Hey everyone, yep its Sunday, i am very sorry for not posting last Wednesday, but as i stated before, i have my little nephew who is down visiting, and i have been taking a slight break from the story, i debated whether or not i would post today, but i figured that you all wanted to know what happens next, and when i think of all the stories i am waiting the author to post something new, i think that i don't want to be like them, so i worked up this new chapter :) hope you like

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Alex Kingetsu - Thanks for the review, and lol, Nami isn't evil, just don't piss her off :P and to answer the demon country question, the answer is in this chapter :)

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Historical Bonds

Chapter 22

IN THE PRESENT

Naruto and the team were running through the fields along with the rest of the task force who were responding to the demonic attack led by the seventh division vice captain. Naruto was curious about these people from the demon country "Toshiro, I know you already told us how powerful these people are, but what makes them so strong?"

"They have a strange powers that are very much like our Zanpakutos, except they have it in their masks, we have never seen any of them without their mask on. In addition to being very strong they also have the ability to call forth monsters known as demons from the depths of hell itself. Even the demons wear the masks, that's why they are called the demon country..."

"They sound scary..." Hamako commented as she overheard the conversation since she was running right beside them

Naruto and the team continued their run, they could see smoke in the distance "They have already begun their attack, hurry!" The Vice captain shouted at the team

Inside the village the villagers were fighting for their very lives as the masked enemies attacked them. But most of them were no match for the enemy, a small child was running away from a large creature, it had a large mask as well as a big hole in its body. The child was running and crying as it was gaining on him, he tripped and fell down. He knew it was a fatal mistake and that he was going to be killed now, there was no way that he could get up in time. The creature was already gaining on him before he fell. He shut his eyes and waited for the inevitable, but just as he had lost all hope he heard the creature scream and a thud followed, the boy looked back and the creature had been killed. And a man dressed in black was standing in front of him, he had blonde hair and blue eyes, the man gave him a hand and helped him up "Are you alright kid?" The man asked, the boy was overjoyed

"Yes mister, thank you so much" The boy said to his hero, the man grinned

"Find someplace safe to hide, don't worry, help has arrived" The man said with a cocky grin

"What's your name mister?"

"Uzumaki Naruto, seventh unit member of the tenth division" He said with a wink as he turned around to join the others in the fight, the boy took one last look at his savior before obeying

Sakura and Ino were tending to the injured, the wounds inflicted by these monsters were unlike anything they had ever seen before. Each cut was infected with disease, however she wasn't going to give up and let these people die. Sakura began to extract the disease before closing up the wounds while Ino helped, one of the medics approached her "You seem to know what you're doing, what's your name and what unit are you from?" The man asked her

"My name is Uzumaki Sakura, from the seventh unit of the tenth division" she answered without stopping her work on the injured

"A ship builder? But you have the skills of a doctor, look, I am from the fourth division, with your skills you could become a seated officer with ease" The man told her

"I am sorry but I am happy where I am now, but thanks" Sakura answered

"Are you sure? You are wasting those skills of yours, let me talk to your unit commander" The man tried again

"No, I am not interested" Sakura answered once more

Naruto and his team had reached the front lines, he had taken his Zanpakuto out, however he had to be careful not to feed it any chakra by accident, the last thing he wanted was to anger it any further "What the hell are these things! Are they the demon people?"

"No, these are Hollows, they are the creatures that the demon ninjas raise from the depths of hell" Toshiro answered "They feed on human souls and don't care who they attack, some are weak others are extremely strong" Toshiro added as he killed a hollow with ease and skill, showing that he had experience fighting these things

Although the first hollow that Naruto had defeated to save the boy's life was a weak hallow, the one he was fighting now was much stronger and more skilled as it dodged some of Naruto's attacks. Naruto was still a novice at fighting with a blade rather than a kunai and his regular Ninjutsu, the Hollow attacked as Naruto blocked it with his blade, Naruto then quickly took out a Kunai and shoved it into the chest of the Hollow, he then sliced it open with his blade. He continued to fight by Toshiro's side "So if these are the Hollows, where are the demon ninja's?" Naruto asked

"They could come out from anywhere... At any times..."

"What you mean from anywhere? You mean like the ground and stuff?" Naruto asked

"...Anywhere" Toshiro simply answered, making Naruto confused

Hiyori was fighting with her team, like Toshiro she had experience fighting these things. Jun was the only one on the team who had skills using a blade as a weapon, the others did their best but Hiyori was always worried, Jun took out a Hollow as Kanji struggled with another, Hiyori helped him out as they fought side by side while she relied on Jun to protect Hamako

The Battle continued as the night ninjas were able to push back the Hollows with the reinforcements, although just barely. It looked like the Hollows were finally retreating as they began to leave, Hamako and Jun let out a sigh of relief and just when they let their guard down, behind them a hole began to open and a mask wearing Ninja was going to grab Jun but Hamako saw it just in time and pushed him out of the way, however he grabbed her instead and pulled her into the hole. It began shutting as she screamed for help, Hiyori began running and without even thinking about it she jumped into the hole just as it closed "HIYORI! HAMAKO!" Toshiro screamed out

"What? What happened?" Naruto asked

"They... Took both Hamako and Hiyori"

"What do you mean by took?" Naruto asked.

But before Toshiro could answer, a very large hole began to open in the sky. A monster larger then Naruto had ever seen up until now popped out its face, everyone was screaming "It's a Gillian! Only captains are strong enough to take those out!" One of the defenders screamed out.

The seventh division vice captain ran to the front of the line "Everyone, get out of here, I will hold it for as long as I can" She ordered

"But it will..." One of the men beside her began to say but was cut off

"I know, but Its better that only one of us gets killed... I can hold it off for a while, just evacuate the village!"

The man bowed in respect "Yes ma'am, I will be sure to tell the captain about your sacrifice" He said as he began to lead the ninja's to the village to begin evacuating the villagers

Toshiro had tears running down his face as he was thinking about Hiyori; he began to walk towards the large enemy that was known as a Gillian. The young vice captain ran up to him "Did you hear me? I said get out of here! I will hold it off, don't worry about me!"

But Toshiro ignored her, he gritted his teeth and held out his Zanpakuto "BAN-KAI" Ice began to surround the young man as wings of pure ice began to form on his body, his eyes were full of pain and anger as he flew over to the large enemy. The vice captain was speechless at seeing a non captain with BAN-KAI status " Ryusenka!" He shouted out as he slashed the Gillian causing it to freeze, he then held out his arm and began to recite a spell "Spell of destruction, red flames of inferno, lvl 100, DESTROY EVERYTHING!" Multiple large balls of flames came out of his hand and hit the Gillian in multiple places, shattering it to pieces and leaving everyone speechless, even Naruto had never seen Toshiro like this before

As he landed, the wings of ice disappeared and his blade returned to normal, the vice captain ran up to him "How the...But...That power... How can you..." She tried to speak but she was still in shock. She took in a deep breath and tried again "That power... You were on the same level as a captain, you can use Ban-Kai, and that destruction spell was lvl 100... Who are you?..." She asked him

Toshiro realized that he allowed his emotions to betray him and now he would have to somehow answer the questions "My name is Nakamura Toshiro, seventh unit commander of the tenth division"

"How can you only be a unit commander of a ship building squad with those powers? You should be a vice captain or captain even!" the young girl asked

"I was never interested in the job, I am perfectly happy in my current position" The young black haired Toshiro answered

"I see... Well I guess I owe you my life, I am in your debt" The young girl said with a smile

"It is we who are in your debt; you were prepared to sacrifice your life in order to save everyone here, your captain should be proud to have you as her lieutenant" Toshiro said, trying to shift the attention away from himself

The young girl blushed slightly "Thanks..." She began instructing everyone to patrol the area for a while to make sure the attack was over as Naruto walked over to Toshiro

"That was great Toshiro!" Naruto told him

Toshiro stared at his blade for a moment "No it wasn't... I couldn't even prevent them from taking Hamako and Hiyori"

"Where are they? And how did they do that?"

"The people from the demon country have the power to open portals into the demon world, they use it to travel any distance in an instant. However they cannot use it to travel far within our borders, we have a force field that stops them" Toshiro explained

"But why did they take them?"

"Every once in a while they capture some of our people and use them as sacrifices or feed their souls to the demons... No one has ever returned alive, I once lead a squad as a vice captain on one of their border villages, we had heard rumors that some of our people were held captive there, when we arrived their bodies had been tortured, and the girls had their clothing ripped off... These people are like animals..."

Jun and Kanji had heard the conversation "Sensei and Hamako are..." Kanji began saying as a tear was forming in his eye

Jun fell down to his knees "This is all my fault... I was supposed to protect Hamako... They were trying to get me, and she pushed me out of the way... I should be the one, and Sensei jumped in after her without even giving it a second thought... Even after the way we treated her"

"We have to get to the capital as fast as we can, we cannot allow their sacrifice to be for nothing... We must complete the mission, Naruto we need to go right now" Toshiro said in a cold tone, however it was just a front, inside he was breaking up at the thought of never seeing Hiyori again

"No, we are going to go rescue them" Naruto answered

"We don't know where they were taken, they could be anywhere in the demon country... They could be dead right now..."

"I don't believe they are dead, Hiyori jumped in knowing what she was doing. She was not dragged in and I believe in her, do not give up hope just yet" Naruto said looking at the horizon, Toshiro wanted to believe, he really did however, he also knew that Naruto didn't understand how powerful these people were "Gather everyone from the team, we are heading out" Naruto added

IN THE PAST

Masaki and his team were carefully walking through the forest; they had to be careful for traps or ambushes, It was getting dark and Masaki decided that they should set up camp "Alright, this looks like a good area to stop for the night" He told them. His team nodded in agreement, with all the walking they had been doing they were happy to rest. However Masaki was uneasy, they had traveled so much and had encountered nothing. Those boats did not just burn up on their own, someone knew that they were here, but they had not made any move on them yet "I am going to get us some water from the stream we passed a few minutes ago" Masaki told them

"Aye sir, we should have the camp ready by the time you return" One of his men answered

Masaki nodded as he began to run towards the small stream that they had passed not too long ago, it didn't take him long to reach it with his speed, he filled up all of their bottles and began heading back. He saw smoke coming from the site, he was cursing his team mates, why had they set up a fire? It would give away their position. He began running back, he couldn't have been gone more than five minutes, but when he returned the campsite was in flames and his team was nowhere to be found. Masaki was shocked, how could this happen so fast and where was his team? They were among Konoha's top elites; they couldn't have been taken out so quickly and easily!

Masaki began to search the area but he found nothing. It was as if they had vanished, he dammed himself for leaving his team. Suddenly he felt a presence, there were at least ten of them. He took out his blade and got ready for an attack, water began to form around his feet, before he could realize it the ground had become mud and it had imprisoned his feet. He was unable to move, he tried carving the mud with his blade but it had become as hard as stone, five of the ten presence he had sensed came out of hiding "Too easy, these people are so stupid!" one of them commented with a grin

"Be careful, the Mizukage said that this one is stronger then he looks" Another added

"Are you the ones who took my team?" Masaki asked as he grit his teeth in anger

"Yeah, yeah we did, do you have a problem with that Blondie?" One of them answered

Masaki began to grip his blade tightly as his anger rose "What did you do with them?"

"Don't you worry your pretty little head over that, you will join them soon enough, although it's too bad you are kind of cute. But orders are orders, all outsiders are to be killed on sight" One of the girls answered

His team was dead? And all the other teams as well? It couldn't be... How could he allow that to happen? The winds began to pick up as Masaki began to emanate a blue glow of pure chakra "Whoa, check out his chakra, this one is strong, the Mizukage was right"

Masaki tried to break his feet free from the ground, but he was unsuccessful, this caused the others to grin because they knew even if he was strong he would be limited for as long as he was unable to move. He held out his hand and pointed it at one of the enemies "way of destruction, lightning bolt lvl 25" a bolt of lightning struck one of them, it was so fast that he was unable to dodge it, it killed him instantly as only a charred body remained

"HOLY CRAP" was all one of them could say

"You're going to pay for that" The girl told him as she led the other remaining three to attack Masaki, they came from all four sides thinking that there was nothing he could do. He quickly bent himself backwards and used every ounce of strength he had to lift his feet from the ground, however it resulted in the chunk of earth that imprisoned his feet to come out from the ground. Although unexpected, he decided to use this to his advantage, he used the momentum he had created to complete a back flip and hit one of them square on the head with the rock, Masaki landed upright, but his feet were still encased in the earth

"Damn it, what is this stuff" he wondered

"Damn it, that hurts!" The man who was struck said in anger

"It's your fault you idiot!" The girl told him "Oh well, as you can see, you are still stuck, give it up, I will admit that you have skill, and that we underestimated you, however the fun ends now because I am the daughter of the first Mizukage!" She told him as she began making hand signs a large body of water began to form around her, it started to take the shape of a large dragon, it then began to make its way towards Masaki

To her surprise, Masaki didn't look worried, he held his blade in front of him "blow, kaze no kami" His blade suddenly turned into pure wind energy and a large dragon formed behind Masaki, it launched itself at the water dragon and destroyed it in a second, it then returned to Masaki's blade, he then took the blade and cut his feet free from the earth "You think your little water dragon is a match for the lord of the winds? You will now see my true power; I will make you regret killing my team mates!" He said in anger, and in the blink of an eye, he had disappeared and reappeared behind one of them, he ran his blade through his body, instantly killing him. he was able to do the same to another one of them but by the time he went for the third they had jumped away "GET BACK HERE I AM NOT DONE WITH YOU!" Masaki screamed in anger

"I told you to be careful with this one, he is not to be underestimated" a voice came from the shadows "I guess I will have to take him out myself" two red eyes were glowing from the darkness of the night, a figure came out into the light, Masaki was shocked

"Madara?! But what the hell are you doing here?!"

"That's lord Mizukage of the hidden mist to you, ruler of the water country" Madara answered

PRESENT TIME

Hiyori was standing in front of Hamako protecting her from the horde of hollows that wanted their souls, however she knew that unless something happened soon, she would eventually lose the fight

Hamako was afraid beyond anything she had ever felt before, she was trapped in some unknown place with only Hiyori as a protector, the one who she was avoiding and had been afraid of for the past few weeks, was now the only thing standing between her and certain death. Hiyori turned to face Hamako for a second "Don't worry, we will find a way out of here" She said with a forced smile, knowing that she didn't have a way of backing that claim, but she didn't want Hamako to be afraid

Hamako got to her feet and grabbed her blade and began to fight by Hiyori's side, she was going to be dammed if she allowed Hiyori to fight alone, and she wasn't going to die without a fight. They were back to back fighting off the Hollows however they were getting overwhelmed and they were both getting tired

Hiyori didn't want to give up, even if her body was starting to give into fatigue, she put all of her energy in her blade, it began to glow a bright blue, something that Hiyori had never seen before. She felt a surge of energy as her blade began to communicate with her "BAN-KAI!" she screamed out, suddenly her blade turned into large orange flames, the ground around them began to erupt as flames and explosions destroyed a large part of the horde of hollows, the hollows not expecting to be facing a captain level enemy decide to retreat leaving Hiyori and Hamako alone, for the time being

Hiyori was panting heavily, as she fell onto one knee and using her blade, that had returned to its original form, as a crutch "I did it... I finally reached Ban-Kai..." She said before falling over and passing out

End chapter 22

Well that ends yet another chapter :) Who is going to win in the Madara/Masaki battle? Will he make it home to see Nami again? And how did Madara become the Mizukage?! Is Naruto doing the right thing by taking his team into the demon country? Or is he leading them to certain death, after all, even the night country failed in a large scale invasion of the demon country, and will Hiyori and Hamako be able to continue surviving? Or will they die deep behind enemy lines, will i eat this Donut? Find out soon!

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