Chapter 16
Prince

Author notes:
OK guys, the reviews have been great and inspiring for my story! Reviews inspire me to write Thanks a lot!
So I'm going to get interactive now, like I did with the names of heroes a few chapters back. I, the author, have a new request.

Name your villain! Conditions: No demon containers. No animal contracts. No redeemable characters. I want a few just fantastic bad guys. Check the map in my profile for a country and pick where your guy/gal of evil is from. Make your character bad. So bad, so loathsome that even bad guys think they're bad. Get creative!

Coastal City of Bayshore, Unnamed Country

Sakura looked at the coastal city before them, squinting against the glare of the midday sun. A cool sea breeze whipped at her short pink hair. She looked back at her teammates as they closed the gap behind her. Calamity had her large bow strapped across her back, Hiroka had her scarf billowing out behind her as if it had a life of its own. All three girls wore their white outfits, each with their own color trimmings, Sakura pink, Hiroka red, and Calamity Purple.

Kakashi though had opted to not change his clothes into the now standard white Tengoku uniform. As far as Kakashi was concerned, he was still a Konoha nin just visiting some friends.

They all paused and watched as the biggest ship they'd ever seen docked into the sea port of the idyllic village. It had taken them the better part of a week traveling south from Tengoku to meet the ship.

"OK girls." Kakashi said, going over the mission details for the hundredth time. Preparation was key on all missions, he kept drilling into their heads.

"The crown prince has decided to circle the globe with his caravan. So they have sailed east from Land of the Moon over the vast ocean to this port city. From here they intend to form a caravan that will take them across the entire world."

"We are only responsible for the first part of their journey. We must get them safely from this port city, to the border with the Wind Country. Their ninja will take over from there. Any questions?"

Hiroka replied petulantly, "Nothing has changed since the last forty-five times you're gone over this. We get it! We babysit the prince! Tyen-ah! BAI-tuo, AN-jing-eedyen!"

"I hope he's handsome." Sakura said dreamily, ignoring Hiroka's strange language that she always resorted to when upset. Her fixation on Sasuke notwithstanding, a girl was allowed to fantasize about a prince if she wanted to.

Calamity shrugged. "I doubt it. I don't go in for those fairytale stories about a handsome prince sweeping the girl off her feet. Just doesn't seem realistic when you spend your life in the badlands."

They continued their walk into the city, looking forward to meeting their first assignment, wondering what type of man the prince was.

The prince was a fat man.

Sakura looked in awe at the girth of the young man before her. He had to be in his twenties still, even if late twenties. He seemed pleasant enough upon seeing the three girls before him. He even tried to kiss Hiroka's hand, to which she attempted to punch him straight to his border destination.

Fortunately Kakashi was quicker than her punch and managed to hold her back.

The caravans were being loaded from the ship and it was taking some time so Calamity was standing by the sea's edge a little distance away from her friends. She managed to pick out the slightest whistle in the air behind her so she sidestepped to the right and snatched the arrow aimed for her head out of the air.

She pivoted and notched the arrow she had caught to her own mini crossbow and fire back instinctively. It was only as the arrow had already been fired that she realized…

...it was a toy arrow.

The boy who had fired at her got hit smack in the middle of his head, sending him toppling backwards onto the ground with a thud. Calamity rushed over to help the boy. Her mini crossbows were tuned to deliver a massive amount of force behind each arrow. Even a toy one.

The boy groaned as the suction cupped artillery stuck to his forehead quivered. Calamity lifted him to his feet and yanked the arrow off his head. He had to be less than ten years old. His eyes were glazed over, the shock of the impact still had him dazed.

"Hey are you OK kid?" Calamity asked him.

"Um…y…yes," the boy answered. "I'm OK." He shook his head to clear it.

Calamity nodded. "Good."

She slapped him behind his head sending him into the dust again. "What the hell do you think you're doing firing an arrow at me? What if I'd used a real one to defend myself? You'd be dead now you idiot!"

"What are you doing to my son!" The fat prince ran as fast as he could towards them, with his entourage in tow. Kakashi got there first though and picked the boy up and dusted him off.

"He's unharmed." Kakashi pronounced.

"Who do you think you are?! Attacking my son!" The prince exclaimed.

"He shot an arrow at me!" Calamity replied. "He's lucky he wasn't seriously hurt."

Kakashi nodded. "It is unwise to sneak attack a warrior."

The prince scoffed and walked with his son away from them, back to the caravans. The boy looked back in something akin to wonder at Calamity.

"Oh this is going to be a long journey." Kakashi muttered to himself.

Tengoku

In the newly dubbed Mad scientist wing of the white tower, an explosion rocked the very tower itself. Guerrera frowned at first, That Yoshi keeps trying to destroy my tower! But then his frown changed to a smug grin, He's not so much as succeeding in putting a dent in it. That's my baby. Good girl.

Billowing green smoke emitted from the window of the lab Yoshi was working out of. The inventor's voice echoed in the morning air, "Eureka!"

A clamoring of footsteps and a few seconds later Yoshi burst through the doors of the white tower, looking around madly for either Jiraiya or Tsunade.

He found Jiraiya on his way back into the tower from checking on Naruto's training with the toads. Yoshi ran up to him, holding an oddly colored short pole in his hands.

"I've done it I've done it!" he exclaimed to the Sannin.

"What have you done Yoshi?" Jiraiya asked, watching curiously as green smoke still continued to billow out of the scientist's temporary lab.

"Remember the problem we were talking about a few weeks ago?" Yoshi asked excitedly.

"You mean the same problem you talk to me, Tsunade, Tenchi, Guerrera, anyone who will listen, and even yourself more often than not, almost three times a day about?" Jiraiya replied.

"Hm?" Yoshi looked back up from the pole he was holding in his hands, not having listened to Jiraiya's response. "Yes yes, that problem. I've figured it out! The way to keep attackers at bay!"

There was a moment's silence, a few heartbeats, as Jiraiya waited. And waited.

Exasperated, he prodded the scientist. "Well what is it?!"

"This!" Yoshi responded, holding the pole forward to show Jiraiya who looked at it with confusion.

"A rod?" Jiraiya responded.

"Yes." Yoshi affirmed.

"What is a rod going to do against our enemies?" Jiraiya asked, one of his Yoshi-headaches beginning to settle in.

"Glad you asked!" Yoshi said happily. He pulled the rod back to his left, holding it like a bat. "Hold still."

Before Jiraiya could blink the scientist swung the rod at the Sannin. Now Jiraiya wasn't world renown just for his gift for writing. He was first and foremost a mighty ninja. He could have easily dodged the rod. But he sensed no malice in Yoshi's 'attack' so he gritted his teeth and waited for the sting of the impact, but none came.

The rod passed right through his body, becoming nothing more than some form of gas and hardening back into a solid rod as it left his body. Yoshi stood there smugly and grinned, all his teeth showing.

"How did you do that? What is that?" Jiraiya asked.

"This," Yoshi explained holding the rod across both hands. "This is Heavenstone. It's made by a special calcification process using the amazing cumulus nimbus that we are perched upon precariously."

Tenchi who had walked over scratched his chin. "So you found a way to harden the special clouds?"

"Well in layman's terms I suppose yes I did. But it's so much more than that. See I discovered that every second we stay here on this island, tiny particles of the cloud seamlessly integrate into our very being. We are in essence becoming part of this place." Yoshi said.

"Fascinating," Tenchi responded. "Is it damaging us?"

"Oh no, it seems to have no effect whatsoever on us. It's harmless. But! But Heavenstone, which is what I, Yoshi have decided to call my creation, is also made up of the cloud. This substance is unbreakable, unmoldable, unstoppable, except to the cloud. It won't touch anything that's been in contact with the cloud for a sufficient period of time."

"Sooo…" Jiraiya said, thinking. "You think we can use this Heavenstone to build a barricade in the windstream?"

"Yes." Yoshi nodded. "I theorize that if I can pump enough energy into the rods, an electromagnetic field can be generated between rods of Heavenstone, thus rendering the border impassible to any object not already a resident of Tengoku." Yoshi beamed at them.

"But what about supplies, new people?" Jiraiya asked.

Yoshi looked perplexed. "Oh. New people? Um. I suppose they could sit outside the fence for a few days to get enough cloud in their pores?"

Guerrera walked over. "You had suggested a gate before didn't you Yoshi?" He looked carefully at the rod in Yoshi's gloved hand. It seemed to change color depending on the angle you looked at it.

"Yes! A gate would work magnificently. But it can't be shaped or cut. We'd need to have a mold for me to create the material in. And…" Yoshi closed his eyes and began mumbling to himself.

"…and fifty poles can be embedded around this island as the wall, once I figure out the power supply issue."

"Great job Yoshi!" Tenchi said, slapping the scientist on his back. "Will we have to deal with much more of that green smoke though when you're making it?"

Yoshi looked up at the tower as the billowing green smoke continued to pour out the window. "Oh no, that's just my tea. Would anyone like some?"

They all walked away.

Middle of Nowhere

Hiroka walked alongside the Caravan, watching as the wheels turned around and around. "God I wish we'd see some action, soon," she muttered to herself.

Kakashi was two steps behind her and replied in a soft tone. "We will you know."

Hiroka smiled a little at that. "I know. We're in the badlands. What is this fat prince thinking passing though here with this rich caravan?"

Kakashi shrugged. "The Land of the Moon is a very wealthy place. There are many cities just on the inside of the Wind country's borders that are considered luxury shopping centers. By coming this way around the world, he's saved many months of travel."

Hiroka sighed. "Laziness? He's endangering his son and this entire company of people out of laziness?"

"Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows how royalty thinks? All we need to be concerned about are the two scouts watching us from the forest edge to our right, and be prepared for when they attack."

Hiroka nodded, whistling up ahead at Sakura and Calamity. A harmless enough whistle that neither seemed to react to. But Sakura managed to walk directly to the side of the wagon with the prince and his son, and Calamity climbed on top, seemingly to stretch.

"You girls know what you're going to do?" Kakashi asked. He would normally have formed a plan for them to follow, but the girls had told him they already had some worked out between them. Since he was there just to advise when needed, he let them handle it. He knew he could step in at any time.

He lifted his hitai-ite off his sharingan eye and slowly looked over the forest to their left and right.

"Fifty or so," he said softly to Hiroka. "Can you manage?"

She scoffed. "Manage? I was hoping to get a real workout; this won't even break a sweat."

Kakashi smiled, lowering back the head band. "It's a long way to Wind Country, so pace yourself."

A brace of arrows flew out of the forest and arced up, then down, racing for the Caravan.

"Hiroka!" Calamity exclaimed.

Hiroka twirled once, unraveling her scarf and pushed her Chi and thought into the red material. It billowed out and shot towards the arrows. She flicked her wrists, steadying her legs into the ground in a horse position then leaping into the air. She seemed to fly, the cloth moving this way and that, trapping the arrows in its material. She twisted and turned, her feet moving as though she were running on the air itself, landing on top of a wagon directly behind the one Calamity was on. "Kakashi says fifty."

Calamity grinned at her friend's talent and palmed her big bow. She had already laid down a quiver with arrows and began pulling them out two at a time. She worked the bow like a machine. Arrows, string, fire. Arrows, string, fire. Her sharp eyes picking out shadows and movement amongst the trees of the forest, in a matter of seconds she fired twenty arrows into the woods before the first two had even hit their target.

Screams of pain told them that at least some had hit.

"How many Calam?" Sakura shouted up at her.

"Ten at best. Sorry, too many trees." Calamity replied, lowering her big bow and pulled out her mini-crossbows.

Sakura stood there, feet apart, waiting for the rush from the attackers. It came seconds later, three large hyenas with riders lurched out of the forest. Each hyena was easily three times bigger than Sakura, but she stood her ground as the gnashing teeth and claws raced for her.

"Sakura?" Calamity asked without asking.

Sakura shook her head. Time to show her friends why she belonged in this team. As the first hyena got close enough to try to bite her, she side stepped and cocked back her fist.

"Futae no kiwami!" she let slip out loud. Tsunade had told her not to shout her technique for the world to hear, after all, they were Ninja. But these enemies weren't going to live to tell the name of her technique.

The hyena whose head she punched exploded into blood spray and bone fragments, collapsing in front of the other two. Its rider trapped beneath the massive body. Sakura hand sprung over the body and rushed the second hyena, its jaws snapped at her face. Her momentum as she ducked backwards while running forward kept her sliding under its stomach. She quickly used a kunai to slice its body open from neck to crotch. It shrieked and fell, thrashing madly, breaking the body of the attacker riding on top of it.

The third rider swung a sword that Sakura narrowly managed to avoid. Calamity was about to pick him off as he came around to attack Sakura again but Hiroka appeared next to her and stopped her.

"Don't do it. She's proving a point." They watched as Sakura spun around and threw her kunai into the chest of the man. The hyena still came at her though.

"To who? Us?" Calamity asked as Sakura jumped up and came down with her fist into the Hyena's head.

"Us and herself I think." Hiroka replied. "Still seventeen in the forest."

"The others ran." Kakashi said from the ground. "Good teamwork girls. Way to use your strengths."

Sakura inhaled and exhaled sharply, trying to catch her breath. Ha. If only Naruto could see her now. Or Sasuke…Can you see me Sasuke? Can you see that I'm getting strong too?

She walked back closer to the still rolling Caravan and rejoined her friends.

Konoha

"Your services will be sufficiently compensated," the sleazy obese courtesan said to Danzo. Even for Danzo this part of the job disgusted him. He didn't mind the task he was being asked to do, he just hated having to deal with people like this.

"Yes it will. Tell Shabadaba that the price is two million apiece for each head. The Prince and his son." Danzo spat out at the perfumed man before him.

"King Shadababa will be most grateful if you are successful." The man smirked at Danzo. "There are some warriors from some new village in the unnamed lands protecting the caravan. The king hired them so I don't know anything about them. But I'm sure your…talented…ninjas here can handle a handful of bodyguards."

Danzo irritatedly looked at the Courtesan's escort.

"You." He directly addressed the bodyguard to the Courtesan. "Can you speak?"

The guard looked at Danzo confused. "Yes my Lord."

"Good." Danzo said, throwing a kunai into the throat of the Courtesan. He watched as the man fell the the floor, gagging on his own blood a few seconds before dying.

"Tell Shadababa my terms, and tell him if he fails to pay, that it will be his blood on my floor."

After the guard left, taking the dead body with him, Danzo summoned two of his Root advisers.

"Assassination assignment. But I don't want any Root outside of Konoha at this time, we are still rebuilding strength and solidifying my position."

"Pardon me sir, then why take the job at all?" one asked.

"Because rebuilding Konoha is going to be expensive. And Shadababa has access to more than enough money for our needs. Once he's completed his coup d'etat, we will send a small force to claim that island. I want that treasury for my own."

"…but in the meantime, I need an assassin. Suggest someone and send them out to the unnamed country. We have a map that the caravan will be following. Find them before they come under the protection of Wind. Last thing I need is another war. Not yet anyway. Wind country will face us soon enough."

The advisers nodded and left the room. "Who are you thinking of?" one asked the other.

"If we hadn't thrown the snake's apprentice into a dungeon a few days ago, I'd say her. But we need an uncomplicated success on this. Send out Asuma along with a small squad of chunnin loyal to Danzo. He was once one of the thirteen Guardians of the Fire Daimyo, so he can't be happy with the events in the Valley of Death. He has yet to make any obvious moves or objections though. I think he will do the mission grudgingly, but efficiently."

"So be it."

Tengoku

Ali looked with pride at the guild house. They had completed it side by side with Naruto's clones in an impossibly short space of time. The stone carving that was their clan symbol was firmly in place over the doorway. Red flags also bearing the symbol of the clan stuck out of the walls at a forty five degree upwards angle, making it seem regal.

His two fellow clan members also stood in awe of their new home. None of them had ever had anything even close to this. Either born into the clan or orphaned and adopted into the clan, their life had always been on the road.

Ali turned to his friend on the right. "We will have a ceremony. Find our brothers and tell them I want them here within the week. You know where to start looking."

"Yes Leader."

"Now where is the boy that caused all this?" Ali asked the second man. He was of course referring to the boy who had been orphaned by the clan on their raid of Naruto's caravan. Ali had not seen him for a few days.

"Azriel is running the chambers with the other students of the academy." Ali nodded, pleased at this. It was stunning to see the training that the children were being put through. It was training he had heard of in a far away land, but never seen. It would indeed give all the children strong basic martial art skills, which they could then use to go off in any direction they chose. It would be a perfect base for the Kalarippayattu that Azriel would be learning.

"Has he passed the first chamber as yet?" Ali asked.

"Yes leader. He and a handful of the others in his class have started the second chamber."

After passing the first chamber, which was essentially a perfect balance exercise, the successful students had to immediately begin the second chamber, an arm and shoulder strengthening exercise, carrying buckets of water through a short narrow wooden maze. The only way through was twisting left and right, while holding the buckets above the wooden blunt spikes that they have to navigate.

It was grueling, but would give them the strength needed for upper body attacks and defenses. Ali was very impressed with the training, and had high hopes for Azriel, the first of his clan to endure it. The boy had taken to the clan grudgingly. In the outer lands the death of your family was the norm, not the exception. The boy understood the difference between the man who killed his mother, Krishna, and the rest of the clan.

Ali had already chosen which of his men would stay to teach the boy and run the guild. He looked around at the village around them. The streets were busy with villagers finishing their shops and homes. Naruto had done a miracle and given these people a home.

Still the Middle of Nowhere

Calamity whittled away at the sticks she had handpicked, straightening and forming them into arrow shafts. She'd find feathers tomorrow to notch them with. The sun beat down on her atop the wagon train, but this is what she liked. The traveling, the open air. Her father had moved them around a lot, looking for safer places to live. They had had to restrict their travels to the unnamed country, because of the vast desert that was the Wind country. Not many could afford the cost of a caravan that could cross that desert. They certainly couldn't.

She felt the eyes on her again, the third time that day. Glancing to her left, she saw the Prince's son peek at her over the edge of the Wagon.

"You know, you may as well come and help me, if you have nothing better to do," she said without looking at him. She heard him gasp; then could practically feel the gears in his head turning as he took a minute to think.

He sat down next to her. "How are you so good with your arrows?" he asked.

Calamity laughed. "Food."

The young heir looked confused, so she elaborated.

"Where I grew up, a lot of times it was just my dad and I. So I hunted. And if I missed, we didn't eat. Eventually I never missed. There is a part of the badlands where the vultures will swarm your prey seconds after you kill it. So you need to be able to kill them too. Speed. Accuracy. It's drilled into you by the harsh realities of life. I got good because I needed to."

The boy still didn't seem to understand. "Grandfather says one day something important will depend on me not missing."

Calamity nodded. "Your grandfather is a smart man. One day your life or someone else's could hang in the balance. And you cannot miss."

The boy stood up straight. "I never miss either, watch." He notched his toy arrow to the bow and fired at the back of one if his entourage's head. It stuck and the man exclaimed in annoyance until he saw it was the boy. He smiled and nodded.

Calamity laughed. "Good shot. But you're old enough that I think the toy should be retired. Firing real arrows is different. The weight is different, the amount of pressure in the string, the distance they can travel. You need to practice with the real deal." She finished carving the arrow she was working on and held it up. "A real archer makes her own arrows. That way you can be sure of the quality." She took out a small knife and handed it to him, then nodded towards the pile of sticks.

"Grab one and let's begin. I'll show you how to carve today, and then tomorrow we practice shooting," she said smiling, taking a liking to how interested the boy was.

"What's your name?" he asked her.

"Calamity. What's yours?" she replied.

"Hikaru."

Tengoku

It was night time and the field was empty. But that's what Inari wanted. No witnesses. He braced himself then ran full tilt towards the ditch filled with water and logs. He managed to step on the first log and push off again but then his next footing slipped and he fell back into the water.

He spluttered and swam back to the starting side and climbed out. Getting ready to try again. He was not officially enrolled in the school, he and his grandfather were still finishing their job. But Inari had every intention of joining the classes when they were done, and he did not want to be left behind. He had been coming out here every night for a week, trying to pass the first chamber.

He inhaled and tried again. Still not managing to get past the second step. It had taken him a few days to get even the first step, and this one was harder. He knew some of the kids had passed already, but it was just a handful, four at most. He could still catch up if he got this.

Tenchi watched from a small distance away, unbeknownst to Inari.

"How's he doing?" Tazuna asked from behind Tenchi.

"Good." Tenchi replied. "He's figuring it out. He's got the tenacity that's for sure."

Tazuna nodded in the darkness. "We're almost done, and I have to be leaving soon. I know Inari wants to stay. He wants to be close to Naruto."

Tenchi smiled. "He's not alone in that. I heard about that bridge in your homeland. The Great Naruto Bridge. I guess he's always had an effect on people."

Tazuna looked across as his grandson ended up in the water again. "Yes. He has. Inari is still young though, and his mother would miss him. We've already been gone a year."

An owl hooted from a tree nearby. Tenchi spoke quietly so that their voice wouldn't carry to Inari. "Why not bring his mother here. Or at least ask her if she'd like to come?"

"I've thought of that. I will suggest it. The choice is hers though. I've already spoke to Jiraiya. I will be back in a month. Someone has to maintain the water mains and power lines if there are any problems. If my daughter chooses to stay in Wave Country then I will need to be back and forth. If she chooses to come here, then I could just stay."

"That would make Inari happy." Tenchi said. He held his breath as he saw Inari make his second step and slip on the third. He was thinking of some way he could help with boy figure it out, but that wouldn't be fair. None of the other students were given clues, and he already considered Inari a pupil.

"Good luck on your Journey Tazuna. Inari will be safe with us. You know we have a wind stream that can take you almost to the Great Naruto bridge itself. Naruto's clones made special note of that one."

Tazuna nodded, "Yes, but I'm too old for that form of travel. I'd rather do it the old fashioned way. Leave the flying to the birds and the young." He snickered and retreated into the night.

Konoha

Asuma stopped at the hospital to check on Kurenai. She had been at the bedside of her students for weeks now. Recovery had been slow for Kiba and Shino.

The bug user had massive fire burns that it had taken medical teams days to repair. As it was he was still going to have a large burn scar on his chest. Many in his colony had died too, causing him further distress. His clan had been assisting with taking care of him, tending to his mental distress at such a huge loss.

Kiba had lost a lot of blood from the kunai, so had Akamaru. But they would both survive, it just took time. Hinata was unconscious for a few days but had awoken and left with nothing more than a bad headache and the shame of disappointing her father. He had however been so glad she was alive that he dismissed that claim to disgrace and smiled at her. The Hyuuga were against Danzo, albeit secretly. It was clear the death of the Royals was orchestrated and that his daughter was meant to be killed along with them. Hiashi Hyuuga was furious but reigned in his killing intent, biding his time.

Asuma spotted Kurenai in a chair, sleeping. She had never left the side of her students since they were admitted. He smiled and kissed her on her forehead without waking her. He left a rose in her lap and exited quietly.

He did not relish an assassination mission. But the sooner it was over with the sooner he would be back to take care of Kurenai and his team.

He leapt through the Konoha gates and headed west. It would take him two weeks in a straight line to intercept that caravan, and even then he would be barely a mile or two from the Wind Country border.

He had to be swift.

Appendix A:

Who's Who

My beta Joshua The Evil Guy was kind enough to summarize this for me and for you the reader to help keep things straight.

Archangel Squads

Squad 01 - "Daitenshi" lit. Archangels in Japanese. Tengoku's Lead Team, most powerful and experienced.

Members: Naruto Uzumaki, Shinji Makato, and Nagi Mikihara. Powerhouse team that is balanced with a close-range, close-to-mid-range, and all-range fighters, each with a unique ability that gives them phenomenal strength and power in battle.

Squad 02 - "Tennin" or when not in a group, "Tennyo". Tennin being the plural. Tengoku's Angels from Heaven, the All-Girl Team, and also known as the "Celestial Beauties From Heaven" by those they come to help, and "Demon Bitches From Hell" by those that earn their wrath.

Members: Sakura Haruno, Hiroka Tenshi, and 'Calamity'. Perfectly balanced team with a close-range fighter/ninja medic, a short-to-mid-range Kire Kengeki user, and a long-range weapons expert and sharpshooter.

Squad 03 - "Furuitenshi" or 'Ancient Spirits'. Members: Jiraiya, Tsunade Senju, Hatake Kakashi, Tenshi Shiratori, Guerrerra, Milford Mabry, and Ali of the Spirit Wolf Clan. Defenders of Tengoku, only called together to defend their home from attack, or if the shit really hits the fan and the first two squads need to be rescued.

Noteable Students (may contain some minor spoilers):

Mirrun: Her eyes freeze time around her, allowing her to move at what seems inhuman speeds.

Gennosuke: Uses Chakra blasts to 'see' and has high levels of agility.

Syrren: Ability to become water and move as such

Junya and Fuki: Doubutso Souzou. Kazumo clan, ability to create animals from objects.

Inari: Archer

Azriel: Member of the Spirit Wolf Clan, master thieves and Kalarippayattu practitioners.

Notable Enemies…so far:

Ji-Hoon: Half Demon currently hunting the Kyuubi, formerly master of the street orphans Mirrun, Gennosuke and Syrren.

The Undead Pirates: Set looking for Kyuubi by Ji-Hoon. These are the corpses of the Pirates killed by Naruto in his destruction of Carachi coastal city.

Danzo: Self-declared Conquering Lord of Rock and Leaf.