A/N:Alright so hope you're all doing good and feeling well. Shout out to KnightLawn for being the first reviewer. Thanks for the support. Not sure what else to say so I'll see you guys at the end.

I don't own Naruto

As dawn breaks over the horizon three clearly sleepy children sat in front of the one-eyed ninja Kakashi. They were ready for the day's work they would receive. Although, one of them was a bit more excited than he should be at such an early hour.

A gentle breeze could carry a man's words far and wide. Fortunately for those who happened to be spread far and wide the air was still in the desert this morning. Still as it was the anxiety of the locals permeated it with their fear for the ninja's health in the battle to be.

As promised Kakashi was to split his force in half. The question was how? He himself would clearly be engaging the enemy but who would go with him? Definitely not Sakura, she isn't the best combatant anyways. He could take Naruto, the boy had an amazing talent for always coming out on top of every situation, but that would leave the moody 'genius' Sasuke alone with his biggest and arguably loudest fan girl. That would go very poorly. Unfortunately, the same went for Naruto's giant crush on Sakura.

Kakashi let out a sigh as he remembered how things once were. Back when his Genin team operated nearly the same as the one he now led. Rin after Kakashi, and Obito after her. Although Rin never sounded like a dying banshee...

"Alright that's enough you two." Kakashi said as he left the realm of his thoughts to find the two males of his team at each others throats. Once they were seated he continued," Sasuke, you and I are going to go to the spring where the bandits have established a base and deal with them. However, while we are gone there's no guarantee another raid won't be conducted so Naruto you and Sakura will stay. With your shadow clones I want ypu to patrol the outskirts and place a few on the rooftops. The rest of them I want to be helping the villagers rebuild. I know it isn't our job but we can still help them. Sakura while he does that i want you to stay near the real him and if they do attack try to keep them from causing too much damage."

With a solid nod followed by two slightly disappointed ones the group spilt and Naruto prepared his signature hand seal. Much to the civilians' confusion the orange blurs spread out near the edges of the town while an entire platoon of them walked towards the first construction site they found. Within an hour they were no longer needed and moved to the next. As you could imagine many men wished they could replicate that technique to work and many women wished for extra help with day to day activities.

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With Kakashi

As the pair approached the spring they were not surprised when a trio of sword toting men appeared before them. They all wore clothing similar to that of Samurai from the land of Iron but their armor was sparse. The man on the far left having a chest plate while the one to the right only had the helmet. The man in the middle however had none. He was covered from the most part to protect himself from the sun but what showed of his skin was covered with tattoos and scars.

"Stop, not a step closer until you pay our toll," Said the tattooed middle man," Otherwise you should turn around and go home. This is not a welcoming place to those of the Leaf." He eyed the headband over Kakashi's eye at the mention of the pair's homeland but was otherwise indifferent.

Kakashi's one eye closed as if he was smiling and in the split second before it reopened he stood behind the three men. With very little effort he sent a kick to the head of the man with the chestplate. It connected and said man collapsed to the ground. His partners turned in his direction, the perfect distraction for Sasuke to strike. And strike he did, he threw three kunai at each of the remaining bandits tagging them in the chest and both arms. As they screamed in pain they were quickly silenced by two quick and powerful strikes to the jaw. The trio were unconscious but not dead so they were tied up and set aside for the suna team to collect later. The two Konoha ninja strolled forward to the spring.

Upon arrival they quickly disbatched the remaining bandits with ease. That was bad, very bad. That meant a raiding party was out. Both of them shared a nervous glare before sprinting back to the town.

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With Naruto

Poof!

Memories flooded back to Naruto and he wasn't sure where from, only that an enemy approached. He stopped his march through town and stood thinking. Sakura noticed his uneasiness and her curiosity grew.

"What is it Naruto? Is something wrong?"

His blues eyes flew up to her green ones as his response poured out, " Huh? Oh, Yeah I don't know how I know so don't ask but there is a group of bandits approaching from the North."

Sakura stood and stared wide eyed at her blonde haired teammate. "Wait what? What do we do?"

Naruto gave her a deadpan stare as he spoke "We have to attack them in the desert before they get to the city. It's safe to say they knew we're here since they're coming from the north instead of directly south towards the spring.They must have camped out and watched Kakashi-sensei leave."

'Wow. That was actually smart thinking. Wait from Naruto? Is that even possible?'

Sakura's thoughts prevented her from seeing him take off towards the enemy and when her senses recovered she came to the conclusion that Kakashi and Sasuke should be nearly back and they could regroup to attack as soon as they arrived. She jumped off to the south side of the village as Naruto was speeding north.

As the blonde menace reached an acceptable distance from the town he stopped running and began thinking strategy. 'Kakashi and Sasuke should get back soon and since Sakura isn't here i guess she called that as well so I can fight on full blast and keep these guys occupied until reinforcements arrive.' It was settled then battle was imminent.

Naruto made a hundred clones and as they took position he prepared himself for battle. As he steeled his nerves he remember the mission to Wave country, he remembered Haku's words to him. 'I have to fight to protect my precious people and I think it's fair to say they'd protect me too.' He thought as watched the growing silhouettes.

Within minutes a force of thirty men stood before him, wielding swords and grinning at the thought of a fresh slaughter. When they stopped a man in full armor stepped forward and spoke.

"So, the Leaf brat wants to stop us, eh? Sorry child but we have business to see to so if you want to live get out of the way."

Naruto said nothing as he stood there and watched the proceedings.

The growing anger of the attackers was evident even when their faces couldn't be seen. As soon as one charged past his captain a hand reached up and pulled him into the sands. He yelled and kicked but he was buried neck deep and the pressure was squeezing his lungs. A muffled poof was heard as Naruto's clone dispersed, his job was done.

When eyes came off of their freshly buried comrade they were shocked to see several more hands reach up to them. out of the twenty eight soldiers that stood behind the armored captain only twelve escaped the clone's ambush. Unfortunately for them, those clones that didn't find the target sprung up to attack. As the battle slowly turned to Naruto's favor he stood where he had been the whole time staring at the leader.

"Well, boy it seems that you are stronger than I anticipated. Don't get a big head, though because now you fight me and I will not lose."

A devilish grin spread across Naruto's face as watched the battle behind the man end. Sixteen of his clones remained and all of the enemy troops were disabled. That meant more trouble for the one in charge.

"We'll see about that." came a voice from behind the samurai. He turned just in time to watch a Naruto clone slam its fist into his mask.

The force broke his nose nearly instantly but he could still fight. He threw off his now useless helmet and drew his sword.

Naruto's grin was still displayed as he charged forward. The punch from the one clone was enough distraction for the others to go back under the sand and prepare a jutsu he had just recently picked up.

Now all he had to do was keep this samurai busy. That shouldn't be too hard right? Oh well just keep punching. I'm sure it will work out eventually.

And sure enough as Naruto battered away at his opponent the man failed to notice the lack of his clones.

As soon as the first pop of a clone dispelling was heard Naruto stopped attacking and raised his hands above his head.

A large orb appeared above his hands and once it reached a diameter of around two feet Naruto slammed it into the ground as he roared the name for the world to hear. "Kyodai Chakura Bakudan!" The resulting explosion left a large crater on the battlefield and sent both of them flying off into the desert.

The armored Samurai lay in the sand unable to move as a shadow slipped over him. He felt a hand lay upon his shoulder before yanking him up by it. He faced three ninja. A cyclops, a girl, and an angry looking boy. He smiled as he spoke to them through his pain," You must be that blonde brat's teammates. And you must be his teacher. You've done well then he has the soul of a saint and the skills of a warrior. Now if you will excuse me my life has come to it's end. Goodbye ninjas, may we meet again in the next world."

And with a laugh as he coughed up blood and eventually lay without breath his story ended. Now it was time to find Naruto. The Orange Idiot of the Leaf was missing in the desert and that was never good. So for the rest of the day the trio combed the desert for their friend until night fell and they were forced to return to the inn.

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Itty Bitty time skip

As the sun rose the trio walked grimly out of the city and back towards their own village. It was assumed that Naruto was dead or dying and there was nothing they could do. The Suna teams sent to recover the Samurai would find him either way. So they headed home to make their report with heavy hearts.

Kakashi had made them leave. They wanted to search but the idea that Naruto was dead was scary enough to keep them from wandering. They might confirm their fears after all. It had been two days of searching for the blonde and not a scrap of orange had been seen.

Hope was the only option so on the long way home that was their shared feeling. And little did they know that their silent prayers were answered. Because that night as a Suna team was about to head home from collecting bodies they watched in awe and horror as one of them sat up and stretched. A yawn from this corpse of a man earned him a canteen shoved into his hands.

"I don't know who you are or what side you were on but to survive and be able to move with your injuries is amazing. Drink this we're almost to the gates and you can sleep and recover in the hospital."

A short affirmative nod came from the presumed dead man as he lifted the canteen to his lips and drank. Soon enough he was lying back on a real bed for the first time in days as a doctor checked him over. He was soon asleep with a smile plastered over his face and his head band lying on his chest.

In accordance with the Sand and Leaf alliance a message was sent to Konoha about the development and a guard was stationed in the room. A blonde guard, with a big fan. She looked over the body of the younger boy that lay in front of her as the moon illuminated him through the window. That warm smile shining through his dreams to light up the night.

Temari didn't really want to be here right now but orders were orders. And besides, at least he was easy on the eyes, at least compared to the men around here. 'Wow that was a weird thing to think but it isn't wrong either I suppose...'

Eventually Temari fell asleep at her post and the night blew by with no trouble.

A/N: Okay so thats chapter two. Don't be afraid to tell me how it was. Again thank you to KnightLawn for leaving the first review and to those who favorited/followed the story you guys(and girls) are awesome. This chapter is longer than the last one and I'm happy about it so I've decided to map out the story and plan ahead.

Like the summary said this after the wave arc. Yes part of it is me being lazy but I feel like there's only so many ways to do it and they've all been done. Too many people use it and its hard to come up with original results. I might reference it every now and then but unless I tell you otherwise it was exactly like it happened in Canon. Also yes the leader of the raid party was Panko but Naruto wouldn't have known. As far as I know the jutsu he used (Kyodai chakura bakudan or Giant Chakra Bomb) is original to me and it's basically just elemental chakra gathered into a ball then released violently. He doesn't know it has to be elemntal chakra but eventually he figures it out.He will get better with it and use it occasionally but it won't replace the rasengan. I just want to widen his skill set a bit.

Well thats it let me know how it was and I'll figure out what to do next. Don't be afraid to ask questions or make suggestions either it could definitely help.