Just hit 3000 views :D which i am happy about considering I haven't been following conventional Fan-Fic tactics. Though i have an idea of the second story which may be good once i get around to polishing the details. As for this I am starting to get an idea for Act 3. Also so far i've had two people ask for full lemons, If its something you feel strongly against please tell me. Or support the zesty goodness. But i have been thinking of implementing the lemons for some time now. I have been reading many other peoples fan-fics which has helped me get a better idea of how things work.

Please continue to comment and review my work, I am trying to improve my writing all the time. As sometimes i feel this is very rough work, but so long as someone enjoys it, I am happy.

Edited, Version 2.

Fukushi and Monica burst in a bright flash onto the village wall. Fukushi immediately doubled over and vomited bile in front of him. Monica also felt dizzy from the jutsu but she couldn't imagine what the drugs did to Fukushi's head.

"Urg I need to practice teleporting with someone more." Fukushi tried to stand but was too dizzy to be steady. Monica sensed danger and spun around while taking out her wakizashi in a reverse grip and parried a female ninja who had been nearby guarding the wall, she was younger than Monica so maybe a genin. Monica swiped he with a summoned kunai in her left hand, she missed but it forced the genin far enough away for Monica to get her jutsu ready. She used her left hand to perform one handed signs while keeping armed. Something she had been practicing.

"Fire Style: Fireball." Monice thrusted her palm out and a blue fireball struck the enemy in her chest. An attack she used against Nago four days ago. Alike Nago the genin was thrown back with a wisp of smoke coming from her wound. Monica heard someone else approach and as she spun she catapulted the same fireball past her ear and struck the second genin before he even got close. She helped pick Fukushi up who was breathing deeply and trying to focus as much as possible.

"Come on if we doing get away now, I'll lose everything, and you'll everything again. All our work to get this far, don't fall just outside their wall." She brought him in for a rough kiss which Fukushi accepted and kissed back but in mere second he pushed her away. Before Monica could object a kunai flew in-between them. Fukushi spun to return three of his own kunai, two deflected more oncoming projectiles while the third implanted deep into the wall where the ninja was hiding.

"Missed" Fukushi muttered as the pair continued to deflect and return fire. It wasn't long before someone used a jutsu. No one heard who casted it but three large boulders were launched into the air and headed straight for the wall which Monica and Fukushi stood on. In a blink of an eye Fukushi signed a jutsu and threw four kunai around them and erected his lightning shield. His defence worked as the rocks crashed into his shield and as it glowed angrily the stone crumbled and fell harmlessly in a ring around the pair. However, much to the dismay of the ninja of the stone their targets were no longer there as off to the distance a lightning bolt was seen. A second later eight flashes of leaf and sand shinobi flew past them. Almost too quick to see their features but their colour gave them away.

Fukushi and Monica landed in the middle of a road which stretched away. Fukushi's Jutsu had taken its toll and he had fell to his knees and stared at the floor breathing heavily. He could only just hear Monica pleading for him to get up. In his head, he was weighing up chakra levels, he still had his own and half a seal left but his body had reached its limit. Meditation and taking things slowly was fine for a week but he had been on high alert for nigh on three months. Fukushi knew he needed to rest, to rebuild his chakra balance and heal his body from the continuous strain. He knew he had to keep going so he grabbed the dirt and pushed himself up. Monica was watching him like a hawk but calmed down once she saw him getting up.

"We don't have much of a head start we need to go!"

"Monica, I'm in no shape to run fast, they will catch up."

"I'm not leaving you if that's what you're asking. I'm in too deep now, they all see me as a traitor."

"So we're both fucked?"

Monica bit her lip for a moment. "You go, I can distract them. I owe you my life remember." Monica said calmly. But Fukushi shook his head.

"You don't owe me anything, you've done more than anyone has for me most of my life." Fukushi gave her a smile and she thought she saw a tear from his right eye. Her suspicion was proven correct as a red tear from his left eye followed up. He pulled her in for a hug and kissed her forehead. "Sorry for allowing you to join me so easily. It's my fault that you were branded a traitor."

"Don't be, I've never felt this free before." She whispered. The two let go of their embrace. Fukushi was right neither of them could run so they stood side by side and readied their weapons. They both took a deep breath and were ready to die. From the pine trees, which surrounded them, eight ninja emerged. Naruto, Hinata, Shikamaru, Sakura, Matsuri, Mitsuoni, Atalre, and Geno. All eight stood in a semi-circle around the wanted shinobi and the rouge leaf ninja.

"Do not under-estimate the male, He's considered S-rank and has been teaching the girl, Matsuri, Mitsuoni, Take care of the girl. Naruto, Hinata Atalre and Silent Geno take care of the man, use teamwork and do not let him get behind you. Sakura and myself are on support." Shikamaru commanded and the rest nodded. The two female sand shinobi quickly moved to one side to get a better attack angle.

Fukushi readied his katana and felt Monica move to his back so they couldn't be flanked. Neither of them thought they would escape out of this fight alive. Fukushi was strong but pushed to his limit and Monica simply wasn't skilled enough yet to face off the most powerful ninja in the world.

"Just give up, you're outnumbered and you're in no shape to keep going." Sakura shouted.

"Not an option!" The pair spoke in unison.

"You think you can commit all those crimes and just walk away?" Atalre of the sand called out.

"Better than going back to a prison cell to be used by others." Fukushi gritted his teeth and lunched at the four ninja. Hinata, who was unarmed stepped back as Naruto and Atalre blocked the katana with a kunai and naginata respectfully. Silent Geno slipped in behind Fukushi and attempted to throw a punch but Fukushi twisted and slashed him back with his summoned kunai. Hinata jumped in and palmed his stomach. Fukushi could feel she turned off a chakra node as a burning pain radiated from her blow, as if his chakra no longer flowed to that part of his body. Fukushi dodged a few more of her blows and before he could strike her, Hinata jumped back to let Naruto throw two kunai before striking at his neck. Fukushi slashed his neck before Naruto burst into a puff of smoke. It was a clone. Turning back to the sand shinobi, Fukushi threw his sword at Geno who caught it in his hands before dropping it as if it was hot. This had ruined Atalre's timing as he lunged his naginata. Atalre scratched Fukushi's cheek as his dodged just in time. Now he had free hands with his right he yanked the naginata and pulled Atalre into his kunai. The sand shinobi fell back but in a pink flash, Sakura grabbed him out of the combat to heal him before he died.

Fukushi noticed the shadows were acting abnormally.

"Monica avoid the shadows!" He called before throwing a kunai to the floor in front of the shadow. In a flash of lightning the shadow dispersed away from him. He turned just in time to see Hinata and Naruto perform a well-timed double punch that landed on his chest and knocked him back across the road. Fukushi coughed up blood and his body started to scream at him to give up. He managed to stand and face the two leaf shinobi who were glaring at him.

"Tell me, how did you get Monica to betray her village? Genjutsu?"

"If it makes you feel any better, I didn't use any jutsu on her! She followed me on her own two feet, I made sure of that." The one-eyed Shinobi called out. Most of the time he wouldn't answer to talking in the battle, but this time any talking would buy him recovery time.

"Why should I believe you? You tricked her." Naruto shouted back.

Fukushi smiled. "I can't use genjutsu, that's why."

Naruto's anger boiled and he shouted. "Shadow clone jutsu. I'll knock that smile off your face!" Twenty or so Naruto's jumped at Fukushi as soon as they appeared and started sparing with the man. He put up a good fight and dispelled half the clones with his kunai. Fukushi had been punched a few times but he stood firm and weathered the attack.

"Genus Fulminis: Fulgur unda" A ring of lightning strikes hit the ground next to Fukushi. The clones not hit where then struck by a second lightning strike before they could react to the danger. Among the smoke several kunai fired out with loud bangs and impaled the remaining clones. The wind carried off the smoke to reveal an exhausted looking shinobi.

"Why do you want those pages so badly?" Shikamaru called out from the forest edge. The lightning strikes had messed up his shadows a second time so tried to buy time while they creeped up to Fukushi. "You're literally killing people for them." Fukushi turned and threw a set of kunai in Shikamaru's direction. He realised once he threw them that Shikamaru could throw his voice as his ordinance struck several trees harmlessly. "Answer me, why do you value those pages so much!"

Fukushi blocked Geno who tried to strike at him before using his lightning palm jutsu to blow him away in a crackle of sparks.

"I fucked up!" Fukushi admitted. His frustration rose and two clones of Naruto also had a go at him. He saw Geno recover from the attack as well. "The entire situation is my fault and I will find and return those pages which were stolen from me. no matter the cost."

"Why what's on them?" Naruto shouted as he slashed at Fukushi once more but while dodge his accidently positioned himself for Hinata to strike his right arm and cause it to go numb. He kicked Hinata in the stomach and jumped back. Another mistake he landed in Shikamaru's shadows and paralysed him. Fukushi realised but thought to play it off with more talking so no one could tell he was unable to defend himself.

"Because some of those missing pages contain death jutsu." He smiled a more of an insane grin as he saw everyone look in horror and confusion.

"W-what does it do?" Naruto stammered.

"What does it sound like?" Fukushi still smiled.

Inside Naruto, Kurama noticed something in his expression and roared. "Naruto, clones, and swap with them. Now!" His deafening voice snapped Naruto out from his thoughts.

"Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto shouted and a split second later Fukushi was next to Naruto. Fukushi slashed Naruto twice with a kunai in each hand. He kicked Naruto into the air and before he could fall, Fukushi summoned four kunai above his head and all four impaled the blonde. He heard Hinata cry in sheer horror but the body of Naruto puffed into smoke.

"Wrong one! Rasengan Shuriken!" He threw the spinning ball of chakra.

"Genus Fulminis: Fulgur murum." And Fukushi brought up a wall of energy. The wall was angled to deflect the blow rather than facing it head on. From experience Fukushi knew he couldn't handle that attack directly. The rasengan struck the wall and both glowed angrily under the intense attack. The attack used up a lot of Fukushi's chakra but he held on long enough for the ball to be flung into the woods, slicing whole trees in half before detonating in the middle of the woods, taking more trees out with it.

Fukushi grabbed his katana which was not too far from his feet and glared at his attackers. He would have been intimidating but he was breathing heavily and wobbled from exhaustion. His skin on his right shoulder and stomach glowed a fierce red from Hinata's strikes. His cover on his eye had fall off from a strike on one of Naruto's clones revealing scars where his eye once was. Fortunately, his left eye was closed which spared the worst of the gore. He looked a lot like Kakashi used to only without a mask and the long grey hair.

"I'd rather kill the eight of you here than allow anyone to use those pages. That is why I fight, why I can't just give up and turn myself in!"

"But you could have just gone to one of the great villages?" Hinata suggested while readying herself to attack again. "You could have avoided all of his."

With Venom in his voice Fukushi spat out. "I couldn't even fucking speak Japanese when I got here. What do you think would have changed?" Fukushi straightened up and pushed passed his pain barrier to challenge the group again. Naruto's attack had drained Fukushi to about two thirds of chakra left. "I would have been raped and abused either way. You think that just because you have headbands you wouldn't use me for the jutsu? Please, I've been that naive once and it's taken me to here!"

Fukushi vanished in a flash of lightning only to reappear behind Hinata with his katana ready to impale the white eyed woman. She would have been killed too had Sakura not covered her with a punch to Fukushi's face. Her raw strength would have shattered the jaw of most men but Fukushi was just blasted down the road, a good fifteen meters. Much to everyone's shock, Fukushi grabbed onto Hinata and as he was torn away from Sakura, he pulled the white-eyed girl with him. She didn't hit the ground nearly as hard but bounced along and stopped nearer to Fukushi than Sakura. Fukushi was quicker to his feat and casted a jutsu before anyone could reach Hinata.

Bright yellow fuuinjutsu covered Hinata's body, not too dissimilar to Fukushi's tattoos. She was trying to get up but the burning of the jutsu caused her to cry out in pain and fall back to the floor. Small wisps of smoke radiated off her clothes where they were getting singed by Fukushi's Jutsu. He smiled over his victory. Naruto gave a growl of a beast about to pounce. Similarly, Sakura, Geno and Shikamaru surrounded Fukushi. Hinata was hurting from the jutsu, she tried her best to bite back the pain but every move resulted in her skin burnt with the heat of a hot iron.

However the fatigue was catching up to Fukushi. His chakra waned and he couldn't hold the jutsu for as long as he hoped for.

"-Fuck-" He muttered as he took a wobbly step back to try and grant him some distance, he readied his katana for the onslaught that was an enraged Hyuuga.

"Eight trigrams: one-hundred and twenty eight palm." She cried out as Fukushi braced for the jutsu. He had to fend her off but his body was starting to feel numb and slow. "Eight palms." Fukushi saw her coming in for a close-range assault. He swapped his katana for the reverse grip in an effort to block her attack. First eight strikes were sucessfuly blocked and he avoided any damage to his chakra network. Although Hinata had to dodge the blade herself as she was unarmed. "Sixteen palms." Hinata struck faster, tears falling freely as she poured her anger and pain into the attack.

Fukushi was struggling to keep up and in three consecutive hits, Hinata disarmed him. Fukushi responded by continuing with raw taijutsu. He had suffered three hits to his right arm and one to his neck this time. The one eyed shinobi tried to summon a kunai but Hinata immediately struck it with her gentle fist and the blade was disrupted and burst into smoke. "Thirty two palms." Her speed increased further but before she could land a good hit on her opponent. Fukushi lashed out and grabbed her throat with his left hand. Ignoring the fact his move gave her free four hits to his chest. He ignored the pain and threw her to the floor.

"You dare touch Hinata?" Naruto shouted as he ran towards the tired shinobi. His anger was seething again after the attempt on her life. He had been fueled by the sudden wave of fear of actually losing her as he wasn't close enough to get to her in time and if Sakura hadn't of jumped in…

"Resengan!" Naruto yelled at the top of his voice. Fukushi saw the incoming ninja armed with a spinning blue ball of chakra. He forced himself to get stead and picked up his katana with his left hand. Despite his numbed reflexes he was able to hold the blade in both hands. His opponent was a step closer, the remaining vision in his right eye momentarily blacked out. The air grew thick and his leg gave way. He gazed up at Naruto who was about to bring down the resengan.

"Fukushi get up!" Monica screamed, She saw him fall and rushed in between him and the resengan. Monica grabbed Naruto's wrist and tried to push him off. The strength difference was obvious as inch by inch the blue ball of chakra pushed closer to Monica. What felt like several painful minutes, she was finally forced onto her knee and Naruto kept up his onslaught. Monica was sweating from the heat given off by his chakra but still refused to budge. A strand of wind chakra cut into Monica shoulder. She cried out in pain only for more and more cuts sliced into her flesh. Blood welling up and dripping down her front. With a loud cry she pushed Naruto off to her right who immediately spun and kicked her in the face. Naruto had to jump back, he had to grab Hinata as a flood of fire poured from where she was crouching and heading straight for where Hinata was laying. Naruto carefully laid Hinata down by Sakura who quickly checked for damage, only whiplash from being thrown by the neck.

The blond shinobi closed his eyes and his body quickly coated itself in a bright orange cloak of chakra. He opened his eyes across the blue fire, Revealing his pupils were a fierce dark red. He channeled his chakra into a resengan once more but as he formed the ball it grew in size and the shape changed into a large shuriken. He threw it at the pair who were clearly unable to dodge. His attack probably wouldn't kill them but certainly damage their bodies severely as the wind chakra would attack their very cells.

Monica bit her lip and closed her eyes. Concentrating hard she signed a long string of hand signs. She had one shot at this and the incoming wind shuriken rasengan could not distract her. A split second before impact she leaped on top of Fukushi and the explosion of Naruto's attack made a deep, large creator. Almost completely bisecting the road. All of her fire was put out and the eight attacking shinobi stood in morbid silence, some were in awe of his powerful attack which he managed to throw across to them. Once the smoke and dust settled the ninja looked on in horror. The creator was empty. No bodies were found.

Naruto slumped to the ground. Hinata was almost killed and he had nothing to show for it. "God fucking damn it!" He swore. He was sure Fukushi was too exhausted to teleport out.

"Did anyone see a lightning strike?" Shikamaru asked, with a little urgency.

"No." Sakura admitted. "But i did see more of Monica's fire."

"Hell, i think she's been taught to teleport as well, this is just going to get worse before it gets better. Alright spread out and find them. I doubt they have energy to fight but go in pairs." Shikamaru ordered as the team leader. The two sand ninja who had been fighting Monica to a stalemate limped in pain as they both suffered bruises but nothing major that requires attention. Matsuri walked up to Shikamaru.

"I'm sorry we tried to block her but she just bolted to quickly for use to effectively stop her."

"You did your best, but now we need to find them. I have a feeling Monica isn't so proficient with her skills yet. So we are at an advantage right now.

The four leaf and four sand shinobi spent the next hour searching the nearby landscape for the two injured shinobi. Shikamaru organised them into likely spots visible from the road where Naruto struck them. Despite their best efforts, everyone returned empty handed

"What was that about?" Naruto asked once everyone had returned. He was referring to Monica blocking his attack. "Monica really did risk everything to save him, I just don't understand why she would go this far."

"He's alone." Sakura replied. "To answer your earlier question, Naruto, I don't think that he did anything to Monica but rather Monica saw his pain and would rather turn away from her village than to allow him to suffer alone."

"The Tsuchikage will not be happy with a failed mission. This is going to be a drag." Shikamaru sighed as the eight ninja turned towards the village.

End of Act I

Last chance to vote, once i start writing i'm not going to go back over it.

Explicit ~ Lemon tree

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