg and Sperm Storage Facility, which was eight kilometers away.
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2010, B's House
The house of the jinchuuriki to Hachibi was a mansion and was surrounded by high walls, which was perfect for Naruto's plan since people wouldn't notice it at first when the house was gone.
The fireworks had started. Yugito Nii, Samui and her brother Atsui, Karui and Omoi with his slave were in B's home, along with Naruto's Team G teammates J and K. They had all been invited by the whiskered blond to come to the Hachibi jinchuuriki's mansion as he suggested having a party there.
"B, it will be best if you can stop rapping and wait for Naruto's arrival," Yugito was massaging her temples.
"I hope B-sensei won't do any more rapping at the party..." Karui muttered. They already started the party and were having drinks and waiting for Naruto. There was a knock on the door, and Samui went to open the door to reveal Naruto, who was actually Yellow on Naruto's behalf.
"Hi Naruto! Where are your slaves, I was expecting you would bring at least one of your girls with ya?" The blonde kunoichi asked. "You even told Omoi to bring his slave here, so I thought they would have come here, too."
"They don't need to come. Anyway I'm very thirsty. Can you take me to get a drink, please?"
"Sure," Samui led Yellow to the party room, and he was greeted by everyone.
"Hello everyone," the shadow clone raised his glass of drink high, and got everyone's attention. "I have an announcement to make: I am Naruto Namikaze."
Yugito's and B's eyes widened and were stunned and speechless at the blond's statement.
"Namikaze? What is he talking about?" Karui asked in bewilderment. "Isn't his surname Arashi?"
"I am not an Arashi, Karui," Yellow shook his head. "B-sensei and Yugito-sensei will explain this to you guys, the crimes committed by Kumo. I am here to protect you and not to let you to get involved in this."
"What the?" J was confused when he looked out the windows, and others followed suit and they saw the outdoor environment began to change. It looked like the house was quickly submerging. Outside four Yellow's shadow clones were standing at the four corners of B's house respectively. They had created a dimension that the entire house was sinking into it.
The two Kumo jinchuurikis were trembling slightly- they were both unarmed and unprepared, fearing what Naruto would do to them for their involvement in his abduction.
"B-sensei, Yugito-sensei," Yellow looked at them sadly. "You have been a brother and a sister to me. I am very happy to know you, so I want you to stay out of this. I don't want to fight you."
The shadow clone put down two large storage scrolls. "These two scrolls contain all necessities for you guys to sustain for five days."
The time in the dimension was twenty times faster. By the time B and the gang got out of the dimension, it would be three months later.
"There's a letter in one of the storage scrolls, you will understand why I do this. The heinous crimes this village committed cannot go unanswered."
Yellow turned to look at Omoi to deliver Naruto's message. "Omoi, take good care of your… girl as a family like B-sensei does, or I will take action. Also, there is a karaoke machine inside one of the scrolls, the best model of this year." He grinned mischievously before he dispelled.
"ENJOY!"
"NARUTO!" All Naruto's teammates yelled exasperatingly as they knew who would love to use the machine.
Yugito was still stunned by Naruto's revelation, so was B. They were still trembling slightly and trying to figure out when and how their fellow jinchuuriki regained his memory.
B's mansion was now in the Namikaze dimension and Yellow's task was complete. There was still two minutes till 2030.
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2028, Jonin Bar
Yellow's memory returned to Naruto, and he smiled inwardly as he looked at the clock: it was 2028 now. He casually put his right hand in a pocket to activate the detonator seals one by one.
'Time to begin our show, sixty seconds counting down…' Naruto brought up another chat topic. "What's up with the rumours about the group called Akatsuki?"
"They are ninja mercenaries. I heard Iwa and Suna have been employing them, because they accept cheaper fees and yet they can produce good results." C answered.
"Hn, Kumo doesn't need them," the Raikage grunted, but he was pleased that even Iwa had fallen low and it wouldn't take too much effort to conquer them.
"It sounds kind of weird to me that a ninja village would employ a ninja mercenary group..." Naruto was in deep thought. "Ninja villages are already considered major mercenary groups. Outsourcing employs another outsource..."
Before the other jonins and the Raikage could explain, small explosions could be heard outside. People on the street saw the ground began to crack and manhole covers flew out wildly, and some of them crashed into nearby buildings. Many people quickly left the cracked grounds in fear of danger.
The bar's light was suddenly off as well as the entire street, which confused everyone, and some people even jumped. There were surprised yelps and shouts in the streets.
It's totally pitch-black without the light in the night when the Kumo fireworks stopped a few minutes ago. The pitch-black only lasted thirty seconds, and the lights were replaced by the sudden bright lights of huge explosions from underground.
Large orange flames erupted from the streets. Anyone who was still on the streets was caught and consumed by the fires, and they screamed in high-pitched agony.
"THERE IS FIRE EVERYWHERE!" A civilian screamed his lungs out when he saw much of the village was in flames.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" The Raikage shouted and got up from his seat and stormed out of the bar to see the streets were burning and blasts were taking place everywhere. The number of explosions and their scales were larger than Naruto's anticipation, and he stiffened as two memories returned to him.
'DAMN IT! RED AND ORANGE WERE CAUGHT BY THE EXPLOSIONS!'
"An invasion?" A concluded and he started to give out orders. He pointed to Darui and other shinobi who had water affinity. "You guys go to extinguish the fire!"
The Kumo leader looked at Naruto. "You go get B and Yugito, they should be at his home! C, I want you to get as many men as possible from the barracks! You tell those with water affinity to extinguish the fire, while the rest move to defend the gates! I'll go get the Golden Horn Force. The rest of you go to the gates and wait for our arrival!"
"Hai!" Everyone got their orders and spread out.
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2045, Outside the Slave and Breeding Program Facility
Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Asuka and Sayuri donned the old Uzumaki armours and weapons, much to Kurotsuchi's and Sayuri's reluctance, Iwa pride, but Kumo now was a war zone. They could hear explosions and screams everywhere, and explosions were still going off.
Hinata was extremely reluctant to come back to this horrendous place, but she had to. Only she, Kurotsuchi, Asuka and Sayuri could convince the girls there to leave, it was a task which man, even Naruto, couldn't do it.
"Byakugan!" Hinata activated her dojutsu. "There are four ANBU guards outside the facility and there are six female chunins inside, with H and her staff in their dormitory."
"All right, Hinata-chan," Blue said to her. "You can take them out with your archery skills. It is time for you to get some real combat experience."
Hinata realized what Blue said: her first kills, the idea of which caused her to shudder. Naruto believed she was currently at chunin level now, but the Hyuuga was now having doubts. The shadow clone noticed her hesitation with the idea of taking lives, he put a hand on her shoulder.
"Hinata-chan!" Blue shook her out of her hesitation. "There are many girls imprisoned there. You can do it. Boss believes you can do it!"
Her Naruto believed in her and she could do it. The Hyuuga took a deep breath calming herself before she raised her bow and shot four arrows to four respective targets with deadly precision. The arrows all hit the ANBU in the head and they all dropped dead without making a sound. The bluenette felt sick at her first kills and was shaking staring at her hands but was stopped by Blue.
"Good job, Hinata-chan!" The shadow clone congratulated her with a big smile. "Boss will love to see and hug you when you two meet at the tunnel entrance."
Hinata blushed heavily and the troubling thought was almost washed away. The kage bunshin turned to look at the other three girls who looked a little uncomfortable.
"You will get your kills inside the facility. I bet you have scores to settle, right?"
"Yeah!" All four girls nodded eagerly.
"Let's go!" Blue waved for the girls to storm into the facility. The kage bunshin created four more shadow clones who went to take care of the ANBU bodies and transformed into them.
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2100
The Raikage Tower was in chaos, all the tower staff was terrified when they saw the flames and explosions covering most of the village. To make matters worse, the tower had been rocked by explosions as well. Everyone was confused and panicking, even some of the ANBU here had become worried.
The culprit of the tower underground explosion- Black henged into the Raikage and he rushed into the tower.
"Raikage-sama!" Mabui was finally relieved. "I am glad to have you here!"
Black was surprised the Raikage's secretary was here, but he maintained his composure. "Mabui-chan, there is no time. Evacuate everyone to the shelters. ANBU!" Several masked ninjas appeared to await their orders. "Go help to evacuate the civilian to the shelters. I'll take care everything here myself. Don't question your Raikage! NOW GO!"
After Black confirmed everyone was out of the tower, in the Raikage Office he grabbed all the keys which were for the basement rooms. He then hid several Havoc seals on the Heavenly Transfer Machine, before going to the basement room which stored all the secret powerful weapons.
There was no need to have the keys, the explosion created a big hole. The legendary Kiba swords stood its name despite the explosions, as the swords remained undented. Black walked into the room through the hole and created a few shadow clones to start to collect all Kumo's precious weapons: the Treasured Tools of the Rikudo Sennin, the Flying Thunder God kunai, and the Kiba swords. After all it's done, he placed all of the remaining Havoc seals on the basement room.
The shadow clone sensed and confirmed that no one had come to the tower, so he hurried back to the Raikage Office to collect all the confidential files. It pleased him that the secondary objective was also complete. He placed all his Hellfire seals in the Raikage Office before quickly left the tower and detonated the seals. The great tower shook before it began to fall apart into burning wreckage.
Now his last destination was the evacuation tunnel.
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2110
Secrecy was one of important factors in ninja life. Naruto hadn't even told any Kumo-nins he had the Fire Release from Kurama, and he had a third affinity: Water Release. Naruto could even use his water techniques with very little water available. This secrecy paid off when the Raikage didn't order him to join Darui in the effort to put out the fire.
The barracks and B's home were in the same direction, and Naruto had expected the Raikage would order C to rally more troops from the barracks. The two were jumping across the buildings to avoid the fire on the streets.
Some weak buildings were starting to collapse. Naruto jumped down and saved a little girl from a collapsing building which C nodded to when he saw the jinchuuriki placed the girl in a safe location. The two resumed going to their destinations- the barracks and B's place.
"Hey C," Naruto waved his hand which got the older ninja's attention. "There is something in this alley…"
They both dropped into the dark alley, and C saw nothing and was confused.
"Huh? I don't see anything strange, what are you… ARGH!" His talk was cut short as Naruto punched him deep in the gut before putting a sleeping seal on him.
"Had you not been a decent man, you'd be dead now," Naruto pulled the sleeping C into a safe corner and hid him in a dumpster.
"C is finally neutralized," the blond touched the seal on his left arm, and it revealed a storage scroll. He donned his ANBU uniform and weapon pouches and put the Arashi katana on his back. He created three shadow clones.
He pointed to one of them and gave it a storage scroll. "Orange, you go to take care of the Research and Development Center."
Looking at the second shadow clone. "Henge into C and issue commands to the troops at the barracks to put out the fire and help the villagers to the shelters."
Naruto turned to his third shadow clone. "You henge into the Raikage and go to the ANBU headquarters and tell them to put out the fire and take the villagers to safety."
All three kage bunshins left upon receiving their orders. The whiskered blond jumped back to a top building and saw there were smokes rising from the directions of the ANBU headquarters and the Golden Horn Force barrack.
'Good, most of them should be neutralized. If I had known that A would go to the Golden Horn Force there, I would have blown up the barrack with him in it… It is 2140 now- less than ninety minutes to go. Going there will take at least 30 minutes and another 20 minutes from there to the tunnel. Time's short.'
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2145, Sub Level Two Storage Room of Kumogakure General Hospital
"Ugh…" The hospital director Ishii moaned as he was awakened by a sudden bright flashlight. The director remembered last time he was having a violent stomach cramp at home when the Kumo fireworks rocked his delicate stomach and he rushed to the toilet but was knocked out by someone there.
He found himself bound and gagged. He looked around and saw his twenty fellow colleagues here and there were even some female doctors here as well. Most of the male doctors here including him had formed an unofficial little "Slave Molestation Club" and had always shared their sexual harassment experience with no shame. The doctor smelled foul smells wafting from their bodies and realized so did he- they had all soiled themselves.
'Was my drink spiked with laxative? Everyone too?' Ishii pondered.
A figure slowly came into the light to be revealed as Grey posing as Naruto. All the doctors were surprised and shocked and wanted to say something, but they were all gagged.
"I am here to deliver punishment for your crimes in the Breeding Project," Grey said in a monotone voice. "The labour processes on the slaves you all partook in and are guilty of."
One month ago, Naruto had snuck into the doctor offices in night and read their files and journals, which revealed horrifying information which had greatly angered and disgusted him. Director Ishii's and some other doctors' journals contained disgusting personal reflections about how they enjoyed molesting the slaves under the medical examination pretext.
Naruto felt sick and became sicker and more disturbed when he discovered more facts. The Raikage secretly changed his policy earlier this year. If the slaves were not impregnated by their masters within the deadlines or had reached twelve years old without a master, they would be brought to the hospital to be artificially inseminated. The blond had shuddered violently for his new love Hinata but had never told her and other girls of this horrible fact.
Another thing was that midwives were ordered by the doctors to immediately take away babies, despite even when young dying mothers tearfully begged to see their children at least once.
"Let me ask you doctors this: is it too much for mothers to see their newborn children at least once?" Grey asked on Naruto's behalf as he was fiddling a kunai dangerously and he looked at their widening eyes. "I know what you scumbags are thinking. You are thinking: if this kunai is a suppository, would Naruto shove it in my ass? Hmm…. YES for those of you who have taken such sick enjoyment you exploited in the project."
Some of the male doctors paled and began to tremble heavily.
"But all of you here are cruel and corrupted monsters for what you have done to those young mothers, and you will also receive your sentence for your crimes in the Breeding Project. I'm here to let you taste your own medicine."
All of the doctors paled. Today Naruto had sent Grey to deliver justice and to punish this scum who had insulted the noble position of doctor. Twenty more Naruto's shadow clones stepped into the light. They all activated the A-rank assassination technique: Wind Claws on their right hands.
The Wind Claws technique was a twin wrist serrated blades of wind chakra, it was not only used for assassination but also for hand-to-hand combat. It certainly had no problem severing human hands.
The medical staffs were struggling to speak through the gags and were desperately trying to break out of their bonds but to no avail.
"You can beg as much as those poor mothers did, and I will show you the same mercy you gave them." There was no emotion in Grey's voice. These doctors' eyes were full of fear and tears, and once again soiled themselves.
"Rest assured. You won't die because we will cauterize your wounds, but your careers end tonight. You'll have to find a way to wipe your sorry ass for the rest of your life." Privacy seals had been set up here.
"Here no one else will hear you scream."
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2200, Slave and Breeding Program Facility
Despite there was no Kumo ninja nearby, Blue was still on guard, nevertheless. He was impressed by the four girls' performances; they dispatched the six chunin guards inside the facility easily, and subjugated H and the other facility staff and gave them a "proper punishment" to settle personal scores. Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Sayuri and Asuka were all truly chunin level now.
However, he blushed and was more shocked when the girls and he busted into the slave-students' sleeping quarters. They were all lying naked on their beds.
'Does Hinata have the same experience?' The shadow clone thought. 'Boss isn't going to be happy about this.'
The slave-students were finally brought out of the facility, Blue again created several shadow clones and they transformed into H, the chunin guards and the staff, to create a false scene to show the facility was still secure. Then he, Hinata, and Asuka first dropped into the sewer and made several hand signs.
"Suiton: Tidal Wave!" Both Hinata and Asuka shouted as the water in the sewer moved.
"Suiton: Great Torrent!" Blue shouted and a flood was shot from his mouth.
These two techniques washed away most of the unpleasant things in the sewers, ladder was set up and people started to descend into the sewer quickly.
Blue served as the rear guard, while the four girls led about one hundred and fifty slave-students to the closest manhole to the evacuation tunnel. It's now 2220. The group would make it before the 2300 deadline.
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2230, The Egg and Sperm Storage Facility
Naruto had entered the facility after quickly dispatching all the ANBU guards. He immediately created a group of shadow clones once he entered here. The shadow clones quickly spread out into the storage rooms and placed Hellfire seals in each of the egg or sperm storage tanks, and then placed Havoc seals along the walls of the building.
The blond stiffened as Black's and White's memories returned to him. "Good, they have rendezvous with Hinata-chan. All of the people have arrived." But his face turned grim as he sensed a large spike of chakra coming towards here.
"He's coming," the Namikaze quickly prepared himself and set the timer counting down in 3 minutes.
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Five Minutes Ago
The Raikage was in rage and followed behind him were ten Kumo elite ninjas. He had found the Golden Horn Force had been blown up by someone. Most of them were dead and the rest were severely injured. The commander, T, was among the dead. No one could tell who was responsible.
Naruto didn't come back with B and Yugito, and the Kumo leader thought the boy got knocked out by an explosion and sent another ninja to find him, but the runner returned with a report that B's house had "disappeared." He couldn't believe it, and he ran to check it and it indeed vanished. All three Kumo jinchuurikis were missing along with Samui, Karui, Omoi and Team G members.
To make matter worse, someone was spreading rumours and panics there was an unknown large enemy force storming towards the village gates. All available Kumo ninjas nearby moved to defend the village gates and were waiting for the impending attacks. There was little to no reinforcement from the barracks and most of the ninjas were struggling to put out the fire and helping villagers to shelters as ordered, the latter contradicted A's order though.
'What the hell did C do? Even he is missing now.'
There were flames and explosions everywhere, Darui and other ninjas with water affinity were ordered by the councillors to put out the fire around their homes. Worse, someone had been impersonating him giving false orders and created misdirection and further confusion, including the evacuation of the Raikage Tower. To A's horror the tower had become rubble and a past memory when he had arrived.
The village was in total chaos. The Raikage was relieved that H's facility was still safe when he sent another runner to check it, and H and the ANBU were still there. Someone spotted Naruto was near the Egg and Sperm Storage Facility.
'What the hell is Naruto doing? Is he the culprit?'
As they ran towards the facility's entrance, there were explosions coming from below, most of the Raikage's group were caught in the blasts and were either dead or critically wounded. Even at his super-fast speed, A's right leg was lightly wounded.
Mine seals: Lotus.
Only the Raikage and four of his ninjas had made it through the entrance. They weren't even discreet when they stormed into the building. The group was met with a Wind Release: Shuriken Barrage followed by a Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet. The Raikage's last four ninjas were mowed down or cooked, and only he narrowly dodged the attacks yet was lightly wounded again.
Inside the building the Kumo leader saw Naruto there, reeking with massive killing intents and bloodlust, so massive that even he twitched a little.
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"You?" A was in disbelief. "You are the one behind all of this? Where are B and Yugito?"
"So what? You are the one behind all the abductions and responsible for all the tragedies at the Breeding Program." Naruto said coldly. "This doesn't even come close to making us even, asshole. I'm here to rectify my father's mistake in letting you live in the last war and to end your oppression." He unsheathed the Arashi and took a swordfight stance by holding the sword beside his right ear.
"You don't need to worry about Yugito-sensei and B-sensei… They will attend your funeral and I will send flowers to your funeral."
The Kumo leader saw the orange spiral-shape guard on the jinchuuriki's katana and the mention of his father, he connected the dots and realized it. "When did your memory suppression seal fail?"
"A dead man doesn't need to know it," Naruto replied in venomous tone. "Just as I said: I am here to rectify my father's mistake in letting you live. You made many innocents suffer and die. Your tyrannical rule ends tonight."
The jinchuuriki swung his sword to create the Vacuum Sword, and a gust of sharp wind was released towards A, which he dodged easily and turned to glared at the whiskered blond.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE? MY TEN YEAR PLAN AND ALL THE HARD WORK IT TOOK ME?"
"How about all the innocents that suffered and died for your personal desire?" Naruto's sky-blue eyes turned to slitted glowing blood red orbs.
"You have ruined everything I have planned for years." A turned on his Lightning Release Armour. "I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY WITH IT!"
Naruto activated his Wind Release Armour in response. "You kidnapped many innocent people with bloodline limits to satisfy your hunger for power. You made them slaves and breeding stock. You have gone too far in a time of peace to gain power, so far as to even enough kidnap children. You barbarian and your council are beyond forgiveness. AS I HAVE SAID, I AM GOING TO FINISH MY FATHER'S JOB TONIGHT!" He roared in demonic tone and charged.
Naruto and the Raikage clashed. Lightning Release Armour offered faster speed through nerve stimulation, but the Wind Release Armour offered better offensive and defensive powers. A used his left arm brace to block the blond's sword strike while delivered a powerful punch to his chest. The punch cracked three of the jinchuuriki's ribs, he coughed blood as flew backward and crashed into a wall.
A's right hand was also injured by the Futon Armour's razor-sharp defence though. Naruto was slowly healed by Kurama, and he for the moment held the advantage.
The Raikage roared and launched a Lightning Straight against Naruto, but the latter moved aside with his enhanced reflexes before counterattacking with a katana stab in wind chakra to the former's torso. The Raikage narrowly dodged it, but there was a deep cut on his left arm.
Explosions started to rock the whole building and it caught both sides off guards, but A was horrified and shocked to see all the storage rooms were ablaze. His precious eggs and sperm were on fire.
His plans for the Kumo future were burning.
"NOOOOOOOOO!"
"Finish him now, Naruto! DO IT NOW!" Kurama shouted.
Naruto charged in at full speed to deliver a deadly blow with all his strength and Kurama's chakra focused through the Arashi, to end A's regime once and for all.
"DAMN IT!" The Namikaze cursed as A shook himself out of his stupor and dodged his deadly strike towards his heart, but he immediately struck again.
"ARGGHHHHHHH!" The Raikage screamed in pain as the katana's strike cut his left cheek up to his right eyebrow diagonally. Had he been half a centimeter closer, his right eye would have been lost. Naruto's attack charged with Kurama's chakra immediately cauterized A's wound, leaving a large scar across the Kumo leader's face.
Even the best medic-nins wouldn't be able to heal the scar. The Raikage would remember this fight for the rest of his life.
Additional blasts rocked the facility, and the foundation had been destroyed and the building was quaking. A was holding his injured face and was disoriented. Naruto charged again, but he saw A took another step backward and the floorboard gave way beneath him, the Kumo leader let out a startled cry as he fell into the basement.
The building was collapsing as the explosions continued. The facility would be soon devoured in a sea of flames. Time was running out.
"I hope this will be your grave," Naruto set the timer to nine seconds before he tossed his last Havoc seal into the hole. "Rest in pieces with your precious eggs and sperm."
Just as Naruto stormed out of the building, it finally collapsed and was in flame. He stiffened as Orange's memory returned to him.
"DAMN IT! My cover is finally blown! Orange was destroyed by ANBU before he could destroy the Research and Development Center!" He punched the ground hard and looked at his watch, it was 2245 now. He had to rendezvous with Hinata and the other people. It looked like he would have to give up on the Cloud R&D center.
The Namikaze decided to create another distraction to get to the rendezvous point and a final punishment for the Kumo leadership. He clapped his hands and patiently waited for five seconds and a small twister came out between his palms charging it with Kurama's chakra. The he launched it towards the most prestigious residential district, where the councillors resided. The twister's size grew gradually as it flew to its destination.
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Darui and his fellow ninjas sighed in relief as the last flame around the councillors' homes was finally extinguished. However, they were initially confused when gusts of wind began to buffet them. They looked towards the source of the wind and found a growing twister.
The Kumo elite jonin's eyes widened when a large fire stream hit the twister, which turned into a gigantic fireball, at least five hundred meters in radius.
"FIND COVER!" Darui shouted.
Those few who failed to were consumed by the flames, including two Kumo councillors.
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The Evacuation Tunnel Entrance
Hinata, G, Seikan and Blue were anxiously waiting outside the tunnel entrance in the forest. They knew Naruto was safe as Blue was still here, but he was late and they were worried. It took another five minutes for the whiskered blond to appear here, and his uniform was covered in blood.
A worried Hinata rushed to hug him. "Naruto-kun!"
"Sorry I'm late," Naruto clutched Hinata close to him. "But I will explain later. We have to go NOW. I'll cover our tracks."
G and Seikan nodded and went into the tunnel, preparing to close the entrance. Blue dispelled and returned his memory to Naruto, who smiled and gave Hinata another tight hug.
"You did exceptionally well," he smiled and complimented her. "You are truly a kunoichi now. You should be proud."
"Thank you," Hinata beamed as her cheeks turned red as they shared a brief kiss.
The Namikaze first hid four Flying Thunder God kunai in the forest and created two small twisters to clear all the footprints before he and Hinata entered the tunnel. There were still slaves trapped in Kumo- the owned ones, but he promised he would save them too.
"I'll be back."
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Three Hours Later
In the ruins of the Eggs and Sperm Storage Facility, a fist struck out, and a bloodied and scar-faced A emerged from the rubble.
The Raikage's Ten Year Plan was almost destroyed by one of his generals. He couldn't believe that all of his efforts to ensure Kumo's global supremacy and world domination were ruined. He gazed out over the sheer destruction of the village, smokes and fires almost everywhere.
Kumogakure was now an inferno. An animalistic roar of fury was suddenly heard across the entire village.
"What the hell is that?" A cluster of civilians screamed. It caused even more panic in the Cloud village.
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Ten hours after entering the tunnel
The tunnel was ironically created by the threat of possible invasion led by his father Minato Namikaze, and it was 72 kilometers long. It took Naruto roughly seventy minutes to get to the other end of the tunnel, and it would take much longer with those non-ninja people.
They had been inside the tunnel for over ten hours, and they would be exiting it within the next thirty minutes. The group was having a final rest before they left the tunnel. Naruto Namikaze was resting with the Arashi rest against his shoulder while Hinata Hyuuga was checking with the slave-students and the civilians.
"Naruto," Kurotsuchi spoke, with Sayuri on her side. "We want to talk to you for a second."
"Oh?" The blond raised his head to see them. "What's up?"
"We always wanted to ask you this: why did you pick me and Sayuri?"
"Because you girls are pretty," he replied casually. Both Kurotsuchi and Sayuri gawked and blushed, which made the jinchuuriki laughed in amusement. "Haha! Just kidding, but you two are really pretty. But let me ask you this: what would happen if you are picked by someone else?"
The blond's rhetorical question stunned the Iwa girls as they understood the hidden meaning in his question.
"I'll be frank: selecting you to be my… well it was the most practical way for the future, but I did want to protect you two. Yes, I already knew your background before I picked you in H's facility. And yes, I want Konohagakure and Iwagakure to form an alliance, like Konohagakure and Sunagakure. Even if it's just a piece of paper it can probably pressure this despicable village to surrender to three superpowers, or four if Kirigakure joins in. I truly wanted to save every last one of you from that facility and from becoming little more than breeding stock, but I couldn't… I couldn't pick too many girls as I was already being watched when I picked Hinata-chan in the first place. It was a very difficult decision to make…" He confided to them in a deep mournful tone. He stood up and gazed at Kurotsuchi and Sayuri and they saw sorrow in his sky-blue eyes.
The whiskered blond walked past the Iwa girls, but to their surprise, he turned to face them and smiled. "Konoha and Iwa have deep grudges against each other, and I know who I am to Iwa- the most wanted man by your village, dead or alive. But personally, you and I can still be friends, all right?"
Kurotsuchi and Sayuri nodded and smiled back to him. "Yes, we can."
"Thank you very much for protecting me," Sayuri said gratefully.
"Me too," Kurotsuchi said. "Thank you."
"You know, I think I really could have fall for you, but I know your heart already belongs to someone." Sayuri looked over at Hinata who was busy distributing rations to people with other ex-Kumo ninjas.
Naruto smiled in return. "We will separate after we exit this tunnel, Hinata-chan and I will go the southern port with the Mist citizens, you two will go to the northern port with my friends G and Seikan and the other Iwa and Earth Country girls. Take care of yourselves and stay happy."
"You too," both girls said simultaneously.
"I bet you and Hinata-chan can't wait to have a few dates and have some more wild adult activities when you get home, right?" Kurotsuchi teased with a grin like a Cheshire cat. Naruto blushed at her mention of adult activities before he suddenly stiffened and sensed someone was outside the tunnel exit.
"Someone is out there! You guys stay here!" He stormed towards the exit with Arashi already in his right hand.
"Stop!" Kurama shouted. "He's a friendly."
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Lightning Country Southern Port
Honoka and Tayuya in their black hair still hiding their normal appearance had begun to load the supplies on Naruto's ship, The Wind of Freedom.
"We are finally going to get the hell out of this shithole," Tayuya exclaimed impatiently after loading the first set of supplies on the ship. "I can't wait to get rid of this shitty hair colour!"
"Language!" Honoka yelled in a reprimanding tone.
"Hey, Naruto swore too. Why didn't you reprimand him too?"
"I chastised him too, but Naruto-kun was under a lot of pressure. It's nine o'clock now. Naruto-kun and his friends would be here in four hours."
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Ten Minutes Later, Outside of the Evacuation Tunnel
"Nice to meet you, Roshi-san. I am the jinchuuriki to Kurama, people call him the Kyuubi." Naruto offered his hand to the bearded man in front of him who then shook his hand.
"Likewise, Naruto." Roshi greeted. "I am the jinchuuriki to the Yonbi."
This made Naruto raise an eyebrow. Even Roshi didn't know the Yonbi's name like B-sensei?
"Roshi-san, before I ask the main question, do you know the Yonbi's name?"
"Yeah… his name is Son Goku." Roshi reluctantly answered.
"I see. Thank you. Now back to the main question, how did you get here so fast? It was impossible to reach here from Earth Country within a day and a half."
"No, I was already in Lightning Country," the Iwa ninja answered. "I have been searching for my grandniece Kurotsuchi-chan ever since her disappearance. Iwagakure have dispatched searching parties for Kurotsuchi-chan, Sayuri-chan and the other missing Earth Country girls for years, even Han the jinchuuriki to Gobi was mobilised and was searching around the border of Fire Country. We suspected it was either Konoha or Kumo behind this."
"Kurotsuchi-chan!" The Yonbi jinchuuriki rushed to hug his grandniece when he saw her coming out of the tunnel with the other people. "I am so glad to see you! But what is this? You've grown so much? You look like a teenager."
Naruto coughed. "We'll explain this later…"
Roshi looked a bit sheepish. "Anyway, the Kyuubi no Kitsune contacted us, and fortunately I was nearby."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at his fellow jinchuuriki's words. "Kurama, you called your brethren?"
"Yes," Kurama replied in annoyance, "But I called him and his jinchuuriki to cover your ass! I am so glad in foresight I called them since you failed to destroy the Research and Development Center!"
Naruto chuckled at his fox friend's remarks, too prideful to admit he called for help. "Thank you Kurama. But when did you contact them?"
"When you and your girlfriend were having your little private time," Kurama grinned and Naruto's face deepened into a shade of red and quickly left the mindscape with the excuse of helping people getting out of the tunnel.
"So this is the boy you talked about?" Son Goku asked Kurama in the Tailed Beast communication link. The fox nodded. He already explained everything to his four-tailed sibling, including the blond's friendship and respect to him.
Son Goku was looking at Naruto with interests, his most cynical brethren respected and cared for the jinchuuriki. Now he could understand why Kurama respected Naruto, the boy genuinely respected the tailed beasts. The four-tailed ape silently agreed he had never seen someone who cared so much about other people since their father.
"Naruto Namikaze, you are a very interesting person," Son Goku said.
Naruto and his former team leader G shook hands. "Sensei, it's my honour to work with you regardless of the missions. I wish you and your daughter will have a better life in Earth Country. Roshi-san will help you guys travel to Earth Country safely."
"The honour is mine and you too," G looked at his daughter, before looking at their friends and their families. "Thank you for faking our deaths and helping us to escape while you take all the 'blames.'"
Naruto turned to Kurotsuchi and Sayuri after they hugged and bid goodbye to Hinata and Asuka. The girls had lived together for at least two years and had come to see each other as family. They were all saddened to know they were going to separate.
"Please remember to bring the scroll to the Tsuchikage, it contains evidence files of the crimes Kumo committed, Kurotsuchi-chan, Sayuri-chan." Naruto smiled to them sadly, and hugged them too. "You two are a family to me. Please stay safe and happy."
Kurotsuchi and Sayuri blushed and smiled back. "We will, and take care of yourself."
"Roshi-san," Naruto turned to his fellow jinchuuriki and bowed. "Please take care of my friends and Kurotsuchi-chan and Sayuri-chan. Also please tell Son Goku I am very grateful for both of your help."
Son Goku raised an eyebrow and was amazed that Naruto called him by his name instead of the number of tails, not to mention the blond helped the people from the village that wanted to kill him.
"Naruto Namikaze, could you be the one the old man talked about?" Son Goku wondered.
"We have to go now," G with Roshi addressed to their group.
"Same to us," Naruto looked at Hinata, Asuka and their group. "Everyone, this way, let's go."
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Four Hours Later, Lightning Country's Southern Port
Naruto and his group had finally arrived at the port and rendezvoused with Honoka and Tayuya. He briefly introduced the two parties to each other. He privately introduced Hinata and his Uzumaki clanswomen.
After making sure everyone had embarked on The Wind of Freedom, it was time to sail. Naruto removed his Kumo forehead protector and flak jacket and tossed them to the sea before donning the old black Uzumaki armour over his jet-black bodysuit.
"Let's go, Tayuya-chan," he said to his helmswoman. "To the Fire Country's eastern coast."
"Aye, aye captain," Tayuya said in a sarcastic tone. The Wind of Freedom left the Lightning Country's southern port to Fire Country.
"WE ARE FREE!" All people cheered and some cried in joy. Naruto and Hinata held hands and smiled to each other and they looked out toward the sea and toward home.
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Afternoon, Temporary Raikage Office
"LITTLE PRICK!" The Raikage roared when he saw the smoke rising from Naruto's house after ANBU had stormed it. The house was rigged, and he should have known it. The panic was finally calming down but this had reignited some of the panic, much to his annoyance.
After some medical treatment, the Raikage was still in an extremely foul mood and the tower staffs were frightened, even Mabui herself was a little nervous about approaching him. The staff except Mabui didn't dare get too close with the Raikage for fear of their lives, and nobody dared to eyeball A's scarred-face. The Kumo leader was reading the damage reports while gritting his teeth and shaking in rage.
There were over two thousand deaths on the ninja side, and more than four thousand heavily wounded. Darui had third degree burns over half of his body; it would take him and most of the wounded at least two months to fully recover.
C finally returned to report and narrowly avoided A's wrath, but he claimed he was knocked out by the traitorous Naruto. It was embarrassing to him to say that he was hidden in a dumpster.
Half of the armouries and military installations were totally destroyed including the pill plants, and another quarter of them were severely damaged and the rest had sustained significant damage. Their most powerful weapons and artefacts, even the treasured tools of the Rikudo Sennin, were all missing from the destroyed tower.
Looking over all the reports A felt a nagging sense of foreboding when he considered the destroyed pill plants. "C! I want you to launch a health investigation on everyone who have taken the pills!"
All hospitals were overwhelmed with wounded and all available medics and doctors were called in. The situation worsened when Doctor Ishii and his colleagues were found with a note about their crimes. They were all missing their both hands and their eyes had been slashed and rendered blind. Some of them were even found to have kunai rammed up their butts.
Miraculously there were less than five hundred civilian deaths and another three thousand wounded and three hundred missing in the fire and the explosions. Most of the civilians were lucky to have been at the festival areas where there was no explosion or fire, and they had been taken to the shelters.
'Lucky? No, that brat deliberately avoided to bomb civilians… Your compassion for the weak will be your undoing one day, you little prick.'
The Golden Horn Force was almost destroyed, and B and Yugito had disappeared with Team B and Team G. Without its best of the best, the two jinchuurikis and most of its elite ninjas, Kumo was in a very vulnerable position.
Furthermore, the slaves at the Slave and Breeding Program Facility were all missing as well as the blond's slaves. H and her staffs were found gagged and put up in racks naked, much to the shock and embarrassment to the second runner. The ANBU stationed there were all dead.
'H and her staff there were all imposters when I sent the first runner to check the situation!'
The Raikage set aside the report files as he concluded. "This must have been deliberately planned long ago and there is no doubt the student-slaves are with the prick and his slaves now." He stood up and looked at the world map, and he knew where Naruto and his people would go to.
Konoha.
"Mabui! Send all available ANBU and hunter teams to the Fire Country's northern border and the eastern coast to apprehend them no matter the cost!" The Raikage ordered. "Send messages to those who are there to intercept them as well!"
The secretary left to issue the leader's order. However unbeknownst to them, Grey had henged into one of the Mabui's assistants. The shadow clone didn't dispel and had stayed to check on Kumo's situation, but his chakra was running critically low. He had to leave now and was glad he could send a critical piece of information back to his boss. The shadow clone in henge made an excuse to leave and went to a secret and a hidden location and dispelled.
"We cannot go to the Fire Country's southern border," A talked to C and the rest of his staff. "I hate to get outside help but this time we have to get someone else to do it. C, see what you can do about contacting this Akatsuki."
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Aboard the Wind of Freedom
While Naruto was on the deck resting and enjoying the sea breeze with the Water citizens, the girls- Hinata, Asuka, Honoka and Tayuya were having a chat on the bridge about their past events.
"Initially I was very suspicious to Naruto-kun being an Uzumaki because he doesn't have red hair despite that Uzumaki ruby and the Arashi sword which could be stolen." Honoka recalled about her encounter with the blond. "Fortunately he secretly followed me and my employers to the Summoning Island, and when the beast went out of control and started killing people and my chakra chain failed to restrain the beast…"
Honoka shuddered at that event which nearly got her killed before continuing her reminisce. "I was calling out for help but there was no one, but Naruto-kun suddenly flashed out of nowhere and pulled me to safety before we brought down the beast together. He proved himself a truly Uzumaki and the son of Kushina by fiercely protecting his fellow clanswoman. I owe him my life."
"Me too," Tayuya began to tell her story. "I was an orphan, and I had a hard time living in the streets until Naruto and Honoka found and helped me. They confirmed I was an Uzumaki with that ruby thing, and we three become kind of like siblings that supported each other. They showed me something like what a family was. If they didn't show up, I would be still in the streets and probably have ended up in a very bad situation or dead. I owe them both a lot."
Hinata and Asuka nodded in agreement as both of them had been saved by the blond. The bridge door was suddenly opened and Naruto with a hardened expression rushed in, which startled everyone in the room.
"Sorry, but my shadow clone informed me that the damn Raikage is still alive," he announced in a very serious tone. "But the most important thing is that the Fire Country's northern border and eastern coast will be crawling with Kumo ninjas."
The girls gasped. With the Water citizens, they couldn't outrun or fight the pursuers when they landed on the coast.
"We can't guarantee there will be Konoha presence in the area to help us. We have to change course." Naruto's fingers were tapping the ship dashboard while checking the fuel meters. "The Fire Country's southern coast, Kumo surely won't penetrate that far. The fuel should be enough to reach Wave Country. We will have to land there."
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Author Notes:
*The Wind Claws are similar to the wrist blades in the Predator movies, but Naruto had a S-Rank assassination and combat technique, and it was not twin wrist blades. It was a different shape. His shadow clones could only use up to A-rank techniques and no further to any S-rank ones, and only Naruto could use S-Rank techniques himself.
*The Raikage's face was much more colourful than Ibiki's, due to Naruto's katana strike and the explosions.
*Here I put up a short and simple part but hopefully clear enough on how Naruto met his fellow Uzumaki clanswomen Honoka and Tayuya. About how the ruby truly worked, it would be used again in future chapters.
*Mikoto's wound was worsened by the explosions. There is a reason for her crippled mobility. It would be an important factor in future events.
*The reason Naruto wreaked havoc in Kumo was not due on vengeance, but against the evils committed by Kumo and he needed to liberate the innocents and the slaves and to help his friends to escape. Naruto had strong sense of justice like his father Minato. In canon Kakashi mentioned Minato's sense of justice in the Wave Mission when Tazuna asked him why he still accepted the mission. In the aftermath of the canon Wave mission, Naruto even cared and grieved for Haku and Zabuza despite that they were enemies.
*I am surprised some people wanted lemons in a vivid way, especially in Chapter 06: Can You Feel the Love Tonight. I wish readers to see the Naruto and Hinata bonding on those three nights: she waited for him arrived home late, she comforted his grief, and they finally consummated on the eve of their escape for freedom. I prefer not to write lemon, and I think this short love scene could be sufficient to describe their love towards each other.
*The reason I think Naruto deserved Hinata is not based on her boobs, but her pure love towards him and her gentleness and kindness. There are too many stances that they helped each other in the canon. Sakura and Ino idolized Sasuke in their own perfect version, even he was cold and arrogant and had many obvious downsides, but they overlooked them in fangirl ways. Hinata, on the other hand, admired and liked Naruto and she knew and accepted his many shortcomings, she admitted it prior the Chunin Exam Finals in canon.