A\N: I hope you liked the story so far, but we're only about half way through.. give or take.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters..

Eye of the wolf

"Ume don't forget me"

"Huh?"

"Ume?"

"Satoru?"

"No it's me Naruto"

"Huh?" Ume's eyes shot open. "Naruto?" she said, staring at the face standing over her.

He smiled, "It's kinda late to be sleeping now, don't you think?"

"What time is it?" Ume said sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"Almost 1" Naruto answered with a smile, stepping back.

Ume stared at her feet, her thoughts still jumbled with her dreams, and she didn't restore her proper sense of orientation.

"You look tiered, sorry for waking you up, a long night huh?" Naruto said.

She stared at him with empty eyes so he said, "Yeah well, I just wanted to tell you that I have something to do today, there was an attack on the Hokage mansion last night, and…"

Then he realized that Ume probably wasn't hearing a word he was saying, "so anyway, you can do what ever you want today.. Mm I'll probably won't be back until late tonight, see ya'" he said leaving the apartment.

Ume sat still for a few minutes then yawned as she got up, she decided to do some sight seeing on her own.

"Arigato Oji-San" Ume said taking the sweets from the vender.

He greeted her back, then turned back to the rest of his customers.

She walked away, calmly eating the sweets, she stared around her blankly, she watched the families, the kids, and the ninjas come and go. But she soon felt bored, "Maybe the nature would be more interesting" she thought to herself.

"Oba-Sama I just heard" an angry voice called from behind her.

She turned around and saw Naruto running up towards her, "It's alright Naruto" she said handing a document to Shizune.

"Are you alright?" he yelled standing next to her. And before she could answer he added in an angry voice, punching his palm, "If I catch the person who did this, I'll beat them until they'd pass out!"

"Naruto, I'm fine, now can you leave me? I have a lot of work to do" she interrupted him, and with that said she walked away Shizune fallowing after, leaving Naruto standing alone and confused.

"Is he still standing there?" Tsunade asked Shizune with a slight smile.

Shizune peeked back, "Yeah," she answered also smiling.

But once they entered the Hokage mansion their smiles disappeared, Tsunade sighed as she watched the workers remove the rubble, "When do you think they'll be done?" she asked.

"Probably in two days" Shizune answered, watching the ninjas work persistently.

….

"What document was stolen?" Tsunade suddenly asked seriously.

Shizune paused until they got into Tsunade's office and the door was closed, "Well after an inventory check, the only things missing were some documents and reports about the land of sun, and the small village in it, Tadashigakure"

"Tadashigakure?"

"Yeah it was named after it's feudal lord, Kazuhiko Tadashi. The reason we had these documents was because Tadashi was showing hostility towards Konoha, this was in the middle of Sarutobi-Sama's ruling years as Hokage. Eventually the country nearly destroyed its self with inner wars, but then Tadashi and his flock was overthrown by a rebel named Daisuke Eiji, the rebellion succeeded, and peace was made with the new ruler Eiji-Sama in the time of Yondaime-Sama."

Tsunade was impressed that Shizune knew al this from heart but, "How did you know all this, I thought the documents were stolen?"

Shizune scratched her head then said with a sheepish smile, "uh well I found a copy of those documents in another storage room,"

"Uh that's why" Tsunade grunted under her breath, a bit disappointed. "Anyway, we have to find the reason why Ookami wanted those documents" Tsunade said, acting more serious.

"We can send a group of ninjas to ask about this issue" Shizune suggested.

Tsunade nodded in agreement, closing her eyes, maybe they'll be able to shed some light on the weird situation she's in.

"Arigato Onee-Chan"

"Dou itashimashite" -Your welcome- Ume answered handing the little girl her orange ball.

The girl's father smiled happily as the five year old ran towards him, he picked her up and sat her on his shoulders. They waved at Ume as she walked away, she waved back, and smiled, if there was anything, she cherished most it was family, especially very happy ones.

But her smile soon faded away.

"Ume still didn't come back, odd" Naruto thought to himself, looking around the dark apartment.

He took off his orange jacket and tossed it aside, so she didn't come back, who cares? She can probably take care of herself, probably. He dove into his bed, he had a very long day, the west side of the Hokage mansion is pretty damaged.

He yawned broadly and pulled the sheet to his neck, maybe he could have a short nap before Ume comes back, maybe…

"Do you think we're going to succeed in this mission?" the Jōnin with orange hair asked her friend.

"Yes" he answered assertively, focusing on the rough road ahead of them.

"Yeah but I heard that this Ookami is very strong, and a merciless killer too" she added, trying to keep up to his pace.

"Aki what's your point?" he asked frustrated.

"Uh I um.. didn't mean anything… I Just.." she stuttered uncertain what to say.

A taller, bearded ninja jumped next to them, "Don't worry Aki, I think this mission is going to go just fine" he said with a smile.

"Why do you think that" the other ninja asked suspiciously.

The bearded Jōnin kept a steady smile, "because I was just with my daughter today, and before I left for this mission she kissed me and told me everything would be alright, and I believe her"

His friend looked at him belittlingly, and was about to say something, when an ANBU appeared in front of them, "You'd better step up your pace, I don't think I need to reinforce the importance of this mission." He said firmly.

"Hai" the ninja with the brown hair answered, glaring at his friend.

"Good" the ANBU said coldly, parting them.

Aki looked at her two friends and was about to say something, when she felt that the bark of the tree she had just landed on wasn't normal. She turned around in midair to look there was a small flam starting to ignite, "Yoichi! Nobo! Watch out! I think…."

But her sentence was interrupted by the explosion, she shielded her face with her arms as she flipped onto anther branch. She coughed, "Yoichi! Nobo! Where are…."

But this sentence was also interrupted by another explosion from behind her. She screamed as the pressure pushed her off the branch, but suddenly strong arms grabbed her, the brown haired ninja jumped to the ground and laid her next to a tree.

"Yoichi, where's Nobo I can't…." she started, her back burnt badly.

"Don't worry I'll find him, you rest here" he assured her, standing up.

She nodded slightly but then her eyes widened, "Watch out!" she screamed, jumping up and pushing him out of the way.

A large wind shurken flew past the space Yoichi was occupying just a second ago, slicing Aki's head clean off. Yoichi's eyes widened, as Aki's blood sprayed onto his face and clothes. "AKIIIIIIIIIII!" his hopeless scream echoed through the forest.

"That's Yoichi's voice!" Nobo shouted to the ANBU, they had both been thrown to a different area.

"We'd better check it out" the ANBU said with an emotionless tone of voice.

"Holly…." Nobo yelled as he landed near his friend.

Yoichi was hugging Aki's headless body, crying. "Yoichi don't…" he started trying to pull the body away from him.

But Yoichi lashed out at him, "NO! Leave me alone! Get away from her!" he yelled.

Nobo was taken back by the overwhelming seen, he stepped back staring in shock. Suddenly a shadowy figure appeared in the high trees, Yoichi turned around with a weird murderous look in his eyes, and "You!" he yelled gently laying Aki's body on the ground then standing.

Yoichi started a long series of seals with a weird look in his eyes, Nobo wondered what his friend was doing, and then he realized, "Yoichi stop! Don't do it!" he screamed.

But Yoichi continued sealing, "Hide fast!" he yelled to the ANBU jumping back.

Nobo ran as fast as he could to get as far as possible in time, the ANBU followed his lead.

Yoichi did his last seal, he put his index fingers behind the middle ones, and clamped his hands together in front of his chest, spreading his legs and lowering his center, "Forbidden Jutsu: RYU no jutsu, Akuma no sō!" He yelled. -Dragon sole jutsu, Devil's song-

A moment passed then Yoichi started glowing with a weird red energy, "HAAAAAAAA" he screamed, maintaining his position.

Yoichi turned into a little sun like ball of light, his energy increasing rapidly, his hair and clothes flying upward with the flow of the energy. The foe ninja sensed the dangerous amount of pure energy and immediately retreated in a poof.

Unfortunately for Yoichi he didn't notice, and even if he did, it was too late to end the life consuming jutsu. His energy flow reached it's peek and….. Boom.

The pressure waves reached Nobo and the escorting ANBU; it pushed them into the near mountain, smashing them into the rough rocks.

The ANBU was first to recover, he approached Nobo and put his hand on Nobo's shoulder, "Are you alright?" he asked.

Nobo sat on his hands and knees, his face to the ground, tiers streamed down his cheeks, he smashed his fist on the ground, "WHY? You idiot Yoichi! Why? Why? WHYYY?"

He collapsed down crying, the ANBU watched him silent for a while. "What do you think you're doing?" the ANBU suddenly spoke.

Nobo glared at him through his tiers, but the ANBU didn't care, "You're a ninja of Konoha, a Jōnin" he said coldly.

Nobo turned to him with daggers in his eyes, "SO?" he spat.

The ANBU didn't flinch, "and you have a mission to complete" he said in a cruel voice.

"I don't want to" Nobo moaned, slumping on the ground.

The ANBU pulled him from the collar, and pinned him to the wall, "who do you think you are? The Hokage assign to us a very important mission"

"Don't you understand? They're dead! Aki and Yoichi are dead! And there is nothing any of us can do to change that" he yelled at the ANBU.

"They would've wanted you to finish the mission" the ANBU replayed.

Nobo looked away without answering, but the ANBU didn't stop, "This mission is very important if we ever want to catch Ookami"

"…."

"That way you can get your revenge"

"…."

"We have to do it to keep our village safe…"

Then ANBU the ANBU dropped Nobo, who fell on his knees, "To keep your daughter safe" the ANBU added with disgust turning away.

Those last words had the deepest effect on Nobo, he pictured his daughter waiting for him back at the village, her gentle smile, her hopeful eyes.

He stood up with sudden determination, "Let's go" the ANBU said briefly without looking back.

However, just before they could jump into the trees, a figure appeared in the distance. Nobo tensed, as did the ANBU, the ninja jumped out to the clearing and stood in front of them mockingly.

"Stand back" the ANBU ordered Nobo quietly.

Nobo did as he said, and looked at him nervously.

The ANBU performed a few seals at high speed as the enemy watched him calmly, "Wind Element: Sen Kaze" he said. -1000 wind-

Winds started whipping around the ninja, she looked around nervously as the wind started to seem sharper, and indeed clean cuts started appearing on different parts of her body.

"I will end this now!" he added, lifting two fingers on his left hand in front of his face, then whipping around with his right arm extended out pointing out two fingers.

A large sharp gust of wind flew right through the ninja, splitting her in half. The ANBU smirked, but his smirk disappeared when the split body of the ninja vanished, and a log, split in half from the center, appeared instead.

"Replacement Jutsu" the ANBU cursed to himself.

Suddenly he felt a presence behind him, and before he could turn around, he was dead.

Nobo watched as the ninja flicked the blood off her long sword, she turned around and gazed at him coldly. His heart trembled upon seeing her eyes, but the image of his daughter soon gave him a boost of courage he dearly needed.

"I'm not afraid of you!" he yelled charging at her.

She stood her grounds confidently; he slipped out three kunais and threw them at her. She easily evaded them, then received his charge with her left leg. The air was forced out of his lungs as her foot sunk into his stomach; she then quickly jumped into the air and kicked him in the face, sending flying back then skidding on the harsh ground.

Before Nobo came to a complete stop, she was standing over him, the blade of her sword to his throat. He spit out some blood, "Go ahead kill me" he moaned, glancing at her from the corner of his eye.

She stared at his face coldly and raised the sword high into the sky, ready to heartlessly apply the fetal strike.

The girl's father smiled happily as the five year old ran towards him, he picked her up and sat her on his shoulders. They waved as she walked away, if there was anything she cherished most, it was family, the family she was deprived of.

The ninja hesitated, and the sword trembled in her hand for a second. And to Nobo's great surprise she lowered her sword, for a split second he wondered why she hadn't killed him yet.

She stepped back and gazed at him emotionlessly; he cautiously stood up and stared. There was an awkward moment of silence, "Why didn't you kill me?" he asked breaking the silence.

She stared at him with blank eyes, then he noticed the sudden raise in the amount of chakra, he tensed but it was too late. She lunged at him, and with focused chakra, she slammed the the palm of her hand, in the middle of his chest.

Nobo gasped as he flew back and slammed into the mountain wall, he fell to his knees. His vision started to blur and his thought seemed to be mush, the last thing he saw was a pair of feet, his last thought was, Mana….

A\N: I didn't actually intend on stopping here, but then I decided that this chapter is long enough.. Sorry for not translating the name 'Sun country' I just couldn't be bothered to look for it.. I know that the word Sun is Tayu.. or something like that.

The usual, comment and criticize.

P.S: Please suggest a scene to illustrate.. I'm pretty blocked you tell me what you'd like to see.