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Warnings: Violence , Gore and Lemons(Much Later)

Credits: If I may have used some Ideas that are not my own, I apologize. Some of the Jutsu's were taken from The Legend Of Kyuubi's Profile page so credit goes to him

Chapter 13

Mei and Sakiko were hiding in the trees, watching as Naruto pulverized the gate guarding the entrance to the largest area of the camp. They waited as both Yugao and Naruto rushed into the camp, making short work of the bandits that were barely ready for an attack. As soon as the pair had cleared a path, they jumped into the fray and without stopping, trusting Naruto and Yugao to take care of any bandits that may have spotted them, sprinted at the main gate, where they presumed the bandit leader to be. It was in a slightly elevated position that allowed them an unobstructed view of the clearing below them.

Approaching the gate, they saw two guards that were standing at the gate, looking around nervously, obviously worried about the commotion that they could see going around in the clearing in front of them. They stopped and getting a good look at them, Sakiko nodded at Mei.

Mei acknowledged, and making a few rapid handsigns; and emulating Naruto, whispered.

Doton: Dosekiryū (Earth Release: Earth and Stone Dragon).

The bandits saw the earth distort a short way away from them. Their gazes turned fearful as a dragon head formed, its jaws opened menacingly, its body forming shortly after and charged at them, roaring loudly, with amazing speed. They were slammed against the gate and the two of them slid down the gate groaning and slumped to the ground unconscious. Mei panted slightly, that jutsu of hers still took a significant toll on her budding Chakra reserves. Mentally thanking Naruto, she immediately began channelling her lost Chakra from her ring, filling up her reserves to its full capacity.

The two girls, walked up to the door, their stances tense, ready for anything. The gate before them was deformed, but still hanging on to its hinges. Standing right in front of the gates, Sakiko closed her eyes and concentrated. Tsunade had taught her the basics of the Chakra empowered punches that she was famous for, she was still not proficient enough in it; it took her a lot of time and concentration to make it work; thus making it useless in battle situations. But she had all the time that she needed right now.

Mei backed away as she saw Sakiko concentrating; she knew what she was going to do after all, and the farther away that she was the better. She glanced at the battle taking place below in the clearing worriedly. She knew that Naruto was capable of handling a horde of bandits, but it didn't lessen the innate worry that she felt for her partner. She looked back at Sakiko, and noticing that she was ready, backed away. Sakiko dashed at the gate and punched it. There was loud booming before the gates, fell forwards with a loud thud.

They were expecting to see a lot of things, but nothing could have prepared them for what they saw in front of them. There were at the very least 50 bandits standing behind their leader. The leader was a hulk of a man, easily pushing 7 feet in height. He had a long vertical scar going down the left side of his face, going over his eyes. He had two huge axes in his arms, with jagged ends, which looked really heavy. The bottom half of his face was covered by his unkempt beard, brown in colour. He was wearing battle armour, with gauntlets on both of his arms. Both Mei and Sakiko gulped slightly, not looking forward to fighting him at all.

"Welcome, pesky meddlers, to my camp. My name is Twinblade and I have been waiting for you . . ." he said, laughing maliciously. He motioned with his hand, swinging one of his axes forward towards them, and the bandits standing behind him charged forward each uttering a battle cry, murder in their eyes.

With Naruto and Yugao

Naruto and Yugao were fighting bandits left and right. They were using their Taijutsu to incapacitate the bandits leaving them downed. As they made their way to the centre, they heard a loud booming noise and could see the last gate fall in their peripheral vision. Naruto was distracted, and looked over at the gates, trying to catch a glimpse of the situation. A bandit, taking advantage of the situation ran forward. Naruto whipped around suddenly, spun slightly as the bandit swiped his sword down at his position. Naruto caught his free hand in a firm grip, and kicked him in the head twice, first towards the right and then letting go of his hand, connected his head with a strong kick towards the left sending him flying. Mentally berating himself for his lack of concentration, he charged again into the midst of bandits.

Things continued in the same manner for some time, before Naruto sensed a presence near the far end of the clearing. Utilizing Shunpo to get to a safe area, he closed his eyes and sent out his Chakra in waves, using it as sonar. This was the basic principle behind a ninja's Mental Vision. He determined the source and went towards it. He passed Yugao and told her of his findings. Yugao nodded, and the two of them made their way to the area, theorizing that this must be the ninja responsible for the placement of the Genjutsu on the cave entrance.

They stopped in front of the tent that housed the man. As he walked out, Naruto observed that he didn't appear to be a Ninja at all, a gifted brawler at best. He was a tall man, approximately 6 feet, dark skinned and wearing armour with the chest plate shaped as the mouth of a roaring lion. He was wielding a Zanbato with the blade curving from halfway through the sword. He smirked at the two of them.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

Yugao and Naruto stared at him incredulously.

"Answer my question, you damn ninjas." He thundered.

"You have two traders that you have captured, we are here to retrieve them and rid this area of you bandits." Yugao answered calmly, drawing out her blade as she did so.

"So, you are the enemy then?" he asked, a clueless expression on his face.

'Man. . . . This guy has to have some screws missing from his head.' Naruto thought.

Both Yugao and Naruto didn't answer his question.

"You are my enemies, I kill my enemies." He said pointing his finger at them and charged forward.

Yugao clashed her sword with him, immediately regretting it. The man was a powerhouse, she had to channel Chakra into her arms in order to block his blow, and not have her arms broken. She redirected his sword towards the ground. She swung her sword at his chest in a horizontal strike, but her sword just bounced off his armour.

Meanwhile, Naruto was dealing with the bandits that had followed them to their location. He had been fighting, but his mind kept wandering to Mei and Sakiko. They should have been back by now, worried he quickened his pace and soon there were only about 20 bandits left. As he was charging forward, a sudden cheer came from the direction of the last gate.

Naruto's heart clenched as fear gripped him. He glanced back at Yugao, who was still fighting the strange man. He knew that if they were aiming to kill, this would have been amazingly easy, but the mayor had requested that the bandits be handed over to the police force. Clenching his fists tightly in frustration, he decided that the life of his girls was infinitely more important than some taint on his Ninja career.

He flashed through some handsigns, and leaning slightly backwards, said.

Fūton: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)

The 20 approaching bandits were blown back violently, rolling through the ground. Some were moaning in pain, some lay completely still.

Naruto quickly utilized his Shunpo, using it multiple times, and arrived at the gate. Rage exploded out of him as he saw the sight before him.

With Yugao

Yugao had also heard the cheer and grew worried for her friends, and students. She glanced at Naruto, and saw him blow back the bandits with a well placed jutsu, immediately making his way towards their position. She was proud that he cared for the girls enough that he didn't let anything stand between his way; not that she expected anything less from him. She hadn't yet discussed with her team what to do in such cases, figuring that it would be a while before such a situation arose. Deciding to go there and help Naruto, she channelled Wind Chakra, her affinity, into her blade and charged at the unnamed man. She was surprised when her sword failed to pierce his armour again, just leaving a deep cut where her sword had hit him.

"Surprised?" the man asked a sneer on his face. "This armour has Chakra constantly flowing through it, nothing can get through it." He said arrogantly, thumping his chest plate to emphasise his point.

'This changes things. I doubt that I will be able to subdue him, there isn't enough time.' Yugao thought, getting into a Battojutsu stance.

Suddenly, there was an explosion of chakra that sent tingles up her spine. Both of them turned towards the final gate, and what they saw was something that would remain with them for as long as they lived. A pillar of visible chakra was erupting forth from there, pitch black in colour.

'Naruto-kun.' Yugao thought, as she felt a feeling of safety and protection fall over her. It was the most amazing feeling that she had ever felt, she could practically feel Naruto's determination and love for her, she had no doubt that the others were feeling the same.

She looked at her opponent and wasn't surprised to see him sweating profusely. He looked as if it was hurting him to even stand straight. Steeling her resolve, she again took her stance, saturating her blade with her chakra, compressing it as much as she could to gain maximum penetration.

"Kuzu-Ryu-Sen (Nine Headed Dragon Flash)" Yugao whispered, virtually disappearing from her opponents sights.

It was the most powerful technique that she was capable of performing. It belonged to her family's sword style, the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu. It was this that had allowed her to swiftly rise up through the ranks. No one knew of it, all the enemies that she had used it against were not left in any condition to tell anyone about it. Being dead does have that side affect. All that the Konoha Shinobi knew was that she was a master swordswoman, and she had strived to keep it a secret. She was positive however, that she would be teaching Naruto her sword style sometime.

She appeared directly in front of her opponent, and slashed at him in the nine vital points, so fast that he felt as if they were attacked simultaneously. He fell to the ground, his armour destroyed beyond repair, hanging on to his body in bits and pieces.

By the time he fell to the ground, undoubtedly dead, she had already started making her way after Naruto.

Earlier- With Mei and Sakiko

Mei and Sakiko were staring aghast at the charging bandits. Sakiko was the first one to snap out, and immediately began going through handsigns. Seeing that, Mei took out a few kunai and threw them towards the legs of the charging mob. Some of the bandits stopped, clutching their legs in pain, but the rest swerved around them unimpeded. By this time Sakiko had finished, and taking a huge gulp of air, said,

Katon: Karyuu Endan (Fire Dragon Flame Projectile)

That stopped the bandits right in their tracks. They began panicking and turned around, but a huge figure appeared in front of them, directly in line with the fire dragon. The two girls stared horrified at the leader of the bandits, Twinblade, stand firmly in front of the charging dragon. When the flames died down, the only thing that he had to show for it were a few singed hairs and some burns on hands and neck.

"I-Impossible." Stated Sakiko, an expression of denial on her face.

Twinblade turned around to face his bandits and span in their direction, muttering "Pathetic." And then shouted at them, "Just look at yourselves, running away like scared little children from a pair of girls. Do I have to do every damn thing around here?" he said, grumbling at the end.

Saying that, he charged up at the girl's position.

With Naruto

Naruto stared at the crumpled form of Mei against the tree. And then, he turned furious eyes towards the culprit. Unluckily for him, he was choking Sakiko as Naruto was glaring at him. Naruto's rage exploded, someone had harmed his girls, and that someone was going to pay dearly.

He released both his Chakra and Gravity seals, and taking advantage of the resulting confusion, he appeared in front of Twinblade and delivered a vicious knee to his forearm, almost shattering the bone. Twinblade immediately let go of the grip he had on Sakiko, and Naruto caught her as she was falling down. He carried her towards Mei and placed the both of them together, and Sakiko began healing Mei.

"How is she?" Naruto asked worriedly.

"She's fine, some broken bones and Chakra exhaustion. I'll fix her right up." Sakiko said softly.

"Naruto-kun, I-I'm sorr . . ." Sakiko started apologising about their inability to complete their part of the mission, but was interrupted as Naruto placed his finger on her lips.

"You did your best Sakiko-chan, that's the best I could have asked for. Take care, I'll just go and hand out some punishment." Saying that, Naruto got up and with a whispered, 'Tensa Zangetsu' brought forth his sword.

"Finally shown up you brat? Did I hurt you pretty little girls?" Twinblade jeered.

"You won't be living to regret your actions you bastard." Naruto said, his voice cold. He shut his eyes, and activated his Sharingan as he opened them.

"Ohh. . . so you can change your eyes. Big deal."

Naruto didn't answer; he just got into a loose stance, sword held in his hands, and stared at him. He was having a hard time controlling his anger; no one touched a hair on his girl's heads. Clenching his fists, he tried calming down, judging by Mei and Sakiko's condition, the leader was no slouch.

Mei, who had regained consciousness thanks to Sakiko's healing, watched as Naruto stared down his opponent. She wanted to warn him, tell him that the man was too powerful, but she held back. She trusted Naruto to hold his own, he could, after all, do it against them. The two girls watched Naruto, and had to blink their eyes several times to make sure what they were seeing was indeed happening.

Naruto's form appeared to be shimmering, while not uncommon while channelling vast amounts of chakra, it was the figure that they could see almost superimposing him that was uncommon. It had a distinctive black mask that covered his face, a mask that inspired fear into the very hearts of those that gazed upon it.

Naruto was unaware of the presence of the thing that was seen by Mei and Sakiko. Releasing a huff of air, he narrowed his eyes at his opponent.

Tired of his waiting, and slightly unnerved by the blonde brat's stare, Twinblade charged forward at Naruto, his axes held at his sides. He swung his axe vertically downwards, straight above Naruto's head. He was shocked to encounter resistance in his swing, and there was a booming sound and a dust cloud was formed. He thought that he had cleaved the brat in two. He was shocked, when the dust settled, to see Naruto stop his axe with his sword, single handed.

It was at this moment that Yugao arrived and immediately made her way to her friends. Seeing the prone form of Mei, she asked worriedly, "What happened? Are you . . ." she too had noticed Naruto's appearance and joined the girls in seeing Naruto fight.

Twinblade, while unnerved by Naruto's strength, grinned as he saw an opportunity that he thought that he could take advantage of. He grinned as brought his other axe, level horizontally with Naruto's head.

Naruto grinned.

Twinblade didn't have time to react, Naruto forced his axe back with his sword and parried his second blow in much the same manner he had done with the first. No waiting around any longer, he ran forward and slashing at his armour.

Yugao stared astonished, she hadn't been able to damage her opponent's armour with her sword, but Naruto was leaving deep grooves whenever he slashed at his opponent, who she assumed was wearing the same type of armour.

"Naruto!" she called out, "his armour protects him against attacks, and it can probably block chakra based attacks as well. Finish it as fast as you can!"

Naruto nodded and made a sealless Kage Bunshin. He dispelled Tensa Zangetsu and got into stance for his Taijutsu, Shadow Fist. He utilized Shunpo to get right in front of Twinblade and placing his hand in the middle of his armoured stomach, whispered.

"Atsuryoku Sutoraiki" (Pressure Strike).

Twinblade's armour caved in at the point of impact, and he was propelled backwards, straight in line with Naruto's Kage Bunshin, waiting there with a swirling mass of black chakra held in his hands. Just as Twinblade was about to collide with him, he rammed his hands into his back, with a quiet whisper of, "Rasengan"

Twinblade's body was seemingly suspended at the place before he shot back at the original Naruto's position, as if shot from a cannon, small bits of dirt and wing flying around his body, due to the Rasengan.

Meanwhile Naruto, who had began flashing through handsigns as soon as he had struck Twinblade, grinned and as soon as he saw that Twinblade was approaching his clone, jumped up high into the sky.

He anticipated when Twinblade was going to be directly below him, and calling out his technique softly, unleashed his fury upon him.

"Fūton: Fuujin Seiken" (Wind Release: Divine Fist of the Wind God)

Naruto slammed one of his wind-fists into Twinblade, creating craters in the ground and as he approached his second fist, the air cleared the dust surrounding Twinblade's body cleared, before an even greater tremble shot out of the ground.

Naruto landed on the ground and made his way to his awe-struck teammates.

"So~, was that fast enough for you?" Naruto asked Yugao cheekily.

A/N:- Sorry for the long wait, but I got caught up in my new Harry Potter fanfic, I anyone's interested check out my profile page.

So? How was this Chapter, I know it's annoying, having to wait before going on to the Wave arc, but I promise we will begin that in the next chapter. Thanks for reading and Please Review.