"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

"Regular Talking"

'Regular Thinking'

I Do Not Own Naruto

Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder

Suien and Shibuki clashed in a quick deadlock while Naruto signaled to his team silently to move all the civilians and ninja away from the battle. As the team was moving them they see the villagers' and ninjas' widen in shock and Horror.

Naruto, seeing their reaction, turns around and pales a bit along with the other Konoha ninjas.

Shibuki had been impaled by a laughing Suien's water sword.

Time seemed to completely stop as everyone was silent. until the people all together cried out his name.

"LORD SHIBUKI!"

'Shit.' Naruto cursed to himself at seeing the man fall to the ground. "Shika, restrain him before he gets the water." He yelled to his long time friend in alarm as he sends his chains into the ground to assist him.

"On it." Shikamaru says as he knows to be serious and he quickly goes through the hand seals and says the technique, "Kagemane no Jutsu" (Shadow Imitation Technique).

The shadow quickly moves towards Suien as Naruto's chains sprout from the ground to constrict the man but its too late as Suien had already drank some of the hero's water. The shadow bind hits Suien's feet but is blasted away by a massive amount of chakra that shrouds Suien and he is too powerful to restrain. After the shadow jutsu fails Naruto's chains shoot from the ground but Suien moves away too quickly to be caught.

"Damn, he has way too much chakra to hold now and he's too quick to catch with the chains unless Naruto can get close enough." Shikamaru said angrily as he watched the man cackle in delight at his new found strength.

"Worry later. Ino, get Shibuki and see what you can do. Sai, Shika, your her cover. Choji and Kiba your with me for some attacks. Lets move." Naruto says in a commanding tone as he quickly thinks of what he should do.

"Hai." They respond and quickly move, Team Ten was also surprised at his quick thinking but shook it off and got to work.

Naruto looks towards Sai and nods towards Suien, Sai understands what he wants and sends some ink lions to distract Suien. Naruto the quickly and discretely points at Choji who also nods and begins his own technique.

"Bubun Baika no Jutsu" (Partial Multi-Size Technique) is called from Choji as he sends a massive arm to Suien to punch him into the air as he just finish taking out the lions.

Suien is easily sent into the air where he is most vulnerable. Naruto finally nods to Kiba who in turn gives him a wild grin and charges off to use his clan's signature move.

"Gatsūga" (Fang Passing Fang), He easily drills into his enemy and sends him directly into Naruto who didn't move from his position in front of the hostages. To the added amazement of all that the blond has done for them, the people of Taki see a swirling ball being to take form in the blond's hand.

The other civilians are awed by its beauty while the watching ninja are shocked that he knew the jutsu.

"Rasengan" Naruto shouts as loud as he can as he shoves the technique right into the falling Suien. The jutsu sends him flying out and he bounces on the water like a skipping stone and hits the base of the great tree with a loud thud.

Naruto's teammates and the others of the village begin to cheer as they thought that he won, they are also in awe of the amount of trust Naruto had from his team to be able to just nod at them and they would know what to do.

"Hahahaha" They all stop cheering and look at the laughing in shock. "That was pretty good brat. Just not good enough." Suien says as he walks out of the crater and stands on the water with only a big red mark on his stomach and the small cuts from Kiba but little else, not even bruises from Choji as the chakra around him is like armor.

"I am unbeatable now, you little mongrels can't stop me with all the power in the world." He yells at them crazily.

"Shit, what do we do now Taicho?" Choji asks in alarm, looking to Naruto for reassurance.

"We keep going." Is the calm reply that he got that helped him to calm down a bit while the nearby civilians looked at him with increasing awe at how calm he could be in that situation.

Suien practically glides over the water leaving huge waves to follow behind as Naruto charges to meet him in the middle. Choji and his team are in awe at the speed as they have not reached anywhere near that speed.

Seeing their hero move so quickly reassures the village that he could win the fight as they pray for his safety. "Choji do your technique again and roll at that maniac. It should distract him enough for Naruto to hit him. Kiba, you and Akamaru should do the same." Shikamaru said to them as he watched the fight.

"Got it. Baika no Jutsu" (Multi-size Technique) Choji said and he expands his body into a big round ball "Nikudan Sensha" (Human Bullet Tank) and rolls like a tank at Suien. Kiba and Akamaru use their advanced speed to also run on the water and use gatsuga (fang passing fang) from different directions from each other and Choji.

Naruto and Suien clash violently in the middle of the lake swords together as Naruto channels some wind into his katana but they are far enough from the shore so that their colliding waves don't hit the others. Water explodes around them, but they are only focused on each other as they stare into each other's eyes. Suien looks crazed and angry while Naruto looks calm and serious. Soon though, he grits his teeth as he feels himself being pushed back.

"Ha, you can't beat me boy. You might as well give up and die." He barks out evilly as he finally throws the blond back crashing into some rocks.

Just as he was about to gloat about his victory he hears something coming towards him quickly, looking over his eyes widen in surprise. Two tornadoes are coming from his left and right while a massive ball is coming directly towards him. He was about to curse but he didn't even have enough time as he was hit from the three directions at once.

Naruto, who was recovering from the hit on the shore of the hostages saw this, as well as the others who looked really hopeful that it was over. Naruto thought sensed a large amount of chakra being formed and his eyes widened.

"Move away from there you guys. Now!" He yelled out startling people near by as he ran out to them as fast as he could. Choji and Kiba heard clearly and Kiba and Akamaru turned to grab Choji and run. As they did however two massive water dragons appeared behind them and moved to hit them.

Naruto wouldn't allow them to get hit though and so he grabbed them with chakra chains and pulled them behind him. He then told them to run away as the dragons neared him and he sent a hastily formed Fūton: Reppūshō (Wind Release: Gale palm but he knew it would not be enough to completely destroy the water technique.

The people on shore and his teammates watched in horror as he seemed to be swallowed up by the dragons and then everything was still as the water begins to turn red.

"NOOO" Shouted the civilians, some coming to tears, while the ninja lowered their heads in respect for their fallen protector.

"NARUTO" Shouted his friends and teammates.

'Damn,' Shibuki thought in sadness as he watched from the shore while he was being healed up.

"Don't you see it now. I can't be beaten." Suien said as he charged forward and smashed his fist into Choji's stomach making his eyes widen and spit up blood and spit as he was rocketed towards his teammates.

Kiba moved to retaliate in an almost uncontrollable anger at losing his friend and leader while Akamaru snarled as well. "I'll kill you." Kiba yelled, "Jinjū Konbi Henge: Sōtōrō" (Inuzuka Style: Man Beast Transformation Combo: Two-Headed Wolf) They transformed into their double headed wolf form and swiped down on the momentarily shocked man.

He regains his thoughts and dodges a few quick swipes from the massive beast in front of him. He then does some more hand signs and calls out "Suiton: Haran Banshō" (Water Style: Storm Upheaval) A massive amount of the water suddenly converges on Kiba and Akamaru and hits him in both of his sides breaking some ribs and getting howls of pain as they break the technique.

After this, they are both kicked back to the shore causing more pain to them as they grit their teeth in pain.

"Dammit." Sai says in anger at seeing his friends hurt and Naruto die. He feels this huge amount of anger and begins to understand that these people are really precious to him. Just as he is about to move though chains shoot from under the water grabbing Suien's legs and clamping down on them tightly. Everyone turns their heads to where the chains came from and see a form coming out of the water.

"You didn't think that would kill me did you?" Asks a familiar voice that makes everyone light up at. Naruto had just come from under the water, but they were still worried at his injured state.

There were massive bruises on his chest and stomach that were a ugly purple color. His upper right part of his chest had been cut open as well as his right arm had been shredded causing a lot of bleeding. His shirt and coat were torn off and his pants were in tatters showing some more bruising on his legs and some cuts there as well.

What surprised the Konoha group were more scars that had seemed to just appear on him, showing that his genjutsu was down from the hit of the water dragons.

"Naruto, your alright." Ino calls in relief as she wipes her tears away. She was frozen in terror at not being able to help one of her classmates and to see him die in front of her was horrible.

"I should have known." Kiba grunts in pain with a relieved smile on his face as he tends to Akamaru who whimpers in pain.

"Great." Sai mumbles to himself as he calms himself down at the sight of his taicho as he moves to join his side along with Choji who is back up.

Not much real progress was made in this fight, something that frustrated Naruto to no end. The chakra shroud around Suien seemed to increase his strength and durability by a lot as Choji's bullet tank didn't seem to hurt him all that much. The same could be said of Kiba's jutsu although it was a bit more effective than Choji's.

But now, Kiba and Akamaru were out of the fight and Choji could barely stand along with Naruto. Sai was the only one on the front lines who was pretty much fresh. Choji had numerous small gashes and bruises on his body from the punch he took and from him sliding on the ground and he still couldn't keep up with Suien, he probably would be beaten by Naruto even as he was now. Needless to say, they are running out of chakra and can't keep up the water walking for very much longer.

Naruto had made the most progress as he had managed to get a few good cuts on Suien's left arm and on his chest. Suien's chakra shroud had also been shrinking due to him using such chakra intensive jutsu so much.

"We need to finish this fight, not even I can match him as I am now." Naruto grunts out, 'although I still have Kyoshi-chan's chakra to resort to but it will tire me out completely at the end of the fight.' He thinks while he pushes away the pain he was in suffered most of the beating of the three but his breathing was steady and he was still able to stand.

The spectators of the fight were amazed at the skill shown to them by the three Konoha ninja against Suien. They were also incredibly stunned at the blond ninja who had taken a massive hit for his teammates and still kept powering through. The men and women are awed by his determination and felt like a fire has begun burning inside of them. They feel hopeful and powerful and they want to help the blond fight and follow him.

Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji are the same as they can now see why Sai and Kiba chose him as their leader. There is just something about the blond that makes them want to improve and carry on. They can feel his determination from here and can't help but be awed by him like the others.

Shibuki is another person who was awed by him and possibly the one who was the most awed of them all as was seeing what qualities make a good leader and he planned on trying his best to be the best leader he could be for Taki.

The people were getting worried though as they can also tell that the fight is just about over as the members of the fight were slowing down.

"I don't think I can fight anymore taicho." Choji says exhausted as he is not so fit to keep going like the Naruto can.

"Alright, go to the others and help protect them. we'll keep going." Naruto says still calm even through his pained breathing shocking them, more so Choji than Sai.

"What? Your wounded badly and are getting tired and he still has that water with him. Its suicide." Choji says as he has finally caught his breath.

Naruto looks to him with the most the calmest, most determined face he had ever seen. "I was selected as the leader of this mission Choji. I will not let any others die when I could stop it." He says firmly, once again shocking everyone around with his determination and courage.

"You can go, we will finish up here." He says and gets a very reluctant nod as he heads back to the others. Naruto then turns back to see the crazed look in Suien's eyes as his chains are weakening and he can't hold them up anymore.

"I already told you that you couldn't win before and now you send them away while being covered in blood. You have no chance now. I am the strongest person here now." He yells out as loud as he can as the chains finally begin to return to Naruto.

"No your not." Naruto replies calmly as everyone looks at him. "In fact, your the weakest person here right now." He says angering Suien greatly. "You stole the hero's water and drank it. If you were strong you would be fighting without it, but you were scared weren't you. You knew that you couldn't win without that water or you having your allies doing all the dirty work for you. Your just a coward hiding behind that water." He yelled out to Suien making him enraged.

"Oh yea. You don't know anything. Winning is all that matters, power is everything. Who cares where it comes from. Watch as I crush the life out of you." He says as he drinks the rest of the water.

The others were now getting even more concerned as the chakra shroud around him flares out to almost quadruple in size. Naruto then knows that he won't be strong enough to win without some form of help.

Luckily, help is always with him as he began to feel Kyoshi-chan giving him chakra.

'Kyoshi-chan, thanks for the chakra.'

'No problem Naru-kun. I can't have my mate dying on me after all, now kick his ass into the ground.' She said although she was concerned for his wounds so she began healing them up, soon leaving only scars.

'Consider it done.' He thinks to her as an orange shroud appears around him. and begins to heal the minor cuts and scratches on his body. His breathing is returning to normal and he is ready to fight.

"Prepare to lose fool, you can't win against me as I am now." Naruto says to Suien angering him greatly.

"We'll see about that you little bastard!

Suien rushes at Naruto leaving a massive trail of water flowing behind him. He is way faster than before and the people are really scared for their new hero but they become even more shocked when he dodges the punch easily.

Naruto then sends a punch directly into Suien's stomach and sends him skipping through the water. He is instantly in motion as he kicks him into the air and makes the huge jump up to where he is. He then sends an uncountable amount of punches and kicks and sends Suien flying into the water far in front of the hostages and lands in between them and Suien.

He waits for a bit before telling Sai, "make a bird to fly around on and to be prepared for anything. I doubt he would be beaten so easily with that much chakra."

"Of course taicho." Sai said as he made the drawn bird getting some surprised looks from the civilians and ninja.

"Just then Suien appears behind Naruto and sends a punch at his unguarded back but Sai was ready and he sent some kunai knives to guard Naruto. His plan was successful as Suien cursed and moved to the side making Naruto follow after him.

What happened next was a high speed taijutsu match between the two great ninjas. Most people couldn't even follow the fight, they could only see blurs and hear the punches and kicks connecting.

Finally, Naruto gets the upper hand as he dodges a punch from Suien putting him off balance and he quickly created a rasengan in his right hand and hit Suien into the air with an upper cut.

"Damn you..." He grunted out in a bit of pain as his chakra cloak was still protecting him for the most part but not completely anymore.

"Its over." Naruto said calmly as he sent the man flying towards Sai who was preparing a Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: great fireball technique) and hit Suien in the back burning him quite a bit but it didn't do nearly as much as it should have due to the hero's water.

After the fireball hit, Naruto jumped up to meet Suien and punched him in the face as the chakra shroud began to shrink. He then kneed him in the stomach and then elbowed him in the face and landed a few more quick punches to the face. Suien was taking more and more damage as Naruto's kyuubi shroud as becoming more powerful than his because the water was wearing off.

Naruto saw that his opponent was dazed and unprepared so he began to form one last rasengan, this one with some help from Kyoshi's chakra making it more powerful.

"Your through." He yelled at the top of his lungs as all the people watched in awe, "Rasengan."

With the rasengan hitting him in the back, Suien was sent crashing into the ground causing a giant cloud of smoke to shoot into the air as the people tried to look through it to see if it was truly over.

"Well, I would say that the fight is over now." Naruto says out loud mostly to himself but the others heard as he approached the dissipating cloud of smoke. In the crater where Suien was supposed to be, he was found unconscious there. "The fight is over." He said as he restrains him.

Everyone is now cheering as the team begins to free the hostages and Suien walks up to Naruto who is being mauled by his new Taki fan club.

"Alright, everyone that's enough." Suien says and everyone makes space for him to go to Naruto and he walks towards him while holding the newly bandaged wound on his side. Looking in his eyes, Shibuki says, "I'm truly grateful for everything you have done for us in our time of need. I have learned a lot from you on how to be a better leader and how to be a better person in general. The things I have seen and the things I heard from Kiba have made me truly believe in myself once again. You are the leader I will base myself off of for the rest of my life." He says truly gratefully while Naruto blushes from the praise and sends a look towards Kiba who is also blushing a bit.

"I was just doing the right thing Shibuki-San, besides it wasn't just me who deserves such praise. My whole team here today should also be acknowledged." Naruto says making all of them beam with pride while the villages are all cheering for them and thanking them for all the things they have done for them.

"Of course." He says loudly getting everyone's attention again. "As the leader of this village I hereby pronounce you all as honorary members of Takigakure. You and your team will be welcome here as long as I am the leader." He says shocking them into silence while the applause continues and cheering reaches new heights.

Naruto just smiles happily as he begins to move but his eyes widen as he finds himself fainting from chakra exhaustion. The cheering citizens and ninja then move to help him but find him unconscious and breathing normally.

"Well let's get our new friends a hotel to stay in and rest from their fight." Shibuki said to them as some of the ninja help carry the wounded and tired ones to a hospital and a hotel.

They were also watching out for any fangirls and they made sure to have people prepared to watch them or more precisely Naruto while he rested. At least that was the excuse the female ninjas were using while trying as hard as they could to hide their blushes.

The team was pretty much down and relaxing for the next couple of days from the fight as it was one of the most intense for Team Ten and Team Seven was just glad that it was over.

Everyday since then a feast was prepared for every one of their meals even though Naruto tired his best to stop them as he really didn't want to take advantage of their generosity. They of course appreciated it but told him that they truly wanted to do everything they could to keep them happy after what they had done for them.

"I think I'm in love with this place." Choji cried out in joy with anime tears coming down his face as he stuffed it full of his breakfast making the others sigh a bit. After they all had finished their breakfast they heard a knock was at the door.

"I see you enjoyed the services of Taki." Shibuki said to them with a chuckle, "I have something I want to show you guys, so if your ready let's go." He said making the others curious of what it could be.

They all are surprised when they see a beautiful fountain that was made over the crater that Suien had formed when he landed there. It had a beautiful white marble going around the entire circumference of the fountain with crystal clear water in it. The fountain was actually quite big as it was around 15 feet in diameter. There were four jets of water that occasionally shot up from the fountain but the most beautiful thing was the smaller island directly in the center of the fountain with a laminated plaque that was nailed to a beautiful marble base that held it in the air and showed an amazing painting of all of the members of the team.

Naruto was standing in the front of the group with his sword drawn and a fierce look on his face as if he was glaring down the enemy with his katana drawn and held diagonally in front of his body. Shikamaru was crouched next to Naruto on his left with his hands in the final hand sign of his shadow jutsu with a determined look on his face. Choji is on Shikamaru's left in a normal taijutsu stance with his own fierce glare. On Choji's left is Ino in with her hands out in her own clan's jutsu with a mischievous look on her face. Sai was to Naruto's right with his tanto in his right hand and some ink snakes hanging off his left hand. Kiba was to the right of him with his claws held forward and his sharp teeth poking out from his lips in a smirk. Akamaru is place next to him while snarling and showing off his sharp teeth. Naruto and Shikamaru are in the center of the picture and were spaced farther away from the others as they were the main leaders of the team. They were also painted to be a bit bigger than the others were as well.

Under the painting was some writing that said "To the heroes of Takigakure, this plaque will remain in this place untouched for all time. It will serve as a constant reminder of the valiant effort of Naruto Uzumaki, the chidarake chiein sureiya (bloody chain slayer) as he led his team to an incredible victory even though it seemed that all hope was lost. The team consisted of Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akamichi, Kiba Inuzuka and his companion Akamaru, and Sai. May they be remembered for all time as brothers and sisters of Takigakure."

"This is beautiful." Ino says happily as she admires the fountain and the plaque of them happily. Choji and Shikamaru just remain quiet as they stare at the plaque, Choji because he was too stunned to speak and Shikamaru because he is lazy.

"Wow, this is another piece of art that was dedicated to us, huh Naruto-taicho?" Kiba asks with a smile getting surprised looks from the others.

"There is another piece of art dedicated to you?" Shibuki asks as he looks at the fountain and smiles.

"Yes, over in Wave Country they made a statue of the three of us and our sensei with some words under it." Naruto said as he looked at the beautiful work of art the once again put him into the history books.

"That's amazing." Choji said as he shook off his awe as he and his team were almost overwhelmed at having something like this dedicated to them.

"Come one guys." Naruto said softly, "its time to go home."

Standing outside of the Taki waterfall later, the team along with Shibuki and the two kids are getting ready to say their goodbyes.

"I just want to thank you again for the things you have done for us." Shibuki said to his new friends who nod and thank him gratefully for the fountain that they had named the Konohagakure Fountain.

"BYE NARUTO-NII-CHAN!" The two kids call out while waving to the team as they began their trek home. The rescue of Takigakure was a success.

Chapter End