Return of an Heir

by Muffin-crumbs

On Hiatus! AU The fourth King of Konoha saves his kingdom by banishing the Kyuubi.Years later his son,Naruto,is contacted to defeat the kyuubi again and reclaim his throne.Harem x4 confirmed no Yaoi. !On Hiatus!

5. Nobility Returns: Chapter 4

A/N: Well this is chapter 4. I got a little ahead of schedule and well I said I was two chapters ahead and well this puts me three ahead of you and two ahead of editors. So last time our heroes landed in a strange new land by using... well Shikamaru will explain at a later time. Um there might be a fight, and some favorite characters maybe, I'm not sure yet haven't written it out I write as I get there so if I fell like fighting that's what you get. While I was waiting for dinner to finish I decided to draw up a map, simple and crude if anyone wants a copy PM me and I'll e-mail the picture you can laugh at me if you want, I am not an artist so I don't have a dA account and well originally my friend was gonna draw my world but we lost contact and I forgot her dA name so, no such luck. I drew it in 10 colored in 5, it's very crude and only a small portion of the world. So with that enjoy chapter 4 of Return of an Heir. Well...okay I love you buh-bye! Lovingly yours Muffin-crumbs xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

E/N 1: Hey everyone, its Oxy. Oxy has been busy with school, we are in the quarter system so everything is fast pace. Yet, nonetheless Oxy will still make time to edit, so that you readers can read! pulls out a guitar and begins to strum "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" o.o Anyways, like Oxy said, Oxy has a lot of work, but this is part of it. Oxy hopes continues playing that you enjoy chapter 4, and is looking forward to the next and upcoming chapters. . Oxy out.

E/N 2:

If I owned Naruto, Sakura would have died in the first part for being such a bitch. But luckily I don't own it and now there seems to be some NaruSaku love in store for Shippuuden.

Here are some examples of what you'll be seeing and some of their uses:
"Speech." "I can't think of anything for a quote example."
'Thinking.' 'Hey I thought of writing something here.'
'Inner voice of character' 'I rock out loud'
EventsBuzz or I explain things like this usually motions or setting mood pelvic thrust
italics this here is just for emphasis on certain words that are important
NormalThis right here with out anything, is all narration just thought you should know. I want tacos
"Techniques" "Taco maker" nice!

Chapter 4

They had been walking for hours and finally Naruto and Shikamaru, carrying Sasuke who was still unconscious, arrived at the gates to the town. On their long walk Naruto got to know a lot about the man. He was the head advisor to Queen Tsunade. He was a Grand Arch Sage, the youngest in his house's history and in his order of sages, the Order of Bright Shadow, the most elite order of sages.

What surprised Naruto was when the Sage told him, that he turned down the position of being the Elder Sage of Bright Shadow. He would have been the youngest elder of any order. He received the nomination by his council and the retiring Elder, and of the rest of the order. When Naruto asked why he turned it down, the man simply it would just be to troublesome, and to much work. Naruto was surprised that he was talking to the smartest man in the world and it turned out he was lazier than he was.

"Hey hold him for awhile I got to go talk to the guards." Shikamaru told Naruto as he walked towards the guard post. The guards were wearing a simple helm and their armor was not that elaborate only a simple chest-plate, but they both had different emblems on it one had a leaf like the one Shikamaru had and the other had an 'i' on it both were holding spears and a short sword at the hip.

Naruto could see what the lazy sage was telling the guards. Shikamaru showed him a scroll and then he showed his staff. The guards automatically stood to attention and waved their hands toward the city. It was then that Shikamaru waved Naruto over. Naruto adjusted his friend on his shoulder and though to himself 'Don't worry buddy we'll get you some help just hang in there a little longer.' The guards watched the oddly dressed boys and snickered, Shikamaru cleared his throat to get their attention and they both shut up.

Shikamaru helped out Naruto and said "Welcome to the Town of Hylat. A joint operated bartering town operated by both Konoha and Suna, for the land. If you want something from any kingdom you're sure to find it here."

Naruto was in awe at what was in front of him. At the center he saw an enormous windmill, at the top of the tower was a light, in the daylight it was still clearly visible, he noticed that it wasn't a light it was a projection, It was a digital clock that read 2:45:43 as it rotated. The town was bursting with people, children were running up and down, boys were playing knights or playing with a wheel, girls were playing with dolls or helping there mothers. A/N: See CMOMFF What struck Naruto was that they were dressed as if they were in a movie of dragons and what not. He knew this world was weird when he saw the guards using spears and wore armor but what threw it off was the digital clock projection and the enormity of the windmill, it would dwarf the empire state building!

Walking along the streets were groups of four knights making rounds of the town. They either had the emblem that Shikamaru on their breast plate, or what looked like an 'i'. People moved out of their way and bowed to them, some of the younger ladies gave them flowers, children saluted them, very well respected. Shikamaru saw Naruto eye them " They're the knights who protect the city, very well respected. Actually most of these knights have proved themselves on one of the many battlefields around the world. So they are assigned here as a relaxation time while still on duty and to get praises from the citizens. The Queen came up with the idea. She believed that the experienced knights should get some relaxation, gives a chance for the unexperienced knights to get some combat experience under their belts. Yet, never more than 45 of the elite are on guard duty. Most are still in the field, they take turns , changing from the filed to towns."

Just then a strange animal bumped into Naruto, "Gronhk" he turned around to see an entire herd of them coming there way all 'Gronhking'. Naruto was just terrified at this, he had never seen anything like this, it was a gigantic ball of wool-like fur, about the size of a sheep, only thing that stuck out was its legs the end of its snout, and huge horns, that would make an elk jealous. Shikamaru felt his uneasiness towards the animals

"Thats a Bloba, its an herbivore, so there's nothing to worry about now lets gets get down to street level we're blocking the gate." Seeing and hearing all these new sights and sounds, Naruto forgot they were still blocking the path.

As they made their way down to the streets Shikamaru said "You guys need new clothes and you need a disguise because your drawing to much attention to yourself." Naruto noticed that Shikamaru was right, as they passed through the streets, people were gawking at him some were bowing to him. He had no idea why and was freaked out.

Men started cheering "Huzzah! The Noble House had returned we shall drive those demons back to their accursed world!" Women were fainting as he looked at them older women gave him sultry looks adjusting their 'assets' and young women giggled and blushed as they waved their handkerchiefs at him.

Children started dancing around them throwing flowers at their feet and sang a happy song "THE NOBLE HOUSE HAS RETURNED, AND THE DEMONS WILL RUN AWAY IN FEAR. HE BESTS BEASTS UNCONCERNED, AS THE WORLD SHOUTS AND CHEERS. THE NOBLE HOUSE'S CAMPAIGN, SHALL GRANT THEM NEW REIGN.A/N: LAME!!; BTW even though not mentioned, Sasuke is still there just knocked out so I don't mention him cause he can't do squat.

"All right lets head to the garment district." as the sage maneuvered them over to the left and picked up the pace because a crowd stated to form around them. They weaved through back allies and walked in silence until Naruto finally broke it, he hated silence "Why were those people back there acting that way? What aren't you telling me?"

Shikamaru looked over at him "It'll be to troublesome to explain here, you'll just have to wait till we get to the Queen. I promise as a sage of the Bright Shadow." Naruto knew that he was serious by the tone he took, but what he did not know was that if a sage gave his word he was risking losing his powers. They gained powers by attaining truth so if one ever lied after giving his word he would lose it all and go insane, and going insane would be a drag.

They kept walking and found a doorway with a light floating overhead. It was off and Shikamaru tapped the door with his staff. Naruto and Shikamaru stood there for a minute or so and just as Naruto was going to complain on what the hell they were doing, the light went on and the sage tapped the floor with his staff and the door opened. "Come on." he said and lead them in.

They walked into a room filled with dozens of rolls of fabrics scattered everywhere and a large table was in the center on it were some scissors and a pair of glasses along with some tread and a sewing machine. Shikamaru yelled out "Grandma, pops I'm back and I need some clothes for these two!" As they walked into the front of the shop the curtains were drawn and the noises from outside still crept in, as children were running and adults were haggling.

At the counter was an old man and woman sitting across from each other the old man had long eyebrows that came down to his scarf his eyes were shadowed by this. His head wrapped and had a birthmark on his right cheek. The old lady had a maroon head band, and her hair was tied up in a ball on the top of her head. Some of her hair was down framing her face, she had a birthmark on the top right corner of her forehead some of it was covered by the headband. Both had their eyes closed.

Shikamaru sighed at this and yelled "Hey. Wake up you old coots. You closed up shop thirty seconds ago" the old man woke up(not that you could tell his eyes were still shadowed). "Ohh...Shikamaru who are your friends. Look big-sis Shikamaru brought some friends over"

"..."

"Big-sis are you dead?"

At this Naruto freaked out that there was a dead body in the room. "What the hell she's dead!!"

"Nah! I'm just playing dead." the old lady replied startling Naruto. "You shouldn't play foolish games Chiyo" Her little brother chimed in.

"Well granny, I need some clothes for these two. I need you to change him up a bit he's drawing to much attention. And Ebizou, I'm gonna need you to go to the smithy district and get me some basic gear for them. And also pass by the sage's guild, after you get their blades from the smiths, and ask them to equip some level 2 runes. It's faint but I have a feeling both of them can use some magic, if they say they only equip runes to magical items show them this." He tossed a scroll and a bag of coins to Ebizou, and the old man promptly left.

Naruto laid Sasuke down on a daybed, that was in the back where they entered from, and sat on a stool that was next to the table covered with the tailoring supplies. Shikamaru had gone upstairs to the living quarters to get some food for them. Chiyo walked to the back and saw the blond sitting looking worried for his friend his eyes were still bandaged and showed no signs of waking up soon. The old lady walked to Sasuke's side and her finger started to glow green and tapped his forehead lightly. Immediately Sasuke started showing signs of movement but still hadn't woken up.

"He'll probably be resting for awhile so you don't have to worry about him." Chiyo said as she looked up to Naruto and stared at him for a while 'I can see why Shikamaru wants him disguised he looks a lot like him' . "What did you do to him?" Naruto broke her out of her gaze.

"A little healing magic a simple spell." Chiyo replied, Naruto was a little shocked how she said it like it was a normal thing "Magic? You're joking right there's no such thing as magic. And you say you used healing magic." scoff Chiyo shook her head "Your not in your world anymore child, what you believe to be true in yours does not apply to ours and vice-versa. Now come on I need to measure you and your friend here." As she walked up to the man and he stood up. He was taller than her so she stood on her stool.

Shikamaru walked in with a bowl of fruit, Naruto had seen some of the fruits before like the apples and grapes but he saw some that he had never seen in his life! The weirdest looking one was a peached shaped thing that was purple with pink polka-dots and when Shikamaru bit into it, the inside looked like it was bleeding making the sage look like he bit into an animal. Naruto felt like puking but Chiyo hit him to get him to stand straight.

"Shikamaru dear can you take down these measurements?" "Fine. But what a drag." Naruto being the curious young man he questioned "Hey Shikamaru is she your grandmother?" Shikamaru having a peace of fruit in his mouth only shook his head. "He married my granddaughter, Temari, but I told him to call me grandma." A/N: Yes I know Chiyo is Sasori's grandma but since he's not in my story, ergo sand siblings grandmother. Chiyo continued telling Shikamaru Naruto's measurements, and he wrote them down.

Next Chiyo took Sasuke's measurements, the sudden movements of the old woman's hands over his frame woke him from his slumber. "Where am I? I can't see. Who's doing that? What are you doing to me?" Naruto steadied him from the table as he was eating some fruit, he found that the weird looking fruit Shikamaru was eating was delicious it was a wonderful sweet, savory, and juicy experience "Don't worry Slurp bro your safe. munch I'll explain later but right now a friend is measuring you for some clothes. So just chill." Sasuke was still scared but hearing the blond's voice seemed to calm him down a little.

"Okay boys your clothes should be done in an hour or so, I'm the best tailor in this damn town, and by that time Ebizou should have your things and you can be on your way." As the old lady went to get the cloth samples she was going to use. Naruto was walking around the shop to give the woman room to work, it was then that he heard a slight chuckle coming from the upstairs living quarters. He saw Shikamaru laying down in front of a TV 'What the hell a TV!?' "Hey Shikamaru how is it that you guys have TV and stuff, I thought this was an old-timey place."

Shikamaru not wanting to get up, just turned his neck as much as it could to look at the blond "What does old-timey mean exactly?" He questioned turning back to his sow another chuckle escaped him.

"Well you there are knights everywhere and the clothes that the people were wearing looked like something from a fantasy movie."

"Well I was gonna wait so that the Queen can tell you but getting this out of the way should get things moving along faster. So you know how granny told you about not being in you own world anymore?"

"Un." he nodded in agreement.

"There are three alternate worlds in one plane of existence that are constantly on top of each other. Since your world is on the bottom you can not see the worlds above you. The world you are in now, my world, is the second world and we are right above you. Now, there are several factors that no matter what can pass through these world's freely and unhindered. One is time. Time is everywhere and time is constant, unending, and and hard to mess with it, but its still possible to mess with it. Of course messing with time to much and frequently can lead to some problems with space time. Even after the worlds are gone time will still be counting." Naruto was lost but he didn't say anything to not look like a fool.

"Next is mass, mass is also always there it cannot be destroyed or created, that you know of anyway. In the last couple decades your world created a non ending variable the Internet. This variable comes from technology and this variable is only constant as long as its network of computers is connected. Data is always there either running freely through the network or somewhere in a computers temporary files. Taking this into account data is always alive it never dies either. So if man survives for the next billion years, if someone connects to the network they can find the headline for today's newspaper."

"Okay still doesn't explain how you're watching 'The Three Stooges'" Naruto pointed out still not getting his answer.

Sigh "This is such drag. Look I'm getting there. Okay since we are here in the second world, the Mid-world if you will, your Internet network leaks out to us. We started to notice it was growing, at first it was just random things that were supposed to be top secret, and then we noticed that it started getting bigger and than information was starting to be passed and we started to collect it some of it was useless like pornography, but some had valuable information on your world like news, we learned about your history and we kept that, eventually there was a boom and in several years everything was on the network. From scores of games to books and patents. We realized the potential of these patents and we took them, seeing as how your world would never find out we made TV's and other things. So since the late 90's we created computers and made our own network that taps into your network, but hinders your network to access ours. So if your bandwidth is sapped its us. But we run them with the most abundant thing in our world magic."

"So the old lady wasn't crazy."

"I HEARD THAT BOY!" Chiyo yelled from downstairs, startling Sasuke who was starting to doze off, his bandages had yet to be removed.

"Yeah in this world, magic is abundant and anyone can use it, there are simple things that a normal kid can do without any training whatsoever, like operating any of the items from your world, or healing small scrapes minor things. But magic allows us to do things that took your world years to do efficiently like this TV is connected to our side of the net which is tapped into your network streaming it from someones computer. Also something your world is just trying to get done is a person with high levels of magic and great control can access the network with out any computers just with your mind that's what I'm doing."

Naruto, was a smart kid...well he wasn't dumb...well he know his name and he could understand the idea of the Internet that the sage had said, but that was a bout it. "Oh I get it." was a ll he said and walked back downstairs. As he reached the ground floor, old-man Ebizou walked in with a ton of things that was twice as tall as he was. Naruto went to help the old-man "Why thank you son." the old man said and gave everything to Naruto. CRASH He collapsed from the weight, "Ahh, I guess you can't use a gravity spell can you?" Naruto weekly replied "NO..."

With that Chiyo walked carrying some clothes, she tossed them to Naruto grabbed him by the color stood him up and she pointed to a corner, immediately a sheet moved by itself covering the corner creating an impromptu changing room. He walked in and got dressed even though he didn't show it he was still completely freaked out by the magic users. Chiyo went to the back to get the other guest.

He came out dressed in a pair of black tights, a white cotton shirt, and over it was a small leather vest, he was buttoning up a woolen sweater that was black and orange A/N: Yes the shippuuden one. It looks good on him. And a pair of leather boots.

Shikamaru had come down to see what the crash was about as soon as Naruto walked out out of the dressing room, and gave him a look down. "Mhhm, you still look to much like you." he said tapping his chin with his finger "Ahh, I got it" Shikamaru exclaimed and clapped his hands together and were glowing blue this time, and started to say some chant and waved his hand in front of Naruto's face and grabbed a small mirror and gave it to Naruto. To his surprise it wasn't him looking at him instead it was a dark haired man with brown eyes and a curly beard.!

"Ahh what the hell did you do to me? Change me back! Oh and thanks granny for the new duds." He shrieked, getting a response from Sasuke as he was being escorted by Chiyo.

"With any luck it's probably an improvement!" Sasuke said.

"Shut up! You can't see I have a curly beard and my hair is all curly."

"An improvement." Naruto glared at the temporarily raven haired man. And back to the sage who was cleaning his ear with his pinky.

"Look its just an illusion I placed on your face as soon as we get to the queen's court I'll change you back."

"Now Sasuke, son I'm going to take you to the changing room and I'm going to leave the clothes in there with you and I want you to change." Chiyo told the man. "Okay, thank you for the help."

He came out a few minutes later, he, too, was wearing black tights with leather boots that came all the way to the knee. And a navy blue coat that had various buckles and buttons on it some of the buttons were in the wrong place but for being blind he did well with all the rest of the clasps. "Thank you again." he said to a mannequin and Chiyo assumed it was intended to her and just smiled as she walked up to him to fix the clasps he missed.

Shikamaru walked over to the pile of armor that was on the floor ans shuffled through, and separated it into two piles. A pair of gauntlets(hands), grieves(shins), chest plate, back plate, chain mail, vambrace(forearms) pauldren(collarbone/shoulders), a helm and a sword. Both swords had a clear gem on the pommel(butt) of the blade. Both flared when Shikamaru drew them from their respective sheathes.

He told both men to pick a pile, despite both being identical, Naruto jumped on one and called it, after a half an hour, or so, both men stood in full armor. And after another hour they got a quick lesson on swordsmanship which was surprisingly easy for them. 'Well I guess its to be expected from Naruto, but this other guy, who is he'

Ebizou was heavy on the details seeing as how Sasuke couldn't see. After this training Shikamaru gave them a crash course in basic combat amplification spells. "This is simple but it requires, lots of magic control, but you guys have it proven by the glow in the runes on the swords you have." "How does a glowing rock mean anything about magic?" Questioned Sasuke. "Well those runes,you have there only react to magic inside one's body. Now as I was saying-..."

BAM . A large explosion was heard followed by yelling and screaming coming from outside.

Chiyo turned to Shikamaru "It's the demons they're attacking! Come on boys follow me."

"No!" Three voices yelled back. Naruto, Sasuke and Shikamaru.

Shikamaru was first to respond "No, granny they have to do this they're gonna need some experience, and this is the best they can get with out getting hurt, there are experienced fighters and well... me to look after them. Besides if a group of demons attacked not only would it be a small force, they'd have to be pretty dumb to try."

"Granny, I have to do this. I don't know why but all that screaming out there is making me angry, I feel the urge to do something about it." Naruto pleaded his eyes were full of fury and yet the old woman could see compassion for the people outside.

"I thank you for your concern mam, but if Naruto goes I go." Sasuke chimed in.

Sigh "Ebizou, pendant." She extended her hand to her little brother. "Surely you can't be serious, they've never fought before, they are not ready." he protested. "EBIZOU!" he jumped. He hadn't heard his older sister use that tone in ages, so he took off his pendant and handed it to her. She took hers off and walked to the men, she held them close to her heart and chanted something. They glowed in her hand. She put one on Sasuke and Naruto. "Go! And Sasuke here let me help you with that." And she pulled off his bandages. Sasuke was blinded by the light and had to blink a couple of times to adjust his eyes.

With that Shikamaru yelled and grabbed his staff "Stay close to me and don't wander off on your own, and remember what gramps told you." As they ran out the door, to see a giant fire coming fro the windmill-clock, several other fires were raging through other buildings. Shikamaru ran towards the fires, as people were running away from them. Women were hugging small crying children and running, older kids were running behind their mothers. Some men were running towards the fire, telling their wives and children they were going to help put out the fires. Small boys wanted to join their fathers but their mothers pulled them away.

It was utter chaos the air was full of smoke and a stronger smell that would make you gag. Shikamaru knew that it was human flesh burning. So he piked up the pace 'A small force of demons can't do this on their own they must have had help' he thought to himself.

"But what about the magic spells?" Sasuke asked. "Don't worry those pendants that granny gave you are high class runes, very rare, they react to the thoughts of the wearer using the their magic power. They use huge amounts of magic so that's why she charged both of them for you." 'Just that granny didn't charge them completely I don't think her body could handle the drain. I hope she's okay.'

"Now get ready, the battle is at hand. Draw your blades!"

They took another corner and they came up to a large square with dozens of knights and a few sages, fighting hundreds of creatures, one thing that they all had in common was large snarling teeth and large menacing claws. 'What the hell is going on this is no random raid, this is a full on raid.' He snarled and tightened his grip on his staff. It was a loud scene, roars both human and demonic were heard, as the knights did battle with the demons. Limbs were flying as bodies kept falling to the ground in a bloody mess.

Naruto saw a man that was missing his legs screaming in pain as he tried to crawl from the fray, only to be slashed in the back by a demon. Sasuke was looking at one particular knight lost his shield and was surrounded by demons. A demon similar to a dog but more vicious lunged at the knight, he blocked the demons teeth with his sword and fell to the floor, it was then that runes in his feet flared to life and the knight kicked the demon off flinging it straight into the air. The knight got up and blurred out of view and as he blurred back into view the dog like demon fell and the knight gave another sweep of his blade. It was cut it in half and the other demons surrounding him also fell. It was obvious that it took a lot out of the knight as he fell to his knees and was carried away by other knights to be treated.

"Just remember think and they will do the rest." Shikamaru yelled over the din of combat "And make sure to stay close." He ran into the fray, unbuttoning his coat revealing bottles and papers on the inside of the coat, on his hip a blade with a black stone on the pommel, Naruto and Sasuke close behind slashing at a demon every now and then.

They stopped when Shikamaru stopped. He stopped in front of a large ten foot demon troll who had just smashed a knight with his club and stepped on the heads of others that were crying in pain. "What a drag... Okay guys you guys take the little ones around this guy." He told his companions, drawing his sword and the gem flared.

"But Shikamaru..." Naruto questioned.

"NOW! I can handle this one you take out the smaller ones! If you want to help keep the little ones off of me." He commanded and both new knights agreed and went to fight the surrounding demons.

Shikamaru

Shikamaru, sword and staff in hand, stared down (well up) the troll. The troll made the first move and ran at Shikamaru hand extended as he tried to grab the sage. Shikamaru easily ducked under the hand but he met the trolls foot instead kicking him into a wall. Shikamaru coughed up blood as he stood up, understandably wobbly he knew he had some broken ribs. The troll ran at him again club over his head and brought it down with enough force to crush the man. "What a drag Temari's going to kill me when she finds out I got hurt." He twirled his staff and pointed the crystal end at the demon and a bright flash blinded the troll as he stopped in his tracks. Shikamaru jumped revealing not only his grieves but they were equipped with runes he jumped and slammed his magically enhanced kick at the demons jaw, it just fazed the troll and started to swing his club blindly. Shikamaru landed gracefully and sighed knowing physical attacks were not going to help him.

He slammed his staff into the floor "Shadow Bind!" immediately the shadows at his feet rose from the ground, forming seven dark orbs around him. These orbs shoot straight for the troll, only to be taken out by one swipe off his club. Shikamaru saw how easily he took out his attack and just muttered to himself "This is just going to be troublesome." He charged the troll and swung at him with his staff, creating a large black swipe in its wake, flinging it at the demon. The troll obliterated it again but this time the Sage was gone.

Troll's POV Start

Grunk was now confused, Grunk looked from side to side, trying to find his new play thing, heard a whistle from behind. Grunk turned around to see a black thing coming straight for him he grabbed it but it go away too. He noticed it was now connected to a blob floating around the man he was fighting, with a lot of others. And they were now connected to Grunk all of them. Gunk tried to move but couldn't, felt like Grunk was stuck in hole again.

Troll's POV End
A/N: This make Muffin smile, If not smile, Muffin think you crazy. Muffin want break combat with smile. Muffin say you play Lost Pig on jayisgames.

Shikamaru now had the Troll in his bind. "Daggers of the Assassin!!" Shikamaru yelled as he raised his blade in the air, the air in the area around him went dark and blades of pure darkness pierced the troll in various spots that included the gut, and heart, as he roared out in pain. "I'm not done with you yet" Shikamaru stabbed his blade into the ground and formed several hand seals before yelling "Dark: Shadow Blades of the Reaper!!" a gigantic magic circle formed on the floor. It cracked open and two large dark blades, outlined with purple, shot out and stuck themselves forming an 'X' in the troll's body it yelled in pain as the blades cut through its flesh destroying organs on contact. Before the troll could die another larger blade came from underneath slicing the demon straight in half. Shikamaru stood there panting but he knew he had to continue to protect his charge and his friend.

Naruto

As he ran towards the demons that were trying to surround his friend and his enemy, he felt excited to be in the combat, there was a rush of excitement through him he had been in fights before, and he knew the felling of adrenalin, this was different it was more feral it was... A demon tried to cut down the man but only broke his train of though. He blocked the blade with his own as they fought for the dominant position. They put there force into their blades, Naruto felt a surge in power and he put more force. He took the dominant spot as the demon fell to his knees their blades still locked, with one sweep Naruto knocked the blade out of its hands and raised the sword over his head as he yelled he cut off its head.

Naruto would have fallen to the floor knowing he took a life demon or not it was life he had never killed anyone, but the battle would not let him dwell on his thoughts and he jumped back in to take on more enemies. He ran into a demon archer who was sniping out knights as they were in there own battle. Naruto tried to stab it in the back but the demon used his bow to redirect the attack to his left and Naruto stumbled. The bow had blades on both ends for close combat situations; as Naruto gained his balance the archer was twirling his bow knowing he would have no trouble with this one, seeing as how his attack was so obvious.

Naruto know realizing he was in another one-on-one battle took a stance, the archer ran him taking an swing at Naruto, he put all force in the swing leaving himself open, Naruto ducked under the swing and thrust a palm at the swinging arm of the beast and drove his right shoulder into the demon's mid-section, knocking the wind out of him as he flew back, Naruto disappeared from in front of him and reappeared behind the flying beast, he drove his elbow into its head slamming him down into the floor and with his right hand swung his sword and cracked the demons skull blood squirting out drenching Naruto in foul green blood. He turned to see Sasuke surrounded by creatures all lunging at once, "SASUKE!!" as he ran to help his friend.

Sasuke

"NO! I can handle this one you take out the smaller ones! If you want to help keep the little ones off of me." With that Sasuke did battle with anything that tried to get near Shikamaru's battle. He found a large creature the size of a small horse and a group of similar dog sized beasts. As it was stalking a group of medical knights as they healed cuts and taking others with missing limbs to field hospitals. Sasuke picked up a rock and threw it at the leaders head, it turned around and stared at Sasuke snarling. Sasuke lunged at the creature both hands trailing behind him he swung the sword from his left hand up from the bottom left, to his right shoulder, the animal simply jumped over the swing and went for the throat. Sasuke anticipated by spinning to the right and crouched down releasing his sword, the creature missed and was now exposed, Sasuke reached out with his right and made the full rotation as he stood back up and and grabbed the sword from mid-air while still rising, he grabbed it with the pinky closest to the crossguard A/N: Apprentice style grip Google: SC4 starkiller, and swung it behind him slicing the demon in one fell swoop.

The ones under it's command were now surrounding Sasuke, they were angry and Sasuke could feel the Killer Intent that they were releasing, he could tell even with the assistance of the rune it would still be hard it was four-one. "ARGH!!" It was at that instant in which he realized he was outnumbered that his eyes started to burn again. "Not now, what's happening to me!" He yelled putting pressure on his eyes to try and stop the pain dropping his sword. ROAR one of the demons howled as he saw him put his guard down. Sasuke heard it and looked up expecting to just fall then and there. But to his surprise the demon was now walking! Sasuke had time to react and he picked up his sword, and simply just sliced him, it was then that he rest of the demons jumped at once, but to Sasuke's surprise they were still moving so slow. He just dodged and the creatures just crashed together, Sasuke drove his sword in the mass of flesh and impaled all three.

"SASUKE!" Naruto yelled as he saw three demons converge on the man, but he moved so fluidly as he moved out of the way and just stabbed the beast as they clashed together. Naruto went wide eyed as he saw his friend move so fast. Shikamaru saw what the brunette did, he was shocked at the gracefulness of the dodge not wasting a movement, every single millisecond was used to the destruction of the beasts. Both he and Naruto jumped to Sasuke's side to protect his flanks after he killed those demons he seemed spent.

He looked up to thank both men for helping him, but was scared at the expressions they had. Both his companions were starring at his eyes, both his eyes were red, his left eye had one dark coma and the right had two dark comas. 'No this can't be, they died out years ago.' Shikamaru thought to himself.

Whistle Bang

Two lights flew into the sky and they revealed two shapes the leaf and 'i' symbols. The demons saw these symbols and they all roared in unison and ran off. The men all cheered as they saw the demons flee into terror. Naruto asked Shikamaru "What happened, Shikamaru, why are they all leaving like this?" Shikamaru replied with a small smile on his face "Reinforcements."

The Comedic Mis-adventures of Oxymoron and Muffin-crumbs. Featuring FunSack
"Roles"

We join our heroes today as our favorite author writing in a fury as he listens to some music and one beloved editor scared out of their witts. "Hey Oxy, have you read what was in the this chapter?" "No Oxy was RPing as Bella today, so Oxy hasn't read all of it yet. Why? Did crumbs do something wrong?" "Well Muffin, maybe pissed off some female readers with one of his descriptions of Hylat town." "Well Oxy doesn't think that is a problem, there are only 60 readers and only 3 people that actually set alerts(as of 9/17). And come on Sack, I think the female readers, if any, would be smart enough to not take offense, but Oxy will ask Muffin why he did." Oxy and Sack walked over to the little room that Muffin was writing in, Birthday Dethday by Dethklok blasting through his speakers. "Muffin." 'Many years ago something grew inside of your mother...' "Muffin...Muffin..." 'Did she scream? Did she cry?...' "MUFFIN!!" both yelled. "Oh my god! What what's wrong?" "What role do women play in your life?" Muffin confused by his friends question responded truthfully "Well, women are the most beautiful, most intelligent, most loving creatures on this world. They should take any role that they would want to take in society whether they want to dominate the world with an army, become the President of their respective land, or even if they want to stay home and take care of their kids and their house. They should be treated with the utmost respect since they are the bringers of life a sacred ability that no man will ever know and they must endure a pain that, unless his nuts were run over by a steamroller or his sack was stretched to the point where it's see-through, a man could never fathom. It's a shame that it took males so long to realize this and subjugated them to a menial existence for so long. Were its evident, that a strong woman was behind a strong male figurehead. Why do you ask guys?" Sack stared at his writer with new found respect and Oxy had sparkling eyes, as comedic tears ran down his face as he looked at his new hero. "Well excuse me boys, as the next chapter will becoming to you at a slower pace as I have know officially ventured into college. And I seriously need to start the romance."

Join us next time in chapter five of...RETURN OF AN HEIR!!

P.S. Read the writers blog for the latest crap on the story, it's on my profile page on under Muffin-crumbs, obviously. I update that every two days, or when ever I'm in class and bored as hell.