It's been awhile and I apologize for that. I've been prepping for stuff that I need to do to continue making it towards my dreams. But I'll try to update this more frequently. Just get me more reviews and you guys will have your fanfic.

Chapter 11

The boy – no, young man – looked at the woman that claimed to be his mother; this was the woman that should have raised, clothed, fed, and watched as he grew up, growing into a fine shinobi that would bring honor to their family name and history. And yet, she was here, in Iwagakure no sato, apparently spreading her legs for whomever would accept her. Naruto was livid. His teeth were gnashing together as he tried to contain his growing anger. He looked the woman that was supposed to raise him in the eye, and felt nothing but fury coursing through him.

"Naruto-kun?" the red headed Uzumaki said as she gazed at her son. "What's wrong?"

Naruto's eye flashed back and forth between the cerulean blue he was known for, a blood red that began to strike fear into the hearts of the watching Iwa shinobi, and an amethyst that spelled doom for those that crossed him. As Kushina reached for his cheek, Naruto's hand dropped to his pistol.

The watching Konoha team was drawing weapons or gathering chakra; the Iwa nin did the same. Time slowed down as Naruto unholstered the pistol and Kushina's hand touched his cheek. Naruto's hand came up, the pistol pointed at her head. Kushina's head cocked to the side as she looked at the strange weapon.

"Nani?" she said. "Naruto-ku…"

The trigger was pulled and Kushina fell back with blood bursting from the hole in her head. The line of Iwa shinobi exploded forward as Naruto pulled his rifle from his back and created Kage Bunshin, all of which began firing on the advancing line of nin. Naruto's jaw was clenched, him roaring out his hatred the entire time.

"COME IWA NIN!" he roared. "FACE THE STROKE OF DEATH!"

With that, the true Uzumaki threw his rifle away and drew his ninjato and began striking down Iwa nin, breaking into their line and it quickly turned ugly. Naruto slashed, hacked and beheaded nin with a quick, deadly efficiency that he was taught. The men fell by the ones and twos, but Naruto had only defeated a single platoon of about 50 people.

The Konoha contingent jumped off the Toad that they rode in on and entered the fray. The men fell in greater numbers and above them, the Sandaime Tsuchikage watched, a growl escaping his throat as he realized that this battle wouldn't be won easily. He'd sacrifice the entire battalion of bastard Uzumaki nin that were under his command if it meant at least taking this Namikaze brat, Jiraiya of the Densetsu no Sannin and Hatake Kakashi from Konoha.

He prepared a Jinton technique, although it was difficult trying to mold the chakra with one hand. Naruto was firing at the advancing line of nin when he felt the chakra build up.

"Everyone fall back!" he yelled.

As Naruto ran, he threw smoke bombs down that covered the area and even the Sandaime's line of sight. The old man's chakra sensory was going haywire with all of the chakra in the air, but instead of cancelling the technique, he fired it anyways.

But the results he got, weren't the ones he expected. There was an explosion of chakra, one that was heavy and tainted the air. Feelings of fear began to creep into him as he recognized the chakra. It was that of a Bijū.

The dust cleared as Naruto calmed down, and the build of up chakra dissipated. But something surprised the Sandaime. The Namikaze had his hands out, and his hand showed that it was severely burnt, the upper portion of his uniform even shredded beyond repair. Even his team was astonished at the action as he seemed that the Namikaze had stopped the jutsu with judicious use of his bijū's chakra. The man began to curse, but looked to the Namikaze's left and smirked as he floated up.

"Good luck Namikaze," he said as he gloated. "I hope you survive your coming trials and grow into a strong shinobi. Note that like your mother and father before you, you've made a mockery and an enemy of Iwagakure no sato. But today, I will make a mockery of you. Ja ne."

With that, the Sandaime floated away as he went to tend to his village. Naruto wondered what he was talking about until he was slammed into the ground. Naruto could hear cries of worry for him as his team dispatched what remained of the Uzumaki-Iwa nin, but Naruto could care less. Whoever this woman was, she just punched him.

Naruto stood as he rolled his neck and popped his knuckles as he glared at the red head. "Look Uzumaki-san, I don't know who you are. You claim to be my mother, but as far as I know, she's dead. So this is either a very good Henge, or some perverse jutsu that I must put down. Now be prepared because I won't use weapons for this."

The woman frowned as she looked at her son. "Sochi-kun, that would be suicide. Please, use everything you have to defeat me."

The two raced at each other as the Uzumaki matriarch drew her katana. As they clashed, Kushina tried ending it quickly and decapitating the boy, but instead, Naruto ducked and uppercutted her. Kushina dodged backwards from it and brought her sword down, going for an overhead cut. Naruto, instead of dodging, just stood there and caught the blade in both hands. Their strength strained against each other, Kushina having the upper hand due to her position.

Naruto gritted his teeth as he snapped a leg forward and attempted to kick the woman that was playing as his mother in the leg, which she quickly jumped over and kicked her son in the face, sending him skidding back.

Over with the Konoha team, Kakashi raced to intervene, hoping to even the tide or tip it into Naruto's favor, but Jiraiya grabbed his shoulder and shook his head. "Don't Kakashi. I understand you want to help. We all do. But this is a matter of pride and honor for Naruto. Trust and have faith that he'll win."

Kakashi growled. "And if he doesn't?"

Jiraiya's eyes darkened. "Then we beat the hell out of her and get the answers from her as to how she's here."

Kakashi nodded. Satisfied with the answer he received, he sat down, but began praying to Kami to protect his student.

-Heaven-

Kami hummed in thought as she regarded the Hatake's prayers. Everyone looked at her. Minato started to get worried and Kushina was less than pleased. She started mumbling about her son not being able to fight her doppelganger at his current mid-B ranked level.

Kami shook her head as she watched the events and began biting on her nails.

-Iwa-

Naruto dodged the jutsu that Kushina was throwing and began to think of a strategy. He noticed that there was a fluctuation of chakra every time Kushina moved. It wasn't from her gathering chakra to use a jutsu, but it was around the woman herself.

As she raced at him, Naruto braced himself and began a fierce taijutsu battle with the woman that claimed to be his mother. Punches and kicks were blocked by both parties, but hers got through more so than Naruto's. The Konoha team had finished with the battalion, keeping 3 alive for interrogation that were in sedation scrolls that were on Jiraiya's person. They were all waiting with baited breath.

Naruto ducked a punch and saw that she over extended herself and quickly took the advantage as he grabbed the leg she kicked out with and slammed his elbow into it, snapping the leg in two. The woman cried out in pain as Naruto gave a two punch combo and kicked her in the stomach. He took a grenade and attached it to her body and pushed her backwards.

The grenade exploded and the woman flew back, stunned and wounded. As she stood up, the Konoha team was stunned while Naruto gritted his teeth until his gums began to bleed.

Kushina, or who was supposedly her, was knitting herself together. Underneath, there did seem to be a redheaded Uzumaki woman, but one that appeared to be from Iwa as well. Slowly, dirt and dust from the ground began collecting around her and began to reshape her image into that of Kushina's.

JIraiya and Kakashi's eyes widened and HIashi's Byakugan activated in reflexive anger. All three began to walk forward when Naruto looked at them, his lone eye a blood red with an amethyst slit in the center. He growled low as he turned his head towards the woman.

"I don't know who you are," he said. "I don't know what kind of jutsu this is, but you will die today! Do you understand me woman!"

The woman laughed. "No, it's true that I am not Uzumaki-Namikaze Kushina. I'd never want to be that bitch a day of my life. But sadly, she is my mother and you, my brother. But you must die now, otōto. For Iwa!"

With that, she surged forward, chakra exploding from her. Naruto did the same as his features became more animalistic and they both threw their fists forward. The appendages collided with great force, but none would give the other quarter. They were out for blood, one for the tainted honor of his family and the other for the death of her greatest enemies son.

Naruto kicked her in the face and brought the leg back, slamming her into the ground and punched where her head was. She rolled out of the way and came up, drawing her katana and raced forward. Naruto drew a ninjato on his back and quickly met her charge.

But something would be different about this strike. As their blades clashed, a green hue grew around Naruto's blade, making Hiashi's eyes widen in surprise.

"What's going on Hiashi?" Kakashi questioned, his Sharigan eye activated and scanning the battlefield.

"The next strike will end it Kakashi-taicho," the Hyūga clan head said. "Naruto, it seems has been training in his element even while he was Iwa's captive."

"What do you mean Hiashi?" Anko asked, quickly growing confused at not being given answers.

"Just wait and see."

Naruto raced forward and their blades clashed. The Uzumaki woman tried holding Naruto back, but a surprising thing happened. His blade slowly began to cut hers in two. The woman's eyes widened in surprise, but Naruto growled and kept pushing forward. The woman quickly grew fearful as she disengaged the boy and began running back to the gates. But luck wasn't on her side as the Konoha team jumped down and blocked her path. The woman raced forward, seemingly prepared to jump the line, but she cried out in pain as a ninjato pierced her leg, and caused her to slide on the ground as Naruto slid with her and held her there by stabbing the blade into the ground.

The Namikaze stood and popped his neck as he glared at the woman and the chakra surge left his body. He ripped the blade from the struggling woman's leg, who quickly tried drawing an explosive tag, but a shot from Hiashi quickly stopped that and she slumped over in unconsciousness.

Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head and sighed. "Damn gaki, you had to put on a show didn't you?"

Naruto shrugged. "I was trying to get away and the Iwa shinobi were in my way."

Kakashi shook his head. "So you try to take on an entire village?"

"It's what dad would've done!"

At that, everyone face faulted.

-Heaven-

At that, everyone face faulted while Minato laughed at his son. He sent a mental pat on the back to his son, that he noticed caused Naruto to smile, even if only slightly.

-Iwa-

Naruto kicked the foot of the woman, as she slowly bled to death. "What are we doing with her?"

JIraiya performed what little medical ninjutsu he knew and placed her into a stasis scroll along with the other three that he head a toad swallow and go directly to Konoha. "We'll take her back to Konoha for interrogation along with the other three. Then hopefully kill them."

Naruto nodded as he walked towards the toad and picked up his mask, placing it on his head before climbing up the toad. He sat down, his legs crossed and seemingly silent as his back was straight and he appeared to be meditating.

The Konoha team looked at each other, shrugging and just believing that he was taking in all the information from the fight. They were right in a sense, but his meditation served another purpose.

-Mindscape-

Naruto was walking along his mindscape, noting the cracked and broken pipes that represented his chakra pathways. They were fixed, if only slightly. But then, he also noticed a pathway that contained a purple chakra that merged with the ones that held his pure, human chakra. He made his way to the center of his mindscape, the place that once held his Kaa-chan and noted that where her cage once was, there was a giant pool of red chakra.

Floating in the center of the pool was a note and Naruto quickly waded into that pool, never realizing that he was subtlety putting out Kurame's chakra. He grasped the note and a tear fell from his eye as he read it.

A final present for you, musume. Make me proud. I love you

-Kaa-chan

With that, Naruto smiled as he put the note in his pocket and ceased his meditation.

-Konoha-

The Konoha team was nearing the Valley of the End, when a chakra surge was felt. Naruto's eye opened and snapped in that direction, as did the rest of the team.

"Hiashi?" Naruto asked. "What's going on?"

Hiashi looked to Kakashi and then shrugged when the man nodded. He quickly activated his Byakugan and his eyes widened. "Nara Shikamaru, Inuzuka Kiba, Rock Lee, Sabaku no Gaara and my nephew appear to be battling a group of Oto shinobi. The Oto team appears to be carrying a barrel that Uchiha Sasuke just destroyed and walked out of. He's just attacked the genin. A team of Jounin appears to be battling the rest of the Oto shinobi and a fifth Oto shinobi who appears to have the Shikotsumyaku bloodline appears to be racing towards the battle."

Naruto growled as he tightened his mask. He quickly checked his weapons and stood up, popping his neck and turned in the direction of the valley. The others of the team prepared to object, but Naruto raised a hand.

"This is my job as a Konoha shinobi," Naruto said. "You all understand."

With that, Naruto jumped off and raced in the direction of the battle, his shape getting further and further from the group. Kakashi prepared to send the team after him, but halted when he saw Asuma, Genma, Yuugao and Hayate along with a Neko masked ANBU racing towards him.

Kakashi stood as the second team jumped on the toad and Asuma had a grim look on his face. Kakashi lazily looked over at Asuma as his shoulders slumped.

"Even though I doubt that I'm going to like this very much," he said as his posture grew serious. "What happened Asuma?"

Asuma grunted as he lit a cigarette with a low level Katon jutsu. "Well, it started out like this…

I know this is probably short to you all and it's somewhat filler. But this is to set it up for the next arc. I'm not calling it the Retrieval Arc, because the Uchiha-gaki is going to die. And yes, this is before the Chunin Exam. Read and review please. Ja ne.