Wow, its been a busy past couple months, finished a year in university. Got attacked by fleas. Throw out squatters. Tidy my house up. Finally settled down and started writing some more. Keep an eye out on earlier chapters I am adding additional bits and changing the characters somewhat (usually significantly by over 1000 words extra per chapter). Like toning down Fukushi and Naruto. I felt their portrayal was slightly off, although I may want to increase Monica's 'uniqueness'. And actually tone down Naru/Hina relationship just a little bit, I feel like I have been inconsistent and I kinda wanted them to be very close in the story but not quite there (you'll see it soon don't worry.) As for lemons that I've mentioned. I am struggling to fit into the story as they do break the mood and pace by a lot.

Also thoughts from me while reading other fan-fics. Why is flashbacks used so much? I mean I get it's for telling a bit of back-story which is fine but I personally feel they break pacing too much too.

I am feeling more confident about my story and how people respond to them so I may be changing some previous chapters a lot more than others as I was worried I was going to put off readers, until I realised most don't go past the first chapter anyway (sad days). But I want to write this for me more than anything so I'll keep at it despite not being the hottest piece of literature. (Little bit naïve to think my first story would be a massive hit but ah well, live and learn.)

Please continue to support me, I do always enjoy reading reviews although I am always nervous when I get the emails in case it's a bad one and I've fucked up.

Second edition: someone kindly pointed out I had written something that did not make sense, so I am changing it.

Meanwhile in Konoha

Kakashi could only be described as defeated. One pile of paperwork after another and he had enough. Sitting on his office chair and slumped into his arms while fiddling with his pen. With Shikamaru still trying to decipher an entire language and no one to help organise the documents so it was no longer a bottom line and sign a line deal. He finally understood why many Kage develop some kind of addiction, for example Tsunade's drinking and her gambling. He had considered getting a replacement for Shikamaru but he hadn't the heart to subject anyone to this level of boredom. At least the Nara clan leader didn't mind and it was less 'troublesome' than active duty. The sixth Hokage closed his eyes and wished for a distraction. Although at this point the lesson of 'be careful what you wish for' would have been valuable to Kakashi. He heard a tab on the window which caught his attention. The tapping was from a messenger crow, an important one to be right at the window instead of the messenger tower. He slowly got up and if half his body was still asleep and Kakashi opened the window. He took a deep breath of fresh air in and silently held his hand out for the bird to jump onto his wrist. To a civilian, the bird would be too heavy but Kakashi had untold strength from his many years training. He thumbed the message off the leg and reached over for a peanut inside a small tub by the window. After feeding the bird he threw it into the air and the hawk spread its wings and took flight. Now Kakashi unravelled the note and read. 'Dynamo of the Fire country has summoned you in two days at noon.' Kakashi sighed and wondered what the Dynamo could want. For the most part the Hokage and the Dynamo worked autonomously from each other but he still had to answer to him over country wide policies. However, this was unusual, normally the Dynamo would have set regular dates of which meant Kakashi was not to be summoned for another three weeks at least. Before Kakashi could sit down, he noticed Sasuke had let himself in. Silently and unnoticed until he let his presence known to Kakashi.

"Sensei." He politely greeted and Kakashi simply nodded and played off that he was surprised. The Hokage sat down into his office chair and clasped his hands together, giving his former student his full attention.

"You're back early, not since you delivered that weapon. Although we haven't been able to determine how it was used. We don't have enough left to make use of it."

Sasuke nodded. "Well I have returned with some new information. A note, just before half of my spy network vanished."

"Vanished?"

"Not responding, not leaving messages, nothing." Sasuke replied in a monotone.

"Not sure how your network could go silent so quickly but what was the note?"

"That note said, 'Revise your allies.'"

"Was that all?"

"Other than it was actually directed to you, yes that's all, Lord Kakashi you don't know what this means I take it?"

Kakashi furrowed his brow at the 'lord' but shook his head. "No."

"Tsh, I guess I'll keep digging."

"You could ask Shikamaru although he'll probably just spell out the obvious."

"I'll leave first thing tomorrow, Sakura is needing to catch up with friends."

"They are your friends you know."

Sasuke only nodded once before turning to leave, his dark blue cloak flicked around him as he opened the door to leave the office. Kakashi sighed heavily. Things were getting more and more difficult now. Another knock, this time at the door that Sasuke just left a mere minute ago. In fact as the door opened you could still see Sasuke who hung around in case he was needed. For good reason, the man was a chunin, wore standard shinobi gear with dark sunglasses and his kunai were visible on his arms to be thrown at a moment's notice.

"Lord Hokage, lightning has been spotted about five miles from the North gate. It's him!"

"That close? Understood, Sasuke get a team of jonin shinobi ready to meet me at the North gate. You can go back to your post. Make sure everyone is armed."

"I'll get the dope." Sasuke vanished without a trace.

Kakashi had already stood to attention and walked over to an armour stand which held his flak jacket and a few bits of his shinobi attire, such as pouches and protective plates. His head was swimming with thoughts, too much has happened in a small space and Kakashi did not like it. His raised his hand to his face and shunshin'd outside.

Meanwhile, five miles away, Monica and Fukushi were stood side by side with their weapons drawn. In front of them in the clearing were around thirty shinobi. The majority had their headbands scratched out. The two noticed that many were from various minor villages such as the waterfall, rain and hot springs. All apart from six Shinobi in the middle who to Monica she could not identify. However, to Fukushi who saw their heavier armour. A patterned bronze cuirass resting on top of dark blue robes. Supporting a bronze helmet with a plumb of dark hair and blue stones set into the head plate. Giving them a much darker appearance to their counterparts. Each of the six warriors looked armed to the teeth with a uniform spear in each hand, a sword by their belt, and an assortment of small tools and weapons should they come to need them.

"See I told you there will always be more, Monica watch out for the ones in blue. They are well trained and probably have powerful ninjutsu." He whispered to his partner.

"You think we can make a break for it?"

"No, they managed to put a fuuinjutsu on me, likely have a counter to my teleporting. If I am going to be honest, we are at a disadvantage."

Despite the two talking, no one moved. Doing so would initiate the battle and someone was likely to die. To the rogue shinobi, their lack of skill should have made them cocky and attacked prematurely. Had their ambush worked, no less than seven were cut down in a matter of seconds to the onslaught of the rogue pair. Their bodies lay around the clearing, still and stained from their lethal cuts.

"Well well, what do we have here?" One man in blue interrupted, presumably the leader as his armour had gold trimmings on and more blue stones adorning him. He also lacked a sword but instead had a hatchet on his side, and unusual weapon to fight with granted but revealed he was something of a special flower in the group. "The last of the Solaris family. Fleeing from the fire like the rat you are."

"Who said I was fleeing?"

"If you knew what was coming, you should. But for now, you have something that our emperor wants. Give it to me boy!"

"Are you just gonna' talk all day? Or are you going to come and get it?"

"We have much to talk about boy. For starters, how long as it been since you saw your home?" The man grinned. The only reaction was Fukushi twitching his eye but it was enough to know how he felt. "Seven? Eight years? Oh, I was there too. Your family was by far the weakest we had to face. More-so now that only a coward survived, a pitiful existence with no pride or wealth, no name and no family. Well we will be the one to put you out of your misery. So you can rest easy."

"Bastard…"

"What was that boy? You think you can stand up to us? A whore and a coward against thirty warriors?" He got a battle cry out of all the surrounding shinoibi, as if what he said was entertaining a crowed and they liked it.

"I said, you're a bastard. You killed my family and now I'll make sure I'll be the one to cut the head off your greedy emperor."

"You won't even live to see me strike you a second time. Soliders! The bounty on this mans' head has just risen to three million ryo. Bring it to me!"

Upon his command four nina jumped up into the air. Two of them could not have been older than Fukushi himself. The first planted a foot on Fukushi's left arm which glowed yellow for the small shield he had summoned and pushed the girl off who summersaulted back over her attack. Monica was more direct in her approach. She timed her slash to hit her opponent while he was vulnerable in the air. She immediately spun her blade around and stabbed the man through his back just as he landed. To finish it off she retracted her blade and cut the head off to make sure he was as dead as a door nail. She managed to summon a kunai and block a swipe from another opponent. Their blades locked but Fukushi had just thrown off his attacker and immediately forces his blade down on the arms of her aggressor. Slicing them clean off at the elbows. Monica returned the favour by flicking her kunai at another woman who tried to flank Fukushi to the right. The blade imbedded into her stomach and immediately combusted into emerald blue flames. With a shriek in fear as the flames quickly engulfed her and she fled to try and find water. Although she did not get very far as the screams started and his fell to the floor, writhing around. Monica even took a moment to watch her burn, smiling at how she moved and how the flames seemed to evade her attempts to squash them out.

Fukushi and Monica bobbed and weaved past each other. She cut a man on his arm who jumped back before she could strike again. With death in her eyes she smiled as she quickly signed through a jutsu with her left hand.

"Fire style: flaming breath!" Monica shouted before exhaling a jet of fire which forced the enemy away. The fire seemed heavy though and once it reached the limits of her range the fire fell to the floor and 'stuck' to the ground creating a wall of fire.

Fukushi had more to deal with. One opponent managed to kick his katana high into the air. In turn the one-eyed shinobi kicked the man away and lunged at the second man who was expecting him to be unarmed. He blocked Fukushi's palm with his arms in a cross shape but he was only blasted away in an explosion of sparks as Fukushi's silent jutsu connected. A chain was thrown around Fukushi's waist but instead of being pinned. A crack of lightning and Fukushi was in front of the thrower. He slashed his chest and spun him around so his back was turned towards Monica, plunging his kunai deep into the mans' gut and a quick weave of signs, Fukushi palmed the man and send him flying like the previous opponent. Fukushi teleported back to Monica's side before an opening was exploited and he grabbed the katana by the hilt. With both hands, he cut the man he launched at himself in half. Blood spraying across the two warriors.

Standing back in their original places stood the two, rogue shinobi. Now faced with a thinned crowed of less confident shinobi. Their faces and nervous glances were evident as they had begun to doubt their ability compared to the two opponents. Their style lacked refinement yet their coordination and concentration; mixed in with unorthodox movements and fast, powerful ninjutsu.

"I might have been impressed but is that all you have? A Solaris, masters of jutsu. Hmph looks like we don't need to be worried about you. Clearly you've wasted your years on the run with this whore."

"Shut the fuck up, I am not a whore." Monica shouted back but the team of blue warriors all burst out laughing.

"Feisty for a whore aren't you. What are you? Sixteen? I prefer my women my age but I am sure you'll fetch a good price."

"Come down here and I'll show you how little of a man you really are." She hissed but still remained routed by Fukushi who was glancing at her for her outburst. Monica's heart was thumping loudly, she knew that if they were enough to make Fukushi worried then she could not overstep her limits for a second. Having said that he hated when they laughed. It scratched the back of her head and became painful quickly. Her shouting helped though, just must not go too far.

"You know these bandits that you managed to round up are no match for us. So come and do your own dirty work. Or are you so set on keeping your pretty and delicate skin from getting hurt. Are you worried that we might be better than you?" Fukushi goaded at them. He thought that playing to their arrogance would get them to duel him. Sure, he knew they won't fight fair but if honour was ever held in their eyes then duelling might be the best option. Fukushi had the chakra to prolonge the fight, although he was worried about Monica who still had not gained confidence with sealing enough to tattoo her body with a chakra seal. Her fire jutsu was powerful but burned chakra very quickly.

"You can't even scratch me!" The leader of the group jumped in front of everyone and spun his spear around his body until he had gripped it firmly in his two hands and began to charge against the pair. Fukushi and Monica readied their weapons before them and both blade remained perfectly still. The blue warrior would have cleared the distance in a few strides had a strange eagle not divebombed directly in front of his path. The eagle was not a natural bird but instead black and white with stylised swirls, as if it was drawn then summoned. The eagle immediately exploded into a pool of ink which caused the blue warrior to jump back. Especially as two lions of similar style pulled themselves out of the ink and then jumped on him. However, with a quick jap of his spear, one lion was felled and before the second lion could cause any damage he swung the spear like a mace over his head and forced it crashing down on the skull of the second lion.

"Interrupting something?" A pale man stepped out of behind a tree which was up a bank and behind Monica.

"Fuku. Behind" Monica hissed as the pair immediately stepped so they were back to back. Just as she said that though several ninjas emerged from the forest. Standing on branches and looking down at the battle before them. While Fukushi only knew some of them, that and he was facing the foreign shinobi. Monica knew their names. Sai, Naruto, Sasuke who had an air of knowing something no one else did, Sakura, Hinata to which Monica shuddered and was reminded of her gentle fist attacks, Lee, Shino, Kiba and his companion; Akamaru, Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, and lastly Tenten. Monica looked at each one of them who in turn gave her the look of disgust. Especially Lee who looked like he was already defeated but nevertheless ready to fight.

"Are you sure you want to keep going with this plan?" Monica whispered. "They brought all their best ninja."

"Put it this way. We will die doing the right thing in the end, even if no one knows it."

"I'm scared it feels like we are escaping Iwa all over again. I don't want to lose you." Monica replied, Fukushi reached behind and gave her arm a comforting squeeze.

"We've been looking for you!" Naruto's loud and commanding voice rang out in the clearing. From the perspective of the leaf ninja they had arrived at the middle of a battle. Sai was there waiting for them because he had finally caught up to his targets. With a little help of the clear signs if ninjutsu being performed. They had all agreed to show full force despite not expecting the rogue shinobi to be actually there by the time they had arrived. They were proven wrong, already Shikamaru was wondering why the fight is taking so long, and who the distinct dark bronze and blue shinobi were.

The man who had just taken out the ink beasts just looked around amused. "Oh I see it now. The last of the Solaris and you were too cowardly to even ask for help. Leaf ninja, help me take the boy and I'll let you have the girl, we don't need her."

Sasuke deadpanned. "These rogue ninjas are to be brought in and tried for crimes they committed to us. We will even overlook your rogue allies, for now."

"Does it matter which cage he ends up in. We will even offer you riches beyond your wildest dreams."

"And what crime has a ten year old child ever done to you? The age he was when he ran from his home?" With this he got a few looks off his comrades.

"Sasuke, who are these men?" Naruto asked, not breaking his stare on the pair in the middle of both sides.

"Dope, you of all people should know that there is always more about a person than you see or know."

"You never said that you know him."

"You never asked."

"Our business is our own, stand down or we will kill you too." The blue ninja interrupted. He sounded impatient as tensions were rising to the point someone could feel it hanging in the air. He looked around and made a 'tick' noise. "You know what? Fuck it. Men, keep our guests off me. I'll get him myself!" On his command the five comrades he brought shunshined in front of the leaf shinobi who immediately had to jump back as five spears in unison lunged forward.

Sasuke side stepped his attacker, the sharingan aiding him in instantly anticipating the attack. He dodged the flurry of stabs from the spear, took a step back and with lightning relaxes, drew his sword and parried the spear head. Stepped in while twisting the sword into the reverse grip and proceeded to slash at the man's neck. However, Sasuke had to cancel the attack, the butt of the spear was thrusted towards his gut and so the Uchiha jumped over the blue warrior throwing his sword like a javelin, but the spear caught it and flicked Sasuke's attack to one side. The distraction paid off as Sasuke had enough time to build up chakra for the Uchiha specialty.

"Fire style: Giant fireball." He inhaled and exhaled a fierce and large fireball, aimed directly the foreign warrior. Who stood firm and took the attack directly. He thrusted the spear into the ground and kneeled before the fire-user. The fire died down in reveal a bubble of water, steam billowing off it violently as Sasuke's attack was cancelled. "Sai! Deal with him. I am going after Fukushi!"

The second man to lunge at Sakura had a surprise when she immediately grabed onto the spear and with her right arm, punched him directly into the chest. Bending the metal of his armour under her fist. Her opponent was knocked back, landing hard on his back. He jumped back up and drew his sword that hung by his hip. Glaring at the pink haired opponent.

Ino had her eyes wide open as the tip of the blade neared her chest. Time slowed for her as she had no way to move quick enough out of the way. She was about to let out a silent scream but to her left she heard her comrade, Choji speak.

"Partial expansion Jutsu!" the spear wielder was subsequently replaced by a large fist which was around the size of the man himself. The blue shinobi immediately was forced painfully into the other blue ninja who struck out at Shikamaru. Shikamaru had caught the spear in his hands. With an iron grip, he summoned his shadows to paralyse the man in place. Shikamaru's opponent could only watch as the improvised projectile ploughed into him and knocked both men into a heap on the floor.

Last of all, Shino, out of all the leaf ninja he was the only one to be actually 'hit'. He looked down at the pole which had penetrated straight through his chests. The flak jacket darkened with the blood. Despite this, no cry of agony came for the man. In fact, the only indication that Shino was wiser of the situation was a small 'hmph' in acknowledgment. Shino then revealed himself to be an insect clone. The last unnamed ninja immediately reeled back from the insects but instead of shaking them off he punched the ground and sent thousands of small spikes made of grass into each and every insect was impaled by the small green blades. The attacked earned a nod from Shino who was standing further into the treeline.

A full-on shinobi battle had started, Sai taking on Sasuke's opponent, Choji, Ino, Shikamaru, Shino and Sakura took on their respective opponents. Tenten, Lee, Hinata, Kiba, and Akamaru dived down into the fray below and quickly separated to chase down the rogue Ninja. Hinata made a spit judgement call and immediately leaped up into the air, and for good reason. A blue fireball exploded where she was standing moments ago, trails of embers shot out in all directions as the ground was scorched. Hinata landed to face Monica who had a fireball in her left hand, illuminating her in a blue glow. In her right hand was her Wakizashi. She flicked it and the blade caught aflame, fire burned fiercely as if it was trying to pull away from her.

"Round two bitch."

"You're not going to run away with just a throat injury this time." Hinata called back, her Byakugan activated and both hands in front of her and stretched out to ready herself for combat.

That left Naruto and Sasuke, Naruto was first to approach Fukushi who was already engaged by the head blue ninja. They stood apart by around five paces and had their weapons in both of their hands as if limiting them to just physical attacks. The unnamed man rushed forward and lunged at Fukushi who swiped his sword from left to right and flicked the tip away from his face. With one fluid movement, he the swung up to catch the foreign warrior in the chest or chin. However, he was blocked by the shaft of the spear which would have normally been sliced in half with such a move. But instead Fukushi's blade dug into rock, a transformation which happened instantaneously. The man did not stop there, he twisted the spear shaft and buried the tip into the ground. Giving Fukushi a split second to jump back as a stone spear erupted from the ground.

"Rasengan!" Naruto called out just as he caught up to the combat, he was already in his biju form, knowing that anything less and he would be too slow to counter Fukushi's lightning prowess. To which Fukushi obliged and teleported out of the resengan's path and allowing for the blue shinobi to take the brunt of the force. Or so was the plan, Fukushi jumped behind Naruto in a bright flash of lightning but immediately found himself within a fuuinjutsu pentagram trap which finally came into play. The trap glowed a fierce red before a huge explosion, blasting the one-eyed shinobi across the clearing and hitting the ground hard, clattering back ungracefully. He had absorbed most of the hit by jumping as he had been expecting some sort of counter but had he been a second slow he was sure his legs would have been blown off. Meanwhile, Naruto was on target to hit the foreign warrior but the distance he still had to cover allowed him to raise the spear and turn it into stone. Spear and resengan collide and after a slight resistance both weapons exploded, spear into fragments and the resengan dissipated.

Without missing a beat, Naruto swung with his fist and resorted to blunter tactics and punched his square in the face. Before any further combat could continue a shower of kunai rained on the pair. Naruto jumped back, while the dark blue warrior drew out his axe. He appeared to snap it in half and in the end, he held two axes, one in each hand and proceeded to parry the oncoming kunai. Bolt after bolt of lightning struck the man every time he parried. His mistake became clear as once the smoke cleared from the intense head he was pulling a kunai that had lodged deep into his gut. The blade fizzed out into nothingness as he flicked it to one side. He got up off his knee and pulled the axe out of the earth and back to being fully equipped, albeit gritting his teeth in pain.

Fukushi dived on the orange glowing shinobi, katana baring down on him. This time, Naruto in turn, noticed the attack and held out a tri-pronged kunai to block the deadly blade. The two collided with a horrific grinding shriek as neither material gave up under the strength. Fukushi and Naruto looked into each other's faces momentarily, Fukushi won the mental battle and began to pour electric chakra through his sword. Naruto held on but the pain quickly grew intense for him. Roaring like a beast being struck by the hunter, the Uzimaki formed a resengan in his left hand. The blue chakra spun faster and faster, becoming more and more concentrated until he thrust his palm at Fukushi, forcing him to cancel his attack and jump back. Naruto was ready for his move and threw the kunai at Fukushi who ducked under the projectile and turned to expect Naruto. On cue Naruto appeared in a flicker, but he made a move that Fukushi was not expecting. A blow from Naruto's forehead. The distraction was enough to through said resengan into the rogue's chest and blow him back, past the blue warrior who dodged the human projectile.

"You had to get in our way." He called at the blond who was still emitting the biju chakra. "We would have easily beaten the two of them. But you had to interfere!" The leader of the blue shinobi began to charge Naruto. Both axes were outstretched as if he meant to give him a bear hug.

"Hey asshole, if you're going to trap me, at least make sure it can't backfire." Fukushi called out but before anyone could figure the one Solaris survivor teleported right behind his opponent and grappled his throat before pushing off him to jump away from the trap that was set up. Before the man fell to the floor the trap detonated and propelled him across to Naruto.

"Chidori!" Sasuke stepped in front of Naruto just as he was about to duck and avoid the man. He looked up to see his old team mate standing strong and with a glowing fist through the heart of the man who groaned lowly to himself. "Get up dope, can't have you sitting on the job." Sasuke glanced at the hissing bronze that was supposed to protect the man. Instead it bent inwards along with Sasuke's fist. All he heard was the man chuckle his last breath away.

"You ssstill l..l…lose…"

The dying man weakly pointed towards the forest edge. Sasuke glanced over and saw several men rushing to find a good spot to kneel and take aim. Some just stood in the open while others were kneeling or laying behind cover. Had they been ninjas, they would have put the leaf to shame with their 'stealth' because many of them had fainter chakra signatures than Lee himself. No, these were not shinobi trained in the arts, these were normal humans while limited to no chakra signatures. Inferior to ninja in every way except they were invisible to chakra based sensory that shinobi were renowned for. Each man was aiming with a weapon previously unseen in the area. A long pipe-like weapon made of metal and wood. Above the right hand, where the trigger was, held a simple leaver that held a small piece of string. The string was smouldering quietly with a small wisp of smoke creeping past the faces of the civilian warriors. Most important of all, the string was poised to plunge into the chamber and fire the weapon. Even Sasuke felt the immediate surprise threat to his life. His Sharingan could see several fingers twitch on the trigger. With speed rivalling that of the great forth hokage he throw the dead man to one side and Shunshined with a nearby body to get of their aim.

"Fuku! Duck!" Monica's voice screamed out, penetrating the general noise of battle but then quickly silencing it. Everyone looked at the Orange haired ninja who momentarily broke combat with Hinata. A Thunderous roar echoed throughout. Sounding like hundreds of explosive tags all going off at the same time. Flash followed by smoke erupted from the forest edge. Projectiles started to instantly thud against the ground like heavy hail. Monica, who had also saw the advance to the tree line immediately dived for the floor and avoided all the projectiles, narrowly missing several bullets. Fukushi and Sakura were the lucky ones, bullets whizzed past but none scored a hit. Ino was first to be struck under the relentless fire, the projectile penetrated straight through her shoulder, she cried out in pain before falling down in shock. Shikamaru was tripped up as a bullet struck him in the leg. Shino was not as lucky as one bullet struck him in the gut and followed immediately by a second shot to the arm, he crumpled to the floor in agony. Choji too was not so lucky and was shot in his right lung. His strength counted for nothing as the projectile lodged deep into his chest. Sai, Lee, Tenten, and Kiba had moved out of the clearing as their fights lead them away from the main conflict. Naruto was the exception, the biju ability prevented the projectiles to penetrate his flesh. Kurama was working hard to keep up the chakra armour but he couldn't do anything about the concussive force of each shot. The blond was able to stand the first two shots but he quickly lost balance and fell into his back. Kurama's chakra held but the bruises would last. That is until he witnessed something horrific. Monica had dived out of the way of Hinata which left her completely exposed. Naruto's eyed widened in fear as a small metal ball shot straight through her throat, knocking her back from the force of the attack as if she slipped on something or ran into a low bar. Her beautiful pale eyes had already begun to darken and become void of life as tears splashed off her cheeks. Time stood still and the world bowed its head in reverence. Naruto had seen it all and already was drawing parallels when Hinata had sacrificed herself for him, a feeling he still was not used to nor will he ever be. He could feel his heart ache, worse than being shot, stabbed and beaten to the floor.

"Kurama." He spoke in a low dark voice. "Finish this."

"Naruto, without my chakra you could get…"

"Finish this." The blond interrupted. He stood up despite the hair of bullets still shooting past the leaf shinobi. Kurama burst out of the Jinchuriki into his full-sized form. He looked over his shoulder to see the boy who had managed to quench his anger.

"Naruto… I'm sorry, I know how much she meant to you." He spoke with a voice full of empathy for what feels like the first time in his life. That feeling was short lived, rage built up in the biju and all nine tails immediately shot forward and killed nine men instantly. Several more vaporised in the blast of pure chakra that he charged up in one deafening roar. It wasn't long until the riflemen all began to route and flee from the monster that perused them.

The blond ninja slowly walked towards Hinata. He looked defeated and anyone who knew him could see how much he already missed the Hyuuga princess. He knelt down by her head and slowly closed her eyes. She looked peaceful had her crimson blood not contrasted so much with her pale skin. One of Naruto's tears fell onto her cheek as he recalled the exact moment from Peins attack. 'Yes, know pain… do you hate me now?' The words rang through Naruto's head and his anger built up. Anger that could even rival Kurama's rage. He turned to Fukushi who was scrambling away from the nine-tails as this was the first time he experienced something so, awesome, terrifying. Naruto's eyes glared at the one-eyed shinobi as if he could change them to red without Kurama's chakra.

"Get up you coward!" Naruto demanded with venom in his words.