Finally… I had this chapter completed for some time now, but my internet decided to be an asshole.

Well I am not going to start ranting now; I'll do it at the end. For now,

Hope you enjoy the chapter.

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

INARI BLESSED

Gato tightened his grip on Naruto.

Naruto shuddered in disgust as he felt the man kiss his neck. But it was a good thing that the man's focus was gone. Naruto gazed at the seal he had drawn on Gato's forearm with his blood. Gato had thought that Naruto was simply struggling to get out of his hold.

Naruto stopped struggling as he felt more chakra leave him.

"What? Finally gave up?" Gato taunted.

"Sealing Art: Restoration" Naruto said quietly in reply and pumped chakra into the seal. The result was immediate.

Gato felt his limbs getting heavier and could no longer hold his hands up. His hands became limp and Naruto was free. He lost his footing and fell down and met the ground.

Naruto held on to the tree to stay up. Blood dripped from his lips and an open wound in his abdomen.

Gato looked at the boy with barely concealed horror and more prominent anger.

"What the fuck did you do?!" He roared in fury. His limbs felt like they weighed as much as a mountain.

Naruto gave him a bloody grin.

"You'll find out soon."

Then Gato screamed anew as he felt the searing hot pain in his entire body.

"AHHHHHH!"

Naruto tuned out the incessant screaming. He let out a pained sigh and slid down the tree to rest on the ground. He needed to get to Shin as soon as possible, but in this state he would only be a burden.

With hooded eyes he watched as Gato screamed and thrashed in pain. He was no sadist but Gato deserved everything he got.

Gato's body shrank down to its original size; his muscles tore apart as the yin chakra that manifested them got drained down to the original level. Naruto watched dispassionately as Gato's entire body shredded apart. The screams didn't end; of course Gato wouldn't die from this alone.

The Restoration seal Naruto had drawn was removing all the yin chakra that didn't belong to the body and was bringing the body back to the original level. It was a seal used to help people who had foreign chakra in their system and is very helpful for chakra poisoning. The seal suppressed all of the foreign yin chakra that had caused Gato's sudden growth spurt; this caused the heavy damage to his muscles and the body returning to its original state.

The next part was what Naruto was not looking forward to.
Now that the Yin chakra was gone, the chakra confinement seal will fail slowly, releasing every bit of Nature chakra held within it in a chakra blast. It was unavoidable at this point and if all went well, Naruto can turn this in his favor.

Naruto stood up. Most of his wounds had already healed.

Taking a deep breath he made twelve clones.
Nine of the clones along with the original Naruto surrounded the still screaming Gato. The other three clones stepped back and kept guard.

The ten surrounding Gato, kneeled down on one knee and placed their left palm on the ground, right hand in the tora sign.

"Uzumaki Art: Chakra Chains"

Pure white chains erupted from Naruto's back and moved towards Gato. The chains wrapped around the thrashing man and held him down.

Sweat rolled down Naruto's foreheads as he concentrated. He changed his hand sign once Gato was restrained and the chains began absorbing the nature chakra inside Gato and transferring it to Naruto.

The influx of nature chakra healed him completely. But the absorbing rate was too slow for his liking. He tried to speed up the absorbing without causing an imbalance. It was harder than he thought. The confinement seal was only slowly breaking, so he couldn't extract anymore chakra without completely cracking the seal, but that would end up in an explosion. Even with nine clones assisting him it was too slow. But Naruto had no time left. He had to get to Shin as soon as he can.

His senses registered the presence of his teammates. The three clones standing guard, turned to face the duo that emerged out of the trees.

"Naruto!" Kyoshiro and Yumiko called out as soon as they saw him.

"Naruto are you alright?" Kyoshiro asked seeing the blood staining the ground as well as Naruto.

"He's alright now..." It was one of the clones that answered.

"Hey..." clone Naruto mumbled. "Guys, go to the market place. Boss will manage it here. There's nothing you can do here anyway."

"But what about the biju chakra?" Yumiko asked. "How will we handle it without your chains?"

"Kyo can't you do anything about it? Boss kind of have to do this before Gato explodes and takes half of wave with him." Clone Naruto asked.
Yumiko and Kyoshiro's eyes widened.

"Alright I'll do what I can. You sure he'll be okay?" Kyoshiro said looking at the group of Naruto kneeling on the ground. The original had yet to say a word since they arrived, too focused on the procedure.

"Yes. Now go." Clone Naruto said.

"Wait! Kyo you can go to the market place. I'll stay here with Naru." Yumiko said.

The clones and Kyoshiro nodded. After all it wouldn't do them any good if anyone attacked Naruto while he was incapacitated using the technique. The clones could only last so long.

"Both of you take care." Kyoshiro said and his gaze lingered as little longer on Naruto.

"We will. You worry about yourself." Yumiko said not missing the look Kyo send Naru.

"Stay safe Kyo." Clone Naruto said.

Kyo left soon after and Naruto and Yumiko were left alone in the clearing with Gato.

At least they thought they were alone. That was until a blast of wind was sent Yumiko's way. Yumiko jumped out of the way just in time.

"Yumi..." The clones cried out.

Yumiko landed near Naruto and assumed a defensive position. The clones did the same. She extended her senses to find out the person who had attacked them, but there was no chakra signature other than the two of them in the clearing. Whoever attacked them, was like Uzume sensei; able to completely suppress their chakra signature.

Without wasting any time Yumiko created eight clones and the clones erected as eight-point barrier around them.

"Sealing Art: Eight Point Barrier"

Two of the Naruto clones chose to stay outside the barrier in defensive stances while one stood inside the barrier with Yumiko and the others.

It was a more advanced version of a barrier seal. The seal could absorb chakra from any external chakra attacks and use it to power the barrier.

"Ah! An eight-point barrier seal. How wonderful!"

Yumiko and the clones turned their attention towards the man who had appeared on the clearing. He had light brown hair, which was midnight black at the ends and piercing golden eyes with the pupil a dull purple colour.

'A bloodline?' Yumiko wondered.

Other than that, the man had a physique similar to Kakashi san. But there was something unsettling in his eyes, a crazed look that made them wary.

"Who are you?" Yumiko asked slowly.

"Oh, me? I am Michiko Masaru; former Iwa nin, seal master and the guy who trashed both your senseis the other day." The man; Masaru, informed with a grin.

Yumiko stomped down the panic that surged up at the man's proclamation.

"Naru... How long?" Yumiko asked. Even inside the barrier, Yumiko felt unnerved by the man.

"10 more minutes... He's being as fast as he can." The clone grunted. He heard the man speak. If what he said was true, he must be the same guy who released the Kyubi six years ago, or at least an accomplice. And if he really was a seal master, a good one that is, he could easily pick out the flaws in the eight-point barrier seal. Having the memories of every Uzumaki clan head, he knew that many of the barrier seals thought strong can be picked apart quite easily.

And in the ninja world ten minutes was a very long time.

Yumiko gulped. She just have to keep up the barrier for ten more minutes or at least until back up arrives. But in this situation back up was a pipe dream. If Naru takes another ten minutes to finish the procedure, keeping the barrier up was no problem for that long. After all she too was an Uzumaki. But her instincts told her that the barrier was not really a hurdle that the man couldn't pass. And Yumiko always trusts her instincts.

The man circled the edges of the barrier like a predator, still wearing that goofy grin. Yumiko never took her eyes of the man.

The man reached the other side of the barrier.

"Mmm... so you are absorbing the nature chakra to reduce impact eh? Nice! But then you would have to be a sage that also means that you have one of the sage families summon. And is that the legendary Uzumaki chakra chains! So you're really strong huh?"

His grin widened and took a maniacal glint. The clones outside the barrier tensed and prepared for a fight.

"Let's test that shall we?" The man said.

Kyoshiro raced towards the market place. He felt that he shouldn't have left the two alone back at the clearing but he needed to be at the market place.

The sight that greeted him upon reaching the source of the malicious chakra was Shin crushing the skull of a thug, standing in the middle of mutilated bodies. Shin's eyes made a chill crawl up Kyoshiro's spine. Those eyes... They are the same eyes Madara's father had got from him. His greatest mistake.

But it didn't take Kyoshiro long to understand that these held more power that the eyes he had created.

Kyoshiro sweated at the intense power radiating of the boy. The image of a shadowed monster formed above the boy.

Shin cackled maniacally. Kyoshiro wondered if the boy knew how his voice had been altered into a demonic sound.

"Shin" He said quietly. He was sure that the boy would hear it.

And sure enough, Shin snapped his head towards the source of the voice and he was delighted by who he found. Kyoshiro Kazama stood before him. Shin always hated that guy, his attitude always pissed Shin off, not to mention Naruto... thinking about blonde and Kyoshiro made his blood boil. Power coursed through his vains like an addictive drug.

A dark excitement bubbled inside Shin. He had the power to do it and Kyoshiro was right before him. Shin wanted to tear him from limb to limb, make him beg for mercy, shatter him, torture him to THE POINT THAT HE'D NEVER LOOK SO DEFIANT EVER AGAIN, SHED HIS BLOOD AND PAINT THE GROUND RED, KILL HIM, KILL HIM, KILL KILL KILL KILL!

Kyoshiro only had the time to blink before a hand went through his chest.

Shin stood in front of Kyoshiro his entire fore arm going inside Kyoshiro's chest and emerging out of his back.

Shin cackled maniacally, well that was before he noticed that his victim was just standing there with a bored expression on his face. Shin narrowed his eyes when Kyoshiro's bored expression suddenly gave way to a smirk.

With a loud bang 'Kyoshiro' exploded sending Shin flying back. Shin twisted mid air and landed on his feet. His injuries from the explosion healing instantly.

He looked around wildly for the original Kyoshiro.

Instead he got a kunai to the face, which exploded (again) when he caught it, sending him flying once more. Shin growled as he landed, but apparently his landing area was rigged with explosive tags.

Kyoshiro watched as Shin lay unmoving on the ground after the explosion, the chakra cloak gone. Kyoshiro was no fool to think that the explosion would've taken Shin out.

Suddenly Shin raised his head and looked at exactly where Kyoshiro was, startling Kyoshiro as their eyes met.

"Caught you. TSUKUYOMI" Shin said with a deranged grin. The chakra cloak burst into life again.

But Shin growled when the one he had used Tsukuyomi on ended up being another clone and burst into a cloud of smoke.

A kick to the back of his head send Shin spiraling forward. Before Shin regained his balance another kick was send to his ribs which connected and an audible 'crack' was heard. A blurry of punches and kicks connected with Shin's chest and head without a moment's delay. Shin crashed into a building. The concrete cracked as Shin was again punched into the building.

Another chakra powered punch directed at Shin's face was blocked by a black spectral ribcage. The attacker seized and jumped back.

Shin's bowed head rose up. All other wounds had already closed up except the right eye which was bleeding, like tears of blood.

Red crazed Sharingan orbs looked at his attacker and glared.

Kyoshiro vanished once more.

Shin let out a scream of rage. "COME OUT AND FIGHT ME YOU BASTARD!"

The black Susano had formed completely around him by now.

Kyoshiro took a deep breath as he watched Shin. Well time to bring out the big guns.

A series of hand signs later he bit his finger and slammed his palm on the ground. The smoke drew Shin's attention. He looked towards were Kyoshiro stood.

"DECIDED TO STOP HIDING?"

Kyoshiro narrowed his eyes. Shin watched as the smoke cleared and beside Kyoshiro stood a nine tailed fox. Shin's eyes widened.

The fox was pure white and as tall as Kyoshiro, with nine tails swaying behind it. The fox had lavender coloured eyes which were focused on Shin once it saw him.

Shin started chuckle, "YOU WISH TO FIGHT ME; THE MASTER OF THE NINE TAILED BIJU WITH THAT THING? A FOX!" He chuckled again and continued,

"IT MAY HAVE NINE TAILS BUT EVEN I CAN TELL THAT IT'S NO BIJU."

The fox narrowed its eyes at Shin.

"Kyoshiro sama" The fox said with a bow, its voice distinctly feminine.

"Maya... I want to perform a fusion." Kyoshiro said without any prompt.

Shin decided to wait. His power making him arrogant that even if Kyoshiro completed what he was planning on, Kyoshiro will never be able to stop him.

Maya, the nine tailed fox and the head of the fox summons knew better than to question the decision of a former Spirit Guardian. The fox simply bowed its head in acceptance. She was worried, but even she could see that there was no other way.

"As you wish, my lord" With that the fox's tails moved and began to wrap around Kyoshiro's left arm. The tails began to sink into his skin and in a matter of seconds the whole fox had sunk into Kyoshiro. There was an intricate white tattoo of a fox covering Kyoshiro's entire left arm and further disappearing inside his shirt.

"THAT'S IT?" Shin mocked with a chuckle, but before he could finish his laugh a foot was planted firmly on his face, breaking past the susanoo with ease. Shin was surprised as he was thrown back and landed quite far from where he had been at first.

When he looked at Kyoshiro, he was surprised and something primal inside him was terrified and subdued.

Kyoshiro stood before him as tall as Kakashi, looking almost eighteen compared to his previous twelve year old body, silky red hair with silver highlights that went past his waist and fox like eyes one lavender and the other golden, they glowed with a divine power. His face was lean and breathtakingly beautiful and he now possessed a body that could make the entire human kind burn with envy and desire (especially considering how his cloths had stretched to fit the sudden growth spurt). The only thing that came to his mind about the figure that stood before him now was; Divine.

'And powerful' Shin mentally added when a whip made of silver and golden energy broke through his susanoo and hit him in the chest leaving a bleeding wound. And to Shin's at most surprise, the wound didn't heal.

"What? What did you do?" Shin's voice was panicked. Why did the biju chakra fail him now?

Kyoshiro took a step forward and somewhere inside Shin, an instinct that didn't belong to him, told him to run and hide.
The somewhat sentient biju chakra inside the boy cowered in the presence of the spirit guardian. The chakra beast had pulled back the chakra that was powering the susanoo and mangekyo, causing them to weaken considerably.
When using fusion with one of his fox summons, Kyoshiro could get a temporary access to his Spirit guardian powers and his former body, but it would be short lasting and would leave him dangerously vulnerable afterwards.
Even so, he could see the biju chakra cower before his presence. But he knew that it was only buying its time. Once he weakens the chakra cloak will return with a vengence. He would have to completely subdue Shin and reinforce the seal. And he had no other techniques that could subdue a biju unless in his spirit guardian form. So he had to make this quick. He had maybe five minutes before his form dissipated.

A golden and silver aura blazing like fire covered Kyoshiro's form much like the biju cloak. In the blink of an eye Kyoshiro was in front of the boy and had backhanded him into the forest where he had come from earlier.

Shin was dazed. The biju chakra was refusing to heal him. His sharingan had returned to the original three tomoe state.

Kyoshiro appeared before him once more and raised his palm,

"Earth soul: Ensnaring chains" Kyoshiro's voice was deep and melodious.

Chains made of earth erupted from the earth and wrapped around Shin and held him down.

"Nature soul: Purification"

Shin didn't understand what was happening but he felt his energy leave him. Something, which he thought was the Kyubi snarled inside his mind as Nature chakra; pure and restrained by Kyoshiro; entered his body and began forcefully pushing the biju chakra back inside the seal.

But half way through the process; it stopped abruptly.

And the biju cloak flared back into life instantly. Looking back at Kyoshiro; Shin understood why. Kyoshiro was no longer in his spirit guardian form. Instead he was in his normal form with blood pouring out of his mouth and down on the ground struggling to even get up.

Shin's face split into another one of his maniac grins, "You couldn't stop me." He said. The biju chakar started building up again, but before it could even reach one tails worth,

"He didn't need to." Another voice announced from behind him and Shin had no chance to turn around to look at the person before he started screaming. A giant seal array at least a meter wide appeared on the ground, glowing with chakra and connected to the paper tags placed on five points; with Shin standing in the exact centre.

"Eight Trigram Beast confinement seal: Activate"
The seal glowed a brilliant white and Shin fainted.

Uzume stood in the clearing as the seal subdued the jinchuuriki and the boy fainted.

She looked at the other side where her student was now unconscious and moaning in pain. She walked over to Kyoshiro and lifted the boy up. She had seen the form he used. And the strain it left on his body and chakra coils were obvious. She healed him as best as she could. But for some reason his body rejected her chakra.

Kakashi came out from behind the trees and moved towards Shin. He lifted the boy's shirt up and looked at the seal. The Eight Trigram Divination Seal was clearly visible and on the outer edges of the familiar seal another line of seals had appeared, the Eight Trigram Beast Confinement seal.

The seal had done its job and the biju chakra was no longer a problem... at least for now.

Flash back

"Sensei" Kyoshiro called out as he entered the shelter to see Uzume helping Kakashi and Zabuza finish of the last of the thugs.

"Kyoshiro? Why are you here? I thought you would be with Naruto." Uzume said.

"No time sensei. Do you have the subduing seals that Naruto gave you both yesterday?"

Kakashi nodded and took out the five paper tags. Naruto had made them yesterday and given them to Kakashi in case Shin lost control.

"The boss is fighting Shin now. Shin's gone past the five tailed state." Kyoshiro said identifying himself to be a clone.

"What! Kyoshiro are you crazy?" Uzume said angrily.

"Sorry sensei I had no choice but to distract him with a fight or else he might have attacked some civilian."

"We need to use the seals on him." Kakashi said. "But how will we get near him."

"I need you two to set up the seal near the forest. Once you are done, I'll dispel and inform the boss. He'll bring Shin there." The clone said.

Uzume and Kakashi looked at Zabuza. Zabuza grunted,

"You two go take care of the brat. We'll handle things here." With a nod they left.

They moved to the clearing in the forest and started setting up the seals.

"Hey, the seals are strong enough to subdue him upto the five tailed state, but beyond that this seal won't be enough. If the biju chakra is too powerful, it will overpower this seal, we need Naruto." Kakashi said.

"Naru won't be able to get here on time." The clone said grim faced, "But the boss has another plan to help with the subduing."

Uzume looked at the clone's solemn face and decided to trust her student for now.

~Flashback end~

Kakashi took the unconscious Shin and Uzume took Kyoshiro.

"Kakashi, Kyoshiro needs help. He's rejecting my chakra, I can't heal him."

Kakashi frowned when he heard this, "Damn it" He said softly.

Both of them moved towards the village hall as quick as they can.

Yumiko stood inside the barrier scowling and more than a bit worried. The man had dispatched the Naruto clones outside so easily that it couldn't even be called a fight. He just touched them and the clones dispelled due to massive chakra drains.

The clone standing with her was also worried.

This guy was no joke. After all, he did defeat Uzume and Kakashi easily. Or perhaps caught them off guard were the right words to use.

The clone had his dojutsu active and through it he could see the seals carved on to the flesh of the man.

"Oh! a dojutsu too! You're full of surprises." The man chuckled, "Of course I couldn't expect any less from the child of the red death and yellow flash."

Naruto kept his surprise well off of his face. Instead he analyzed the seals further. And what he found was perplexing. The many had so many seals on him; a body enhancement seal, a strength enhancement seal, a regeneration seal, an aura suppressing seal, elemental seals, chakra storage seals, chakra absorbing seals and a confinement seal similar to Gato's, obviously containing some potent form of energy; most likely nature chakra. This was ridiculous, how can one person do so many seals on himself. All those seals would inevitably damage his chakra coils, unless he had a seal to protect his coils, which he didn't.

"You are a fool." Naruto said trying to start a conversation to buy them some time.

"Eh? How can you call me a fool? I am obviously smart enough to make all this wonderful seals. Don't forget that beauty I placed on Gato. A fine work of art, if I say so myself."

"So you made it intentionally so that you could blow up the whole of Wave?" Yumiko asked eyes narrowed.

"No. Not really. I have nothing against Wave actually. I am not even doing this for any money." The man shrugged before continuing with a grin, "But I HATE KONOHA NINJA and I'll take any chance I get to eliminate them. Especially the ones related to a certain blonde bastard. Like that bastard's student Hatake or even better, his son."

"If we were your only target, then why use Gato as a human bomb?" Naruto (A/N: Remember he is just a clone. The original is still busy) asked calmly.

"Well, I wasn't planning on it really. Buuuut~ then I saw those seals you drew on the perimeter of Tazuna's house. I knew that one of you was a seal master, my guess was on the mini-yondaime over here, so I sent Gato his way after seeing him leave the bridge. I made this seal to test his knowledge on seals. And that fool Gato thought that I just gave him what he wanted... he he fool."

"You're crazy, what if Naruto wasn't able to do it?!" Yumiko yelled out.

"Then obviously you all would die. It's a win-win situation for me. If you manage to get rid of the seal, then I get to personally fight a seal master. And if you happen to fail, then the seal would get rid of you Konoha ninja. But I must say, the first option was the one I was hoping for."

"And what about the people of Wave? Where do they fit into this?" Yumiko asked almost growling.

"Collateral damage" The man shrugged nonchalantly. Then he looked at the Naruto' working on draining Gato.

"You would've died too, in the blast." Naruto said.

The man shrugged once again, "Eh, So? Who cares."

"You're insane." Yumiko said.

"No... At least not yet. It's a drawback of using elemental seals. I was kind of careless. It messes with the brain you see, memories get jumbled, neural pathways get affected, damages a lot of the baser instincts, but it takes time. So right now, I'm just a little crazy, but give me some more time... then I'll be insane."

Naruto looked at the man, he understood what the man meant by being careless. While placing seals on one's body, the position of the seal was a prominent factor and his elemental seals were dangerously close to some of his nerve points.

"Are they done yet? I am getting bored. I was waiting for him to finish, but this is boring. You both are very good company and all, but I am anticipating something very different from evil monologues that reveal the sinister plan of the villain." The man whined like a child.

Then he looked thoughtfully at Yumiko and the clone Naruto who was standing with her. Moments later a grin appeared on his face.

"Maybe..." He started, "I'll have some fun with you till he's done."

Yumiko's eyes widened as he stepped forward and placed his right hand on the barrier. What is he doing? The barrier wouldn't break like that. And then to her surprise he purpose fully pushed his chakra into the barrier and since the barrier was chakra absorbing, it absorbed his chakra. But instead of what was supposed to happen, his chakra overpowered Yumiko's hold on the barrier and the light purple barrier rippled and shimmered and turned a bright yellow in colour.

Naruto silently cursed as the man stepped back with a smirk.

Placing his hands into a sign that Yumiko recognized and her eyes widened in horror as he said,

"Eight Point Barrier Seal: Dispel" And the barrier shimmered once more before shattering into golden dust.

Oh My God. This thing has no intention of stopping does it? I try to end the wave arc somehow, but it keeps growing longer and longer. I wow to myself that the next chapter would be the last one of the wave arc… at least I hope so. And wow, my computer got fixed, and then what happens? My internet runs out on me. Ha-ha, very funny, (I am being sarcastic if you didn't know) whoever-is-up-there. I feel slightly crazy today.

Hey guys, review if you like this chapter. I am always eager to hear from you. And thanks to all those who reviewed, you guys are like the rain in a desert.

Oh oh oh and I have a new fanfic out. He-he, I know I am biting out more than I can chew, what with me being able to get to my computer only once or twice in months and all. But I just couldn't, not write it. It's a Naruto dimension jumping fic, check it out if you are interested.

Bye for now… Love you…