"I am still in shock that you managed to let your power control you. You attempted to obtain a third tail way too soon," Naruto (back as his normal self) sighed. It must have been one of the many unexplained thing in the world that how someone like three tail currently in human form could avoid being captured completely while every other tailed demon had at least been sealed once.
As Naruto heading back to shore, he noticed Yukimaru struggling to swim with an unconscious Guren and was barely keeping both of them afloat.
Naruto may have change a little from Sakura being taken by Sasori and his merger with Kyuubi, but he was not just going to sit back and let these two die before his very eyes since it was clear the kid was getting tired and there was a good chance that he would not make it back to shore.
'Huh?' Yukimaru thought as he was lifted out he water with Guren still in his grasp.
He threw Yukimaru over his other shoulder and held Guren in a chakra tail that prevented her movements since he did not want her waking up and pointlessly try to attack him. Since her moves had no effect on the three tail in his true form, they surely would not effect him a demon that had six additional tails.
"Why are you helping us?" Yukimaru asked. He was sure this was the person that hurt Guren-san but couldn't understand why.
"If you want, I can drop you both back into the lake and continue walking away like I was thinking about doing," Naruto said, which was slightly different then what he would have said a year ago but things happened to change that.
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Arriving back on shore where he left Sakura, he found that she was not there and the only person there was in fact Gozu.
"Where is Sakura?" Naruto growled. He dumped Guren on the ground and Yukimaru as well.
"That girl sitting here? She was taken by the Frog Sanin after getting into some Konoha ninjas but who are you and why do you care?" he asked. He too ended over here after the tidal wave but kept himself out of sight as he was outnumbered four to one.
"None of your business!" Naruto said angrily. He was still feeling that rage over seeing that guy in the orange mask and it was clearly affecting his actions at the moment so he tried to keep his cool, otherwise he might lose it.
Dumping the three tails in human form on the ground, he raised his foot and stomped down on the boy's stomach, causing him to cough a little blood in the process.
"What the hell the matter with you? That really hurt!" the green hair boy yelled before looking around wondering where he was.
"Where am I?" he asked only see three humans and gulped when he felt a frightening presence behind him.
"You can not remember anything that happened, can you?" Naruto asked.
He just nodded his head as he was wondering what he was talking about. Then it hit him as the last thing he remembered that happened was him finally getting his third tail then nothing.
"That's right, you stupid turtle. You lost control of yourself and have been wandering around the world no better then wild animal since then. If it was not for me, your ass would have been captured by the Akatsuki!" Naruto yelled.
"You seem familiar, but I am sure that we have not met before," the kid that was really the three tail turtle in human form asked.
"To make a long story short, let's just say that Kyuubi was sealed in me after birth, and then because of certain events, he merged with me, leaving me with his memories and power" Naruto told him. "By the way, my name is Naruto and your name is Ryo, right?"
"So what do you want from me anyway and why did you help me?" Ryo asked.
"I'll tell you later, but right now, you are coming with me or I could remove the seal keeping your excess powers in check and you try your luck at avoiding being captured again with the intelligence of wild beast" Naruto told him and Ryo simply agreed to follow after him.
"Oh, and if any of you tell Orochimaru about anything that happened here just now and I will hunt you down and do to you what I showed Guren over there a few days ago in a genjustu" Naruto said to Gozu and Yukimaru with enough killer intent to awake Guren, knock out Yukimaru, and cause Gozu to crap his pants.
