AN/ Yo, what's up everyone?

I'm sure most of you are pretty mad that I took so long, but it's not my fault, Every time I got better, I somehow ended up reading another story like the one that got me into this mess in the first place. I'm too curious for my own good.

Lastly, I'd like to thank all of you for being so understanding, and for your reviews, and messages, on it, they really helped me get out of that state faster.

Now, let's get to the story.

Warning: There will be death, blood, violence and other stuff in this chapter, stuff I haven't thought of as of yet but probably will. You have been warned.

P.S., I know that the Fourth's name isn't Arashi Kazama, but I have a plan for Minato and Kushina, so just go with it until I reveal my plan, then you can decide to ditch the fic, if you think it sucks. Until then, just go along with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I most likely never will, seeing as I am poor, dirt poor.

"Speech"

'Thought'

'Inner Sakura'

"Demon Speech"

Naruto Wandering Demon

Chapter 5: Escape and Release

A tall red haired man sighed as he continued his trek through the forest; the blood curdling screams eminating from the direction he was headed had quickly become tired. His red, vertically slit eyes constantly scanned the forest as he walked, looking for anyone foolish enough to attack him. As he continued to walk, with his hands in the pockets of his black pants, his black trench coat waved behind him, causing the sword on his back to shake slightly.

Anyone trained in the art of combat could feel the killer intent that the sword emanated. And, although it was enough to suffocate weaker foes, it paled in comparison to the amount that the wielder could emit, which could make even the roughest and toughest of men drop to his knees, begging to be spared.

The man soon reached a clearing, in the middle of which, a short, spiky haired figure could be seen, maneuvering between Demons, dodging swipes from axes and clubs, and blocking slashes with its own weapon, a sword similar to the one that the red haired man possessed.

There seemed to be four large bear-like Demons, wearing armor on their chests and shoulders, struggling to defeat the four foot figure, who kept either parrying their strikes, or dodging them. Whenever there was an opening, the short warrior would attack by slashing or stabbing them with his sword. Thus far, from the starting group of fifteen or so demons, as could be estimated from the dead bodies on the ground, only four were left.

Red eyes watched as the small figure parried a swing of an axe with its sword, before pushing the demon back and jumping into the air. Swinging its blade in a horizontal motion on its way down, decapitating the smallest of the bear like demons, it landed a few feet from it's original position, holding the sword out parallel to the ground with its right hand, back to the small group of demons.

The moonlight shone down upon the small figure, illuminating it somewhat.

It appeared to be a young boy, dressed in a sleeveless black shirt with brown stitching, forming rocky patterns on the shirt. He also had a pair of baggy pants, that seemed a little bit worn and torn from the knees, down, and a few chains were dangling from the loops that were normally reserved for a belt. The sword he held was reflecting too much light for any one to see if there was a design on it.

His hair was spiky, and it appeared to be yellow with a bit of red here and there. Due to the fact he was facing away, none of his facial features could be seen at the moment.

When the two thuds that signaled the decapitated Demon, and it's head, had hit the ground were heard the small boy raised his arm up and placed his sword on his shoulder, a dark liquid visible running down the dull side of the blade, before turning his body to look at the remaining Demons with glowing, red eyes, a small smirk visible on his whiskered face in the light of the moon.

The small group of remaining Demons glared at the boy, angered and a little frightened that he had managed to kill their pact so quickly and easily. One of the Demons, the one to the left, was shaking slightly, and his eyes were darting between the young boy's form, and a small opening in the surrounding forest, while the other two just clenched their weapons, a pair of axes and a sword, tighter.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the small boy launched his sword at the shaking Demon with enough force to impale its leg, rooting it to the ground. The other two Demons used their companion's yell of pain as a battle cry, charging the dual haired boy while he appeared to be defenseless, while their injured comrade tried desperately to remove the blade from its calf.

The boy didn't seem to be intimidated as he also charged, though he was much quicker, and as soon as he was within striking distance of the Demon wielding the sword, he dropped to the ground, sliding under the demon's legs, dragging his claw-like nails through the flesh of its calves. It let out a yelp of pain, similar to the Demon before, and dropped to its knees, impaling its sword in the ground to help keep it from falling completely.

As soon as the boy was past the Demon, he got back to his feet and continued running forward, in the direction of the impaled Demon. When he reached it, the first thing he did was kick it on each of it's elbows, successfully breaking them, making the arms useless, before grabbing the hilt of his blade and pulling it up.

Not a second after he freed his sword, he had to block a swing from the uninjured Demon's axes. He quickly pushed the Demon back, causing it to miss a strike from its other axe completely. Before it could regain its balance, the boy swung his sword down, in a downwards vertical swipe from the left, cutting the Demon across its large stomach. When it dropped its axes and fell to its knees, the red eyed boy swung his sword horizontally, cutting the top half of it's head off.

The dual haired boy didn't even wait for the body to completely fall to the ground before turning his attention to the demon next to him. He swung his sword downwards, cutting the broken Demon in half from head to pelvic bone. Then, hearing some heavy footsteps, the young boy jumped to the right just in time to dodge a swipe from the last remaining Demon, who seemed to be ignoring the pain in its legs.

It lifted its large sword and charged after the boy again, though it was much slower than before. The boy took noticed of this and waited for it to get close enough. Once it was, he ducked a swing from it, that appeared to be an attempt at decapitating him, and he swung his weapon above him, cutting the Demon's hands clean off. It roared in pain, but was silenced when it also lost its head.

The boy watched the body fall to the ground, and waited until he heard the head also hit the ground before lowering his arm and relaxing. Too engrossed in his own thoughts, he didn't notice someone appear behind him until he was kneed in the back and sent flying forward. Turning his body, he landed on a rock that was protruding from the ground.

When he looked over to see who had struck him, he found the clearing empty. Before he could react, he was kicked on the side of the head and sent skidding on the forest ground, only stopping when his back hit a tree. When he tried to get up, he felt someone put their foot on his chest, roughly, causing him to have the wind knocked out of him.

"Never drop your guard until you know that there are no more enemies in the area." He heard a cold, emotionless voice above him. When he opened his eyes, he stared into the red eyes of the person that had taken him from his home and bought him out to a village close to their current location.

The younger of the two males tried to speak only to find that he couldn't while the older one was stepping on his chest. He opened his right hand and dug his claws into the red head's leg but it didn't seem to do anything as all he did in response was put more pressure on his chest before getting off.

The boy took in a few deep breaths before sitting up, glaring at the older male, and getting up to go pick up his sword, which had been knocked out of his hands when he'd been kicked. He found it sticking out of the ground near the rock he had landed on a few seconds prior. When he pulled it out, he found that there was still a bit of blood on it. Swinging the blade in the air in an attempt to clean it of the dark purple substance, he looked over at the red haired man.

"So, did you do whatever it is that you needed me to come along with you to do?" asked the dual haired boy, inspecting his sword for any remaining blood before strapping it on his back.

"Unfortunately," the man began, "what we came here to get isn't here anymore. It was moved to a village in the middle of The Land of Waves, so that's where we're heading right now." He said, turning to leave. "Now, let's go, Ōjō." ordered the taller male before heading through the forest.

The boy, now known as Ōjō, sighed, tired of having to follow his older brother around like an idiot. He pondered just leaving and heading home, but then an image of his mother came into his mind and he figured he'd rather follow his brother around, aimlessly, in the Human Realm than be around her in the Demon Realm.

Sighing once more, he began walking in the direction his brother went, leaving the bodies of the Bear Demons to rot. They had proven useful in passing the time while he had been waiting for his brother to return and they had practically begged to be killed after one of them had called him a human.

- Somewhere in Tanzaku-

A man with long gray hair that seemed to defy the laws of gravity walked through the streets of the village, all the while reading from a little orange book. He wore a dark blue, long sleeved shirt and pants, a green vest and a metal plated headband that was tilted so it covered his left eye.

As he walked, he couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen, and soon. He thought drifted towards his team and he wondered if they were okay. He knew he didn't have to worry about Sasuke and Sai too much, seeing as one was an ANBU, as he had found out about from the Sandaime Hokage upon first taking the team, and the other was strong enough he'd probably be recruited by ANBU pretty soon, but his last student, Sakura, was another case.

He didn't think Sakura was weak; she was a great ninja, able to come out of tight situations and pull through when the others needed her most but that didn't make up for the fact that compared to her teammates Sakura was the weakest of the team. It was probably because of this that enemies ignored her, causing her to work twice as hard to prove them wrong.

The silver haired man passed a clothing store, and heard some of what one of the sales women was telling another one. It was something about a strange young boy getting punched across the back room by a pink haired girl after he walked in on her while she was changing. For some reason, he thought of his student, Sakura, when he heard it was a pink haired girl, but his book, and the bad feeling he had, took his mind away from it. But mostly his book.

As he continued to walk, he kept thinking about his team, and about the reason he wasn't with them right now. He had been given an A-rank mission, with Genma Shiranui and Aoba Yamashiro, two fellow Jōnin, in which they had to go free a village from a large group of B-class bear demons, near the border of fire country. While he was battling one of them, he asked why they were attacking the village, and it told him something about a pair of demon swords the village was rumored to have in it's possession.

After the demons were defeated, with a group of almost twenty fleeing, he had talked to the leader of the village about it, and he was told that there weren't any 'demon swords' in the village. Figuring it wasn't really any of his concern, at the moment, he had decided to drop it, but he was definitely going to inform the Hokage about it when he returned.

A few minutes later the man felt a familiar chakra signature somewhere nearby but it was too faint for him to identify it correctly so he decided to focus more on his book.

'Now where was I?' He thought, skimming through the page, searching for where he left off. As soon as he found his spot there was some rumbling and then a loud crash on the opposite side of town. Sighing, he closed his book and tucked it into his weapons pouch.

'Better go see what that's about.' He thought, heading towards the cause of the commotion.

- Other side of Tanzaku-

Naruto jumped back, avoiding a tree trunk that the insane blonde woman had thrown at him, after she had ripped it from the ground, while holding tightly onto Sakura, whom he picked up a few minutes ago and had yet to let down. He had been forced to drop his genjutsu, seeing as there would be no point in keeping it up if he was already caught. Landing a few yards away, he turned to look at the unidentified woman.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" he yelled, shaking his left hand around in the air, while the other held Sakura close to him, should they have to jump away again. He took in a deep breath, about to yell again, but was silenced when the woman picked up a stone bench like it was nothing and threw it at them, or more specifically him.

"Damn." was all he said as he picked Sakura up again before jumping away.

Sakura was confused. Why was this woman just attacking them for no reason? And, more importantly, how was she able to make giant cracks in the ground, and lift things up so easily?

Before either Naruto or Sakura could say anything, the woman spoke up.

"Why don't you let the girl go and fight me, Demon?" she taunted. She lifted her leg and slammed it onto the ground, causing another fissure to head their way. "Stop using her as a shield!" she yelled when Naruto again picked Sakura up again and jumped away.

"Tsunade-sama!" a voice was heard from the street behind the blond woman. A few seconds later, the woman Naruto remembered seeing last time showed up, holding the pig with the red jacket. "Tsunade-sama, what are you doing?" asked the dark-haired woman, her eyes staring at her friend, who was, once again, drunk.

"This." was all she said as she tore a street lamp out of the ground and flung it towards Naruto, who growled in frustration as he once again picked up Sakura and jumped away. Deciding she would have to make him put his hostage down herself, Tsunade began sprinting in the direction to where they were heading, ignoring Shizune's frantic screaming.

'Damn it,' Naruto thought as he saw the woman, Tsunade, if he heard right, running towards him and Sakura, 'where's Shadow? We have to get out of here but we can't just leave him behind.' Then he spotted a black figure on the roof of a nearby building. As soon as the busty blond swung a punch that was aimed between them, in hopes to split him from the girl, they disappeared.

They reappeared next to Shadow, Sakura a bit dazed from the speed in which they had traveled.

"Wow, never thought we'd see her again or not so soon anyways." Shadow spoke, watching Tsunade as she searched for Naruto, missing Naruto's nod. "Anyways," Shadow continued, still looking at Tsunade, who had been joined by her companion, "what now?" he asked, too focused on the two woman, and the pig, to notice someone was closing in on them.

"We run." Naruto said, also not taking notice of the approaching person until he heard Sakura gasp.

"Kakashi-sensei?" She muttered, confused as she was still a little dizzy, causing Naruto to turn around just in time to see a man with gray hair launch kunai at him and Shadow, with deadly accuracy.

Kakashi had hurried up his pace as he continued to hear what sounded like mini explosions. When he heard someone shout, "Why don't you let the girl go and fight me, Demon," he knew it was a matter that he would probably be needed for, especially since it seemed to involve a Demon.

What had really gotten him to take this seriously was when he heard someone scream, "Tsunade-sama!" He, figuring that Tsunade of the legendary Sannin was in trouble, quickened his pace and before long he had arrived at the scene, only to be shocked when he saw that his student was being held by a pair of Demons.

He reached into his kunai pouch when he heard them discussing their plans to flee and threw them, aiming to hit the Demons from behind, but then one of them, the human looking one with blond hair, turned around and spotted him. He quickly shouted at his companion to move out of the way before he jumped away, taking Sakura with him.

Kakashi followed after the blond demon, launching a few shuriken at where he was going to land. It seemed the demon hadn't noticed as he landed right on them but he was unaffected. It was then Kakashi noticed this demon was wearing shoes, something most demons he'd encountered didn't bother with.

Not about to let a demon take his student, he began charging chakra into his legs as he descended, bursting into a full sprint toward them as soon as he landed, pulling out a kunai along the way.

Naruto hadn't expected Kakashi to move so quickly and thus was caught off guard when the gray-haired man came up behind him and put a kunai to his throat.

"Let her go." Kakashi ordered. Naruto, reluctantly, let Sakura go. As soon as Sakura was released from Naruto's hold, they felt the ground beneath them start trembling slightly and Naruto instantly knew what that meant. Sakura was forced to move towards a street lamp and hold onto it to keep herself from falling, but that also meant she was now a few meters away from Naruto.

"Damn." Naruto cursed, turning his head to the left a bit to watch as Tsunade stomped over to them, obviously not seeing the point of hurrying seeing as he was, at the moment, captured. Naruto could only watch in fear as Tsunade stalked closer, his body not responding to what his mind was telling him, as it could already feel the blows it would receive.

Sakura was about to plead with her sensei to let Naruto go, but Tsunade had shouted out before she could even open her mouth.

"I'll take that Demon, now, Kakashi." She spoke, her tone just daring anyone to say no. Kakashi nodded, recognizing that tone from when Tsunade had been in Konoha before she had left after the Kyuubi attack almost twenty years ago. He turned his attention to his student, who was wearing clothes that appeared to be a little dirty, and there was a cut visible on her spandex shorts, though the white mini skirt she had put on helped conceal it.

"God damn it, Master Naruto, can't you ever stay out of trouble?" Shadow said as he suddenly appeared and jumped on Kakashi from the right side, causing him to stumble and release Naruto.

As soon as Tsunade noticed that Naruto was free she slammed her heel into the ground, causing a chunk of rock to lift up, almost like a wall in front of her. Then, in the very second that it came up, she began to punch it repeatedly, sending rocks the size of her fists speeding towards Naruto and Shadow, though she wasn't as accurate as she could be doing this. The two starting dodging and swatting some away as best they could, with Shadow jumping away, into an alley way, after a few seconds.

Naruto stayed, trying to maneuver towards Sakura, while Kakashi attempted to pull Sakura out of the way but the rosette vehemently rufused to let go. Kakashi kept asking Sakura why she refused to leave but all she would do was try to shake her arm, which Kakashi was gripping, away and tell him to let her go.

"Let me go, Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled, trying to break free of his grip, while glancing back towards Naruto every couple of seconds.

"Sakura, we have to leave, Tsunade-sama can handle this." Kakashi said, trying once more to pull Sakura away from the scene but she just wouldn't let go. 'What's wrong with her?' Kakashi thought. 'Can't she see we have to get out of here?' He glanced towards the demon, and for the first time, got a good look at his face.

"What the..." Kakashi mumbled, his grip on Sakura loosening considerably. The demon looked almost identical to his late sensei, save for the whiskers and fox ears. Kakashi was too wrapped up in his thoughts about how it was possible for a demon to look so much like his sensei that he didn't notice when Sakura pulled herself free of his grip.

Naruto kept dodging the rocks that were being thrown at him, trying to figure out a way to get to Sakura. Suddenly, the rocks stopped, causing him to look over at where Tsunade was at, or at least, where she used to be.

Before he knew what was happening, Tsunade jumped down from a roof that was behind him and threw a punch at him from behind, only to have him dodge and duck under her outstretched arm, heading towards Sakura, who at the moment was also heading in his direction.

As soon as they reached each other, they disappeared, much to Tsunade's frustration. She turned towards Kakashi and glared. Slowly, almost menacingly, she walked towards him, fully intending to hurt him for letting that face snatching demon get away. It was then that the immense amount of alcohol in her system caught up with her, causing her to pass out.

Several yards away, Shizune gasped before running towards Tsunade as she saw her begin to fall, knowing she wouldn't be able to reach her in time to catch her before she hit the ground. Out of nowhere, a man wearing a baggy green shirt and pants, a red vest and a horned metal plate on his head with the kanji symbol for oil stamped on it appeared, catching the blond woman seconds before she hit the ground.

The man then stood up, bringing Tsunade with him, and smiled at Shizune, who had a surprised expression on her face, before glancing at Kakashi, who looked back at him, surprised but sad that he had let his student get kidnapped.

"What in the world happened here?"

Naruto and Sakura appeared on a building on the opposite side of town from, Sakura again dizzy and Naruto trying to find Shadow's chakra signature or scent, so that they could finally leave. When he couldn't pinpoint him, he sighed and redoubled his effort.

"Ugh... my head..." Sakura murmured, holding her head as she tried to get it to stop spinning. She didn't think she'd ever get used to traveling at that speed. When she finally regained her senses, she looked over at Naruto, watching as he stood over the railing of the roof, eyes closed and ears moving up and down, a sigh escaping his lips every once in a while.

"Naruto, what are you doing?" She asked, moving over to stand next to him. He remained quiet for a while longer, the only sound being his breathing, before he sighed, loudly.

"I'm trying to find Shadow." He said, furrowing his eyebrows in concentration. 'Damn it, where is he?!' Naruto thought, getting frustrated with himself for being unable to find his companion, and for having left without him. After the eight time he was unsuccessful at pinpointing Shadow, he decided to take out his frustration out on the poor roof railing, which he had been gripping tightly as he searched.

Sakura was standing next to Naruto, watching as his ears twitched around, and his hands kept gripping tighter and tighter on the metal railing. She felt that it was her fault that Shadow had been left behind. While she was thinking of something to say to Naruto, she heard a metallic bang. Startled, she looked over at Naruto, who had his fist on the dented metal railing of the roof.

"Where the hell is Shadow?" Naruto asked aloud. Sakura was about to apologize to Naruto for making him leave without Shadow, but she was interrupted by someone else.

"I'm right here." They heard Shadow's voice from behind them, causing them to whip their heads around. Behind them sat Shadow, looking at them, a tired expression on his face.

"Shadow, where were you?" Naruto asked.

"You know, I don't really know..." Shadow lied. There were a few things about his life that Naruto didn't have to know about, just yet. Naruto face-faulted at his answer.

"What do you mean you 'don't really know'?!" He yelled after he got back up. Shadow just shrugged.

"Just what it sounds like, I don't really know. One second, I'm running into the alleyway, to get away from that crazy lady, and the next, I'm in some kind of forest. Then I was back in the alley, and I went searching for you two." Shadow explained, looking around. "Anyways, we leaving yet, or you wanna wait tunil that woman finds us again?"

"Why would I wanna wait for her to find me again?" Naruto asked, looking at Shadow like he was an idiot. Sakura smacked her forehead, amazed at how dense Naruto could be while Shadow just rolled his eyes.

"Naruto, he was being sarcastic." Sakura told him, pinching the bridge of her nose. Naruto blushed a bit in embarrassment, which went unnoticed by Sakura due to her having her eyes closed. When Naruto cleared his throat, Sakura opened one of her eyes and stared at him.

"Yeah, I knew that, I was just playing." Naruto muttered before straightening up. "Anyways, I think we should get outta here before she finds us again." He stated. Before looking over at Sakura. "Come on, Sakura, I'm gonna carry you on my back again."

Sakura put her hands on her hips. "I can move on my own, thank you." She responded, turning her head to the side, only to give a shriek of surprise when Naruto pick her up, bridal style, from behind.

"I know you can, Sakura, but we're gonna be moving fast, and I don't want you to get tired, so lemme carry you." He said to her, smiling. Then he looked over at Shadow, not noticing Sakura was blushing because of where his right hand was; right under her right breast.

"So where do we go now?" Shadow asked, getting up from his sitting position. Naruto's face took on a thoughtful expression for a while, before he starting looking around.

"Uh... How about we go... South?" Naruto suggested, trying to point to the left with his left hand, which was holding the back of Sakura's knees. though it was proving difficult, as he didn't want to drop Sakura.

Said girl, after having made herself comfortable while Naruto was thinking, looked around, noticing that Naruto was pointing the wrong way. "Uh, Naruto, you're pointing West." She said. Naruto laughed nervously.

"Then we're going to the West. I don't care where as long as we get outta here." He said, shifting Sakura in his arms, causing her to get out of the comfy position she had found. "So, Shadow, race you to the first clearing in the West!" He quickly shouted before disappearing with Sakura.

A few minutes later, they reappeared in a small clearing near a river, with a small cave on the bottom of a small cliff. Naruto smiled, thinking he had beat Shadow, only to frown when he saw him drinking water from the river.

"Damn." he muttered as he put Sakura down, only to have catch her when she lost her balance and started to fall. "You alright, Sakura?" He asked, a concerned look on his face. Sakura groaned, her head still spinning from moving at such a fast speed, for a longer period of time than before. It took a minute for the dizziness to lighten up, in which Naruto had put her down at the base of a nearby tree.

"I don't think I'm ever going to get used to moving that fast." She mumbled, causing Naruto to grin.

"Nah, you will." He said, still grinning. "Shadow felt the same as you at first, but look at him now. He's faster than I am." It was then she noticed Shadow was there, as well as what the clearing looked like.

The crescent moon above provided just enough light to see the clearing pretty well, with a bit of the light reflecting off the river's surface, making the leaves on the tree on the other side of the river look as though they were moving. There were a few rocks, both large and small, spread along the clearing, and a small cave at the bottom of a small cliff. In short, it looked like a scene from a portrait about nature; simple yet beautiful.

"Hello, Sakura, anybody home?" Naruto said, waving his hand in front of Sakura's face, successfully snapping her out of her state of awe.

"Huh?" Came her unintelligent response.

"I said, 'do you wanna take a bath, me and Shadow are gonna go get some firewood, we'll even take some extra time so you don't have to hurry.'" He said. "Lemme know so I can give you some of your clothes."

"Yeah, okay." she agreed, glad to be able to take a bath after two days.

She watched as Naruto pulled out her four scrolls and bit his thumb before spreading the small amount of blood across the four seals. The next second after he did that, there were four poofs of smoke. After the smoke cleared, which wasn't long, only three seconds at the most, she found her bags of clothes on the ground.

"There you go." Naruto exclaimed loudly. "Well, we'll see you in a bit, Sakura." Naruto said before turning and jumping up the side of the cliff, Shadow following close behind.

Once she was alone, she rummaged through her bags, looking for her shampoo and clothes to wear. Once she found them, she walked over to the river and set her stuff near the ledge. Quickly, she undressed herself, making sure to stay alert, in case someone, or something, came along.

When she was done, she dipped her foot into the water to test the temperature. It wasn't warm, but it wasn't freezing, either. Figuring a cold bath was better than no bath, she took a breath and walked in until she was waist deep before beginning her bath. She wanted to finish fast, before Naruto and Shadow returned.

Three hours later found Naruto and Sakura cuddled up together inside the cave, with Shadow sleeping outside. Sakura had her head on Naruto's left shoulder, and Naruto had his left arm around her, pulling her close. The fire was lite almost directly at the entrance of the cave, and they had one of Naruto's old blankets wrapped around them

Both were nervous about what was about to happen; Naruto because he had no idea how to begin this, and Sakura because this was like getting married, something she hadn't planned on doing so soon. As the time passed, their nervousness grew, with neither being successful at calming their nerves. Finally, after almost twenty minutes, Naruto spoke.

"Sakura," he began, gaining her attention, "do you wanna... um..." he began to draw circles on her shoulder, "Do you want me to... you know..." He stared at her, hoping she would know what he was talking about.

Sakura stared back at him, knowing what he was trying to say, but nervous about actually doing it. She took a couple of breaths, closed her eyes and nodded. When almost a minute passed and he hadn't moved, she opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Naruto?" She called, making him take his gaze from the flickering flames and shift it towards her. In his eyes she could see a bit of hesitation. "What's wrong?" she asked, wondering why he wasn't moving to mark her.

Naruto smiled sheepishly, moving his right hand up to scratch the back of his head lightly. "Uh, nothing, really, just don't know how to start this, since, you know, I've never done this before." He admitted, making her smile due to his honesty, something most guys wouldn't do.

"Well, how is this supposed to happen, normally?" She asked.

Naruto tried to remember some of the things other demons have told him. "Well... I'm just supposed to bite into your neck... and push a bit of my chakra into you through the bite mark." He said, noticing she had moved her hand to the side of her neck.

"Is that the only way to do this?" She asked, wondering about how much it would hurt. Naruto nodded, making her unconsciously clutch her neck a little tighter. Naruto noticed this movement, too.

"Sakura," she loosened her grip on her neck and looked at him, "if you don't wanna do this, we don't have to, we could alwa-"

"-No," she interrupted, "I said I wanted this, and besides," she smiled at him, "if we get this done now, we won't have to worry about it later." she said, removing her hand from her neck. Naruto nodded, before moving his head towards hers. He gave her a soft kiss on the lips, then started trailing a few kisses to her neck.

Once there, he licked the spot where her neck met her shoulder for a bit, with her tilting her head back a little, allowing him easier reach. He sucked on her neck for a while before he sank his fangs into her skin, causing her to grunt softly. He applied a little more pressure to his bite before focusing his chakra to his canines and pushing it into the opening in her skin. This caused Sakura to feel a small burning sensation on her neck, due to his demonic chakra entering her body.

After what, to Sakura, felt like hours, Naruto saw a small black mark begin to appear at the base of her neck, resembling what looked like a circle with a fox claw inside. After it became completely visible, it flashed quickly and afterwards, the circle had turned from black to blue, and the paw turned red.

Naruto slowly and carefully pulled his teeth out of her neck and began to lick her wound, which bled briefly. After it stopped, he pulled back and smiled at Sakura.

"All done." He told her. A small smile passed her face before her eyes closed and she started to slump over. Naruto quickly grabbed her shoulder and brought her back up. Due to her soft breathing he guessed she had fallen asleep, like he had said might happen earlier in the day. Gently, he lay down, with her laying on him, her head on his chest and left shoulder, with the blanket covering them.

'I can't believe it.' Naruto thought, moving some of Sakura's hair out of her face. 'I can't believe I have such a beautiful mate.' The same thought kept passing through his mind; he now had a mate. After ten more minutes, he decided to join her in sleep, but not before making one handed seals and putting out the fire.

- In Tanzaku-

Kakashi and Shizune sat with the white haired man, after having put Tsunade in the bedroom next door. There was a moment of silence before the man spoke;

"So, you're telling me, Shizune, Kakashi, that Tsunade-hime attacked that demon because he looked like Arashi?" The two nodded. "And," he turned to Kakashi, "that the demon took your student with him?" Kakashi nodded, looking down in shame for allowing a demon to take his pupil.

The man sighed before reaching across the table they were sitting at for the sake. After he poured and drank a saucer, he looked up at the ceiling.

"That demon isn't Arashi, obviously, and I don't think he stole his face." Said the man, closing his eyes as Shizune stared at him. "And I don't think he abducted your student, Kakashi." Kakashi looked up at him.

"How do you know, Jiraiya-sama?" Kakashi asked, wondering why he had said that.

Jiraiya turned his gaze from the ceiling to Kakashi. "Because, I have met him before, and I've talked to him; heck, I taught him about seals." Kakashi arched an eyebrow at this.

"You taught a demon about seals?"

Jiraiya smiled. "I wasn't going to at first, but the way he seemed so interested in them, and the fact that he could use demonic chakra, combined with the way he acted, just made me give in to his request." Jiraiya explained, pouring himself some more sake.

"He could use demonic chakra?" Kakashi asked, amazed. Only a few demons could do that, and those were the ones in the higher A-class. Jiraiya nodded.

"Yeah, it surprised me too, but I think what really made me decide to teach him was his similarities to Arashi." He drank his sake, a faint pink hue appearing on his cheeks. "And if he's still the same as when I taught him, I don't think he's capable of taking a girl against her will."

"Why do you say that, Jiraiya-sama?" asked Shizune, who eyed the sake with a small glare. How she hated sake, it was because of that devil's blood that her master was so mean to her and her pig, Tonton, most of the time.

"Because Naruto respects and protects women; he'd never do something as despicable as kidnapping a girl." Jiraiya stated, making Kakashi furrow his eyebrows.

"Then, Jiraiya-sama, why would Sakura go with him?" Kakashi couldn't help but ask, thinking about how Sakura had refused to leave with him. "Unless..."

Jiraiya smiled.

"She has fallen for him. It's not unheard of, a demon and a human falling in love. It's just extemely rare, especially nowadays." said the aged Sannin, pouring himself some more sake. Kakashi couldn't figure out how it could have happened; his student... leaving with a demon... it didn't seem possible, but it had happened.

"Now," Jiraiya said, getting up after he finished his last saucer, "I think I should get going; have somewhere to get to." he said, moving to the window of the hotel room. "Oh, and, Shizune, when Tsunade wakes up, tell her to leave the poor boy alone, he isn't doing anything wrong." with that, Jiraiya jumped out the window, leaving a still stunned Kakashi, and Shizune, who had gone to empty the bottle of sake in the sink, behind.

- Somewhere near the border of Fire Country-

Ōjō and his brother continued to walk, with Ōjō walking with his hands folded behind his head, and his older brother with his hands in his pockets, their swords constantly sending killer intent towards each other. After a while, they reached a cave near a fast flowing river.

"Stay here." Ordered the red haired man before walking into the cave. Ōjō rolled his eyes.

"I'm not making any promises, take too long and I'll leave, again!" He shouted at his brother, grumbling when the guy didn't even acknowledge that he had heard him.

The older male continued to venture deeper and deeper into the cave, noticing that the end never seemed to get any closer. He narrowed his eyes dangerously before lifting his hand up and slashing in a horizontal motion, a wave of red chakra flying outwards from his nails.

Immediately, the surrounding walls distorted, before vanishing slowly. After the cave walls disappeared, the bodies of several demons became visible, some beheaded and some with open stomaches, and a metal door could be seen at the end of the cave. He walked up to it, swiping his claws at the locks that held it shut. He then proceeded in pushing the door open, it making a creaking noise as it opened.

Inside, skeletons could be seen with the light that leaked in from the open door. Movement could be heard from the left, and then a figure came into the light, it's yellow eyes studying the man in front of it. When it found that the man was stronger than it, it decided against attacking him.

"You are Ryuk, I presume?" The man asked, getting a nod from the demon. It then let out a raspy breath.

"And who, may I ask, is the one who released me?" It questioned, it's voice low, almost sounding like a raspy whisper.. The man simply walked farther into the room, his face becoming visible to the demon, causing it to gasp. "Kyūbi-sama..."

To Be Continued...

AN/ Here's the real chapter five, I apologize for the wait, and I will try to not take a break like that again,. Anyways, there it is; a lot of people appeared and yes, Oujou is an OC, but he isn't all that important. For Kyuubi, just picture a red haired, red eyed Aizen, from Bleach. Now, I will try to get chapter 5 of JFO out as soon as possible, but now I need to sleep, so I'll fix any mistakes I missed tomorrow. Last thing before I go, please review.