I do not own Naruto. Speaking/Thoughts

"Do you really think that they're that powerful?" Chrome asked to none of them in particular.

"Zale wouldn't tell us to run off for no reason, but with his pride he might have told us to run off because he wanted to beat them himself." Gaara answered. "What do you think Kira?"

"I think that you guys are crazy for even thinking that Isaribi is the monster she only ran off because you attacked her." Kira said with a scowl, but none of them seemed to care about his opinion. "Is all that you guys care about completing this mission, Zale doesn't even care that she's innocent in this."

"Look even if we do think differently we all knew what Zale was like before we joined, and we agreed to follow him, so unless you can beat him in a fight then I suggest you shut up and do your job." Aria said and Kira fell silent running along the ice she had formed for him. "I don't see her, spread out and cover all the area you can."

"Oh Zale must have taught them that one, I doubt they could have come up with such a tactic on their own Cole." a feminine voice said and they were forced to by a sharp burst of water that formed an ice wall too large to run around without exposing their backs for too long. "I recommend that you all just lie down and die peacefully."

"These guys again, didn't Zale take care of you?" Chrome asked getting into his fighting style.

"Not particularly, you see we were all on equal ground on fighting terms so he wouldn't be able to stand up to two of us." Cole said with a laugh running a hand through his hair. "Besides he was always the weakest even before our time skips."

"Really the way Zale told it you lost the last fight you had, and you even ran away in the end." Chrome said and this infuriated Cole while Suzie stood unfazed by the comment. "What do you want?"

"Well like you we have a job to do, and that's making sure that the bats keep getting ransacked, so that means were enemies." Suzie said simply as if she had no personal grudge against them. "Don't get us wrong with you we have don't have a quarrel, it's Zale that we want to eliminate. If you were to renounce your devotion to him then we could be on our way."

"Yeah well Zale's our leader, so his enemies are ours too." Chrome said the others getting into a fighting stance behind him. "I hope you don't think that you can beat us, I mean you've got two, and we have four on our side plus we can use chakra."

"Do you really feel so confident that you can boast about your advantages? From what our spies have told us the only one who is any good at Manipulating water is the girl over there, and even then it's only as ice. Besides you seem to be forgetting the fact you're up against two masters of Manipulation." Suzie smiled waving her hand and the water erupted around them splitting them up. "I'll get those two you get the others."

"Yeah alright I've got it." Cole said with a sigh troubled by the tedious job of wiping out other people. "We should get little lackeys to get rid of other people for us." Cole pounded one of his knuckles into another cracking them as he approached Kira and Aria. "Alright you pipsqueaks it's time for you elders to beat some respect into you."

"What big talk for such a little man." Kira said bringing out his claws, and flaming up. He punched the air and flames shot from his fist launching at Cole, but they stopped mid air. "What the heck?"

"You seem to be forgetting you're dealing with a master of Manipulation any kind of attack you can dish out I have better control over, and I can deal it back at you tenfold." Cole said with a smile sticking out his fist in a similar manor as Kira had, but from it erupted deadly white hot fire that nearly fried them.

"This isn't good we're pinned down, and we'll have to stay on the defensive." Aria said behind her was a wall of ice that was constantly reforming itself to keep up with the white hot heat that was burning away at in on the other side. "Hold your breath and try not to take up too much oxygen."

"Wait a second hold on!" Kira tried to argue, but Aria didn't listen instead an ice sphere formed around them successfully allowing them to go into the inky black water that even in the early light of the morning was impenetrable with any kind of light.

"Great more work." Cole said watching the fire dissipate, and finding no charred remains. "Well they couldn't have gotten too far from here."

A little ways away Suzy stood across from Chrome and Gaara all three of them panting. "I'll give you the fact the two of you combined might actually pose a threat in my current condition." Suzy said smugly. 'Still with that other me keeping Zale occupied I can't focus as much as I would normally be able to; if I could fight at my normal capacity they would be wasted.' A drip of sweat came down the side of her face.

'What the heck's going on she seems so tired, but we've barely done anything.' Chrome thought. 'For us this is a hard fight, but she's a master of Manipulation, she should still be ready. There must be something else that she's using her power up on.' "Hey Gaara are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Yes her abilities are limited right now, so we might actually have a chance of beating her." Gaara said turning to see Chrome make a few hand signs that signified a double assault tactic. "Let's go!"

They ran at a fast pace, but Suzy seemed to have read their minds a hurdle of ice needles attacking both of them. For Gaara with the sand gourd on his back that easily blocked the ice needles it was no problem, but for Chrome with no iron sand it was a problem. Suzy didn't expect the boy to turn to a log that fell into the water. "It was a fake out." Suzy said turning around to see Chrome.

She received a direct punch to the face sending her skipping like a stone across the water. "You'll pay for that you Manipulator wannabe's!" Suzy said true anger showing as she waved her arm and the water launched at them effectively dousing them both. "Try to use that sand of yours now."

"She's right I can't control wet sand." Gaara said with a scowl at how useless he currently was. He screamed as a jet of water launched forward striking him straight in the stomach and leaving a deep cut.

"What didn't you know that water can cut through steel provided the pace and concentration is good enough." Suzy said turning her attention to Chrome who barred his teeth. "Well then what can you do, from what our spies have told us you can only control metal, and you're the strongest out of all of the others. We're out in the middle of the ocean that means no metal for you to Manipulate."

"We're not limited to our element it's just preferred." Chrome said the water coming up, but the control over it was shaky at best, and it didn't even look like it would hold against an attack let alone be able to make one.

"Please." Su said and the water burst falling back to the ocean useless. Chrome fell into the water when he was attacked blood coming out of his mouth.

Aria and Kira fared no better than him already out of commission in the water. "Looks like Zale discovered our little trick we better get out of here." Cole said and Suzy nodded before they ran off both of them exhausted by the effort that their dummies had taken.

Zale ran as fast as he could, but he came to see his team down on the water gasping for every breath, and his enemies were just dots in the distance. He could go after them and end it now, but if he did then those in the water wouldn't be alive when he came back to collect corpses. "Damn it." Zale cursed grabbing them and running to the hut where Satsuki, Kurumi, and Shiki were.

"Oh my god what happened?" Satsuki asked seeing them all in a terrible state.

"It was my enemies they tricked me and attacked them while I was distracted." Zale said helping as best he could, but he seemed mostly useless. "Where's Kurumi?"

"She's sleeping in the other room, her fever broke while you guys were out, but she'll need her rest, or she'll just end up sick again." Satsuki said treating everyone to the best of her abilities. "You don't have to stay here Zale."

"But I can help just give me some time to examine their bodies and I can heal them." Zale said.

"There's nothing you can do, you've been examining your own body and can barely heal yourself with body Manipulation. If you were to try on them then you'd just end up tearing apart their insides, Shiki get away from Gaara and help me with Chrome they tore a hole right through him."

"But Gaara." Shiki tried to argue, but she was cut off.

"Is along with being a Manipulator who already have fast healing capabilities is also a Jinchuriki, your chakra will keep him alive longer than the others. For now you'll have to put aside the crush you have on Gaara to worry about the people that have a real chance of dying, so get over here, and help me with Chrome." Satsuki said and Shiki nodded walking over helping. "Zale."

"What is it?" Zale asked eager to be of help.

"Get out of here." Satsuki barely said not liking the slightly shocked look Zale had. "They're in a dire state, and you have no experience with medical treatment, you're only getting in the way here. Get out of here and see if you can scavenge a few leads for when they're healed." Zale scowled, but Satsuki didn't retract her statement, and he eventually gave up leaving.

'Why didn't I see it sooner those idiots aren't people to fight fairly, they'll try any underhanded tactic, and sacrifice anyone to further their own agenda. Like, like me.' Zale thought suddenly stopping his walk his eyes widening slightly. 'I keep bashing them in my head, but the truth is that I'm just like them hell I was them a few million years ago.' Zale let out a scream punching a boulder that shattered on impact. 'I can't dwell in the past not now, we have a mission to do.'

That evening the money transport ship would take off, and they had no idea where Isaribi or his old devil partners were. 'Well that's not exactly true we have one lead, but I don't like it, it looks like I'm going to Demon Island on my own.'

I was wondering if I should do a time skip, or show the adventure of building their empire