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Last time on: Greatness
… "Ne boss, where are you going again?"
"Even though I do not want to be a carbon copy of Sasori, a spy network does sound like a great asset and people loyal to me sounds even better. I can't start in Iwa for obvious reasons, Suna has regular correspondence with Konoha, and Kumo is also a bad decision since because of the Hyuuga incident their borders security has also been tighter expecting a surprise attack, so that leaves Kiri."
Now…
CHAPTER 4
An eight legged… thing skittered blazingly over and passed the borders of Kiriagakure no Sato under the trees. The surrounding environment was getting mistier by the metre. It was relatively quiet besides the near silent sound of crunching leaves until it had to unseal a kunai from its right arm and deflect a thrown kunai. It ran into a clearing in the forests and waited patiently for its attackers to join him.
A minute later two other figures jumped into the clearing and had to take three steps backwards before they gained some semblance of self-control.
"My god" the shorter person muttered, he had on goggles. His distinguishing features were the fact that he had blue hair and shark-like teeth. Naruto assumed that he wasn't much older than himself. He carried on his back one of the Seven Swords of the Mist, Hiramekarei (the twin sword) "what are you?"
"That question is highly offensive, stranger," Kumo hissed, sending shivers down their spines, they took another step back much to the hidden Naruto's pleasure "first things first, are you two by any chance part of the rebel faction of Kiri?"
"It depends on what you are here for creature" the other person, much braver than the first speaker, spat. He was taller and wore an eye patch, "how do we know that you have good intentions?"
"You don't" Kumo hissed, sending shudders raking through the two ninja, "but I swear to you my intentions are good, towards the rebels that is"
"Pardon me if I don't believe you." The second man said. He went through some hand seals and activated the hidden byakugan behind his eye patch. He examined Kumo and relaxed a bit when he saw a boy about two years younger than Choujuro with midnight black hair and green pupiless eyes (he henge'd) wink within it at him motioning for him to keep quiet. He nodded. "He's safe-"
"What! How is that safe!" the younger of the two yelled, frantically pointing at the almost perfect cross between a man and a spider, "look at it!"
"In my day, Choujuro, younger ones listen to what their elders say without question" the second man said sternly.
"I'm sorry Ao, but you can't really blame me" the now named Choujuro murmured.
"Understandable, now let us take hime back to Mei-sama" Ao said.
"Hai!"
The two ninja led the way into Kiri's rebel faction base. The road was silent, but that changed when they were surprisingly surrounded by the at least 40 of the opposite faction of the war, the Mizukage's supporters.
"Look 'it we've got here boys! Two bloodline lovers and their pet freak" one of the ambushing ninja said sneered, "Mizukage-sama would be pleased if we bring there heads and that there sword to him."
"Hai Tomoi-san lets bring back their heads!" four other ninja parroted.
Ao and Choujuro took their stances, realized that they were painfully out-numbered. That was until the grotesque like creature chuckle-hissed loudly. "Oh? What makes you think you can win against us?"
"There's 43 of us and three of you freak!" the first ninja, apparently the leader, yelled.
"no… there's 43 of you and…" he quickly unrolled a scroll from…somewhere and, in a small puff of smoke, summoned a cute 5 year old girl that wore a purple kimono with black floral patterns on it and black sandals. She had small pouty lips, back hair, light green pupils and slightly tanned skin. Oh yeah, she also had a faint blush.
There was silence. Then all the surrounding ninja burst into uproarious laughter, watching as the small girl scuffed her feet on the ground with her head down. Ao and Choujuro sighed quietly, wondering which kind of crack pot summons a cute little girl to fight-she didn't even look like she could hold any kind of weapon. Even a standard issue kunai!
"Look at her! She's too cute to be threatening!" most of the ninja shouted. While the rest squealed "kawaii!"
Virtually nothing could make this girl in any way threatening. If only they knew.
Ko's head snapped up and she opened her mouth, at the back of her throat a seal charged up and when it was fully charged numerous ninja wire shot out of it, wrapped around and pulled in at least 30 of the laughing and gushing ninja who disappeared into the child-puppets mouth. This happened in 4 seconds.
There was total and absolute silence. No one expected that to happen.
Not giving the remaining ninja any time to think or run, she snapped open her mouth again and sucked in the remaining ninja.
Then she burped and giggled, "Oops, excuse me!" Ao and Choujuro gaped at the adorable child, "what?"
Kumo chuckle-hissed quietly to himself and sealed back Ko in a small puff of smoke. "Let us continue our journey, please." Both ninja that witness the fantastical sight dumbly nodded and proceeded on their way to the rebels' hideout.
"Uhm, sir? Are they… dead" the blue haired boy murmured with a horrified look plastered on his face.
"No they are not," the puppet hissed "not yet at least. They would remain in there until I release them or they die in a month's time from lack of food and water and fade into oblivion."
"So…" Ao also murmured, visibly humbled by the sight. Still trying to wrap his mind around what he has just seen. "Did you say you were going to aid us in the war?"
"I wish to strike a deal with your leader before I can give you an answer."
And with that the three continued down their path to the rebels' hideout with the poor blue haired Choujuro twitching any time he thought he saw the half spider move his arms.
'This… boy will be a very valuable ally to make in this war' the eye patch wearing war veteran said to himself, 'I hope Mei-sama sees this as well'
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Back in Konoha, Naruto's clone was in the house of one of the first few people who acknowledged him. One of the first people to even bother noticing and looking under the mask that he used to constantly wear before his parents took the clan heir rights from him. One of the few people he could actually be himself around.
"How are you, Naruto-kun?" Hiruzen Sarutobi, the 'Kami no Shinobi' said to our young hero's clone as he reached over to the other side of the small table and poured him a cup of tea, Naruto nodded his thanks and took a sip.
"I'm fine, Sarutobi-oji-sama. Did you finally find out what has been killing your gardenia flowers?"
"Yes I have found out what is killing them but luring the damnable creature out is another problem entirely" the wise man exclaimed tiredly. "But enough about me, I hear from some of your sensei's that you are the best in the class, by any chance do you plan on graduating early?"
"Do you want me to graduate early, ji-sama?"
"That is entirely up to you, just know that whatever decision you make I would remain proud of you" the Sandaime Hokage smiled at his surrogate grandson.
'Naruto's' eyes glazed over with unshed tears and he pawed his face with the sleeve of his black shirt, his green hoodie folded at his side. "Th-thank you, ji-sama."
"no need to thank me m' boy. Is there another reason you are here?"
"actually yes, since I've decided to graduate early," here the old mans smile widened "I want to be totally prepared for what the shinobi world throws at me so I would like for you to please teach me some jutsu. Donton jutsu specifically."
"Naruto-kun, when you graduate your team's sensei would teach you jutsu" Hiruzen pointed out.
"I know that, but it never hurts to know them in advance" the boy whined, trying to put his face as innocently as possible.
The old man looked at the boy silently for a few minutes, then he slowly nodded his head, "ok Naruto-kun, first tell me why you need donton jutsu specifically" he said already in sensei mode.
"Because I have more offensive techniques than defensive" he answered quickly, his eyes meeting the elders firmly.
"What offensive techniques do you have?"
"I have my taijutsu style, my puppets and my fire clones"
The Sandaime nodded his head slowly. He already knew about his puppets because he was one of the few people the boy confided in. Then he did a double take, "wait, fire clones?"
"Yes, fire clones" 'Naruto' said as if it was the most common thing in the world. After a few seconds of silence he face palmed "I haven't told you about them yet?" Hiruzen shook his head negatively, "it's a type of elemental clone I created from my fire affinity since I couldn't make any other clone"
"I see… may I see it?" 'Naruto' nodded and formed the hand seals quickly, then in a quick burst of fire a doppelganger sat beside him looking at the former Kage with a small smile. Hiruzen also noticed that there was a small stream of green smoke coming from the clone's ears before it stopped. "Marvellous, Naruto-kun! You made a new cloning technique from scratch. This is genius!"
'Naruto' blushed and scratched the back of his head "it was nothing ji-sama."
Hiruzen tutted and stood up from his seat. He walked over to a shelf and took out a scroll before he walked back to 'Naruto' and handed it to him.
The reason why Hiruzen Sarutobi was known all over the elemental nations as the 'Kami no Shinobi' was because he was able to master all affinities of chakra: fire, water, earth, wind and lightening. Another reason was that he had lead Konoha through two of the three great ninja wars wisely. It was also know, despite his old age, that nobody was willing to pick a fight with the man, because-in simple terms-you will be destroyed.
"That is the Earth wall technique. If you can form a good, strong wall after reading the scroll come back to me and collect another jutsu. It would be harder than that" he said as he sat down. 'Naruto' handed the scroll to its clone and told it to start learning the jutsu, "so it also has the same perks as the shadow clone. Tell me Naruto-kun, would you be willing to share your new invention with other ninja."
"Of course I am, but the technique is very chakra intensive; like shadow clones"
"I see, then I should tell Minato to put it into the forbidden scroll" the man murmured to himself. It was comfortably quiet for a few minutes except for the sound of them both people sipping their almost forgotten tea.
"Ji-sama, do you think I should be a front line assault sort of ninja?" Naruto quietly asked, because he valued the mans opinion very much.
"I'm not the one meant to answer that question, you are." The man chuckled. "Tell me m' boy, what sort of ninja would you become?"
"I'm well rounded enough but if I want to choose ill go for either infiltration and assassination or espionage and sabotage, maybe I'll dabble in a bit of torture and interrogation." The 'boy' said as he scratched his chin in thought. "Yes that sounds about right."
Hiruzen raised an eyebrow at what the boy said but shrugged, "you wish to become a spy like Jiraiya?"
"No, I don't want to be anything like Jiraiya; it's just that a spy network is something to drool over." The man laughed at his answer.
"Good, then I can recommend a sensei for you to Minato when you graduate."
"Thank you, ji-sama" 'Naruto' smiled as he took the last sip of his tea and stood up, "well; I have a lot of things to do today. Ill see you later" 'he' said as he bowed and walked out of the wise old mans house.
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Over in Kiri, the three people had finally reached the hideout of the rebel faction.
The mist was denser here; it made Naruto wonder how they even knew the path because he could just barely see them the few feet that they were walking in front of him. Ao stopped before a thick iron door that looked as if it had materialized out of nowhere. He rapped his knuckle three times and waited.
An eye slit on the door opened sharply and looked at them briefly before asking, "Who is that, Ao-sama?"
"He is a future ally," the eye patch wearing man answered,
"I don't trust him, but I'll trust your decision commander" the man at the other side of the door said before he snapped the eye slit closed and a thunderous lock was opened. The door creaked open allowing Ao, Choujuro and Kumo to pass through before it was slammed shut.
The walk toward the leader of the rebel factions command tent was nerve wracking, for the rebels that is. One wont blame them because they had to bear witness to a man sized half man, half spider skittering slowly after two of their more prominent members while it grinned and waved at them. It was terrifying.
Finally, they reached the command tent and Ao told the still unnamed stranger to wait outside for a few minute while he went in with the blue haired boy. 2 minutes later a scuffle within the tent could be heard then it stopped abruptly, 5 minutes later a ruffled up and red faced Choujuro told him to come inside.
Even though Mei Terumi had been warned of the fact that the hopefully future ally was within a freakish half spider, she couldn't help but flinch and her heart race when Kumo finally walked in. he bowed to her and she gulped and bowed back.
Mei was very beautiful. She had brown ankle length hair and she wore a deep purple cloth that revealed more than it hid, the dress had a slit at her right side that went up her waist and she wore black shorts under it. She had a wonderful body and flaunted it to the world proudly.
Taking a deep breathe, Mei stood straighter and said "my name-name is Mei Terumi and I am the leader of the rebel forces of Kiriagakure no Sato. What is your name?"
"Call me Kumo, Mei-sama" he bowed again, "I am here to offer my services to your cause."
"Why do you want to help Kiri? What do you hope to gain?" Kumo nodded towards the guards at the corners of the tent, she nodded. "Can you guys please step out for a minute, thank you" she looked back at the grotesque creation when the last guard stepped out.
"To be totally honest, I'm making an investment in this hidden village" when he noticed that the woman send him some killer intent, he held up his hands "I mean that in the least offensive way possible. I wish to aid in this war to start up my plans."
"Which plans, Kumo-san?" Ao asked from the side.
"If you didn't already know, Ao and you did not already tell Mei-sama, I am a puppet."
Choujuro actually breathed a sigh of relief; Mei looked at the boy and smiled while saying "so the big strong Choujuro was afraid of a puppet."
"I-I was not afraid, Mei-sama, I can't sense chakra" he murmured dourly.
The woman ruffled his hair and smiled, "In time, Choujuro, in time." She then turned back to Kumo and said "if you are a puppet where is the puppet master?"
The now known puppet hissed but not from its mouth. The chest and stomach opened to reveal a cavity in which a boy with black hair, green pupiless eyes and pale skin to climbed out easily. He looked roughly 8 years old and he wore a black half face mask, with his equally black glasses in his hair. He had on dark green coloured ANBU pants, a black long sleeved shirt and an equally dark green hoodie jacket. The boy sealed the huge puppet into a tattoo seal on his wrist and turned to look at them with a stoic expression on his face.
"So you are Kumo?" Choujuro said, happy that the puppet was gone.
"Kumo is an alias; I will tell you my real name if you swear to secrecy until I am ready to reveal it." They nodded. "My real name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze."
"I have never heard of a Namikaze with black hair." Ao said pointedly.
"I am in a henge."
"If it is a henge, I would be able to see through it." He said pointedly again.
"My henge's are solid." The boy answered back sharply, folding his arms.
The veteran scoffed, "impossible, there is no such thing as a solid henge."
Naruto remained silent for a minute then his body rippled and changed to an exact replica of the other boy, Choujuro. Ao looked at him through his byakugan and paled.
"It really is solid…"
Naruto nodded and changed back to his former form, he looked at the gaping Terumi and said "do you people wish for my aid or not?"
"Now we do!" she exclaimed, "but how is a solid henge going to help us end the war."
"I had no intention of using a henge to end the war. I plan on using my puppets."
"You mean that tiny puppet girl Ao was ranting about?" she said, ignoring the mans offended mutterings.
"Before I can say that I need to know how to end the war." He replied slowly while he scratched his cheek.
"We need to cut the head off the snake, so we need to kill the Mizukage."
"Naruto nodded slowly, "what can you tell me about him."
Mei motioned for him to sit down at the command table across from her and laced her fingers under her chin. "He was a good Kage, one upon a time, but years ago he snapped and started commanding his soldiers to kill bloodline users, calling us filth. He is a jinchuriki of the 3 tailed turtle." She paused when she noticed that the formerly expressionless boy suddenly smiled slightly but she continued, "He is highly proficient with the hook staff, a master of water based ninjutsu and has extraordinary taijutsu. Quite frankly, I don't know how we're going to beat him but we can at least die trying."
"When you say he is a jinchuriki, does he ever use his bijou's chakra?"
"Yes, when he is forced to he will. Now young man, any ideas on how we could beat that tyrant?"
Naruto nodded and smiled slightly, "I have been told I'm am very good with seals-"
"Very good is an understatement, boy" Ao scoffed, "do you even plan on releasing those poor souls."
"we'll talk about that later" he turned back to the rebel leader, "there is unlimited possibilities to one who is proficient with seals" she nodded, already knowing this "I can not have Ko, the puppet that swallowed the opposing platoon, swallow the Mizukage because his bijou's chakra would just help him break out. So I plan on making a puppet that can actually suck out his and his bijou's chakra or super suppressing it and then incapacitate him. That is one way of winning the war."
"Is that even possible." The blue haired boy said from the side. Then he face palmed and muttered "of course it is."
Naruto smiled at him and nodded "of course it is" he looked back at the woman "if I go with that plan I'll need 3 days to prepare and the strongest tree you have."
"What of the other way?" the woman asked eagerly, grasping for straws, 'this kid is gold!'
"The other way is that I use my chakra to poison him. My chakra is incredibly dense." He demonstrated by wrapping Choujuro up in his green chakra, careful not to poison him, and lifted him around the room making it look like he was flying. He then dropped the boy gently and turned to a spare chair and shot a string from his thumb at it, the string latched onto it and a few seconds later the furniture melted into a pile of goop on the ground. He looked back at his awed crowd, "but I'm not sure how that would work on a jinchuriki. So I'll recommend using my first plan."
"Yes, that does seem like the smart thing to do" Mei agreed, "we use your first plan then if that fails, we'll us the second. Hopefully the man would be weakened."
Then the masked boy clapped his hands "now onto negotiations. Lets write it down to make it official." The woman snapped her fingers and Ao produced a piece of paper and a pen (I totally forgot what they use for writing. Pardon me.). "First, when we win the war, I want everyone to know Kumo not Naruto helped take down the Mizukage. My true identity would not be revealed until I reach jounin." Ao wrote this down.
"Wait, your not yet a ninja?" Choujuro asked.
Naruto shook his head "not yet, I'll become a genin in 8 months time. But, I've been told I'm already jounin material."
"And your father doesn't know about this?" Mei asked. Naruto shook his head again, "how come?"
"I left a clone in my place until I come back, he won't notice my absence. Back on topic, my second demand is that I wish to make this place would be a contact point in case the any spy of mine wouldn't be able to reach me in Konoha. You guys can always send me cryptic message, then I'll be on my way over." They nodded, agreeing, and Ao wrote it down. "third is that I want you guys to put Kumo in the bingo books, not as a wanted criminal but as a sort of bounty hunter slash suicide taking mission shinobi. This also connects to my first demand. If any nation sends for my prescience for a mission, Kiri would be where they would find out my location."
"That is agreeable, but why bingo books?" the woman in the group asked. "And why S-rank missions?"
"Apparently I inherited my mothers love for dangerous situations; I need a way to sate that love." He answered straight faced like it was common knowledge.
"Any more demands?"
"Yes, three more actually: If any of your ninja says that they want to become my spy, let them. You reserve your high mortality risk missions and its pays for Kumo-me. Lastly, I want a sort of I owe you."
"An I owe you?"
"Yes, like I can cash it in anytime and request for something."
"We can arrange for that if what you requested was not detrimental to internal security. When do you wish for us to sign this?"
"Now, if you don't mind. Ao and Choujuro should sign as well as witnesses. I'll keep the original and give you the copy later."
"Agreeable. Let's shake on it, Naruto-kun."
And with that, they sealed the deal.
Three days later
We now find our hero in an open field sitting down with his legs crossed while Mei Terumi stood calmly, Ao paced behind her and Choujuro stood beside Mei.
"Ao-kun, stay in one place or I'll kill you" the woman said sweetly, and then she turned to Naruto "what are we waiting for exactly, Naruto-kun?"
"I sent the Mizukage a message, I'm waiting for his reply" as if on cue, the Kage tower exploded in a shower of glorious shrapnel. Then a monstrous roar was heard. "Seems he got it."
"What did you do?" the poor blue haired boy quivered.
"the security in his tower is terribly poor, seems like not everyone likes him, so I riddled the place in exploding tags and when he sits down on his chair, it blows up-which it has-the Mizukage would find an unsealed letter on his chair telling him where to find me."
"That was incredibly stupid, Naruto-kun" Mei glared at the boy.
"I had no other idea on how to lure him out." He shrugged airily.
"And it worked, brat." A voice snarled from behind them. Ao and Choujuro took stances in front of Mei, Mei turned her glare to the cause of the war and Naruto stood up and unsealed wraps and his newest puppet, Chousensha (tank) or Chou (I know, I know, terrible name but I've got nothing. Think Burami from the Suna chunin exams). "I am not here for you, girl" he pointed at Naruto who was now in a defensive position with a cackling wraps in front of him and a grinning tank behind him, "I'm here for him."
"Mei-sama, Ao-san, Choujuro-san stay out of this" when he saw that they wanted to argue, he smiled "trust me." Ao still wanted to argue, but Mei sent him a wordless sickly sweet smile that instantly shut him up. They got out of the way and went far to the side, "shall we, Mizukage-sama?"
"You're four decades too young to match me in battle, brat" the man sneered. He was not too tall and he had a scar going down his face through his right eye. If Naruto didn't know any better, he would think the man was Choujuro's age. "Give up now and I shall give you a swift and relatively painless death."
"I do not wish to die today and you would do well not to underestimate me," Naruto said as he manipulated wraps to bring out his obsidian scythe and take his own stance.
"Tch, you're out of your league kid. But you asked for it."
With those last words, he pulled out his hook staff and ran over to Naruto who sent over wraps to intercept.
What followed was the most epic clash in the Kiri's history.
Yagura, the Mizukage, went for a swipe to the head and the puppet ducked and used the base of his weapon to push the man back then it swiped at his arms and legs, leaving black afterimages of his scythe. The older man blocked all the swipes and gave a kick to the still cackling puppet, it connected and pushed the puppet back where it did an aerial summersault and landed on his legs. The ground under the scythe broke apart in contact. It raced back to the man and feinted a swipe to the right leg but used the momentum of the swipe to give a devastating heel kick to the mans left temple.
The Mizukage rolled aside in the nick of time and had to re-think his earlier assessment of the child. Before he could finish his thoughts a giant rolling ball crashed into him and launched him several feet away crashing into the ground in a cloud of dust.
To the side lines, the three watched the match impressed that the child got in a good tag. He was going places in the future if he survived the fight.
When the cloud of dust settled, the man stood up slowly and cracked his jaw. He then flashed through some seals, but before he could finish he had to dodge a kick from his back and jump aside when the ball crashed down on his former position.
'This fight is harder than I thought. I have to finish this quickly' the man thought.
But Naruto had no intention on letting him finish the match quickly in the Mizukage's favour. So when he saw the man flash through the seals again he had wraps throw his weapon at him.
Yagura had to cut the seal chain again and deflect the thrown weapon with his hook staff. The scythe flew away but was caught by a chakra string and thrown back to the cackling mummy.
The Mizukage remembered a fight he had with puppeteer when he went to Suna with his sensei. He had and remembered that his sensei advised him to take out the master first. With that quick thought he rocketed to Naruto, faster than the boy had ever seen before, and sent an unforgivable kick to his neck and watched in dark satisfied as he crumbled to the ground dead. He breathed heavily and turned his head towards the now horrified spectators. He chuckled quietly to himself and was about to attack when the dead 'Naruto' exploded in a shower of fire. A split second saved him as he dived for safety.
'A clone! That means-' his thoughts were cut off when he was wrapped up in ridiculously sturdy bandages. In his distracted state, the real Naruto who hid in a tree a few metres away had wraps creep up to the man and wrap him up in his bandages.
The man wriggled and cursed. His weapon had been thrown away by that rolling ball that turned out to be Naruto's newest puppet, Chou. He gave up struggling and began channelling his bijou's demonic chakra. The bandages tightened and doubled in quantity when it started to burn through, it seemed that the bandages could continue doing that until the man himself got tired but that did not happen because the grinning Chou lugged over and hauled the Mizukage up by his shoulders, opened his mouth and then proceeded to suck out the mans and his bijou's chakra out through his eyes, nose and mouth (he did not kiss him. More like how dementors in Harry potter kissed Sirius black). As he sucked not tired and not growing, the only change in the puppets body was the soft blue glow in its belly. Every second that the chakra left his body, he grew paler and paler until he just gave up and stopped channelling the chakra. To ensure that the man had no hidden intention of a surprise attack, Chou surprised the audience when he started compressing the collected bijou chakra and blasted the poor Mizukage in the face.
When the explosion finally settled down, Naruto came out of the tree he hid in a few metres away and had Chou set the mutilated but still breathing man on the ground. He had the mummy re-wrap him up tightly and then allowed the full gravity of the situation to settle on him.
His plan worked.
The era of the 'bloody mist' has ended.
Naruto took a sigh of relief and allowed himself to feel the fear he suppressed as he fought the Kage. He shivered slightly as he looked down at the tied up former Kage. He shivered again until he felt arms wrap around him. He looked up at the smiling face of the new Mizukage. The last time he allowed a person to hug him was when he was four. He allowed himself to relax in her arms and watch amused as the normally shy Choujuro did a happy dance with Ao.
It felt nice.
The next day
It was announced nation-wide that the war has ended and the Mizukage, who they found was under a sharingan induced genjutsu-which has broken, has been 'executed' and his 'head' situated in front of the currently in construction Kage tower.
Everyone knew of the hero that ended the war, he was known as Kumo. He was a black haired, green pupiless eyed youth that often wore his green hooded jacket and never took off his black half face mask. It was his age everyone did not know about.
The truth about the where about of the former Mizukage was that since Naruto had released him from the genjutsu (Naruto dispelled it with his potent chakra, it was still painful) and he had no will to live he swore to follow the boys every commands. Naruto took full advantage of having a Kage level shinobi as a subordinate had had him stay in Kiri as its secret protector until he had any use for him.
We find Naruto and his escorts at the place he was picked up from.
"Thank you, Naruto-kun for all you have done for Kiri," Mei said as she and the three others bowed, "we all owe you a great debt of gratitude."
Yagura stepped forward and bowed, "I also owe you my life, Naruto-sama."
Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head with a faint blush on his cheeks, "it was nothing, just remember our agreement."
"We will honour it." Ao said as he smiled then he froze, "wait, what of those ninja you captured?"
"They are still alive, Ao-san. They're just tied up in your former rebel base." Naruto answered as he unsealed Kumo and climbed in.
Then Choujuro asked, "Where will you be going?"
The puppet hummed in thought and hissed "I still have about 5 months left, so I'm going to find the nearest town, city or village and I'm going to start making my spy network."
"Good luck to you then, Naruto-san" Ao bowed again,
"And remember that you are always welcome in Kiri." Mei added, not fazed by the sight of the grotesque creation again.
The puppet let out a small smile and waved before it disappeared into the trees on its way to the nearest village. Naruto checked the map and read out: kaizen village (OC).
Authors Note
Kumo also means spider. So please take note not to confuse it with the hidden village kumoagakure. The puppet is more for quick, easy and safe transport so it will only fight if it has no other option.
Sorry if Yagura seems OOC, I'm not too good with conversations.
Spent a whole day doing this, I tried to make the fight scene as realistic as possible.
Next chapter hopefully would be as awesome as I thought this one was.
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