Hey!! Sorry for the SUPER LONG wait!! *please don't kill me*
enjoy the chapter! i'll probably have more to say at the end!!
*runs and hides just in case*
Naruto walked through the gates of Konoha and was mildly curious as to why there were no guards stopping her and asking her what she was doing there and who she was. Then she walked in farther and what she saw left her speechless. Her blood went cold and the image was engraved her mind. "Who-who-who would do something like this?" she whispered. Rage rose in her, searing her every nerve. Unconsciously, her lips curled back revealing her sharp canines and releasing a feral growl.
Konoha was no more. Her buildings crumbling, bodies were strewn all around the ground. Her mind refusing to linger on one anymore than a second lest she recognized one. But out of the corner of her eyes she saw a familiar face.
"Konohamaru!" yelled Naruto and she ran over and checked if he was breathing. He was and shortly later he coughed.
"Phew. I wonder what happened..." thought Naruto.
"Who-who a-are y-you?" came Konohamaru's shaky question.
Naruto looked down and saw curiosity, confusion, and wariness in his eyes. She gave a small smile, brushed some hair off of his face and said, "It's me Naruto, Konohamaru." She saw doubt flicker in his eyes and decided to add, "The next Hokage, baka." With that all the doubt left him. He tried to say something but ended up in a horrible coughing fit. Naruto sat him up straight and patted his back.
"Is it really you?" asked Konohamaru after a few minutes of contemplative silence.
"Of course it is. But more importantly what happened?" Naruto said with a serious look on her face.
"It was all so unexpected. None of the look out posts saw them coming but when they did it was just, BAM! They bombarded us in. This jutsu they used, it didn't allow anyone in or out and no matter what we used none of our jutsus could break through. We eventually found a way to use our summons to get a message out. We got permission from Gaara to allow us to send some civilians to Suna. We don't know if they made it. After a few days of just waiting they attacked, wiping out everyone in their path. A rebounding jutsu hit me and I was knocked out, anything after that... well it's anyones guess."
"Konohamaru who is this 'they'? What about Tsunade and everyone else? Are they okay?" "I-I don't know." They sat in silence for a while, thinking what to do next. Eventually Naruto got up and she helped Konohamaru to his feet. She realized with some resentment that he was a good five inches taller than her. Naruto wasn't short, she was 5'8", 5'10" in heels. But she hated to lose, that was one thing that had never changed.
Then, coming from the direction of the Hokage monument came a killing intent so potent it would have brought any lesser man, or woman, on their knees. It slammed into them like a wave crashing against an impenetrable wall, leaving a resounding ring in their ears. They looked at each other and they both sped off in the direction of the Hokage monument.
Once they were on top of the monument they saw that there was a gorge, most likely created by a blast, it had at least a 100 mile radius.
Right in the middle she could see there were two groups staring each other down. One side had at least 100 people and the other, no more than 15.
Though something wasn't right, one side wasn't moving.
She could see all the familiar faces: Tsunade, Sakura, Kakashi, that bastard Sasuke, the two green eyesores Lee and Gai, the ever stoic Neji, Ten Ten, Ino, Chouji, Kiba, Hinata, Shikumaru, Kurenai, Asuma, and of course the master pervert himself Jiraiya. She couldn't help but wonder why they were standing so abnormally still, even Akamaru wasn't moving an inch. She scoped out the area a bit more and recognized the jutsu being used.
"Shit," Naruto cursed under her breath. "What do I do now?"
And before she could stop him Konohamaru was speeding off to help everyone. She sighed. "Some things never change," she thought. She decided to use one of her newly acquired jutsus to relay a message to Konohamaru.
"Don't tell them I'm here. Keep quiet," she whispered to the air and forming too quick for the eye hand seals, the wind carried her words to the speeding Konohamaru. Confusion flickered on his face but was quickly replaced with determination. He gave a small imperceptible nod and ran faster. But as soon as he reached Sakura, who was at the edge of the group, he froze also.
"So, it only works within that range," contemplated Naruto. "That makes everything so much easier."
xx to battlefield xx
"What a pitiful looking group!" yelled an exuberant ninja from the front of the overwhelming army. He looked like he was the leader. Whereas everyone else in the army was wearing all black, he had a deep blood red stripe going down the sides of his legs and arms. "Do you seriously think you can beat us? After all, you can't even move!" With those words, several snickers were heard from behind him.
"Maybe not but we can die trying," Tsunade all but growled.
xx back to Naruto xx
"What cowards! They can't even face them fairly," spat Naruto. She decided that waiting any longer wouldn't do any good, so she started to put her plan in motion. "Oi, Tsunade! Ready to get this party started? Oh, and just whisper your reply. After all we don't want people to think you're going senile." Naruto whispered into the wind again.
Alarm covered Tsunade's face. Then a hard, unreadable look came upon her. "Who are you?"
Naruto sighed. "Looks like I'll have to use the old nickname," she whispered to herself. "Who else would it be baa-chan? A taco?" Naruto whispered to Tsunade this time.
"Naruto..." breathed Tsunade.
"I know it's been a while," Naruto said with a smile, "but don't be going all mushy on me. We still have some work to do."
"Shut up. So smart ass do you have a plan?"
"As a matter of fact, I do."
Meanwhile the opposing army was getting bored waiting for the Konoha nins to find a way out. So they decided to play around by throwing exploding tags in random places around the Konoha nins and watching them flinch.
"Got it Tsunade?"
"Yeah but... it doesn't make sense..."
"Don't worry. If things are going to go down like I think they are then it'll be flawless."
At that moment all the exploding tags went off. The explosions weren't all that big, just enough to create a lot of smoke. The army got a kick at seeing how the Konoha nins looked helpless, except for that damn Hokage, she still had a defiant glint in her eyes. The leader didn't like that.
"Well, since it seems none of you are able to get out. Shall I start having fun? Hmmm...."the leader said while scoping out the Konoha nins. "I think I'll kill the all important Hokage first." He walked over to Tsunade, reached out and curled his fingers around her neck. "Any last words?"
Suddenly a gloved hand reached out and grabbed his arm. "Are you sure you should be the one asking that?" A simultaneous gasp was heard throughout the Konoha nins.
There stood Naruto. Even Konohamaru was shocked since when he was talking to Naruto she was still wearing a cloak. The only indication that it was Naruto was the striking blue eyes but you could still instinctively tell it was Naruto. It was still her but everything about her was enhanced twenty fold. And truthfully she wasn't quite the looker when she was younger but now... well let's say hormones did their job and maybe some outside forces also.
"Naruto?" Tsunade said shell-shocked. Everyone else in the area was just staring at her. Gone was the sun bright blonde hair in two messy pigtails, gone was the innocent, childlike aura to her. All gone. Instead here stood the new Naruto hair as black as night, with angry blood red streaks, with a cold shinobi-like aura that suggested she could kill you in a million different ways and not even blink an eye. Even her eyes, though the same in color, lost the shine and twinkle they once had, instead they were eyes that could stare down an enemy unflinchingly and seemed to hold the ability to stare straight into your soul. Those were the eyes that every shinobi wish they could have, eyes that would give one glare and make your enemy into mush, but then again the massive killing intent that seemed to suck you whole and suffocate you helped too. She had become the perfect shinobi. One that wouldn't care how many people they had killed and how many they will kill in the future, the shinobi that could be tortured for a 100 days and still not talk. And yet even though they could clearly tell that Naruto had changed and grew up, the Konoha nins couldn't help but feel that the old Naruto they knew was still there.
"So are you going to tell me who is keeping my friends paralyzed?" Naruto asked in an emotionless voice, still holding the leader's arm.
"What's in it for me? Are you going to let me go?"
"Of course I'll let you go," at this the leader perked up. "I'll let you go to the afterlife you asshole."
"Wait! Just tell her, boss! Don't you know who she is?!" one of the shinobi in the army asked.
"No. But who care about who a bitch like this is?"
"Long, black hair with streaks the color of blood, whisker-shaped marks on her face... It's her. Remember those rumors we've been hearing? That shinobi who stopped the Rock/Lightning war single handedly by just saying that it 'was stupid and a waste of time', and since the Kages didn't want to get on her bad side they called it off. The shinobi who all Kages don't want to mess with? I-It's her and she's a shinobi of Konoha."
At those words a collective gasp was heard throughout the army and quite comically they all took one step back at the same time. The leader started struggling in Naruto's inhumanly strong grip.
"It seems my reputation exceeds me," Naruto said drily. Though all the people on the Konoha side wore a confused look, except for Tsunade, Shikumaru, and Jiraiya they just wore looks of complete and utter shock.
"Oi! What the hell are they talking about?" Kiba said getting over his initial shock of seeing Naruto and now just wanting to get some answers.
"You have the strongest shinobi in all of the elemental villages and you don't even know it?!" yelled the leader amidst his struggling.
"Okay then. Now that everyone knows who I am," Naruto said interrupting them. "Would you now like to tell me who is keeping them paralyzed?"
At that moment five ninjas from the army tried to flee. "Nuh-uh where do you think you're going?" Naruto said shaking her head as if they were just some tiny annoyance. With a few fast one-handed seals Naruto brought a five large tree trunks out of the ground. They all shot out and each grabbed an escaping ninja. She shortened the trunks so that the five ninjas were in front of her, tightly bound by the trees.
"Now then, I'm going to be a civilized person and ask nicely: release my friends."
"Bu-but..." one of the ninjas stuttered glancing back and forth between his tied hands and Naruto. Immediately, the trunks retracted just enough so that all five of them could perform hand seals. After thirty seconds, the Konoha shinobis who were paralyzed were all moving, trying to gain feeling in their limbs that got numb from being in one position for a while. Tsunade then gathered all of them together minus Naruto, who was making sure no one else tried to escape, to tell them Naruto's plan.
Tsunade coughed and Naruto dispersed clones to set up exploding tags around the army. Once done, she poofed the shadow clones out of existence. After tense, silent moment Naruto exploded the tags all at once, and in the resulting smoke cloud she turned and yelled to her fellow shinobis, "Now!"
so so so so so so so so so so what did you think?! i can't say i'm too good with constructive criticism but i'm a big girl i can handle it! i just really want opinions! so don't be shy!! oh and flames can heat up my leftover freezer food! XP
oh and i will try my hardest to get the next chapter up in a sort of kinda timely manner though no guarantees!! it just depends on how bored my teachers make me but school is almost over anyway! either way either have alerts or keep checking on the story!
well thats it for now!! *goes off to plan next chapter*
p.s. i seriously just learned that i can add those continuous line thingies so you can tell when the story ends and the A/N starts!! i feel like a total genius!! XP anyone who disagrees go die in a hole... (if you want to see the rest of that my sister my comment and she can finish it in a comment i will make her write so i feel special!) anyway now i'm just rambling!
hope to post again soon,
chrystopia (i just made that up just now! i think it sounds like totally awesome!)
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