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I hope my pace hasn't disheartened any of you. Like I said in the other chapters, I will always make the chapter bigger than last time. I need a little practice though. The reviews are great though thank you very much. I think you guys will like this update. The only thing I'll tell you though is that there will be many characters revealed in this chapter. Well enjoy!

SHOUTING

Kyuubi

Thoughts

Speech

The sun rose above the proud nation of Iwa. The dawn soon consumed what was left of the darkness of the night as light shown through every window of every house waking the population up for another day. The market places quickly grew busy as many civilians prepared for another morning.

Iwa's ANBU squads watched the slowly accumulating crowds with apathy, eyes pealed for anything suspicious. They, as well as almost all the ninja population, were up hours ago patrolling for any attack. There had been times earlier in the war when Konoha infiltrated Iwa through the civilian population so the Tsuchikage ordered these patrols done every morning, afternoon, and evening to make sure all Iwa personnel are just that, Iwa personnel. Scouting was a tedious job, but this was war, and there has to be sacrifice.

An ANBU rookie snorted as his eyes scouted the bizarre, "Why must we do this everyday? I mean don't we have the chakra identification system for this?" The rookie was met with silence until the captain addressed him. "If by the chakra identification system you mean the system used to detect any chakra in the village and judge if it's hostel then yes, we do use that as well, but Tsuchikage-sama wants to do personal scouting to ensure the safety of the village." The captain replied before looking toward the crowds. "This is just such a waste of human resources though, don't you agree? Please don't get me wrong I respect Tsuchikage-sama very much, but shouldn't we, the elite, be out there right now making sure the bastard Konoha forces are dead?" The rookie was suddenly slammed in the wall behind him, his startled eyes showed fear as the captain pierced him with his hawk like pupils. "I will only say this once rookie and after this day if I ever hear you question protocol I'll kill you myself understood." The rookie nodded quickly. "A few months after the war started, Iwa was infiltrated. It was Hatake Kakashi who did it. He stole a file on our defensive strategies and by the time we could send messenger birds to warn our armies, our numerical advantage was already cut. One man became responsible for the deaths of hundreds. Espionage maybe not as flashy as open combat, but its repercussions is just as devastating. The way I see things, Hatake Kakashi's kill count in this war is probably up there with that bastard Namikaze." All four ANBU winced at the name and one even shivered. "Sir you can't be serious. Konoha's shinigami is just that, a shinigami. He has killed thousands in this war. Nobody comes close to his death count." The captain sighed, "Don't be a fool rookie, you have much to learn about war. Namikaze may have been responsible for literally killing our men, but in reality the men were already dead before they faced him." The rookie's as well as everyone else's eyes widened slightly. "The reason is because Hatake's information concerning our army's defensive points helped the second flash decimate our forces with ease. Do you understand? If Namikaze didn't know how our men fought beforehand, we could have maybe injured or killed him or at the very least not have suffered so many losses." The captain let go of the rookie's shoulders and turned his back to him. "Even this very war was started because of weak security. It was Konoha's shinigami who murdered our daimyo was it not? Because of that, Tsuchikage-sama had no choice but to declare war."

Suddenly the captain stopped and checked his communication device. "I must report to the Tsuchikage. All of you continue with the patrol until I return." Just before the captain left though he turned to the rookie again, staring through the rookie's fox mask, straight into his eyes. "Fox, ponder this while patrolling; when Hatake Kakashi infiltrated us those couple years ago, he stole a document that proved to help wipe out over 400 Iwa ninja in a single battle. If that kind of man could inflict so much damage, could you even begin to comprehend the magnitude of danger Iwa would be in if Naruto Namikaze infiltrated us?" The captain left before he received an answer, but if he had, he would have noticed the terrified eyes of three members ANBU squad as they all imagined the scenario , as well as the predatory look of the other.

"ANBU captain dragon reporting on the situation of city patrols sir." "Ah yes thank you dragon please continue." A kind yet decisive voice said. Dragon eyed the Tsuchikage with a mixture of respect and admiration. The Tsuchikage of Iwa, a man who as a jounin in the third shinobi war, stood alone against Minato Namikaze and fought the yellow flash giving his fellow Iwa nin enough time to retreat. Though in the end the future Yondaime of Konoha defeated him, the yellow flash spared Aoshi. Nobody could get Aoshi to explain why he was spared, but the only thing he did say though was that he would get stronger and be the Tsuchikage. "Dragon…." "Yes of course Tsuchikage-sama the report" responded dragon, broken from his thoughts. "All sectors seem to be clear sir. Five ANBU squads have been scouring Iwa for any unidentified individuals and all teams, including mine, report on nothing unusual." The Tsuchikage visibly relaxed, if only by a little bit. "Good, anything else dragon?" "Well sir, there seems to be a lot of questions coming from the rookies as well as green horn population of our ninja as of late. They don't see the importance of these patrols. I fear this will cause a lax in security sir." The Tsuchikage adopted a thoughtful expression before smiling. "I see dragon, then if that's the case I guess I need to have a talk with the ninja staff to explain the importance of what they do. I may be strong and powerful now, but what will the village do when I'm gone? I cannot allow our next generation to adopt a lazy attitude to something so important." "Oh I don't think that would be a problem Tsuchikage-sama," the ANBU said smiling. "And why is that? Care to enlighten me dragon?" the kage responded, curious of his subordinates answer. "I believe when you do pass the torch to the next generation, your daughter will beat your teachings on them until they react accordingly." The kage chuckled. Yes his daughter, the "princess of Iwa" as some like to call her. Her prowess in battle had many times helped Iwa from Konoha and she, as well as himself, were the only people in Iwa who could say they faced off against the shinigami of Konoha and lived afterwards. "My my you are right dragon, but one voice, although a strong voice, isn't enough for me to feel safe about the future of Iwa." "You are most correct sir, and I hope your speech can change their thoughts." "Thank you dragon you are dismissed." The ANBU member shunshined from the room and the tsuchikage stared at the ceiling with a worried look on his face. I just hope my men don't learn the hard way of why all this is important… I sense today to be off somehow.

As soon as the ANBU captain left to go see the tsuchikage, all the squad members shivered at the captain's last statement. "Man, I never thought of it that way, what if Konoha's second flash infiltrated us?" a monkey masked ANBU asked as the others turned to him. "I mean a monster such as Namikaze in our city…. I can't imagine what could happen." "Yeah I know what you mean monkey," a bird masked ANBU said, "but we have to make sure that never happens."

"Heheheheheheheh" all the members of the squad turned to the rookie ANBU. He's laughing? They all asked themselves. "Yeah rookie, what's going on? You had such a big mouth for the captain, but now you're so quiet." The fox masked ANBU looked back at his teammates, "bird, your mission has already failed." The bird masked ANBU reeled at him in confusion and fear. "What the fuck are you saying fox?" Are you saying you spotted Naruto Namikaze just now?" The others quickly got in their stances ready to intercept before the Namikaze did any damage until they heard that hollow laugh again. "You Iwa nin are so stupid. Monkey you wanted to know what would happen should Naruto Namikaze infiltrate Iwa's walls? Well…"

The monkey masked ANBU suddenly felt like something entered his body before pure pain engulfed him. Looking down he saw fox's hand rend through his stomach, ripping out of his back. The ANBU tried to scream, but was silenced as the fox ANBU twisted his neck 180 degrees. Before monkey's body even hit the roof he was standing on, a series of flashes happened and all his other teammates were dead as well. A kunai in their jugular. "To think all of the ANBU here didn't feel the seal being placed on them… pathetic." The fox masked ANBU quickly gathered all the bodies before shunshining to the border of Iwagakure. After fox made a whistle a team of ANBU appeared, their masks marring the symbol of Konoha. The team made their way to their fox masked captain until said man raised his hand stopping them from crossing the border. "The information concerning the chakra identification system was inaccurate. The grid is still active. They just increased their security." "Then how did you supersede the grid and more importantly how do we proceed from here taichou?"

Naruto turned to his vice captain, cat, analyzing her before responding. "I simply stole the chakra signature of the ANBU I trapped and killed that's all." Before any of his subordinates could ask how, Naruto continued. "The details to my infiltration are not important. To answer your latter question, I have already created seal tags for the sole purpose of allowing an individual to bypass Iwa's security grid. The only person who's going with me though is you cat." Cat was unfazed, she worked best with Naruto, everyone knew. Some ninja at one point even thought her and naruto were involved, but that rumor was soon ended when Naruto broke both of the gossip's arms. "what about us sir?" Boar questioned his arm waving to bear and chameleon as well. Naruto quickly got down to one knee and started making seals on the ground. After a good two minutes Naruto got back up and studied his work. "Your job boar, bear, chameleon, is to reverse summon cat and I back here when we have assassinated Yukina Obunaga, the tsuchikage's daughter. Simply apply enough chakra for ten Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsus and we will teleport through this seal to you, understood. The ANBU quickly nodded their heads and Naruto gave cat the seal. "Apply the seal cat and let's continue." "Hai, taichou." Cat put the seal on, and both her and Naruto, still in his fox mask, left, but not before taking the dead Iwa and storing them in a scroll.

The captain soon returned to the patrol routes to find no one. Strange, I told them to keep patrolling, perhaps they found something. He was cut from his musings when the rookie, fox, bounded to him. "Taichou, sector 18 has been breached it seems. The others went to check it out, fuku taichou told me to stay to let you know." The captain frowned, "then why didn't he just communicate that to me electronically?" "I believe what ever that was causing the breach also sent some sort of EMP. All communication was down where we were sir." The captain pondered the best sort of action. Finally looking up he decided. "Okay, let's go check out this disturbance fox."

The captain arrived with fox in sector 18 of Iwa, the forest area, to find his squad all dead, one with a hole in their stomach and the others with a kunai in their jugular. Looking closely at the now identified Konoha nin the captain's eyes widened greatly. "Y-You ca-can't be here. No. You, Konoha's Night Orchid, partner to the devil himself, Namikaze. With you here that must mean…" the captain was cut short as he felt his legs give out from under him. Dazed and confused he looked to his legs to see two kunais buried deep in his Achilles heel tendon.

"tsk tsk taichou, after such an awe inspiring speech you gave me back on that roof in the end you as well as your team fell for such a simple trap. I honestly don't know whether to laugh or feel pity." The captain's eyes widened tenfold as he turned to fox, whose voice had changed considerably. "N-n-n-n-n-o, this can't be, it just can't, how could I let this happen?" the captain prayed this was not who he thought it was for if it was, Iwa was in deep peril. Slowly the fox ANBU peeled off his mask revealing pale skin, fangs, scar-like whiskers, swaying, wild blonde hair with red highlights, and cold, void eyes. Those eyes the captain shuddered. It was true. He's here. The one thing everyone in Iwa knew of the second flash was that his eyes were like the shinigami. Almost like a doll's eyes… lifeless. Accepting his fate, the captain decided to at least buy time to see if there was any way he could do to warn Iwa. "So the Shinigami of Konoha comes personally to Iwa huh? Before you kill me, at least tell me what you are going to do with my country." Naruto walked to the Iwa nin and kneeled so his face was a mere foot away from the wounded captain. "If you so desire, informing you of our mission won't be harmful to us…. Hokage-sama has deemed it fit to remove Iwa's hope and that is what I intend to do. I will eliminate your hopes, and as a result also hurt Iwa's overall skill in the battlefield in one move." What, our hopes what does he mean….. wait the tsuchikage and I were just talking about it a few minutes ago! "The princess." the captain uttered, whispering it but Naruto heard him. "Exactly, and now we must deal with you now." Naruto's hand suddenly flashed and a kunai appeared. Cat appeared behind Naruto, her hand on the kunai. "Wait taichou, please excuse my insubordination, but shouldn't we send him to the others so we can interrogate him back in Konoha? He is a ANBU captain after all."

The Iwa nin's eyes hardened "If you think for one fucking second you can get me to sell out my country for less pain then you are insane you bitch. You may be the Night Orchid and the man poised to kill me may be Iwa's worst threat, but I will never sell out my people. I will never betray my comrades' trust in me. Even though we are enemies, surely you would say the same?" the Iwa nin's eyes showing a multitude of emotion with determination and resolution leading. Naruto's eyes stared at the ANBU. That look… Cat scoffed, "If I was ever in this position I would have already died. Cyanide pill you see. Pity Iwa nin are so reckless, like they're just asking to be tortured." "Enough" Naruto's voice reverberated through the forest. The word was the not shouted out, but its impact and killing intent behind it spoke volumes. Such power thought both the captain and cat. "You will stop your mind games now cat, I will have none of it today. The reason I will kill him and not condemn him to Ibiki is simple. This man is a true shinobi and I refuse to send him to hell to break him." Once again, both the captain and cat were shocked beyond all words.

This is the heartless monster I have heard about, I don't understand, he's showing me mercy?

Naruto what are you doing. Your honor is getting the best of you. If the council hears of this….

As if reading his subordinates thoughts Naruto quickly responded, "The council will not hear of this cat. I know because this is not the first time I have spared one I have deemed worthy to die with honor. His words, they are spoken true, I maybe a monster to the people of Iwa, and even to my own people, but I will not willingly stamp out another's passion. "Heheheheheh, that's so funny considering what you are actually doing here fox. Don't take the role of the chivalrous when your goal today is to eliminate Iwa's hope and passion," the captain spat out, venom evident in his voice. "I don't feel obligated to humor you to your comments fool, just be thankful your loyalty saved you from Ibiki." "I don't want your mercy!" the captain yelled out. "You insult me. If my men go to that bastard interrogator so do I, I will not get special treatment." "Hnn." Was the only thing Naruto uttered before raising his kunai to finish the captain when suddenly the ground shook and a giant dragon made of rock exploded from the ground before heading straight for Naruto. Naruto stood his ground and punched the dragon, crushing the rock jutsu to pieces. Naruto remained unfazed as he and cat focused on the new fighter.

The smoke cleared away little by little eventually to reveal long dark hair that cascaded down the individual's back. The figure's chest resembled Tsunade's chest but unlike Tsunade, they didn't sag. This proved she was young. The last of the smoke showed her face and body fully. A battle ready attire of an Iwa kunoichi adorned her with two swords crossed diagonally on her back. A pouch of kunai and shuriken rested on her right thigh. She was beautiful with an angel's face, but her eyes were what attracted Naruto the most. beautiful fierce eyes flaming in fury as she glared daggers at Naruto. Naruto's face contorted into what resembled a small smile before curling even more to reveal his fangs. "So it's finally you. You saved me the trouble of finding you…. Yukina-hime."

Hey everyone!

Yes, Yukina has been revealed. If you want a better visual of her you can look on my profile. She mirrors Boa Hancock's look in One Piece except she has shinobi clothes and no snake. Like I promised I'm slowly increasing in length every time I write. This one's about 3000 words, but the next will be 4000 for sure.

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