I do not own Naruto no matter how much I wish I did.

INARI BLESSED

"Sensei, do we all have to come to guard Tsunami san?" Sakura whined as team 7 followed Tsunami to the market. She was thinking of the different things she could be doing now instead of going to the market, but she was glad that at least her Shin kun was with her.

Kakashi sighed for the umpteenth time. Was this his punishment for reading porn in public; being the sensei to two insufferable brats. The only student he enjoyed having around was Sasuke.

"Sakura, the enemy is strong. We cannot take chances when it comes to client safety." Kakashi tried to make the girl understand.

"Bu-"

'THAT'S IT!' Kakashi thought out raged as the obsessed fan girl just couldn't keep her mouth shut.

"Genin Haruno, if you question my orders once more, I will be reporting you for insubordination and you can kiss your ninja life goodbye after that." Kakashi said coldly. He couldn't really do that, but she didn't need to know that. For the smartest kunoichi in class, she was pretty dumb.

Sakura paled and looked at her 'boyfriend' for help. Shin narrowed his eyes at Kakashi, but he didn't out right expose Kakashi's little lie. He would take any chance he could get to keep the pink harpy's mouth shut, so he sent a 'helpless' glance at Sakura, implying that Kakashi could do what he said. Sakura was horrified and so she decided to keep her mouth shut, fortunately for everyone else.

Kakashi heaved a sigh as he walked forward, Tsunami sent a sympathetic glance towards the man.

The slight shift in the air was the only sign Kakashi got before he took out a kunai to stop the blade that would've taken his head off. He narrowed his eyes at the thug who grinned. Of course had it been a ninja or had been using any chakra Kakashi would've sensed him long before he could come near him. But it was just a thug; a thug whose speed unsettled Kakashi.

Ignoring the screams of Sakura and Tsunami behind him; he quickly (not as quick as he would've liked) dispatched the thug. The feeling when his fist contacted the thug's skull was even more unsettling. It was the same feeling he had when he was fighting that unknown shinobi with Uzume, the feeling of his chakra being drained.

Kakashi cursed and moved his headband to use the sharingan; which was a bad idea if his chakra was going to be drained; but he had to see. And see he did.

The sharingan's vision exposed the seal drawn across the downed thug's chest and Kakashi cursed even more loudly when the sharingan also exposed the numerous thugs coming from all directions all with similar seals.

"Sakura protect Tsunami san. Sasuke, Shin; take out the thugs but do not make direct contact with them. Use kunai and projectiles, no close range ninjutsu or taijutsu." Kakashi ordered hastily as the thugs closed in with high chunin speeds, which he thought was very very bad for them. And to his horror, he saw that Sakura was pretty much useless, looking at her hero for help; while said hero had rushed in to attack a thug disregarding his orders. Sasuke however was doing his best to dodge the thugs who were trying to get a hold of him all the while having to depend on his natural speed and weapons.

Kakashi would've moved in to help his students but was having to deal with the thugs who were coming for him.

The screams of civilians filled the air as Kakashi noticed that the thugs were attacking any one they could; civilian or shinobi.

Kakashi used a shunshin to escape and appeared in front of a little girl who would've been impaled by a thug's kusarigama and stopped the thug with a kunai to his head. Another body flicker and he handed over the child to a civilian and ordered them to get inside the village hall (the place where functions used to be held before Wave become poor. It was big enough to hold the entire population of Wave) and hide.

Kakashi made three shadow clones and the four of the rushed in four directions telling the civilians to escape into the village hall and killing of thugs one by one, because knocking them out was not enough to keep the seal out of commission. Any unfortunate civilian who stumbled on a knocked out thug got their chakra sucked out (everyone had chakra, as it is part of the life force) and chakra depletion in case of civilians were more deadly than for shinobi who were used to chakra depletion and had a faster chakra production compared to civilians. The seal got disrupted once the thug died because it was dependent on the thug's life force.

The fight continued as the people of Wave tried to escape the army of thugs. Kakashi fought using his full speed and abilities to help rescue the civilians and kill the thugs.

The fight continued for sometime for long before they felt it.

Everyone suddenly froze in place as they felt it. Kakashi (and his clones) snapped his head towards the direction of one of his students.

'No! Kyubi! This feels worse than twelve years ago.'

With Shin

Shin had rushed his opponent thinking it would be a piece of cake; after all they were just petty thugs.

The moment his kunai connected with the thug's jugular and blood poured out; Shin didn't freeze up like many would on their first kill, but instead he felt a dark excitement bubble inside him. He wanted to see more of the crimson liquid pouring out. His momentary excitement was forgotten when another thug got a hold of his hand and a knee to his chest forced the air out of his lungs and snapped a few bones.

He could feel the chakra healing him quickly, but he could also feel something leaving him. Belatedly he realized it was his chakra that was leaving him. But he didn't panic, because as more and more chakra left him, he was filled with something different. A different more powerful chakra that revitalized him and made him feel incredible.

The chakra beast inside him pushing more and more chakra out the seal as the body's natural chakra depleted. It wasn't long before the thug screamed, the corrosive chakra that entered through the absorption seal burning his insides.

Shin smirked as the thug convulsed on the ground hacking up blood and bile, and weakly trying to get his arm out of the boy's; no, monster's grip. Shin didn't let go, watching in fascination as the thug's own power worked against him. The corrosive chakra felt like acid in his veins to the downed thug, the seal that made him strong was now torturing him. The seal had absorbed enough chakra earlier to keep him alive despite the corrosive chakra trying to kill him; it only made the pain last longer. Soon the chakra inside the seal ran out and the thug felt thankful for the death that embraced him.

Shin sneered and let go of the thug's hand. And stepped towards the other thugs who were watching him in horror. They took a fearful step back as they saw the red eyes of the monster shift. The white part of the eye turned black and the sharingan with three tomoe merged with the pupil and then the pupil expanded into an eight point star with its edges slightly curled and not touching the end of the red iris. His hair became wilder and more feral looking, the nails sharpened into claws and his body becomes bathed in transparent black aura (without the presence of Kyoshiro the beast chakra assumes the original colour which is black).

Shin laughed; starting from a chuckle into a full blown manic laughter.

"Yes! Yes! This is the power I needed…. This is the power of a true Uchiha"

Without waiting for the monster to stop laughing the thugs ran for their lives. But they were not that lucky.

A ripple broke across the image of Shin and then he was standing at the end of the road where the thugs had run to. With a deranged smile and a whisper,

"Amaterasu"

The thugs burned in black fire. There screams bringing a sense of foreboding to everyone present.

With Sasuke

Sasuke heard what Kakashi said and he knew why his sensei said that. He had heard of the enemy's ability to absorb chakra, so he figured that the thugs might have the same power. He activated his sharingan which was the only thing that helped him escape the thugs, because they were all fast enough to be high chunin at least. With his sharingan he saw the seal on their torso.

He ducked under a thug's outstretched arm and hit the guy in the leg with a kunai and jumped back before the guy could grab him again. They just kept on coming no matter what he did to them, like they felt no pain. The only way to deal with them was to either knock them out or kill them (which Sasuke was yet to do). And they were just too many of them.

He kicked a crate that was lying nearby towards a thug and watched as it broke apart as it made contact. The guy was bleeding but still grinning. Whatever seal it was, it only kept them from feeling the pain, it didn't stop the damage. But they also had an accelerated healing that was annoying as hell (he was glad that the healing wasn't up to Naruto's or even Kyoshiro's level).

He was tired of this game of jumping around like a monkey not able to do much damage because those thugs were too damn fast. And his chakra capacity had taken a hit. It was time to end this.

He used his sharingan to look around and spotted a woman fallen down on the ground a little away from the thugs aside from her the street was mostly empty void of civilians as most had cleared the path of the fighting ninja and thugs. With that he made up his mind, he kicked the nearest thug in the chest fully aware of the drain it caused and used his full speed to reach the woman.

He stood in front of the unconscious woman in a protective stance. The thugs turned around to look at the boy. The fact that he was standing in front of a woman caught their attention and they laughed.

"Look at that, kid's trying to play hero. Well maybe after we are done with the kid we can have some fun with the sleeping beauty."

"Yeah, thanks kid, might not have seen her if it wasn't for you."

Sasuke glared at them sharingan full on active. In a puff of smoke about six kunai appeared, three in each hand.

"We've already seen what you could do kid. And you already know that you can't hit us."

"Yeah we're too good kid."

"So just keel over and die will ya bastard."

In a second the kunai whizzed past the thugs. Two of them caught two kunai and the others kunai just landed around them, seemingly due to bad aim. The thugs laughed mockingly.

Then Sasuke smirked and the thugs knew no more.

Sasuke crossed his arms across his chest, "Only one person calls me a bastard and gets away with it. And too bad none of you're him." 'Got to thank the dobe for the kunai'

It was only after the punch dialogue that Sasuke saw the destruction he had caused. The kunai he had thrown were the special kunai that had the explosion seal engraved on them; a gift from Naruto. Sasuke felt bile rise in his throat at the sight of the severed limbs and charred bodies that was left in the wake of the explosion.

'I killed them' His face paled and his arms started shaking. He knew what he had to do; he took a deep breath and pushed the thoughts away from his mind. 'Now's not the time to think about this. Not now. I have to finish the mission.' The thought kept repeating in his head. But the sight of the charred bodies had been imprinted in his mind thanks to the sharingan. On the verge of breaking down, Sasuke was starting to panic.

'They might've had a family. I killed them. I killed-'

"Pl-please don't h-hurt me…." Sasuke's train of thoughts was cut off as he heard the whimper. He looked down and saw the woman, barely conscious and afraid; afraid that he would harm her. What the thug had said earlier passed through his mind, and his shaking subsided. He knelt beside her, his mind going blank.

"I won't hurt you. I'm one of the ninja's with Tazuna san."

The woman looked at him with wide tearful beautiful black eyes; eyes so much like his mother's. He automatically lifted the crates that had fallen atop her and lifted her into his arms.

"Thank you." She whispered and passed out. Looking back at the thugs, he was not surprised to find that he felt no longer guilty.

'If they had family, those families are better off without scum like them.' With that thought he took off with the woman to find a safe shelter.

One of his sensei's clone or perhaps it was the real him; whoever it was pointed at the village hall where the civilians had taken shelter. It was just as he reached the shelter and handed over the unconscious woman to the other civilians who were treating the wounded to the best of their abilities; his eyes met that of Sakura's.

'Good! She at least had enough wits to bring Tsunami san to safety.' He thought seeing the woman standing beside her, scared and worried but unharmed. It looked like Sakura wasn't really doing anything else besides standing there.

Sakura ran up to him suddenly; "Sasuke, where is Shin kun? I was so worried about him… Is he alright? I know he's strong bu-"

'SLAP'

Sasuke didn't know nor care what prompted him to do it; but he can't deny that it felt damn good.

Sakura stood there clutching her swelling cheek with tears in her emerald orbs.

"For once, be useful and help us instead of being a worthless fan girl. If you're a kunoichi, start to act like one." He didn't yell; he didn't have to, seeing as his point had been made clear. Sakura took a step back at the coldness she saw in his eyes. She was frozen in place by the glare; and even without the sharingan it was one hell of a glare.

Sasuke sneered at her and moved towards the door he had entered through. The Kakashi clone that was guarding the door looked at him in the eye. But Sasuke didn't see any disapproval there. Kakashi nodded at him and turned back to look at the approaching thugs and readied a kunai.

'If this continues on any longer, we'll be out of kunai.' They both thought as the wave of thugs approached him.

Suddenly the thugs fell to the floor with eyes wide open; dead before they knew it.

"Thanks Haku." Kakashi murmured seeing the glinting of the senbon lodged within their throats. Haku appeared beside then in a water shunshin and nodded; his hunter mask firmly in place.

"Thought you might need some help. And it would be a waste to miss out on such a good battle." The gruff voice of Zabuza said from a little ahead of them. Kakashi was thankful for their arrival. With a sword like that, Zabuza could fare much better against these thugs than them.

Suddenly time itself seemed to stop as the dark aura filled the air.

"Kyubi…" The Kakashi clone whispered and Sasuke's eyes widened in shock and fear. Haku was confused and terrified. Zabuza had a grim expression beneath his mask. 'A jinchuuriki! Of all the things that could happen; it had to be a fucking jinchuuriki!'

"Did the seal…" Sasuke was almost afraid o finish. The clone shook his head.

"No… at least not yet."

That did little to calm Sasuke.

Inside the hall, the civilians were shaking as the oppressive feeling washed over them.

Naruto raced through the trees, jumping from branch to branch with precision and speed as he made his way towards the feeling of Kyubi's chakra. His sensei and team were handling the thugs that remained at the bridge. He hoped that Shin was still in control; but his pumping heart made it clear that even that thought wasn't comforting.

Kyoshiro had warned him. Without the soul, even a tail worth of chakra was enough to make the jinchuuriki lose control. The original role of the jinchuuriki was to contain the chakra; not to control it. Controlling only became possible when both the soul of the spirit guardian and the jinchuuriki was present; knowingly or unknowingly. If Shin loses control, then it was over for everyone.

As ironic as it was; Naruto, Kyoshiro and Yumiko were praying that the sharingan was enough to keep the chakra under control. But the steady state, at which the chakra was increasing in output, was discouraging. Naruto desperately pushed more chakra into his legs to reach his destination faster. It was times like this that he really wished that he had cracked the Hiraishin seal.

He didn't feel any chakra. It was the emotions he felt; the vile emotions of arrogance, glee and hatred. Naruto poured chakra into the leg that made contact with the tree branch and propelled himself backwards, just as the source of the emotions he had felt, came barreling through the foliage and with a punch, turned the branch he had stepped on earlier into saw dust.

Flipping in the air and landing on the ground, Naruto tensed his muscles to make the necessary move as he watched the man crashed onto the ground creating a crater almost ten feet wide. The man stood up dusting himself, unfazed by even crashing on to the ground like he had.

As the huge form of the man straightens himself, Naruto warily noted the features of the figure. He was almost 7 feet tall with bulging muscles that put professional builders to shame. His biceps were almost as wide as Naruto's chest. If the muscles weren't scary, what scared Naruto more was the ease with which the man moved, as if that much muscle mass didn't hinder his speed. He had no shirt on, only a pair of torn pants that clung to his body like second skin; as if the fabric had been stretched to accommodate a sudden growth spurt.

Naruto narrowed his eyes and he channeled chakra into his eyes. He felt the changes happening and his vision shifted, his eyes adjusted to the 360 degree vision of the Byakugan and chakra pathways lit up before his eyes, time slowed down by the power of the sharingan and increased his comprehension of the seal that now became visible on the man's torso entirely covering it in inky black drawings that only the sharingan could see.

The man stared in a moment of wonder as the eyes of the beautiful blond boy shifted from their cerulean blue.

Naruto's eyes were now golden with the pupil expanding in the shape of a blooming silver rose and covering the entire expanse of his iris. The gold now visible only through the gaps left by the silver petals.

"Pretty eyes for a pretty boy like you. Too bad it's not enough to beat me." The man mocked his voice deep and gravel like a grunting beast's.

Naruto was silent as he observed the huge man.

'A Chakra Confinement seal combined with a Chakra Draining seal on top of a Yin Manifestation seal. This is bad…Whoever did this is a master of the sealing arts; but it's incomplete; fatally flawed…'

"Too scared to speak, babe? Here, let me give you an offer. Come with me and become one of my concubine and I will make sure that you could live the rest of your life in luxury."

The obvious lust in the man's eyes and skin crawling emotions that rolled off of the man in waves made Naruto want to puke; despite that he kept his composure and merely raised an eyebrow.

"Oh and who might you be to make such an offer?"

"Me?" The man laughed out loud; "I am Gato; the soon to be ruler of Wave."

"That the last of them here?" Uzume question as the last of the thugs at the bridge fell.

"Yes sensei, I can sense no more here." Yumiko said panting slightly.

"We need to go and assist Naruto." Kyoshiro said and silently handed a chakra pill to both his comrades, which they took.

"Yes, I can feel Naruto's chakra, it's chaotic. He is yet to make it to Shin; someone has interpreted him… but I can't sense his opponent. All I know is that he is fighting someone."

Uzume stood tall.

"Kyoshiro, Yumiko go to Naruto and assist him if needed. I will be going towards the market place where Shin is."

Yumiko and Kyoshiro nodded and took off without another word.

The maniacal laughter and the deranged look in his eyes confirmed Naruto's suspicions about the flaw of the seal.

The seal on Gato was designed to increase a person's power by absorbing the chakra stored inside the Chakra Confinement seal and using yin manifestation to increase body mass and overall physical capacity by at least a hundred times(if used properly); very similar to the biju cloak of jinchuuriki. But the chakra that is stored should be very potent; and by the feel of the chakra that is being used by Gato, this seal contains nature chakra at its purest. A variation of the sage mode; one could say.

But Yin manifestation had a very terrible problem if the person using it is weak willed the seal will slowly cause an imbalance between his/her Yin-Yang chakras, slowly making the person lose his mind. Add the stored nature chakra to the equation and you have a living chakra bomb capable of taking out the entire wave country.

"This just got a lot more complicated." Naruto whispered to himself.

"So what do you say?" Gato asked.

"Well I have to say-"Not even trying to finish his sentence Naruto descended on Gato with his maximum speed.

He saw the blow coming with his sharingan but wasn't fast enough to stop it as Gato's fist impacted with his midsection. The man moved at anbu level speeds.

Naruto was thrown to the ground creating a crater. Naruto didn't need his Byakugan to know that Gato had entirely decimated his abdomen with one punch and there was a major drain in his chakra. Large enough that he could feel it despite his abnormally large reserves. A normal man would be dead by now, but Naruto was lucky he was not so normal.

Naruto vanished in a shunshin just as Gato's fist made contact with the ground that he was on earlier. The crater doubled in size.

From the top of a tree Naruto winced seeing the destruction. Holding his midsection and applying his medical skills to assist his natural healing in fixing his innards that he was pretty sure, had been turned to mush.

Naruto didn't dare make a noise as he leaned his head back against the trunk of the tree in pain.

"Found you…"

Naruto's eyes widened in horror as Gato suddenly appeared in front of him in the tree trunk.

"One way or another; I'll get what I want…." The mad man's chuckles resonated in Naruto's head.

Before Naruto could even think of moving, he was already trapped in Gato's arms, his chakra draining with each passing second and blood pouring freely out of his abdomen.

Gato tightened his grip on the squirming boy, enjoying how he tried and failed to release himself from his grip. Naruto's chakra was being drained before he could heal and he could feel the darkness closing in on him and Gato's chuckles somewhere in the back of his mind. He could feel Gato's breath washing over his throat as the man placed open mouthed kisses that disgusted Naruto even in his tired state.

And before his vision was engulfed in darkness Naruto said one last word that decided the end of that battle.

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