Naruto: Shinobi Hunters

Digi-Destined saga

Battle of Uzushio arc

Kurama no Kyubi: It's been a little while guys, but I'm back with the second season of this story. Now, first of all I would like to tell you all that there are currently nine other stories that I'm planning on adding to this one, two of which will make themselves known in this very arc. However, none of them will be warned about in any Author's Notes. Also note that I might still add even more stories other than those seven as well. Also note that the chapter titles that I reveal in the chapter previews might not be the final title, and I may still change it if I so desire. Please note that the review section in this chapter will seem a little rushed as I forgot to add it before originally uploading the chapter, so I will need to upload it again.

Bakuto Masaki: That was interesting. And now we have a new and far more dangerous threat then Gelelmon coming around.

Kurama no Kyubi: Yup.

Rales Mckoy: Well, well, Uzushio's getting allies from everywhere, but, the question is will they be enough, I'm looking forward to season two.

P.S: I already have a guess what the gauntlet is, I'm just gonna wait and see. Also, those previews look awesome, can't wait.

Kurama no Kyubi: And now season two's started.

Element-Overlord: HOLY F*CENSORED*! This Chapter Was Great! And When I Said How Would Zorro Be Defeated, I DIDN'T Ask WHO! But You Brought A Very Fair Point, So Who's Gonna Stop The Mad Man?! And When Will Acnologiamon Appear?! Also Naruto Will Have A Harem? I Hope So. As For The Projects, Good Works! But Can I Ask:

Naruto: Ninja Pirate: Will The One Piece Journey Happens Before Naruto Canon, Or After The VoTE?

Naruto: Pokemon Journey: Will There Be Any Pairings? If So Can I Ask For Naruto/Leaf?

Naruto: The Smash Tournament: What Will Be His Final Smash?

GOOD LUCK!

Kurama no Kyubi: It's Acnolodramon actually, not Acnologiamon. And as for your questions, well, the One Piece journey will start after the first part of Naruto. I had planned on Naruto/Leaf since day one. And Naruto's Final Smash is still undecided, I'm wondering on whether having it be Uzumaki Naruto Rendan or One-Tailed Kyubi Cloak.

The Crimson Fucker: So will Naruto be paired with leaf for the Naruto/Pokemon crossover? I'm just wondering since it hasn't happened before.

Kurama no Kyubi: Look above.

name: naruto/fairy tale/digimon/onepiece/pokemon how you feel about adding inuyasha kaze no stigma and yugioh to the playlist

Kurama no Kyubi: Sorry, I haven't read or watched them.

"Digivolution." Normal speech

'Digivolution.' Normal thought

"Digivolution." Biju, Digital God, and Legendary speech

'Digivolution.' Biju, Digital God, and Legendary thought

Naruto: Kurama no Kyubi only owns his own OCs.

Chapter 19: Gathering Forces

Somewhere in one of Orochimaru's hideouts were three silhouettes gathered where the prisoners would be held, only there were no prisoners there, nor had there been any guards or anyone else for that matter.

"Are you positive that this is where he was taken?" One of them asked as he looked at one who didn't appear to be much taller than a kid.

"Yes. There can be no mistake that he was here." He replied and the one who had spoken first then turned to the third person in the room.

"Can you pick up his scent?" He asked.

"Only barely. It's quite faint, but I think I can figure out where he was taken from here?" The third one said in a feminine voice, indicating that she was female.

"Very well, then. Let's head back to the others and head out." The one who appeared to be the leader of the three said.

Land of Whirlpools, Uzushio Ruins

Walking through the streets of the Uzushio ruins was a man with long blonde hair and a white robe. The most unique trait about him though was the pair of large white wings coming out of his back.

This was Prince Rafiel of the Heron Laguz Tribe from the continent of Tellius.

Just over two months ago, he had been on his way to Gallia to see off his friend, Queen Nailah of the Wolf Tribe as she was returning to her homeland on the other side of the desert. He had decided to go alone, however, and that proved to have been a fatal mistake as he ran into a certain white snake.

Then about one and a half months later, Naruto had appeared and freed everyone that were imprisoned in the hideout. And having nowhere else to go, Rafiel decided to go to Uzushio, though he didn't become a ninja.

"Ah! Rafiel-san. What are you doing here?" Rafiel turned towards the voice to see Fu standing there.

"I was just strolling through here. Ancient places like this give me a soothing feeling. And what about you?" He said.

"You know how the Uzumaki clan was widely known for their powerful Fuinjutsu, right?" Fu asked and when Rafiel nodded she continued "Well, Naruto-kun asked me to see if I could find anything that could help us in the coming war."

"I see. Would you like some help?" Rafiel asked.

"I'd appreciate that, Rafiel-san. Arigato." Fu said and the two walked off to see if they could find anything.

Naruto's tent

Naruto was sitting at his desk inside the tent as he rubbed his temples in slight frustration, not having the goggles on right now. The reason for his frustration being that he was going through the files of everyone in the village which had been provided by Zoe and Karin, though there weren't really that many who stood out from the rest.

The samurai would obviously come by ship, and if they could keep the battle over the ocean, then they could use the countless whirlpools surrounding the island to their advantage. Also, any healer would be staying at the back to heal any of the injured. Other than that, he couldn't really figure out where to place anyone else. Rafiel seemed to have the ability to restore a person's stamina, but there were so many and the battle would span such a large area that he couldn't figure where to place him.

Then there was the threat of the Samurai Generals, the worst among them being Ryuma. Now, he did have someone on his side who he knew would be able to beat Ryuma, but he was currently out of the village. As for the other three, well there weren't that many others who could go head-to-head with the Generals seeing as they were all Kage-level. Of course there was Leomon, Robin, and Palmon in her Mega form, but the latter two weren't in the village and the former wouldn't be able to take on three Kage-level people at once.

Then there were the Battosai which Zolo had given a little more information on. Apparently there were four Battosai that stood high above the rest and were almost up there with the Generals. One of these four was Jodai, and another one was Kine'mon, though, even Zolo didn't have any information on who the other two were. But seeing as Kine'mon apparently used some kind of fire technique with his sword, Naruto figured that he could send Suigetsu to take him on, but even though Suigetsu's basically made of water he still might not be able to win all by himself due to the large gap in power.

And on top of all of this there was the Samurai Emperor, Roronoa Zorro himself. He was obviously their greatest obstacle and Naruto didn't know if he had anyone who could beat him.

As Naruto then moved on of the files onto one of the paper weights and got another file which he put down on the desk. As he looked over the paper, his eyes widened slightly. It was of girl named Nowi who didn't appear to be human if the pointy ears weren't any indication. It also seemed that she was from the South Blue… whoa, Orochimaru really got around, didn't he? What shocked him the most, however, was that she could…

"She can transform into a dragon?!" He exclaimed in surprise, thinking how useful an ability like that would be in the coming battle. Though, her overall stats weren't all that impressive, but Naruto figured that he could have her attack the ships themselves from a distance while in her dragon form and he could have someone defend her from nearby enemy soldiers.

"Naruto." Someone said, gaining his attention, and he looked up to see Karin standing at the entrance "We've got some visitors."

"We do? Who?" Naruto asked.

"Wizards from the Magic Guild, Fairy Tail. They claimed to have received a request from us to help in the coming battle." Karin said.

"I don't remember sending a request." Naruto said.

"Nor do I. So I looked over the request paper and found that it was Robin's handwriting." Karin said.

"Robin-san's, huh? She really thinks ahead, doesn't she?" Naruto said before saying "Very well, then. Bring them in."

"You can go in now." Karin said as she turned to the wizards before the nine of them entered.

"So you're wizards from Fairy Tail, and you received a request to help us out, huh? Well, I thank you for coming all this way, as we are in need of some real strong guys right now. I'm Uzumaki Naruto, by the way."

"Well, I'm Erza Scarlet and the rest of us are; Natsu Dragneel, Laxus Dreyar, Gajeel Redfox, Gray Fullbuster, Juvia Lockser, Cana Alberona, Lucy Heartfillia, Wendy Marvell, and the cats are Happy, Carla, and Panther Lily." Erza said as she gestured at each one of them.

'Cats?' Naruto thought as he leaned slightly forward and looked down to see one cat standing next to Natsu, another one being held by Wendy, and the last one standing next to Gajeel 'Is she talking about those three?'

"And don't worry. We're all pretty strong." Erza said.

"If you are going to help in the coming war, then I will require you to tell me of your abilities, skills, and stats." Karin said as she looked at the Fairy Tail wizards.

Uzushio Ruins

Fu and Rafiel were still looking for stuff that could help them during the war, but neither of them found anything.

"I can't believe that there isn't even a scroll containing a single Fuinjutsu." Fu let out a heavy sigh as they walked through the streets.

"You shouldn't give up so easily." Rafiel said.

"That's easy for you to say, I haven't seen you looking for anything." Fu said accusingly.

"Actually, I have. We Herons are very keen to things involving magic, and Jutsus are no exception. I've been using my sensory abilities to try and locate any Jutsu scrolls or maybe even some tools inscribed with Jutsu formula." Rafiel said.

"You can inscribe tools with Jutsu formulas?" Fu asked.

"You didn't know?" Rafiel asked and Fu shook her head "I thought you did since both Naruto-san's sword and staff are inscribed with Jutsu formulas."

"Nani?" Fu asked.

"Didn't know that either, huh?" Rafiel said.

"I doubt even Naruto-kun knows that." Fu said.

"Knowing it wouldn't help him much, anyway." Rafiel said.

"What do you mean?" Fu asked.

"The formula on the sword appears to be a Fuinjutsu that seems to be holding back the swords true power, though, I've got no idea how to remove the seal. And as for the staff… well, even I don't know." Rafiel explained, and Fu recalled sometimes when Naruto had been training with the sword where he had even managed to crush boulders with it.

"If the sword's that powerful with most of its powers sealed, I wonder how strong it'd be when the seal's broken." Fu thought out loud.

"No, I don't think you'd want to know that." Fu and Rafiel looked towards the voice to see a man sitting on the rubble from a destroyed house.

Almost instinctively, Fu stepped forward as a pair of insect wings grew out of her back, a water sword appeared in her right hand and her entire left arm was covered in insects.

"Who are you, what are you doing here, and how did you get here?" She yelled threatingly, causing the man to burst out laughing "What? Did I say something funny?"

"No. I guess I'm just surprised at your reaction to my presence." The man said before rising to his feet.

"Stay where you are!" Fu commanded, but the man then held his left arm out to his left and a building that was still somewhat standing was suddenly blown to smithereens, causing Fu's eyes to widen as she let out an audible gulp.

"I am your leader's uncle, Uzumaki Clive Gildarts of the Magic Guild Fairy Tail. And I'm here to help you in the coming battle." The man, now identified as Gildarts said, again causing Fu's eyes to widen as her sword vanished, the insects receded back into her clothes, and the wings retracted themselves back into her skin.

"Wait, Naruto-kun's got an uncle?" She asked, and Gildarts nodded.

"Yeah. I'm his mother's older brother." He said.

"Wait a minute. Does that mean that you lived in this village?" Fu asked.

"That's right. I lived here all the way up till it was destroyed. Why?" Gildarts said.

"Then do you know of anything hidden here that could help us win the battle?" Fu asked.

Land of Waves

Just a year ago, the Land of Waves was under the tyrannical control of the evil business man, Gato. But all that changed when team 7 came to the land as bodyguards of Tazuna, a bridge-builder who was in the middle of constructing a bridge to the mainland which would free the country and open the world's eyes to Gato's tyranny.

Obviously not wanting the bridge to be finished, Gato had hired shinobi to kill both Gato and his bodyguard, but in the end his plans failed as even his strongest ace – the Demon of Kiri, Momochi Zabuza – was killed, albeit by Gato's own thugs. Gato also fell during the battle, having been slain by Zabuza.

Weeks later when construction on the bridge was finally over, team 7 returned to their village and the bridge was then named the "Great Naruto Bridge" due to how – through Tazuna's grandson, Inari – Naruto had changed their nation.

However, the bunk of Gato's thugs still remained, and fearing that their nation could fall to them just as it had fallen to Gato before, the nation's Daimyo made a drastic decision and decided for the Land of Waves to join the World Government.

And now after a long time, a Marine Base has finally been established on the island, under the leadership of Vice Admirals Kira and Mira. (Kurama no Kyubi: Note that I came up with their names before reading/watching Fairy Tail, so Mira's name is in no way based on Mirajane's name.)

"Here you go." A young woman said as she handed some money over to a shop-keeper.

The woman had long crimson-red hair with matching eyes, she wore the normal Marine uniform, though like most members of her rank, she wore the jacket like a cape. Underneath the jacket, she had an open red blouse with nothing underneath.

"Thank you." The shop-keeper said as he bowed.

The woman then walked out, holding a bag of food which she had just bought. As she exited the shop, however, she looked around as if trying to find someone.

'Arg. Where could she have run off to now?" She thought to herself before noticing some blue hair among some clothes that were out on display outside a clothing shop 'You've gotta be kidding me…!'

A young woman was looking over a pair of shirts, not able to decide which one to buy, despite the fact that they looked exactly like one-another. She had long navy-blue hair with matching eyes, she wore the normal Marine uniform, also wearing the jacket like a cape, and underneath she wore a blue open blouse which had nothing underneath.

"There you are!" A voice said from behind her, and she turned around to see the red-haired woman from before.

"Ah, Kira-nee! I need some help! Which one of these do you think looks good on me?" She asked, causing Kira to sweatdrop.

"They both look the same…" She deadpanned.

"Huh? Really? Then I'll just buy both!" The blue-haired woman, Mira exclaimed, causing Kira to shake her head at her sister's stupidity.

"Anyway, I told you not to go off on your own like that. Remember what happened last time?" Kira said, causing Mira to assume a thinking pose as she tried to remember, though Kira decided to remind her "I found you surrounded by an entire crew of low-Shichibukai-level pirates!"

"And I beat them all up, so what's your problem?" Mira stated as she rested her arms just under her breasts.

"That's not the point here!" Kira yelled before her rather keen ears picked up a conversation between a couple of civilians in the background.

"Hey, did you hear? The newly rebuilt Uzushio is apparently about to go to war with the samurai." One of them said.

"They've got to be crazy to try something like that. There's no way they can win." Another one said.

'Uzushio?!' Kira thought as she looked towards the two from the corner of her eyes.

Calm Belt, Sekai Senshi

Zorro was standing at the bow of his ship as they were approaching the assembled Samurai Armada, and it was quite a sight to behold.

"Zorro-sama!" Jodai said as he approached Zorro and went down on his knees.

"Report." Zorro said.

"Ryuma-sama, and Kine'mon-san have both arrived with all of our forces in the South Blue and New World respectively. Kumira-sama's also arrived with half of her fleet from West Blue and the other half is on its way. We've also received word from Mifune-sama, and they will rendezvous with us when we approach the Elemental Nations. However, we still haven't gotten any word from Dopai-sama, though it might be that they won't show seeing as Zoro-sama's amongst the enemy." Jodai reported.

"Don't worry. They'll show, there's no mistaking that. What about him?" Zorro said.

"Yes, he – along with all of our forces in the first half of the Grand Line – are already here." Jodai said, causing Zorro to smile.

"Good." He said.

Below deck

In a hidden compartment below deck were two figures, one of which was Takeda while the other was the one who had rescued him.

"So we hijack this thing until we reach Uzushio, and then what?" Takeda asked.

"We get out of here and join the battle. As a former Admiral – even if you are out of shape – you should be able to hold out your own against a legion of samurai. Especially with that gauntlet powering your abilities." The other one said as Takeda looked down on the gauntlet at those last words.

"Yeah, about that. What's it for?" Takeda asked.

"Don't worry about it, you'll find out soon enough." The other one replied.

"Who are you, anyway?" Takeda asked, but the other one just looked at him, not replying to the question.

North Blue, Elemental Nations, Land of Whirlpools, Uzushio

"I must say that this place isn't like I had imagined." Lucy said as she, Natsu, Gray, Erza, and Happy walked through the streets of the village, or rather campsite as everyone were still living in tents. Though there were several wooden houses that were under construction here and there. Of course all construction had stopped in preparations for the coming battle.

"Well, the original village was destroyed over one and a half decades ago and it's only recently that these guys came here, so it's obvious that they wouldn't have gotten far with the rebuilding." Erza said.

"Oh, yeah? And how would you know that?" Natsu asked as he looked at her suspiciously.

"Um, Karin-san told us when we got here, remember?" Lucy said.

"Aye." Happy said.

"Oh, right. Heh heh." Natsu said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Seriously, you should try to pay attention sometimes." Lucy said as she shook her head.

"You seriously is an idiot." Gray said.

"What was that, Gray?!" Natsu yelled as he turned around and glared at the Ice-Maker wizard as Erza noticed that Gray was top-less.

"Gray, your clothes." She said.

"Huh?!" He then looked down on himself to see that he wasn't wearing anything on his upper body.

Beach

At the southern shore of the Land of Whirlpools was a ship bearing an unknown flag docking. The majority of the people on the ship were dressed from head-to-toe in pure white armor, though there were a few exceptions.

Among them was a man with spiky blue hair, a red bandana, a blue shoulder-guard on his left shoulder, a blue chest-plate with a black shirt underneath, white pants, blue greaves, and a red cape which split into three. At his left hip was a sword resting in its scabbard.

Walking over to him was someone who appeared to be a young boy with long black hair which ended in a ponytail and red eyes who wore a white robe with black clothes underneath. Though what stood out the most about him was the red backwards "N" on his forehead. (Kurama no Kyubi: Just to be clear, these are the same guys that appeared at the beginning of the chapter.)

"Ike-san." The raven-haired boy said, and the blue-haired man looked towards him "According to Queen Nailah, this island is where the scent trail ends." The blue-haired man, Ike then nodded.

"So that means that Rafiel should still be here, right?" He guessed before looking down at the shore "So how do you suggest we proceed?"

"Well, since we're in unknown territory which may or may not be home to hostiles, we first of all will need to…" He didn't get to finish however as someone screamed at them.

"OI! Who do you bastards think you are, docking your ship here?" They looked down to the shore to see a girl with pink hair standing on the beach as she pointed an accusing finger at them "Get the fuck out of here before I chase you away!"

"Kuso! We've been spotted!" Ike exclaimed.

"Then there's no other way." The raven-head said and Ike turned to look at him.

"Soren?" He asked just before the raven-head, Soren pulled out a book with a green cover and flipped it open as winds started coming up around him. He then extended his arm towards the girl as gusts of wind blew towards her, sending her skidding backwards.

"Kh. So that's the way you fuckers want it, huh?" She then put her flute to her mouth while thinking 'Well, two can play at that game.'

Uzushio Ruins

The trio of one Uzumaki, one Jinchuriki, and one Heron stood before a large building that seemed to come out of the side of a mountain.

"Is it in here?" Fu asked as she looked at Gildarts.

"I'm not sensing anything on the other side." Rafiel stated.

"It's not in here. However, the tunnels that lead to it are." Gildarts said and Fu recalled their earlier conversation.

Flashback

"Then do you know of anything hidden here that could help us win the battle?" Fu asked.

"And why do you want to know that?" Gildarts asked.

"Why? Why do you think? So we will at least have a chance to win, of course!" Fu yelled.

"Would you be willing to do anything if it meant winning?" Gildarts asked, and Fu nodded without hesitating.

"Yes! I love Naruto-kun with all my heart. I would do anything to help him achieve his dream of restoring this village, even at the cost of my own life! … But…" She said, sounding a little unsure at the last word.

""But"…?" Gildarts inquired.

"I know that if I'd die, Naruto-kun would be devastated. So, I am not going to die no matter what!" Fu finished with a defiant look in her eyes, and Gildarts' lips curled into a smile.

"Well, then." He said before rising to his feet "Come with me."

"Huh?" Fu looked at him confused as he looked down at her.

"I'll take you to one of the greatest weapons ever forged by the Uzumaki clan." He said.

Flashback end

They entered the building to find themselves in a large room which appeared to be empty. The ceiling was held up by pillars that were standing just inches away from the walls, and at the center of the room was a large pedestal with some sort with ancient writing similar to the Poneglyphs on it. And on the walls were carvings of what appeared to be a great battle. At the far end of the room was an enormous metal gate which had some carvings on it. At the bottom was the image of a fish-like creature surrounded by raging waters, in the bottom left one was an image of a beast surrounded by a great fire, in the bottom right one was the image of a beast that was standing on cracked earth as rocks was floating in the air around it, in the top left one was the image of a beast in the middle of a massive thunder-storm, in the top right one was the image of a bird-like creature surrounded by powerful winds, and at the top of the door was the image of what appeared to be an angel as rays of light came down around it. And they were all looking towards the carving at the middle of the gate which appeared to be of some kind of demonic creature that was trapped in some kind of ball.

"Whoa! What's that?" Fu asked as she looked up at the gate.

"Strange, I can't feel anything beyond this gate." Rafiel said.

"Hey, that door's not important right now. We need to keep on moving forward." Gildarts said, and Fu and Rafiel looked towards him to see that he was standing by a door-shaped hole in the wall which appeared to lead into a tunnel.

The three of them then walked through the tunnel which appeared to be a large complex of caves that was even more of a maze than the entrance to Taki. It was pretty clear that if someone were to enter the caves without a guide who knew their way around the place then they'd end up stuck there forever.

As they walked Gildarts told them that whenever the village was attacked, these caves were used for the civilians to get out to safety, and anyone foolish enough to follow them were doomed to wander the caves for the rest of their lives. Because of this, the caves also held a lot of secrets, including the weapon they were there to get. The earth surrounding the caves also contained some kind of materiel which jammed any sensory abilities, making sensory types useless.

Eventually they reached a rust-red metal door which had the Uzumaki clan symbol in the middle of it. Upon opening the door, they entered a dome-shaped room which had but a single pedestal in the middle and sticking out of that pedestal was a seemingly rusted sword.

"Is that it?" Fu asked, a little skeptical.

"I wouldn't be so fast to judge, Fu-san. I can sense a strange power emanating from that sword." Rafiel said, catching the Jinchuriki's attention.

"Wait, I thought sensory abilities didn't work in these caves." Fu said.

"They usually don't, but as a Heron Laguz – a Prince at that – Rafiel has far stronger sensory skills than any normal human. Not to mention that the walls of this room is made out of marble, so it's blocking the material that's jamming sensory types." Gildarts explained before looking down at Fu "Now go and draw that sword."

"Right…" Fu said, still not entirely convinced, but she walked up to it nevertheless.

As she stood before it, she reached out her hand and grabbed the sword's handle before drawing it up from the pedestal, causing a bright light to come out of the hole in the pedestal that the sword was stabbing into, and when Fu had drawn it completely, it completely changed in both shape and color.

"Amazing…" Fu muttered in amazement.

Beach

The beach had more or less been turned into a battlefield as Tayuya had been joined by Zolo, Suigetsu, Dorulumon, Gajeel, Hitomi, Kiri, and Kouta. They still had no idea who the "attackers" were, but none of them could really care at this point.

Dorulumon rolled over the ground as he had been tackled by a white wolf. He quickly got to his feet before the drill on his tail started spinning.

"Dorulu Tornado!" He called out and the spinning drill formed powerful tornado which sent the wolf flying back before landing safe on her feet.

'I've got to be careful of that drill of his.' She thought.

Elsewhere on the battlefield was a quite muscular green-haired man who wore a bandanna around his forehead, large shoulder guards with spikes coming out of them, a red sleeve-less shirt which was half-way open, white pants, and he was holding a large axe.

He was currently fighting Suigetsu who swung his large sword at him, and though he tried to block it with his axe, he found himself skidding through the sand before coming to a halt. He then swung the axe towards his opponent, but to his shock, it just went straight through as though the guy he was fighting was made up of water.

'Nani?!' He thought.

Elsewhere on the beach was Tayuya standing atop a large rock as she made her Doki fight for her against three opponents, all of which were on horseback. One of them – the sole female amongst the trio – had long red hair that was tied in a ponytail and wore white armor with a tint of gold with gold outlines. Another one had blue hair and wore blue armor with gold outlines. And the last one had green hair and matching green armor with gold outlines. All three of them also had pale blue capes.

The red-haired woman blocked the club-wielding Doki's club with her axe before swinging said axe, causing the summon to stumble backwards as the woman made a deep cut across its stomach with her axe.

"Oscar! Geoffrey! These things are quite strong, and they apparently won't be going down easily." The woman said.

"It looks like that girl's controlling them, so I think we should take care of her first." The blue-haired man, Geoffrey said.

"That won't be easy, though. If we try to attack her, then she'll just have those things protect her." The green-haired man, Oscar said.

"You're right. We'll need to find a way through them." Geoffrey said before he closed his eyes in thought, and when he opened them again he said "Titania! Oscar! Cover me, I've got a plan."

Elsewhere on the battlefield was an orange-haired man in heavy blue armor with gold outlines locked in combat with both Kiri and Kouta. Neither of the two Kenjutsu users proved to be an easy challenge as Kiri swung his sword at the heavily armored man who simply blocked it with his lance, but then Kouta jumped into the air from behind Kiri and swung for the man's neck. These two were clearly used to working together.

The man then held up his heavy shield, blocking Kouta's attack. Kiri then parried the lance out of the way before hitting the inside of the shield with the back of his sword's hilt as Kouta jumped into the air. And when he came down again he swung for the left side of the man's neck while Kiri swung for the right side.

Just then, however, both Kiri and Kouta were forced to use their swords to block a pair of incoming arrows and Kouta looked towards where they'd come from to see a pair of archers standing on the deck of the ship.

'Those guys must be good to almost hit us from so far away.' He thought.

In the meantime was a girl with long purple hair and a deep orange open robe with a grey and black shirt underneath, and she also had a white headband over her forehead. She was also holding a katana sword looking around as her opponent had somehow vanished into thin air. She then stopped looking around as she closed her eyes, trying to rather use her other senses. Then she heard what sounded like someone putting their foot down in the sand before hearing what sounded like something flying through the air.

Then with lightning fast reflexes, she blocked several incoming shuriken with her sword before charging towards where she believed her opponent to be and swung her sword before hitting what she assumed to be a kunai as her opponent had blocked the attack.

"You're better than I thought. To think that you were actually able to find me, even though I'm invisible." The invisible girl said.

"Heh. It's not really all that hard as long as you've got good ears. The name's Mia by the way." The purple-haired girl, now identified as Mia said.

"Well, my name's Hitomi." Hitomi said as her head became visible, though the rest of her body stayed invisible.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you've got a weird hair-color?" Mia asked as she looked at Hitomi's silver hair.

"Like you're one to talk, purple-head." Hitomi said before deflecting Mia's sword and moving in for the kill, but the purple-haired girl then leapt backwards before her sword seemed to glimmer for a second, and she charged at Hitomi.

Mia hit Hitomi on her stomach with the dull side of her sword, however, the attack was still strong enough to not only cause Hitomi to become fully visible, but also fall onto the ground as she clutched her stomach.

"Where I'm from, it's called a Critical Hit. You're lucky I used the dull side of the sword, or else you wouldn't be writhing in pain right now." Mia said as she rested the sword on her shoulder and said "You'd be dead."

Meanwhile was Soren blowing a strong gust of wind towards his opponent, Gajeel. However, the winds didn't even face him as he charged forward as his right arm turned into a double-edged steel blade.

He swung it when he approached Soren, but the boy simply jumped out of the way as he charged up another wind spell, which was evident from the strong gale building up around him.

"Tornado!" He called out, causing a large tornado to appear around Gajeel, and this time it did cause major damage to the Dragon Slayer.

When the winds died down, however, Soren raised an eyebrow when he saw that Gajeel was smiling before said Dragon Slayer burst into full-blown laughter, though, Soren only watched with his trademark poker-face expression.

"Geheheh. You just gave me a great idea for a new attack." Gajeel said before his right arm suddenly shaped itself into a cannon and it then started charging up.

"Tekryu no Kamikaze!" Suddenly a huge gust of wind shot out of the arm-cannon and towards Soren who also took notice of the countless metal particles in the wind. The Sage then looked into his book before calling forth one of his strongest spells.

"ArcWind!" He called out and gusts of wind of his own crashed against Gajeel's attack asd the two started to fight for dominance.

Elsewhere on the battlefield was Ike standing, observing the battle.

'These guys are pretty strong. It makes me glad that we only sent down the Greil Mercenaries, Geoffrey, and Queen Nailah to fight as the normal soldiers wouldn't stand a chance.' He thought.

"Heh. Are you only gonna stand there and watch as your men gets defeated?" Ike turned towards the source of the voice to see Zolo standing there with his sword resting on his shoulder.

"I was just about to join in." Ike said as he drew his sword. Zolo observed the sword with interest, it wasn't like any other sword that he had ever seen before as it was a double-edged sword with a golden blade, and he was getting the feeling that it was strong, very strong.

Ike then charged towards Zolo as the Santoryu-user charged towards him.

Kira and Mira's ship

As the battle continued, however, no one noticed a Marine ship approaching the island. On the bow of said ship were Kira and Mira standing as the former looked through a telescope.

"There appear to be some people fighting on the southeastern coast of the island." Kira said as she observed the battle.

"Ohh, Let me see, let me see!" Mira pleaded as she was trying to snatch the telescope away from her sister, but the latter held her back before removing the telescope from her eye as Mira finally managed to get her hands on it.

'But who are they? None of them appear to be Uzumaki aside from those two red-heads amongst the attackers.' Kira thought as Mira looked frantically around through the telescope.

"Hey, nee-chan! Look at all the birds leaving the island!" Mira said cheerfully as she looked into the sky with the telescope. Kira first looked at Mira in slight frustration at the girl's attitude, but then she looked towards where Mira was looking to see that what appeared to be millions of birds flew away from the island.

'Birds – like most animals – have the ability to tell if something bad's gonna happen, so for so many of them to be leaving the island at once must mean that that thing about the Samurai Emperor planning on attacking Uzushio wasn't just a rumor after all.' Kira thought before speaking up "But first… Everyone to their battle positions, we're gonna break up that fight!"

Beach

Zolo swung his sword at Ike, but the blue-haired man blocked it with his own before knocking the Roronoa's sword into the air and going in for the kill, but just then then the sound of cannon fire could be heard.

All the fighting came to a halt as two cannon balls impacted with the beach, causing two massive sand clouds to come up. They then looked towards where the cannon balls had come from to see a huge warship that was easily thrice the size of the ship that Ike and the others had arrived in.

Shortly after, the Marine Warship docked at the beach before Kira and Mira came down along with several Marine soldiers.

"All right, people, that's enough. Now, what's this all about?" Kira asked.

"Who the fuck are you?" Tayuya asked.

"Yeah, and why are you talking like you own the place?" Hitomi added.

"I am Vice Admiral Uzumaki Kira of the Marines, and aunt of Uzushio's current leader, Uzumaki Naruto. And I order all of you to leave this island at once! Dattebane!" Kira said.

"Naruto-kun's aunt?" Hitomi said in surprise.

"Look, I don't care whose aunt you are, you can't just tell us to leave this island when we live here!" Zolo yelled.

"Oh! You do?" Kira asked.

"Yes, we (fucking) do!" Tayuya, Zolo, Hitomi, Suigetsu, Kiri, and Kouta yelled.

"Oh, okay." Kira said before scratching the back her head as she had a sheepish smile, complete with her eyes closed and her tongue sticking out of her mouth and said "Oops, my bad." Causing everyone present aside from Mira to sweatdrop.

Just then, however, a bolt of lightning came down from the sky and hit Kira straight on the head. When the resulting electrical shocks faded, the woman didn't look too happy.

"All right! Who did that?!" She yelled as she pointed at both of the other groups present.

Everyone on the Uzushio side aside from Gajeel then looked towards Suigetsu.

"What? I didn't do it." He said.

And everyone in the other group looked towards Soren.

"You seriously think I'd do something like that?" He simply asked, sounding disappointed.

What none of them realized, however, was that the battle was watched by a couple of very powerful individuals from the tree-tops.

"O'otsutsuki Lucifer, what do you think you're doing?" Mavis yelled as she looked angrily at Luu.

"Heh heh heh. What? I thought it would be fun to see all three sides going at each other's throats." Luu said with a sheepish smile as he scratched the back of his head.

"You're over 800 years and the younger brother of the greatest man to have ever lived, yet you still act like a child sometimes." Luu and Mavis then looked towards the source of the voice to see Van sitting on a nearby tree.

"Vandesdelca." Luu simply stated as he glared at the man.

"Of course, it's rare to see you show off that side of your personality nowadays." Van said.

"What are you doing here, Van-san?" Mavis asked.

"Oh, I just came here to witness the beginning of the end of an era." Van said.

"The beginning of the end of an era?" Luu asked.

"Remember what the old man once said? The time he was talking about is now. His prophecy will soon be fulfilled." Van said.

Underground tunnels

The trio of Gildarts, Fu, and Rafiel walked through the tunnels before eventually reaching what appeared to be a dead end, but then Gildarts simply put his hand on the seal and the earth before them suddenly opened up like a door to reveal that they had reached the exit as they walked out and onto the beach.

The door then closed behind them and they turned around to see that they had actually come out of a large boulder.

"I must say; the Uzumaki were a lot more advanced and resourceful than I thought." Fu said.

"If you know how, you can do almost anything with just a few seals. Even level an entire mountain. Or – if you're strong enough – you could even crush the planet under the weight of its own gravity. Of course, no one's actually ever tried that." Gildarts said.

"Well, duh." Fu said before she suddenly heard what sounded like an explosion "Hey, did you guys hear that?"

"Yes." Rafiel said.

"It came from that direction." Gildarts said as he looked towards said direction.

Soon after they were standing before where the battle was currently going on.

"Zolo, Dorulumon, Suigetsu, Tayuya, and Hitomi?" Fu said.

"Ike-san, Soren-san, and Nailah-san?" Rafiel said.

"Kira-chan and Mira-chan?" Gildarts said, obviously being the one that sounded the most surprised.

"Huh?" Everyone uttered as they stopped in the middle of the battle and looked towards the trio.

"Ah, Rafiel?" Ike asked, but just as he was about to continue, he was interrupted by Fu.

"What do you idiots think you're doing? You're supposed to be preparing for when the Samurai Emperor gets here, not play around with these guys!" She yelled, obviously quite angry at them.

'Scary…!' Was what went through the minds of everyone, even the ones that you wouldn't think could get scared.

"Rafiel! We've been looking all over for you." Ike said as he took a few steps forward and Rafiel was about to reply, but that's when Mira noticed Gildarts.

"GILDARTS-NII-CHAN!" She exclaimed as she instantly appeared in front of him and hugged him.

"It's been a long time, Mira-chan." Gildarts said before looking towards Kira who was now also standing before them and reached out an arm "Why don't you come here too for a family hug, Kira-chan?"

"I decline." Kira said as she closed her eyes looked away, blushing in embarrassment.

"Wait a minute. Gildarts-nii-chan?" Fu asked as she looked at Gildarts.

Uzushio, Naruto's tent

"I… don't believe this…" Naruto said as Fu, Gildarts, Kira, Mira, Ike, Soren, Nailah and Geoffrey were standing before him on the opposite side of his desk before he yelled "If you're my uncle and aunts then why didn't you make yourselves known to me earlier? Why didn't you stick up for me like family should?"

'I thought that might be his reaction.' Fu thought.

'He's Kushina-nee's son alright.' Kira thought before speaking up "Well, I can't talk for Gildarts-nii, but I and Mira have been in the Marines since long before you were born and up till just recently we were stationed in the New World, so we couldn't have come here."

"Next you're probably gonna tell me that I've got a cousin." Naruto said with a sigh.

"Well, actually…" Gildarts started, but just then a new voice was heard.

"Just great. Gajeel said that you were here." Everyone looked towards the entrance of the tent to see Cana standing there.

"CANA!" Gildarts exclaimed as he hugged the girl.

'You've gotta be kidding me!' Naruto mentally screamed.

"Wow. Gildarts-nii-san, when did you ever get a kid? I always thought you were the "fuck-'em-then-leave-'em" type." Mira said.

"I've got to agree with her on that one." Kira said with her arms crossed.

"Naruto, was it?" Soren said as he looked at Naruto, ignoring the father and daughter "bonding" that was going on in the background.

"Yeah, what is it?" Naruto asked as he looked at the raven-haired boy.

"From what I understand it seems that you're about to fight an overwhelming force of enemy forces. Am I right?" Soren said.

"That's right." Naruto said.

"Then I propose that I come up with a battle plan to combat this force." Soren said.

About a week later

Everyone were standing on the southeastern beach of Uzushio seeing as that was really the only direction that Zorro could attack from. While all the Uzushio ninja and Fairy Tail wizards were standing at various points on the beach, the Greil Mercenaries and Crimean soldiers were on their ship at the western-most end of the beach and the Marines were on their ship at the eastern-most end of the beach.

On a large boulder that was approximately at the middle point of the beach were Naruto standing with Dorumon by his feet and Dorulumon and Karin to his right and Fu and Zolo to his left.

Each of the greatest of their greatest soldiers had also been placed at key points on the beach. All of the Uzushio ninja had also put on the normal Chunin/Jonin uniforms which looked a lot like Konoha's except that they had a greyish blue color, didn't have a high collar, and instead of the Uzumaki clan symbol, they had the Senju clan symbol on the back.

Naruto had also changed into a different attire for once. Now he wore a blue shirt with a V-shaped collar and a fishnet shirt underneath. He also had blue pants that matched his shirt and over the shirt was an open vest in the same color as the Uzushio uniforms which only went down to around the middle of his torso and on the vest's back was a hole that showed the Uzumaki clan symbol on the back of his shirt. Atop it all he also wore a white robe with a greyish blue flame design on the bottom and at the end of the arms, and on the back of the robe was the Uzumaki clan symbol. At his left hip he also had the Kyukiri no Kiba and on his back, underneath the robe, was the staff that Kurenai had given him.

"That's a new look for you, Naruto-kun." Fu commented on his new clothes.

"Thanks. I found these when looking through the remains of some clothing store among the ruins. I was actually kind of surprised to find that they were still undamaged. Though I found the robe when looking through the former Uzukage Tower. I think it may have belonged to the former Uzukage." Naruto said.

"Don't you think it's a little small to have belonged to him?" Fu asked.

"Huh? You think so?" Naruto asked as he looked over the robe… which fit him perfectly.

"Never mind." Fu said with a sigh as she shook her head.

"Anyway, you look really good in that." Naruto said.

"You really think so, Naruto-kun?" Fu asked with a blush.

"Mm-hmm. I know so! Dattebayo!" Naruto replied with his trademark foxy-grin.

"Naruto!" Naruto then looked to his right just as Zoe landed on the boulder "I've finished evacuating all the children to the Uzukage Chamber."

"Good. Now go to your post." Naruto said and Zoe shunshined away as the male blond turned to Karin.

"Karin, have everyone that can't walk on water been given those water-walking shoes that Kira-ba-san handed out?" He asked and Karin nodded "Perfect. Then we're ready."

It seemed that the World Government scientist, DR. Vegapunk had created some kind of special shoe that would allow anyone who couldn't use chakra to walk on water. Course, while the shoes had originally only been intended for use by Marines and World Government personnel, there had been instances in the past where Pirates and even some common thieves had managed to steal some.

"They're coming!" A random person yelled and Naruto looked towards the horizon to see what appeared to be countless ships coming towards them, all bearing the samurai insignia on their sails. Upon seeing them, Naruto could hear several people audible gulp at the sight, obviously afraid.

"Everyone, listen up!" The blond called out, catching everyone's attention "I know that a lot of you are afraid, worrying that you might not survive the coming battle. Well, don't! We may be facing a force many times bigger than our own, but we've got something that they don't! We've got determination and the will and guts to see this through to the end! The samurai may think that they've got us beat because they're so much more stronger than us, well, we may not be as strong, but as long as we fight side-by-side as one, we cannot lose! Dattebayo!" As the speech ended everyone cheered, no longer being afraid.

"You're good with speeches." Dorulumon complimented.

"Nah, I'm not really all that great." Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Don't be so modest, Naruto-san. With those words, you completely erased everyone's doubts and fears." Dorulumon said.

"Hmm. He really is interesting, isn't he?" Soren said as he looked towards Naruto from the Crimean ship.

"Yeah. Many of the people here were very scared just moments ago, but now no one's got any doubts that we'll win this." Ike said.

"Impressive. I can see that he's got some of the leadership qualities of tou-san." Kira said.

"Yosh! I can't wait for this battle to get started! I'll take down their entire fleet by myself!" Mira said, trying to sound serious, but failing miserably due to the ever present cheerful tone in her voice.

"Geheheheh. There's got to be at least 10.000 ships. This'll gonna be fun." Gajeel said.

"Yeah. I'm getting fired up here!" Natsu said.

"The battle is going to take place over the ocean, and we've got someone on our side which will give us the advantage." Lucy said as she put her hands on one of her keys.

"Not to mention that even the skies are on our side!" Wendy said.

"You really did restore everyone's confidence, Naruto-kun." Fu said.

Meanwhile on the bow of the Sekai Senshi was Zorro standing, looking towards the island before holding up his left hand, signaling all ships to stop.

"Well then, Naruto. Let's see how long your puny village can last against this. The joint forces of samurai from all over the world!" Zorro said, the wind somehow carrying it to Naruto's ears.

"Bring it on, Zorro! We're ready for ya! Dattebayo!" The blond said as he extended his right arm towards the Samurai Armada with his hand balled into a fist.

Zorro then drew his sword, a golden colored katana which had a handle that was in the shape of a medieval dragon with the blade going out of its mouth and the tail going down under its belly and all the way to the underside of its jaw, and its wings were standing straight up. Though despite its golden color, it also had a lot of black spot across the blade and the handle. This was the sword said to be the absolute strongest in the world with the ability to even cut through diamonds, Ryujinkiri.

Zorro then held the sword over his head before swinging it downwards, and though the ship didn't sustain any damage from it, the ocean in front of the ship parted due to the power from the swing, and the parting of the ocean went on all the way to the beach of the Land of Whirlpools just in front of Naruto, though the beach itself weren't touched by Zorro's attack.

Unknown location

In a dark room somewhere was a long table with several chairs on either side along it and at the end of the table was a larger chair which someone was apparently sitting it. Also in the room was Nico Robin who had now put on an open white fur-coat.

"The shinobi or the samurai? The winners of this battle will decide who's the superior force. If the shinobi win, Uzushio will once again be recognized as one of the Great Shinobi Villages, but if the samurai wins, the shinobi will be no more." She said.

"Then what will you do?" The man in the chair asked, and Robin grabbed a white hat that sat on the table while continuing.

"It is time for one of the Union's "five arms" to move." She then put the hat on her head as she finished "I will take the forces along with me and aid in the battle."

The man then smiled before saying "Then go. Help Uzushio regain its former glory."

Chapter preview

Zolo "I know I've said it before. That there's only one person I know of that can cut the land in two, I was referring to my father."

Kine'mon (looks at Suigetsu, Gray, Juvia, and Lucy) "They're really underestimating me to send such children to fight me."

Fu "You're going down, Zorro!" (flies at the Samurai Emperor with her newly acquired sword at the ready)

Unknown man "Time for us to abandon ship."

Naruto "Next time on Naruto: Shinobi Hunters: Pupil vs. Master; Zolo vs. Dopai."

Dopai "It's been a while, hasn't it Zolo?"

Zolo "Sensei…"

Character information

Name: Orimoto "Zoe" Izumi.

Age: 17

Affiliation: Otogakure (former), Uzushiogakure.

Affinity: Wind.

Likes: Tommy.

Dislikes: Orochimaru, Experimentation on living beings.

Info: Zoe was born and raised in the Land of Pasta, which was one of the few countries in the Elemental Nations not to have a Hidden Village, because of this, the country was constantly plagued by bandits. One day, on Zoe's tenth birthday, her home village was raided by bandits and burned to the ground, leaving her as the only survivor. For the next two years, she had to live and survive all by herself in the forests of her home land until one day when she ran into the White Snake himself, Orochimaru. She then became part of Orochimaru's Digimon experiments of finding a way of turning humans into Digimon, and Zoe was the third survivor of the experiment. Years later, however, she was saved by Naruto and his friends and joined the village of Uzushio.

Kurama no Kyubi: So, how was that? Tell me what you think of the chapter in your reviews, please. Also before I end this, someone have given me a good idea on a name for my Super Smash Bros/Naruto crossover, though I've decided not to add the story to the poll as I have already decided on when to start writing it. Though, I have also decided on writing some character trailers for the story which will show off newcomers to the Super Smash Brothers franchise, though only characters that I'm sure won't be in the next Smash. Also note that these will be different from my chapter/story previews as there will hardly be any talking.

SSBNS character trailer

Mario suddenly jumps out of nowhere and lands on a large floating platform with three other platforms above it, two at the sides and one in the middle, floating at a higher altitude. Then Kirby comes down and lands before him on the opposite side of the platform, and the two stares at one-another.

They then charge at each other and Mario delivers an upper-cut to Kirby, sending the puffball into the air as gold coins appears. Kirby then quickly retaliates by leaping into the air and bringing out a blue sword as he comes down again and lands on the platform to the left as a wave of blue energy comes out of the sword and sends Mario flying backwards before he regains his balance in mid-air then lands on the platform to the right.

Then before either of them can make another move, the top platform is suddenly covered in smoke and as the smoke faded, it revealed a boy a little taller than Mario with spiky blond hair, cerulean blue eyes, three whisker marks on each cheek, an orange jumpsuit with blue shoulders and a red spiral on his back, matching pants, blue shinobi sandals, and a blue headband with a metal plate that had an image which looked like a leaf on it.

(UZUMAKI NARUTO SHUNSHINS IN!)

Naruto was then on another Stage which was on top of some tower with a mountain with four faces on it in the background and above the Stage itself were two platforms, one on each side.

A clone appeared beside him and formed a Rasengan in his right hand and he charged at Donkey Kong, sending the gorilla flying as the sphere hit him in the stomach. Next he jumps up and throws a clone at Samus as she was in the midst of charging her arm cannon. Then he lands on the platform to the left just before vanishing in a blur of speed as Fox shot past where he had been just moments before and he reappears on the platform to the right in a crouching position before pulling out a Fuma Shuriken and throwing it at Fox.

Just then, however, he notices something and looks up just in time to see a boy who appeared to be a few years older than him with black hair in a bowl-cut and a straw-hat, a red sleeve-less shirt, and pale blue shorts. The boy – who's currently in mid-air – then starts throwing rapid punches, making it seem as though he's got hundreds of arms with how fast he's moving them.

(MONKEY D. LUFFY SAILS INTO BATTLE!)

Luffy then lands on the bow of his ship, the Merry Go before Pit comes down from the sky and fires an arrow at him, but Luffy jumps up before flipping around in mid-air as his right leg extended and hit Pit in the torso, sending him into the water.

Luffy then landed again before charging forward and jumping down to the deck of the ship to find Pikachu, who then fired a lightning bolt at Luffy, but it didn't seem to have any effect as Luffy simply just cocked his right arm back before thrusting it forward and sending Pikachu straight through the wall behind him and out the back of the ship where he fell into the ocean.

Then Bowser suddenly comes down before Luffy and lets out a powerful roar, but Luffy just crouches down, puts his left hand on his left knee and right hand on the floor as a reddish glow seems to emanate from him and steam rises from his body as he smiles at Bowser.

Naruto and Luffy were then both on the Battlefield as Luffy dodged a Rasengan from Naruto before Luffy shot his left leg high into the air before bringing it down, crushing Naruto under his foot as the rest of the Stage shook violently for a couple of seconds. Naruto vanished in a puff of smoke, however, revealing it to have been a clone and Luffy turned around to see the blonde standing on the platform to the left.

Naruto then jumped into the air and formed a clone before throwing it at Luffy who dodged it, but Naruto continued by throwing another one and then another one and another one, but Luffy dodged all of them before jumping up on the platform to the right and he threw back both of his arms before launching them towards Naruto who countered with a Rasengan, but just then they vaguely heard something.

"Ka…" Their attacks then collided with one-another "… me…" Luffy's left arm was thrown away by the swirling chakra sphere, but his right hand caught Naruto's left shoulder "… ha…" Luffy then shot himself towards Naruto before stopping just in front of him "… me…" Then the sound of the voice finally registered in their minds and they looked towards where it came from to see a young boy standing on the top platform before jumping down on the platform to the right and threw his arms forward "… HA!"

A blue beam then shot out of his hands and sent both Naruto and Luffy flying off-screen. The boy then went into the fighting stance of the Kame Sennin Martial Arts School.

The boy was even shorter than Mario and had black hair with three large spikes at the front that went up and three spikes on the back that went straight out. His attire consisted of an orange GI with a small white circle with the kanji for turtle in it over his heart and a larger one on his back. And he also had a black belt and blue boots. On his back he had a red pole and coming out from just above his butt was a brown furry monkey tail.

(SON GOKU ENTERS THE TOURNAMENT!)