Journey of a Ronin Ninja 5
By: Death's Spear
To anyone who reads my other story Loyal Pain and Disloyal Trust, I'll have you know that I will be revamping the story so I can continue with it, so no one get pissed off and yells at me.
Thanks to:
HolyKnight5: Like Nene's blades, never really been able to watch RK which sucks ass!
Starjacker: never played Soul Caliber at all so I have no clue what the weapon looks like.
Chaosmagez: Can't have anyone kill Sasuke right now, I have plans for him later.
t-dugong: takagi and a pair of nekode, never thought about it, could be secondary weapon or in combination of the winning weapon. Thanks for the idea.
Get-Lost: I knew that there are no guns in the Naruto Universe, but during the warring states era there are. Guns won't be going back to Konoha or any other country for that matter. As for the Rasengan though, I forgot about the clone having to help him out with it, thanks for the reminder. And the knives are just there for now next chapter is the one were he gets his own weapon(s), the kodachi is going back to the smelting shop.
Mirazhe1, Nigh7, MiseryluvsDeath aka Fidele : Thanks for the reviews.
The last chapter I said Naruto will have a hand gun, but I did some thinking on it later and I decided to put into the side weapons vote for now, so for those of you who do not want Naruto to have a pistol can voice your feelings about that; but be warned if Naruto needs any weapon on the field and a gun is the only option he will not be afraid to use it.
If he has a gun it would only be used for special assassination missions and certain stuff, he would not use it as much as Magoichi does.
Anyways this chapter will have Naruto mostly walking around the country side until he runs into, a town about to fall under attack by marauders and bandits, he also meets a new ally…for now. But for now let's rejoin Tsunade and the rest shall we?
-Hokage tower Konoha-
"Shut up Kakashi, like you ever really cared for the boy! And no it does not have to do with Naruto just some of it." Replied Jiraiya with malice in his voice.
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Tsunade then said, "It seems that….do to the recent events of Naruto's disappearance the council has been trying to find him by sending hunter nins after him and they all have been invading Sunagakure(SP) in search of him and demanding that Gaara tell them were Naruto is and he has repeatedly told them to leave as he has not heard nor seen Naruto since his leave from the hospital hear.
The council however keeps sending them there in search of Naruto and it iss royally pissing everyone in Suna to no end, so Gaara has sent a message to the people of Konoha…" this brought worried looks upon everyone's faces except Sakura, Ino, Sasuke, and Kakashi.
"He has raised taxes on all products manufactured in Suna imported by Konoha." There were some gasps in the group as the words left Tsunade's lips. "And if this does not stop the council or our nins, then he will declare Konoha as an enemy and will join anyone else in any war that occurs against Konoha in the future. That means Iwa, Kumo, Kiri, Kusa, Taki (I thinks that's waterfall) and Oto; he is not kidding when he says this. And to prove his point he has sent back a mangled body of one of our former shinobi who decided to try to persuade his sister Temari to tell him about Naruto, by force in his presence."
At that declaration, the rest of the nins in the room were gaping and looking like Orochimaru spontaneously combusted on the spot…all except Kakashi who had kept most of his cool and asked to leave and then left without conformation from Tsunade who narrowed her eyes.
In his own mind Kakashi was going to go to the council and beg them for the chance to hunt down Naruto at all costs, he never really did like Naruto after all so why should he protect him. He did try to kill Sasuke before…didn't he? Well no matter to him, Naruto was good as dead the next time he found him.
-With Naruto in Japan-
It had only been a half a week since he last saw Magoichi at Honoji and wondered if his new friend had been able to make it out of the area alive and found something else to do with his life. Hopefully the people around here wouldn't have the 'rumors' about Magoichi killing Nobunaga for a while but that was highly unlikely as he had heard that someone was spreading rumors about it already.
'How in the nine layers of hell did someone figure out it was Magoichi who killed Nobunaga and then spread the news this fast? It is almost like there was someone with the speed of Lee and Gai spreading the rumors around. If this gets to the unprotected towns and villages around that have no protection at all there's going to be mass chaos every where!'
'Like you really care about the chaos here do you Naruto? It is not your problem it is the peoples that live here, until you find a home town to live in you have no ties to this land nor any other land.'
'Look Kyuubi, if I run into trouble like burning towns and such I will help them out, from what I have learned about people in times like this they flock to anyone who preaches about peace and long lives and no more battles; but if I can help them maybe I can gain the start of building my "Army" for when I do find a place to call "Home" but until then I need to at least help spread my own name to gain support. But before I do that I am going to need some new clothes so no one will recognize me. Maybe some black or maybe some gray? No more orange for me…at least for ninja-ing in the night.
Maybe I can find some new weapons down the road too, this kodachi is nice, but it is too small for some things that most likely come up in the future; but for now I will keep it, maybe I can sell it for some cash so I can buy the materials needed for my outfit.'
'Maybe brat but I wouldn't just run into every burning building around and save people, you are not a super hero and plus you don't know any water jutsus. Every time you kill a group of bandits take about a third of what they have money wise and their weapons and sell the weapons until you have enough to pay for some one to make you what ever weapon you want at the time.
The rest keep around because those who do serve you will want money for doing their job(s) or they might betray you in the end. And before you start with the "It's not right to take the villagers money" and "It would go against what I stand for if I did that" shit, you need to remember that you would be their savior and they would try to give you more than just money if you know what I mean.'
'I don't know what you mean Kyuubi and I don't want to know now that I think about it. But if they would give me anything then I think that I could take the money with out feeling like a thief. Thank you for your slight but still appreciated advice Kyuubi' and with that Naurto ran off to find the next village or town to put his plan into motion.
-Three hours later-
It was about noon when Naruto found the next town only to be met by…nothing to save or do to help the people out so he could earn money, so he took what little money he had found on the way to the town over the last three and a half days, only about twelve ryo(SP) and bought a small snack and then left for the next town which was about ten miles away. The only thing he had heard about this next town was that it was completely under control of a bunch of bandits and some wayward soldiers. With new found vigor and energy, Naruto took off like there was no tomorrow.
It had only taken Naruto about four hours to reach the next town, his travel with Magoichi was fun but man was it slow, not that he could blame him he wasn't a ninja so he just ran as fast as he could. When Naruto got to one of the entrances to the town he found that there were guards around it and looked like they would kill any one who was a soldier or a paying man…unless you were a pretty young women that is. They all had swords of all sizes and some had bows and arrows, one or two had rifles but not too many of those which was good for Naruto; he had seen them in action and did not want to get hit by one of those balls of lead.
Naruto waited until dusk before he went in he paid what he could, which was six ryo and walked until he found an inn. He walked into the inn and stepped up to the counter and noticed a fairly attractive young woman was behind the counter, and then asked how much for a room.
"One night is ten ryo, and breakfast is free but you have to be up at the right time for it, so don't sleep in. So how many days would you like to stay sir?"
"Well you see I don't have the money right now but I was hoping to do some odd jobs around the inn as tribute for the room, you see I was mugged a couple of days ago and I didn't save too much of it when he was shot by a guard who then wanted some of it for killing the man. So if you could ask your boss I would be glad to stay here as long as it would take to pay it off." Naurto replied as the girl went in search of her boss.
While she was out a couple of thugs walked in looking for the young girl and were about to leave when they saw Naruto there. They walked over to him and tapped his left shoulder. Naruto turned and saw the two men and then asked them if he could help them with something.
"Ya you's can help us by gettin out of the ways so we can have some fun with the little lady in dare" said the first one. 'Wow does this guy have the wrong face for something like trying to pick up ladies, he looks sort of like that air blowing Oto nin from the chunin exam war. And the other gut looks like Fishy-San, only with out the gills. HMM…I wonder if this guy wears make up or something or is he really just this ugly.'
The other thug looked like Kisame in a lot of ways, first, he was tall like him, had the same little pointy teeth, stunk the same…well almost the same this guy smelled like horse shit than fish. He even had the grayish blue skin. The other one looked the Oto nin he had seen loose to Sasuke in the semi rounds back home only he had lighter hair color and a few missing teeth.
Naruto finally said to the 'men', "I might be able to if you don't mind me asking what kind of fun your going to do with her? Depending on what kind of fun it is I might want a go, you know what I mean?"
The tall one stepped a little closer and then whispered into his ear, "She didn't have enough money to leave the village last week and then come back in, so we made arrangements for a special kind of 'Rain-Cheek' but if you want to have some fun kid you can wait until we's done with her, you got that?"
"Don't worry I understand exactly what you're saying, and I just want you to know something." Naruto started off hoping they would take the bait.
"Wha's that?" they both said to him.
"She's right out side and to the right of the building. I saw her go out there just before I came in, in fact I might go with you seeing as she hasn't come back yet. What lousy service. Come on." As the two thugs turned around Naruto turned around and saw the woman and her boss looking in fear as he just put up his finger to his lips and walked out after the two men. After about five or so minutes Naruto walked back in with a bag of ryo and plopped it on the counter and startling the women and her boss.
"That should be enough for a while now shouldn't it? Don't worry I would rather get a women to fall for me than try to rape her; and I will still work out those days to make up for the room, I am in no hurry." Naruto explained to the two.
"How…What…What did you do to them? Not that we mind really, we would just like to know for the record?" the boss said to Naruto.
"Well I was trying to lead them towards the back and then knock them out, but they got smart enough to tell I was tricking them to leaving you alone and then they tried to kill me. The two idiots stabbed each other in the gut. I removed the bodies for you just incase.
-Flashback 5 minutes ago-
Naruto was walking in front of the men and was trying to lead them away from the street so he could dispose of the two men when they got out of what ever perverted daze they were in and wizened up. They both put their hands on their katanas and then asked Naruto what he was trying to do.
"Well in retro-spec I'm going to uh…well now how to say this to two bumbling idiots like you? Oh yeah! I'm going to kill you." with that Naruto unsheathed his kodachi and used it to block the tall man's strike, then turned around and slashed the others hand in time to stop him from removing his sword. The tall man turned and with a grunt of power and force he shoved his sword into the short man's stomach. Before he could look around for Naruto he found a blade in his kidney. He dropped dead along with his cohort to the ground.
The blood spewed from their wounds and mixed in with the dusty ground around them. Naruto took the blades and coins from the men and cleaned them with a rag, before tossing the bodies over the edge of the tall fence. With the two men gone Naruto picked up the blades, placed a genjutsu on them to turn them invisible and walked back into the inn.
-End Flashback-
Sure it wasn't the whole truth but these two didn't need to know about that, all they needed to know that the two men were gone. Naruto accepted the three days of work for the room and food. They said they weren't going to charge him any more because of what he did for them, it turned out that the women and the boss were family and the elder didn't want to see his granddaughter raped by any one.
The first two days were uneventful as Naruto worked out side on the inn which needed some new roofing and some new floor boards. He listened to travelers about life out side the town. He heard that that Nobunaga's land was taken over by his loyal retainer Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Naruto couldn't hate the man for doing it he had heard that he was a loyal man but he had also heard that he could be as mean as Nobunaga at times but didn't like killing innocent people.
The next day was supposed to be his last there, but something told him that he needed to stay for a while longer. He hadn't given all his money to the inn keeper, so he still had enough for a while. He paid the inn keeper who never asked where Naruto had gotten the money from. Naruto walked around town until he found a few men sitting around a table in the local pub talking in hushed voices.
"When are we going to actually ransack this stupid town any ways? The only good thing in this town are the women. Especially that inn girl mmmm, just thinking of her makes the little one anxious!"
Another one said to him, "Maybe we should find out what happened to Tomo and Ginta they haven't come back for a while now, maybe someone killed them?"
The last man there just nodded his head in agreement but then said, "Tomorrow is when we should attack the town, take the women and flee…after some latte night fun hahahaha! And Tomo and Ginta are most likely dead they were idiots after all. But no matter we have forty eight men here and two hundred out side waiting for the signal. Then after tomorrow we make off with the ladies and goods and hit another town, then we will raise our own army and take Japan for ourselves!"
'Well that was fun to listen too huh Kyuubi?' Naruto thought as he went to the clothing store down the street to make a make-shift outfit for to nights late night ninja-ing.
'Tonight will be fun boy! Will you allow me to come out for a bit of fun?' asked Kyuubi as she shifted in anticipation.
'No, you would scare the other people and you have all ways said that you wanted me to do things on my own right? That I am too weak and I need to toughen up? Well…TOO DAMN BAD! And plus using your power could inadvertently signal Konoha nin and others.' All Naruto got in reply was a small pain in his stomach.
He went into the clothing shop and bought some gray and black clothing along with some white fish net material. He went back to the inn and locked the door, created some Kage Bunshins and started on his outfit.
Two hours later and he was done with it. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than he had hoped it would be; the suit was a dark gray chest and torso outfit, with solid black leg and arm sleeves, white fishnet for under the torso and under cloth for his vital and reproductive areas. He had taken the rest of the clothing and sealed them within a blank scroll he had stashed earlier before leaving Konoha.
It was about five in the after noon when he was done with everything and he went to eat supper at the restaurant down the street. He walked in and waited for the waitress to come over. While he was waiting he saw a pretty decent sized man walking over to a table and sitting down to order. No normally Naruto would look at who entered to make sure they weren't someone trying to kill him out of habit; but this time he kept glancing over but not at the man him self but at his large blade that was strapped to his back.
'Without the hair and eyebrows he might look like Zabuza with that sword on his back.' When he was looking at the blade he didn't notice the man looking at him as if he knew what was going on. The man then took the blade off his back and set it on the other side of him, so Naruto would have to move over to see it.
The man thought that Naruto was going to try looking at it some more and move, but to the man's amusement he just looked back at his own kodachi that he had taken off and put beside him earlier. This kid was pretty good at this game.
The waitress finally came out and apologized for being slow which Naruto promptly said 'No need for apologies' ordered his food and waited for the dango to come to his table. 'Man there's no ramen here! This sucks big time, now I am eating the same food as that psycho pervert Anko, man I am glad she's not here she would be asking for something perverted along with dango, like my "rice balls".'
After his food arrived and he started eating, he noticed that the man with the sword was looking skeptically at him while he was eating his rice and fish. The man finished and waited for a bit before starting to call the waitress over for some sake. Naruto was watching the man out of the corner of his eye as he was eating his dango.
While they were eating, a couple of guys came in and you could tell they were up to no good, looking around like they wanted to start trouble in the restaurant, took one of the trays that had both Naruto's dango and water and the mans sake which was currently being brought out to them by a very good looking women, and tripped her, after taking the sake of the tray. Naruto and the other man turned around and saw the women being picked up by one of the men and said this to her,
"Sorry ma'am, I wasn't paying attention to were my foot was, let me help you with that. Look here I saved the sake for you."
"Umm thank you for your help sir." She was about to leave to go get the order refilled but was stopped as the man who tripped her grabbed her arm and held her fast as he whispered something in her ear that made her eyes widen in fear. She tried to pull free but was stopped by the man's friend who grabbed her chest area and shoved back into the grip of the leader of the two. That made Naruto mad, he couldn't stand to see a woman sexually abused like that or in any way for that matter.
He stood up at the same time the other man did but didn't notice really, as he walked 'casually' behind to the man had grabbed her breast and then saw the other man come over and knock the other one on the head with his giant blade. The other man turned only to have his crotch meet a chakra enhanced foot. The man flew out of the building and bash his head against the post of the building.
The other men in the building just sharply turned their heads and cringed at the display. The woman got up gave both of them a hug before returning to the kitchen with tears streaming down her cheeks.
The other man looked at Naruto as said person placed some money on the table and walk out towards the inn. The man did the same thing as Naruto but instead of going to a certain place he followed Naruto some.
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Naruto was walking back to the inn after grabbing the man's sword and money and then kicking the man again, noticed that the man was following him at a distance and tried to make it look like he was just walking around. Naruto quickly rounded a bend and jumped to the top of the wall and watched as the man came towards the bend looked in it and then entered the ally way. What met him was a kunai near his foot and a kodachi in his face. Needless to say he was a little shocked.
"Why are you tailing me?" Naruto said to the man.
"Why did you take the man's sword and money?" the reply came back.
"It was less than what I would have taken from him if it wasn't for the fact that people were around me. And why do you care what happens to a thug's money and sword?" Naruto answered.
"Well sexually harassing a woman is a very high crime to me, but nothing that would lead me to stealing his stuff. So why'd you do it?" he responded.
"It was just. He groped a woman in front of me and he would have met my blade in his crotch if it had not been for people. Besides he doesn't need money, what he needs is a life in jail. Now why are you following me I know I wasn't just because of that." Naruto demanded while pushing his blade closer to the man's face
"Hahaha, you've got me there, I was wondering if you serve any lord or army figure? You act like you are a ninja even, I was just wondering if you were trying to kill me for money?" the man replied.
"Who is stupid enough to follow a 'supposed' ninja? Even kids know better than that!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Well I am just the sort of person to try to 'get rid of a thorn before it pricks the skin, and becomes infected', which means I would have to kill you if you were after me. Now then why are you here" the man spread his arms meaning the town, "are you a bandit your self, waiting for the moment to strike and steal the money and women from this town?"
"Hell no! In fact I was passing through until I came here, something told me to stay earlier today and I did, and I found out that the bandits here are trying to raise an army to take over Japan. They said that they were going to attack tonight or tomorrow, take the money and women and then hit the next town." Naruto explained to the man, who looked like he was thinking about something.
The man thought for a minute and then asked, "How many bandits are there anyways?"
"About two hundred and fifty. Some in the town and most outside of the town. I was hoping I could scare most of them off like I did to some Oda soldiers awhile back." Naruto said to the man.
"You held back Oda soldiers? Who many? And how? Your like what twelve and why?" the man asked in a unbelieving tone.
"I saw a young girl being attacked by Oda troops, I went down and saved her, killed around fifty men and fought with Mitsuhide Akechi. Sadly the bastard found her when I was trying to save any others that weren't burnt and dead, and killed her. Then I killed most of his small unit, but the asshole got away! And I am not twelve; I am fifteen and a half!" Naruto seethed in anger at the memory.
"Well, you look like you've killed people before and you have the anger against Mitsuhide. Funny how he was the man to betray Nobunaga, but did not kill the man, and he is still given the blame. Magoichi was the one who shot and killed Nobunaga you know?" the man lectured.
"I know that I was there with the man when he shot the bastard, all I wanted to do was and still want to, avenge that little girls death." Naruto hissed out.
"Hey man, calm down I didn't know you knew and all that. So what do you say to helping these people out against the bandits tomorrow huh? It will be fun and the right thing to do." The man offered his hand towards Naruto. Naruto stared at the hand and then took it and said, "The names Uzumaki, Naruto Uzumaki."
"And mine's Shima, Sakon Shima." He shook Naruto's hand and then walked off into the night to where ever he was staying at.
"Shit! I forgot to tell him I am a ninja so he won't try to kill me tomorrow!" Naruto said quietly. The walked towards the inn.
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It was early in the morning when Naruto woke up, he got his ninja clothes on and put up a henge so it looked like he was wearing his orange suit. He walked down stairs and walked out after leaving a note on the counter for the inn keeper and his granddaughter about the attack on the town by the bandits.
Naruto went to the restaurant where he saw Sakon leaning on the post waiting for him. He walked over to him and then nodded towards the door where he saw the same three guys from the pub sitting there with a number of other thugs and bandits.
"That's the man who I heard it from, if you want you can deal with the dicks in the town and I will deal with the ones outside the wall, or just wait for the real fun at the cost of civilians?" Naruto asked Sakon.
Sakon looked at him then nodded for him to follow in the restaurant where they took a seat while listening to the man talking to the others. "We will do the first of your plans only because of the civilians, but we do have to know were to strike first. And how are you going to attack them all, may I ask?"
"Well…I uh…you'll find out later just don't kill any one that wears grey and black and you shouldn't have to worry.?" Naruto replied nervously.
"You're a ninja aren't you?" he asked though he knew already.
"How did you figure it out?" Naruto asked quietly. "Magoichi never did!"
"Well that's because I am smart and well…Magoichi is kind of stupid at times. But anyways I had a hunch yesterday in here when you were eyeing my blade, and then when you knew I was tailing ya last night, when you almost killed me, that's when it hit me that you are a ninja." He saw the look on Naruto's face and chuckled. "I won't tell any body, that's not my style, I am a ronin so I do what I want when I want! I had an army but then told them to go home for a while and see their families and stuff like that."
"Now my friends, when our reinforcements come from the eastern gate we stop dilly dallying and take this town down! The signal will be a bomb that is in the inn. I will set it off around ten so we can have the night to fuck our prizes and to party!" the man who was the leader of the group said as he grabbed his sword and led the group out of the restaurant.
"Well, when do you want to begin Naruto?" Sakon asked him.
"Right after I take that bomb out of the inn, that's where I am staying at and plus the people there are too nice to be blown up. Then I will signal you after I get it out of there then the fun can begin" Naruto said as he walked out of the building. Then poked his head around the corner and said "look for the toad(s)." then he went to work.
"Look for the toads? What the hell?" Sakon got up and followed the group as it dispersed into buildings and such.
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Naruto got back to the inn around nine and saw the leader and a few peons with him just talking about the weather and such, trying to make small talk before the battle or in their case slaughter. Naruto walked by them in a genjutsu and looked around for the bomb. It wasn't in any of the down stairs rooms nor the second floor.
'If I were a signal bomb where would I be?' luckily before Naruto thought about it again, he saw the leader climbing to the top of the inn. 'Right were I thought t would be.' He thought as he walked up the out side wall and pass the leader. He walked over to the bomb and picked it up but not too high so he could freak out the leader.
The man came over the top and got out some flint rock and walked towards the bomb only to find that he couldn't grab the bomb and fell on his ass. He looked up only to find that the bomb was flying above his head in circles! He tried to slice thought the spirit that was keeping him from his plans.
Naruto watched and silently laughed as the stupid man tried to 'kill' him. He got tired of it shortly and put the bomb of the ground, grabbed the man's head and then let illusion fall. He was in his ninja clothing and had his kodachi out and in his hand pointed at the man's throat. Naruto lifted the man up and grabbed his sword off of his belt loop and then grabbed the bag full with money.
"You know you shouldn't walk around with gold out in the open, you could get hurt, mugged, robbed, beaten, or better yet killed!" with that Naruto slammed the short blade through the man's throat and then kicked him off the back of the inn. He looked down below and saw more than two hundred bandits on the small steppe below the town. It looked as if more than one group of marauders showed up for the fight and plundering of the small town.
He quickly got out of view and summed a small toad. The toad looked around and then saw Naruto and then was about to yell at him when Naruto stuffed his mouth with a pastry he swiped from the bakery earlier.
"Gamakichi, you listen to me and you listen good; I need you to go to the middle of this town and find a man with a large sword with him named 'Shima Sakon' tell him the toad has arrived and he'll understand. And if you tell anyone that is not of the Gama clan I will KILL YOU! some how. No one needs to know were I am at the time and I don't want them to know right now. You got that?"
The toad looked at Naruto like he was crazy, "Are you crazy? First you shove something in my mouth all though good, was totally unnecessary! You tell me what to do for no reason, then tell me your going to kill me if I tell anyone about where you are! Your even crazier! I am NOT HELPING, AND I AM GOING TO TELL THE PERVERT WHERE YOU ARE! So nyah!" he was about to leave when Naruto grabbed him and held him up so he was face to face with his and then said,
"You listen to me you idiot! I don't want anyone back home to know where I am because they will send hunter nin after me! Not to mention that Temari will drag Gaara here to find me, whap her fan over my head and drag me back to the elemental countries! Plus you have to go find Sakon right now or this town is going to be trampled! Look for your self." He hoisted Gamakichi so he could see the massive army of bandits and then brought him back down. "Tell him that there is a lot more than two hundred and fifty of them now go now!" he threw Gamakichi off the roof where he landed in some water in a barrel.
"Damn him! Where is this man again? The middle of the town huh? Big sword huh? Just hope there's not a lot of people with those around like back home." With that Gamakichi hopped off in search of Sakon.
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Sakon was waiting for Naruto to send a "toad" or the bomb to go off. He had not killed three men just for this place to get crowded with asses while Naruto was goofing off.
'Toads, what the hell? Why I am even here? That's right to stop this "Bandit Army" that might not even exist at all. For all I know he could be with those guys and is after my head! Better make sure there's nothing behind me.' He turned around a came to scene that made him wonder if he was sane at all.
Down the street was an orange thing jumping and hopping along like it was a kid with a new toy. It came closer and closer until he could see it was a toad. 'Holy shit! He was right! It is a toad! But how did that happen?' the toad came closer until it was actually on his coat. Then it sat there and then did something that toads let alone animals should not do…
"HI" Sakon had just seen everything in his life go by. He had now seen everything in the world (or all that they knew of) "What 'cha lookin' at? Never seen a toad talk before. Damn you Naruto! Any ways, the is a lot more than two hundred and fifty bandits outside so be prepared! That's my message for ya now good bye! Oh and punch Naruto for me would ya?" and with that said the toad 'poofed' out of existence and there was nothing there!
"Damn it! Naruto you are going to get more than one punch in the head for this! But right now it is time for some good old fashion stress relieving…killing peons!" with that said he got up and ran towards three bandits and slashed sideways through all three of them in one swing. Blood and guts flew every where the screams never left the mouths as they were killed either.
Sakon looked around and found Naruto jumping form bandit to bandit killing them with his kodachi. "Oh no you don't your not getting more kills than I do!" with that Sakon was off slaying bandits left and right. Blood was in the air as some screams left those of the now severed and bloodied.
Naruto looked over and found Sakon slashing threw enemy after enemy, leaving a fine fresh river of blood started flowing from the dead. Naruto knew that out here it was life or death, being for less than two months and already he was thrown into many more battles than half of the people in Konoha and more deadlier. He cut threw another man's throat and heard a grabbled scream from the man. For these people, he felt no remorse.
The next ten minutes was slaughter and blood raining as the two cut threw the force in the town. When they got to the gate they saw that a couple of bandits opening the gate and letting the army of marauders in to the town.
"Hey Sakon! What are we going to do now? I was hoping that we'd get them all before they could tell the army what was going on here!" Naruto panted as he hopped down next to Sakon.
"I don't know, usually I have at least some troops to help me out in my strategies, but we have none and-" Sakon started but was cut off as he heard foot steps behind them only to see about ten armored troops coming over to them. They slowed as they approached the two and then came to complete stop.
"Shima Sakon, right?" the first one asked him. The troops all had the same red armor and each had a bow, some arrows and a spear. They were siege troops. Sakon nodded in confirmation as he saw the men bow before him.
"We are what little men that have come back from the vacation you sent us on earlier in the year milord, and we have been tracking you down for a while now. We are at your disposal."
Sakon looked at Naruto and then laughed, "It seems that our prayers have been answered Naruto, these are some of my troops from when I was in command of my own army; tell me are you the only ones back?" the troops nodded and Sakon's face fell a bit.
"We had nothing to return to when we got home milord, we are from the same three villages and bandits took over after we left killing our families and friends. We thought that maybe you have a need for us and came back. It looks like you need some help right now huh?" the leader of the troops half asked and explained.
"Yes we are in need of help, tell me how many arrows do you have?" Sakon asked them.
"We each have around twenty or so milord." Came the reply.
"Then me might have enough to achieve my plan. First of all Naruto, you go and find a place to do some of your ninja stuff on the enemies to weaken them while we set up the plan. I will signal you when it is ready now go!" Naruto nodded his head and jumped away towards the advancing bandits.
"Okay, I need all of you to go and find some oil and wooden stakes. Then I want you t each leave five arrows here with me. I am going to prep them for a fire attack that will hopefully burn down the side of the steppe and on the enemy. Then after you get the wood, half of you go and find some young men who can fight, tell them to put on some armor from dead bandits and a sword, rifle, bows arrows, spears I don't care what and tell them to come here we will need their help to win this battle. Now GO!" with the orders given the troops and Sakon left to find oil, wood, and volunteers to help the fight. What they didn't know was that there was someone watching them from the tree line towards the back side of the village.
'Hmm…so that boy is a ninja too huh? Well this should prove to be interesting! And you too Sakon, how will you fare?' and with that the figure left the tree line and went into the town to get a better look at Naruto.
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Naruto was busy wondering how he was going to fight all of these bandits with out much weaponry, sure he had his kodachi and two swords that he had taken from the deceased thugs; but that wasn't enough! He had his Kage Bunshin, but that was something he wanted to save for later. There was one jutsu that he had been practicing over the last few days.
"Da-ku Zekkyou no Jutsu!" a scream erupted from Naruto's mouth, and a line of dark chakra hit the ground in front of him and created a three to four foot divot. Now he didn't use a lot of chakra due to the fact that he was supposed to be lying in wait for the on coming enemy. He had hoped that if they did hear that scream maybe some of the smarter ones would turn and run. In the end, there were no smart ones in the army. The massive group continued up the steppe and towards the town.
"Holy crap! What the heck made this trench? It wasn't here when we came to warn you that there were assassins in there!" Said one of the ones that escaped from the wrath that was Sakon and Naruto earlier. Naruto had gone back into hiding and waited to see the next move that was displayed by the brigand of idiots.
"Maybe we should go back, I mean if that wasn't there before then what made it? Maybe they got a monster or a demon to fight for them?" said another one.
"Well than you can die here for all I care, I just want the money, town and the women. Now all units charge!" Screamed the obvious leader of the bandits. They all charged forward until they saw wooden stakes in the path up ahead of them. They slowed down and then the leader screamed out, "It's a trap move back now!" the bandits listened to the leader and moved back until they were back at the trench. This time how ever Naruto took the time to fill it with some oil that he had taken from the inn and placed the bomb in it. He had taken the bomb on his way down towards the steppe.
The bandits came closer until the leader of the masses saw the bomb on the oil. "Damn it's a double trap move back towards the other end!"
One bandit spoke up to the leader, "Isn't that end a trap too?"
"No! they tricked us into coming back here so they could blow us up! Now move it!" the leader screamed to the men.
Naruto took this time to use some of his so called "ninja stuff" that Sakon wanted him to do. He jumped up to the top of the tree he was sitting in and started doing seals for his jutsu. 'Maybe I ought to thank Sasuke-Teme for using so many fire jutsus, I actually stole one from him, now to put it use!'
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" a giant fireball erupted from Naruto's mouth and streamed towards the brigand of bandits. Even with the yelling of the jutsu Naruto thought that someone would turn around and see the fire ball; but alas no one turned around to see it until…
One bandit thought he heard something from behind him, do he turned around only to see a giant ball of flame streaking towards him and his allies. "Look out fireball!" the only reply was "What are you talking about?" "Look it's a giant fireball and it's coming towards us!" "Look, I don't know what you were doing last night, and I don't want to know; all I can say is" the man turned around and saw the ball of fire almost upon them; "Holy shiii-AAHH!"
BOOM!, the fireball blasted through the middle of the left side and burnt and melted the bandits into ash and nothingness. The other bandits turned around to find burnt bodies and ashes. The leader stopped for but a moment and then ran even faster towards the town. He ran past the wooden stakes and up to the gates where he and the rest that were behind him met a small wave but still deadly wave of arrows.
The bandits that were right next or behind the ones that were burnt, turned around to meet someone they didn't really want to meet. "AHH! A NINJA RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" screamed someone as the rest tried to move out of his way so as they wouldn't be stabbed by his sword.
Naruto took as step forward and saw the bandits took a step back. Naruto lifted his hands and started to do seals, as some one got brave enough to shoot an arrow at him. The arrow flew towards Naruto as he did his last hand seal, he jumped into the air and called out, "Da-ku Zekkyou no Jutsu!" the black winds and screams left Naruto's mouth and raced towards the bandits, and ripped threw and tossed people out of its path. Naruto looked at the destruction that it caused. The shock waves ripped threw eight people, tossed another six into others knocking four or so off the steppe; the rest had just gotten back on their feet from jumping only to meat a sword moving threw their bodies.
The figure that was watching Naruto saw the destruction of the two attacks and thought, 'Wow! Those were strong; I am glad I turned those bastards down after all, that kid could have killed me with those attacks. He's not really good with that kodachi though wonder if it's just being used for right now to kill his enemies? Maybe I can show him how to use these blades?' the figure looked down towards its sides and towards two curved blades. 'Maybe I'll meet you later child? For now back to Sakon." And with that the figure jumped down from the roof of the inn and towards Sakon.
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Sakon and the troops
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Sakon had told his troops the plan and they had all gotten as much oil as they could along with stakes of wood. The first two back besides Sakon stayed to help him hack off the ends of the stakes. Each stake was roughly five feet in height and two feet in width. They hacked off the ends to make them sharp, and then baste them in oil. The others came back with six men from the town and helped the other three put the stakes in the ground out side the gate.
"Now listen up, there are ten stakes out there and are each basted in oil, some of them have small bags full of oil hanging of the sides of them. When I give the signal, you will fire a flaming arrow at each stake. The stakes with the bags of oil with explode creating a small fire wall. The rest of you" he pointed to the towns' men, "will stay back here and help cover them from advancing enemies.
"We will fire at them when they have passed the stakes so we can both keep the main force out of the town, and to block the leader and the others that come through, in so we can take them out. Now we have one advantage that the enemy doesn't know about yet. Naruto. Naruto is a…well he's kind of a ninja, but he is on our side, so don't kill the ninja!
"We will both see and hear when the force is coming so we won't be caught off guard. We will also hear some people screaming, that will probably be Naruto doing his thing down there. The enemy should be in hearing range within ten or so minutes so get ready!" with that the men and Sakon each took up positions on the wall and in front of the gate.
Sakon looked around from his position and saw a gash in the landscaping on the road. 'I don't remember that there. Maybe it has to do with Naruto?' Sakon waited as he saw the bandits march forward not even caring about the divot in the road. As soon as they came to the stakes the leader called a retreat. They turned around only to find the divot filled with oil. 'So that is what you're doing Naruto, he probably figured out that they would notice the stakes and try to retreat. You made the divot with some thing, Kami knows what, and filled it with oil! Now what?' Sakon heard the man call the bandits to turn around again as the force neared the oil. They started to march back saying it was all just a plot to get them to leave and hit the bomb.
Sakon was about to take up his sword and prepare to meet the forces, when he saw Naruto jump out of tree and yell something, then a giant fireball spewed forth killing a large section of the middle. Sakon saw Naruto land on the ground and yell something again only this time it was a black wind or vortex thing that sounded like the screams of the dead. The black wind ripped threw and tossed people out its way before creating a large divot in the road.
'So that's how he did it! He used his techniques and created that divot. But how did he fill it with oil so fast? All well I got to get to work, so no more waiting!' he stood up and signaled the troops and towns men to be prepared as the gate opened and bandits filled the gate and road into the town.
Seeing that his plan was going well, Sakon signaled for the regular arrows to be fired at the enemy. The arrows launched forward and took out a few men with deadly accuracy. Some fell two men one felled three the rest fell one or wounded the targets. Sakon took the delay into mind a jumped down from the place he was hiding and scared the bandits in front of him.
He gave the first man a clean killing sweep and sliced through the top of his head. Sakon gave the signal for the fire arrows as he killed another two men with another fell swoop. The arrows speed forth and hit the stakes; the stakes hesitated for a moment and then burst into flames. The bags of oil on some of the stakes blew up causing wide spread damage and trails of fire to dance down the road, from where some of the oil had dripped from the bags.
The bandits in the right range of the fire explosions were burnt and singed. The bandits behind them started to run back the way they came until they saw several others fall to a single ninja coming from behind them. The leader was cut off from the escape and his men were either dying or jumping off the steppe and breaking many bones or dying as they landed on the grass below.
Sakon saw this and charged the leader with his blade held high. Using his sword, he stabbed it in front of the mans horse making it raise and throw the man off. The troops that were fighting with Sakon came out of hiding and charged the enemy with vigor and speed. The towns' men also joined in on the killing and protection of their home.
Sakon saw the man that was the leader get up and speed through the fiery wall and past his troops gathering all that he could from the masses to follow him so he could escape and come back later on to level the town. Sakon charged through man after man, slicing and dicing and shoving people in the flames killing almost instantly. He chased after the man as he ran through gain a cut from a bandit on his left arm. He turned around and stabbed his sword threw the man's stomach and toss him off into the oncoming enemy.
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Naruto was cutting threw man after man, and pushing the amassing force over the steppe and to their deaths. He threw a couple of kunai at the forces and killed two with them. Naruto started to gather chakra for Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! if he needed it when he saw the leader running through his men gathering all that he could with Sakon on his heels. Naruto took this time to run off in an instant and go to bomb in the oil.
The enemy force ran with their leader as they ran form Sakon and the troops and towns' men. They fled from them in hopes of living another day and followed their leader towards "safety". They ran down the road after their leader and towards the oil filled divot.
The leader was so afraid of Sakon and the small amount of troops he had to remember the oil filled divot; he ran faster and faster until he got to the divot. He jumped over the divot and landed on the other side on his knees. He got up and watched his troops do the same thing. He chuckled at how lucky he was until he saw Sakon jump the little divot with two other troops. He saw four of his men die as they landed. Two to Sakon and one for the others.
Quickly the man and his now small force tried to run away again until he saw three ninjas blocking his path.
"So, you thought that you could escape the great Sakon huh? Well let me tell you sir, that when you piss off Sakon you have an enemy. When you piss off Sakon by trying to take his town, you've made an enemy for life. But when you piss off Sakon and a ninja by trying to take their town, well lets just say your going to die!" with that Sakon ran forth and stabbed the man threw the stomach as Naruto and his clones stabbed him in various other places.
"Well now that the leaders done for let me have some more fun Sakon by using my trap for the enemy. Henge!" with that Naruto turned into the now dead enemy leader and ran towards the still massing force trying to run away.
"What in the nine layers of hell do you morons think you're doing? The great 'Shima Sakon' is dead! I have killed him my self! Get back up here and fight! Get up here now before I kill you all!" Naruto said from his disguised form. The bandits slowly turned around and then ran up the kill and to the divot. While they were about to jump over it, Sakon took a bow and shot a fire arrow at the bomb. BBBOOOMMM!
The forces of the bandits dropped considerably, as the bomb and oil filled divot exploded in their faces. The remaining bandits either stopped and surrendered or committed suicide. From up in a tree watching the blood and gore as the fight roared on to the end of the battle, the figure sat there rather impresses with the strategies shown today. 'If only that child ninja had been here earlier, then maybe the Sanada wouldn't have fallen. Oh well I can't do anything about it now. He is kinda cute though for a ninja, much more so than Mr. Tall dark and Shadowy, Hanzo.' With that the figure jumped off in the direction opposite the battle.
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Three hours after the battle
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After the towns' folk came back and the dead bandits were robbed of their swords and money, Naruto and Sakon sat in the restaurant while being praised by the people. That was when Naruto heard Sakon ask him a question.
"Hey Naruto, where you going after all this? Going back home or something?"
"I don't know where I am going yet, don't have a home village nor town, I have been searching for a place to live but every where I go I only find villages and towns like this one that have no protection, and need some one to help them out. I would like to help them out and all, but I am just one teenager that uses ninja stuff to get through the day ya know? Mainly I have been searching for Akechi Mitsuhide, so I can kill him." Naurto explained, the man knew he was a ninja so there was no denying it.
"What the hell? You're just going to go and take his head by your self? Not likely; you need to find some men to follow you and serve you if you go after him. He may be an ass, but he is pretty smart. And plus your not the only one who wants to kill him you know. Hideyoshi is going after him as well; never liked Oda, but at least Hideyoshi is a loyal man." Sakon said as he sipped some sake.
"I know that I'll need troops and stuff, I just don't know how to get any besides saving people and hoping that I would get either paid so I could hire some people or maybe some would join up. Doesn't look like this town has anyone that will join though. Oh well, I guess I can just take my time and find Mitsuhide and then wait until he is almost through then kill him." Naruto said while eat some meat and rice.
"Well, I know that there will be someone who might join you, but you don't have a lot of time to wait around if you want to kill him. Hideyoshi is moving at full steam to kill him. You might want to go to Mt. Taenno(SP), that is where someone said they last saw Mitsuhide." Sakon replied.
"What you ain't coming?" Naruto asked with some hope in his eyes.
"Nope. I am just trying to find a good place to settle down for a bit, maybe find a real lord to serve. I don't want to be the leader of a bunch of troops anymore…or at least not the lord of a bunch of troops." Sakon said as he rose from his seat. "Maybe in the future I see ya around Naruto, but for now? See ya." Then Sakon walked out of the building followed by the nine troops that survived the attack.
"Maybe I can find some money around here some where and go towards this Mt. Taenno. I wonder if I'll get any reward for saving the town or not…not that I care or nothing, as long as I get those weapons from the people I killed today so I can sell them later." Naruto said out loud, as he finished his meal and left for the inn.
On his way there, he was followed by a group of young women asking if he was available for marriage. 'Now I know how it feels to be wanted. I just have to say that I'm taken I guess.' "Sorry ladies, but I am unavailable, my fiancé is uhh… she's waiting for me back home."
Young woman #1 "What's her name?"
Naruto, "Uhhh… 'Damn it I don't really want to call Sakura my fiancé after what happened back home. Hmm…there's Tenten, but she likes Neji, and Hinata's father is an ass and would never let me be with her even if I liked her like that. Ino is a ho, who is there around my age?...I know Temari! She likes me, and she did help me back home; that's it Temari will be my "Fiancée"' her name is Temari." He replied to the semi mass of women.
Young woman #2 "Is she pretty?"
"Uhh…Yeah, she is!" Naruto said while rubbing his neck 'Oh Kami! Temari is going to kill me if she finds out I said that she's pretty and that she's my fiancée!'
Young woman #3 and 4 "Is she nice?"
"Yep! When she wants to be; the other times though she can be mean. Hehe." Naruto told them, while rubbing his neck.
Young woman #1 "Does she like threesomes?" that got every ones attention. Some where looking at her with mouths gaping as others were moving either closer or furhter away.
"Uuuhhhhh…I don't really know? If you could excuse me, I need to be leaving earlier in the morning and I have to get some sleep, so goodnight." And with that Naruto ran upstairs and went to sleep, dreaming dreams about weird questions and a Suna nin.
In her cage, Kyuubi was laughing up a storm. First the questions from the young women, and now, Naruto was dreaming a perverted dream about him Temari, and another young woman. 'Oh and he thinks he's not a pervert, little does he know that when he sleeps, his inner pervert takes over. I am going to have to make fun of him later on!'
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Back in Suna
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Temari was at home watching Kankuro yell at some pesky Konoha nins while trying to fix his puppets, when she started sneezing. Gaara who came downstairs heard her and asked what the matter was, and she replied that someone was talking about her somewhere. Gaara, being Gaara and still fairly new to caring didn't take it as such and made Temari go to the hospital to be checked out.
When the doctors were done, Temari came down stairs and bonked Gaara on the head, lightly of course. Gaara was taught that some times people sneeze because there's someone talking behind their back. That night Gaara spent about an hour saying things about a certain duck assed hair styled soon to be Rokudiame Hokage; who in return sat up in bed sneezing for an hour almost non stop.
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Back with Naruto
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Morning came and Naruto got up and gathered all that he could carry and was about to leave when someone told him to wait for a minute. Naruto waited for about ten minutes before seeing that one of the local farmers had shown his thanks by giving him a horse for his journey. The horse was a black one with what looked like red hair coming from the corners of it's eyes to it's muzzle. It was a tall horse and was told that she liked to run a lot, had lots of stamina and was a loyal mare.
"Thank you for the horse Farmer-San, but I must be going now. I hope that you and your town fare well in the future." Naruto climbed on the horse and left the town.
"Now what should I call you? Maybe Ni-Yabureme or Red Tear?" the mare looked like it was fine with the name, snorted and took off at a faster pace.
Passing town after town, village after village; and days later, Naruto finally came to a better sized village than what he had seen. He rode in and found his way to a blacksmiths, so he could ask about weapons. But low and behold, he heard someone he wasn't planning on seeing for a long, long time if ever.
"Uzumaki Naruto, where the hell have you been?" Naruto turned around only to find...
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End Chapter 5
Yeah, yeah I've said that would update Loyal Pain and Disloyal Trust but I have to re-write it, the next chapter wasn't coming together right and other stuff…Well any ways, this is my longest chapter yet and I am happy about it. Only took me around ten hours of off and on writing.
THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER TO VOTE FOR WEAPONS!!!! The votes are…
Spear: 1
Long Scythe: 2
Twin Blades like Nene's or Kunoichi if you haven't played SW2: 12
Katana: 1
A special weapon that I will think of for him later (Note this will continue into the secondary weapons as I have found and or thought of some new weapons! Had some before but forgot to post them): 1
They are: a Bo-staff:
Takagi and nekode:
A small hammer (mainly for bashing peoples heads while riding in battle):
Pistol:
A chain with two morning stars (think like English knights and you'll get the picture):
more to come latter.
(Ideas excepted as long as it isn't a big ass sword. I'm tired of those)
Takagi and nekode are ninja climbing pads and clawed gauntlets with blades coming out of them think Wolverine
Da-ku Zekkyou no Jutsu - dark scream technique - a black void of wind and sound erupts from the users' mouth and rips, tosses and deafens enemies.
Ni-Yabureme – Red Tear – Name of Naruto's new horse.
As you can see if there is romance in this fic later, it will probably be a Naru/Temari.
Next chapter will be the Battle of Mt. Taenno! So much blood loss, so much destruction, so many dead, and a few sorrows; but mainly killing, killing, some talking, and more killing.
Thanks for reading and for those of you who reviewed.
Review if you want.
Sincerely,
Death's Spear.