Heir of the Bloodedge

by Zagger the Bloody Angel

In times of need, when the world needed it, one man has managed to do the impossible. The first gave the time needed for six heroes to save the world from annihilation. The second severed the world's order that had plunged the world into chaos. The last one... This is his story. Hiatus, Possible Return In The Works.

6. It's A Start

I Do Not Own Naruto or BlazBlue. And I don't own the Borderlands games either! Why do you hate me so God?!

Note: Borderlands have nothing do with this chapter... Just a random outburst from your truly. On a side note thanks to Hakuryukou79 I will have a little different scene break for this chapter just for a change of pace. Only this one below and the one before the A/N are the normal line breaks.

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Stepping out of the temporal void, that created itself in the middle of a forest, Naruto sighed as this seemed a little too familiar.

Trees all over the place. Check. A swampy marshland. Check. Stepping out a temporal void to reach said place. Yup, this was already reminding him of his excursion into the Waterfall.

"Why do places I go have to be like this?" Naruto asked out-loud, hoping that someone might have the ability to answer his dilemma.

"What was that good guy?!" Yuki leap through the void and landed next to a disgruntled Naruto.

Grumbling, knowing that this was going to be a long adventure, Naruto for now ignored her as he made a double check to make sure nothing was around as the rift closed. Once he was sure there was nothing that was going to pop out and ambush him, outside of Yuki, Naruto tapped his ear lobe and activated the communication ars. "I have arrived... This place look nearly identical to the Waterfall. The only difference is some of the flora and fauna around here."

"Meow?" Yuki looked confused as Naruto was starting to talk to someone that wasn't there. "Who are you talking to? Oh! Do you have an invisible friend, meow?!"

"What? No!" Naruto was baffled by his companion's train of thought before explaining it to her using small words to make sure she understood. "I'm talking to Tager through an ars that allows us to speak with one another from long distances."

Seeing Yuki blink owlishly at him, Naruto metaphorically threw his hands into the air and glared at Tager through his mind image of the Red Devil. "This... Is why I wanted someone who, as Rachel possibly put it, doesn't have a hamster running through a wheel that was jammed against the side of the cage for a brain."

"Meow?" Yuki questioned as the insult soared over her intellect and was wondering why Naruto was making such an exasperated face. "Do you need to go to the bathroom?"

"Tager, I'm getting on with the mission!" Naruto roared over the link at the Red Devil, tapped his ear to end the link before turning on Yuki and glared at her. "No! Now can you take this seriously?!"

Blinking as she looked around her, Yuki brought her paw to her lip. "What are we doing here, meow?"

"Gah!" Naruto cried out as it seemed she completely forgot everything.

However thankfully Yu left him a note to remind Yuki what they were suppose to be doing. So drawing that note from one of his coat pockets, he opened it to how it would possibly help his hapless partner. And at the threw up in the air along with his hands. "Why is everyone in the Kaka crazy?!"

Catching the note and looking at the drawn images, that made a certain Soul Reaper's art look good, of Naruto and Tao kicking a pig like man in the face with people in the background cheering seemingly made connection in Yuki's mind. "That's right! We're here to beat up the bad man, meow! Thank you Yukaka!"

"You... Understood... That?" Naruto spoke in fragments as his jaw hung agape and a massive bead of sweat rolled down the back of his head.

"Of course, meow!" Yuki exclaimed and held out the picture for Naruto to read, aka it was put right in his face. "It says Yuki, beat up bad man with Nawruwo and help the people out, meow!"

"Um... Okay." Naruto took the note from her and made sure to safely pocket it in case she forgot what she was doing again. "Alright. It seems the transfer went as it should so we should head to the east and we'll be in village before noon."

"Okay! To the village we go, meow!" Yuki cried and started marching the direction she was face.

Naruto sighed and called out to the directionally impaired Kaka teen. "That's west. We want to go this direction." Naruto said and pointed behind him.

"Right!" Yuki cried, unashamed she had no clue where she was going, and before Naruto knew it she had raced passed him...

And she grabbed his hand.

"AHK!" Naruto screamed as he was suddenly flailing in the air behind Yuki as she ran towards the direction Naruto pointed...

Completely ignoring that five days earlier she couldn't even lift him with his jacket on and his sword strapped in.

(The Wheel of Fate is Turning)

Once they made it to the village, both Naruto and surprisingly Yuki sobered at the state of the village. It wasn't due to the poor state of the buildings, as to be honest they weren't much worse than the buildings in their home. It wasn't even because that the people looked to horribly off.

It was because they could feel the hopelessness in their air and see the look of desperation on each person's face.

Yuki even shivered. "Yuki don't like this, meow."

Naruto could only nod as this was not a scene he was fully prepared for. He had not hesitated with Fu for he could see she needed his help and could take care of the problem right away. This...

These people looked broken already and didn't have the will to carry on.

"Hey you!" A voice called out to Naruto and Yuki through the crowd.

And group of people began to scatter as a group of thugs, as they each carried a katana on their waist and did not share the same air of hopelessness everyone else did, marched towards them. Naruto raised his eyebrow at being called out by a group of young and grown men, calling out two teenage kids.

What were they? Cowards?

The said leader of the group, who had cross shaped scar on his cheek and wore a blue bandanna over his head, looked over Naruto for a moment before frowning. "You... You don't look like you are from here."

Naruto rolled his eyes. Like that wasn't the most obvious thing ever said about him. "Obviously. Did you figure that out all on your own our did your buddies have to point it out for you?"

Biting back a snarl as his hand reached for his katana, he released the grip on his handle and grinned at the young boy. "Then you wouldn't know... There's a tax fee for entering this town and another one for leave. Not to mention insulting one of the guard patrols is a crime."

"Wow." Naruto sarcastically clapped, annoying the man and his cronies. "Is that really the best you can come up with? I think you might have been better off trying to threaten me with that sword like you planned on doing... Or did you see mine and loose your nerve?"

As Naruto's hand reached for the handle of the Bloodedge, each one froze at sight of the heavy looking blade. But soon the leader regained his confidence and he placed his hand on his katana. "Sure that blade might look intimidating in a man's hands but you can't even lift such a weapon."

"That's it! Yuki's mad neow!" Yuki hissed and hunched over on all fours and was ready to pounce. "Get ready for the can opener!"

"Yuki, not yet." Naruto called to his partner, who he knew could more than hold her own in battle so she wouldn't be problematic there...

He just wanted them to goad him into an attack. There wasn't a real reason for it as he was given the A-okay to dispatch any of Gato's thugs. He just wanted to make seem that these guys were the aggressors to those that were watching in the safety of their own homes or in the stores.

Yuki did as Naruto and stood back up, but her eyes narrowed at the men before her. She did not like the men or that stench she smell on them. It smelled like something she knew, though what she did not know, but far more vile and putrid. But whatever it was...

It made her instincts scream to cause them bodily harm.

"That's right girly, learn your place." One of the cronies spoke, grinning as he lustfully gleamed over Yuki's figure with a little spittle drooling from the corner of his lips.

Naruto found it quite disgusting as he knew where the man's thoughts were. And there wasn't a way in hell he was going to let that happen. Not to any girl, not just Yuki!

Oh how he was going to savor this!

"This almost isn't worth bother with. Just hand over that big-ass sword of yours and get the hell..." Being tapped by his cronie, the one drooling over Yukikaka, the leader raised his eyebrow before shrugging his shoulders. "Weird as hell fetish but give us the girl too otherwise..."

"You did not just say fetish and girl... In the same fucking sentence!" Naruto's eyes glowed for a moment and he no longer cared about his half assed plan to get them to strike first. "Yuki... Can Opener."

"Can Opener?"

"Can Opener."

"GET READY FOR THE CAN OPENER!" Yuki immediately crouched back to all fours and at that moment razor sharp metal blades curved like claws sprouted from her massive paws.

And the she pounced the leader, faster than they could react, and in dust cloud began slashing her claws through the screaming man.

"Shiro!" All his cronies yelled out and drew their katanas...

Only for Naruto to appear directly between them, his sword held out into the air as if he had just slashed.

Blood poured from each of their chests as their eyes widened and they collapsed to the ground, blood pools forming around their bodies.

Sheathing his blade, Naruto turned around to see Yuki stand on her knees, which were covered in blood, and panted as she looked at the carved up man before looking at her blood soaked paws. "Why... Why did Yuki just do that, meow?"

"These men were not just thugs... They were rapist." Naruto said as he moved to his friend and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Your instincts knew that. That's why you killed with such ease. They raped women and were thinking of doing the same with you."

Naruto would have also mention that they were weak as hell and couldn't take an attack like that but he digressed. She didn't need to know that.

Frowning, as she still did not enjoy the fact that she just made her first kill, Yuki nodded her head. "Yuki understands... These bad man would... Would keep doing that to others. We had to stop them, meow."

"Yes. We had to and we will have to keep doing so as there will be more." Naruto gave a half hearted smile to reassure her, even though he still was getting use to killing himself. "We'll need to find a place for you to wash up."

Yuki nodded but as they were to head to the bridge, as it was clearly in sight, one of the more brave town's folk called out to them. "Just... Just who are you?"

"Us?" Naruto looked a little surprised for a moment before grinning and giving a confident response. "My friend here is Yukikaka of the Kaka Clan and I'm Naruto... Naruto the Bloodedge. And before you ask... We are here to liberate the Wave from Gato's control..."

"And to end his tyrannical reign."

(Rebel 1, Action!)

Standing on the bridge while Yuki was below, washing the blood from her paw and knees, Naruto watched as a few of the men that escorted him talked to head constructor of the bridge. He was an elder man with grey hair and a scruffy beard and he distinctly detect the smell of alcohol on him, though he seemed sober at the moment.

"So... You are the one that took care of that brute squad that's been hanging around the town the last few days?" The man he knew was Tazuna came over to him after conversing with the man and sending them to work.

Naruto simply nodded. "I did as did my friend who is currently cleaning the blood off of her down below."

Tazuna, who had expected the kid to brag about something like that, was taken aback a little. The kid did nothing more than take credit for what he, and his friend, did. And it didn't even bother him.

"Well I have to thank you for that but..." Tazuna said after a moment pause and reevaluating the kid before him. "Exactly why should I trust that you want to help us?"

"If I were here to kill you, you would already be dead." Naruto responded and gave the man a flat stare. "Taking care of you, especially at this range, and getting away before anyone could retaliate or could even comprehend what happened would not be an issue. So what does that make me?"

Letting that thought hit him, Tazuna had to concede the point and answer. "A comrade in arms. However, I have also been told that you want to help guard me from any Gato might send to kill me. He's been sending his cronies in but, with the help of village, I've been able to elude them so far. And that's been pissing off Gato enough that I'm sure he's about to hire some ninja to come after me..."

"You question my skills then?" Naruto more stated than asked, slammed his sword into the stone bridge before him and motioned for Tazuna to pick it up. "If you can even budge my sword from it's place I will concede to you that I'm not more than capable enough to deal with any threats sent this way."

After a moments pause, as Tazuna was again looking him over, Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Is there a problem?"

Again Tazuna had to give credit to this boy as his demeanor was confident despite that he was a man into construction and use to heavy lifting. That left him with the thought thinking this blade was ridiculously heavy, despite looking like it weight as much as a bag or two of concrete mix, or...

There was something special about this blade that took something great to wield.

However, Tazuna shook his head. "No. I just don't think a such a young..."

"I've killed before and these men are not the first I have slain." Naruto explained, as that was the truth, before continuing. "And I want to involve myself as this... This cannot stand. Not with what Gato is doing."

"As for dealing with ninja... I've killed some of the village's elite Anbu forces before. I can handle myself against powerful enemies." Naruto told him, again not exactly telling a lie as he did kill Anbu before...

They were just pathetically weak Anbu that the big five's jounin could easily take out.

Tazuna, while mortified that a child this young had killed and had killed elite soldiers at that, was rather impressed. Sure there was the chance the kid was lying but at this point he didn't have much of a choice. The village scarcely had the money to pay to hire a ninja guard for him to continue building the bridge.

That's why so many people had stopped working. They had begun to fear retaliation from Gato and were worried that he would take it out on their families. The later reason he couldn't help but fear too as losing the life of his daughter and grandson would simply be too much for him to take.

Still he kept building the bridge so that they may have a better future as the benefit of a free Wave out gained the risks of his life.

"All clean, meow!" Yuki ran up to Naruto and made Tazuna jump as he saw nothing but a blur until she stopped next to the sword wielding teen.

Taking his sword from the bridge, sheathing it, Naruto sighed and shook his head. "I would hope so. You spent quite a bit of time down there."

"Oh that... Look, good guy!" Yuki looked sheepish for a moment before she proudly displayed a trout still struggling to free itself from her grasp. "I caught us food, meow! He was a tough fight but he was no match for me, meow!"

"And that explains that." Naruto sighed again but this time it was understandable as food would be a small issue here. "Good job, Yuki. That should make for a nice lunch."

As Yuki beamed at the praise, for she was still a kitten at heart and mentally younger than he, Naruto turned his focus back onto Tazuna. It seemed the man was deep in thought, probably coming to a decision, but he was patient.

Yuki, however, was not. "Whose this scruffy man, meow? And why does he smell like that special stuff Yukaka won't let Yuki drink?"

"Gah!" Naruto face faulted at his partner and tasted the concrete. "Yuki for the love of..."

"The name's Tazuna, little lady!" Tazuna suddenly puffed up his chest and was seemingly preening, something Naruto found rather odd as he managed to bring himself to a seated position. "And I am, with the help of those that work for me, building this magnificent bridge!"

"So scruffy man is building bridge, meow? That is so awesome!" Yuki jumped and pumped her paw into the air, forgetting that he reeked of alcohol.

"Hah! Indeed it is!" Tazuna continued preening before he turned to Naruto, smiling broadly as he did. "Young man! I will accept your help and offer you what little we can afford for your payment just so I may have more time speaking to this gorgeous and flattering young lady!"

"I humbly accept scruffy man! We will help you on whatever it is that you are doing, meow!" Yuki danced, shaking her paws side to side and conveniently smacking Naruto in the face with the struggling trout.

"Ugh!"

"I thank you young lady! With your help we will surely finish building this bridge safely!" Tazuna mocked cried, or enthusiastically cried as Naruto couldn't tell the difference.

All he knew was that he had a fish flopping around in his lap as he twitched at the scene before him. Despite all his efforts it came down to Yuki's charm, playful nature and her clueless-ness to seal the deal.

"At least it's a start..." Naruto muttered as picked up the fish and stood back up.

For that it was. It was the start of ending the Gato's tyrannical reign here in the Wave.

(Rebel 2, Action!)

As the day winded down and a beautiful orange was upon the horizon as the sun set, Naruto and Yuki kept in stride with Tazuna, Naruto hanging slightly behind as he kept his focus on the area around him as they neared town.

The town was oddly deserted, not that he was surprised as he and Yuki had slain the thugs earlier, but he couldn't shake the feeling that there was something odd about this. And soon he saw why.

"Shit!" Naruto cursed under his breath as he saw there was a large number of Gato's thugs patrolling the town. "Word must have reached Gato on what happened!"

"Yuki, stick with Tazuna and make sure no one gets to him. If things get ugly I'm going to draw them to me and take them out in one fell swoop." Naruto growled under his breath as they hid behind the closest building to them.

Tazuna, while alarmed, was alert before his eyes widened. "Shit! My workers went home first so that means they could have rounded them up!"

Taking this into account, Naruto thought about what to do for a moment. And once he had his idea he drew the Bloodedge. "Change of plans. You two stay here, Yuki keep guarding him. I'm going in to take care of this and give that pig a lesson he won't forget."

"Hey! I want in on the action to, meow!" Yuki angrily hissed as she wanted to go in and kiss some butt too.

However she shrunk back as Naruto gaze into her eyes. "You will stay here and protect Tazuna. You will get your chance to beat some of these guys down soon enough. Just leave this to me."

"Okay, good guy! Kick some butt, meow!" Yuki cried and left Naruto exasperated as he was sure someone heard that.

Breaking from them, as Yuki could handle anyone that came her direction, Naruto rushed through and into town. He caught the thugs off guard, knocking a few senseless out of his way, he jumped onto a roof top and did a quick search.

In the middle of the town there was four coffins, most likely the four men that he and Yuki killed, and each of Tazuna's men was tied up and forced onto their knees in front of a man pacing before them. And they were surrounded by a group of the man's thugs.

This guy obviously wasn't Gato, for he was too tall and actually seemed a little built, but seemed to be rather high in the chain of command. The thugs were waiting on his every word, watching him and ready to execute the men.

He would not allow this.

"Hey!" Naruto called out as he jumped down nearby them and strolled straight towards the head honcho, no fear in his eyes. "I would suggest you release these men for I know they had nothing to do with killing these men."

A few of the bandits responded by drawing their katanas and stepping before Naruto in impede his path.

It didn't really do anything as their blood stained the ground as Naruto flicked his blade through them with relative ease and continued on with his path. Each of the thugs tensed and begun to look nervous as he walked right up and into their leader's face, despite being a foot shorter than the six foot man.

"I killed them." Naruto said loud enough for every bandit to hear while keeping his eyes focused on the leader. "Let these men go and nothing will happened to you."

"Or." Naruto reacted faster than they could react, even as the man attempted to resist, was drug down to Naruto's level and pressed against the tip of his blade. "I shove this right through you and proceed to butcher your men!"

Fear took over the man nearly instantaneously. He shook as he could not break Naruto's grip. His men made a move but he hollered at them. "Don't! ...Step away and leave them be!"

"Do it or I put this through his skull and then move and slaughter you guys just as easy as your friends over there and the ones in the coffins." Naruto added vehemently and his face schooled with a cold yet composed glare.

With the event unfolding as they were the thugs slowly backed away from the captured men, cutting them free as they did. "Good... Get home and stay indoors for the rest of the night."

Tazuna's workers did just that, rushing away to their homes to make sure their families were okay. The bandits snarled but knew that they could not strike at this time. And this kid before them seemed to mean business and they weren't going to press it.

"Well now that their gone..." Naruto grinned before he tossed the leader aside in a casual manner. "Let's get down to business shall we!"

The thugs didn't hesitate, as their meal ticket was now safely out of harms way, and rushed him. But before they knew it Naruto was before them and had slashed through each of their chests and fell to the ground, drawing there last few breathes of life.

Soon after that motion, the remainder of the bandit's eyes went wide from fear. This was an opponent far beyond their caliber and not something they could deal with.

"N-ninja!"

"Let's get out of here!"

And with that any of the remaining thugs sprinted away leaving a rather agitated Naruto.

"Wow... That was rather pathetic." Naruto sighed as he was expecting just a little more than what they offered but his eyes soon turned to the leader that was slowly picking himself up. "Where do you think you are going?"

Naruto pinned him to the ground with his foot on his chest. "Now, where was I?"

Holding his blade out, poking it against the man's cheek, Naruto was satisfied to see the man panic. He would give him anything he wanted now.

And he was right. "W-whatever it is you want... I get to you! Just please, spare me!"

"Is that so?" Naruto gave the man a viscous grin and lightly cut his cheek. "Here is what I want..."

"I want this bridge built so that the Wave may be free and their people no longer run by a tyrant that has gone insane with power! I want it so that the children of this village don't have to fear their for their parent's safety! I want every parent to know that their children won't starve because they can't put food on their plate! But most of all..."

Naruto's voice was nothing more than a whisper but held the ferocity of lion roaring as his eyes pierced into the man's. "I want that fat little pig of a man to tremble in fear and piss himself every time he hears my name! I want him to know that this land is under my protect and I want him to know that his presence here is no longer welcomed as I, Naruto the Bloodedge, will cut him down if he ever shows his face here!"

"Now get out of here before I change my mind to spare you." Naruto spoke as he lifted his foot.

And with that the man sprinted from his sight, not being able to get away fast enough for his liking. Naruto watched until he could no longer see the man in the distance before he went to find Yuki and Tazuna.

Things were going to get interesting real soon.

(Rebel 3, Action!)

"Tsunami, I'm back!" Tazuna called out as he entered through the door way, Naruto and Yuki following after him. "And I've brought back two of the best bodyguards I've ever seen!"

Soon a rather young woman, had to be in her late twenties or early thirties, came to greet her father with a bright smile on her face. "Good to see you're home, father. I heard things in town got really bad this afternoon..."

"And this kid here chased off the bandits like it was nothing." Tazuna motioned to Naruto, leaving out that Naruto had killed a good few of them to have them scurry and flee the scene in a hurry, and then motioned to Yuki. "And this young lady is amazingly fast! She stopped a few of them from even coming close and I saw nothing but a blur of where she had been!"

Tsunami blinked at the startling introductions and wasn't sure how to respond to such claims. Honestly she was at a lost for words as they were both so young and the boy had apparently chased Gato's men out of town, something she knew probably a few of his men were killed in the process, and the girl had protected her father...

So her first question was something of a surprise. "Are you two... Perhaps ninja?"

"No." Naruto shook his head. "I am something more along the lines of a ronin and Yukikaka here is a warrior for her clan. However I would say our skills match well with ninja as for I've had a few run ins and have come out victorious in our meetings."

He was beginning to become really good at telling half truths and absently wondered if this was something he picked up from being around Rachel.

"Yeah! Yuki doesn't need to be a ninja to kick butt, meow!" Yuki added thankfully taking the attention from Naruto. "Kaka warriors are the best in the world, meow!"

"Ain't that right. If what I've seen just based on you and saying this Yukaka is so much better... I've got to believe it." Tazuna grumbled but was still more than thankful.

"Thanks scruffy man!" Yuki exclaimed, acting like her usual self.

While still unsure, Tsunami took her father's word for it and beamed at the two of them. "I thank you very much for your help and protecting my father. You must be hungry! We might not have much but I can whip up something enough for all of us."

"Yay! Food, meow!" Yuki begun her side to side dance and she made chewing noises with her mouth, thinking about what they were going to eat before a ideal popped in her head. "Can we have meat buns, meow?"

"Yuki! It's their house. We eat what they serve." Naruto scolded her.

"Actually we actually have the ingredients." Tsunami said with a slight smile on her face. "We were actually saving it for a special occasion as it is dad's favorite food."

"And I say this is as good as any! With the arrival of these two things are finally starting to look up and some of my workers showed up with a new hope in their eyes!" Tazuna spoke with a sparkle in his eyes. "Not to mention I feel like eating my favorite meal on a day like this."

Tsunami laughed a little, smiling seeing her father look so enthused, she nodded after containing her to keep laughing at Yuki's dance. "Okay. I'll go start dinner than."

"And I'll help, meow!" Yuki pounced after her into the kitchen, hell bent on attempting to help.

Naruto simply gazed at the scene for a little while longer before shrugging his shoulders and sitting at the table with Tazuna.

He gave up fighting against Yuki. Her personality seemed to win people over and that was a good thing right now.

This place could use her uplifting spirit.

(Astral Finish!)

"What?!" A fat little man, the one known as Gato, sat on his throne like seat behind his red oak desk and glared at the man that spoke. "Are you telling me we've lost control of the Wave?! I sent you there to keep those people down while I was away on business and you couldn't even do that right!"

"I'm sorry sir!" The man, the one Naruto threatened, fidgeted as all the guards in the room seemed ready to strike if Gato so much as gave the word. "But these two kids showed up... No, not kids. These were monsters... Especially the one in the red coat."

"Monsters?" Gato raised an eyebrow before he laughed. "Ha! Maybe they have some skill, enough to take on your small time boys, Meiru. I bet if I send in my big guns they'll have 'em packing in a day!"

"No, that one is far more skilled than he looks!" Meiru stood up straight and locked his eyes with Gato's. "At any time I got the feeling he could have killed anyone of us. Instead he toyed with my men and sent us running all the while not even breaking a sweat from it. It was like he was a ninja!"

"Ninja?" The word froze Gato for a moment and soon after he pondered for a moment before nodding. "I see... Then I may have to pony up a little than and do what I should have done to do with the start."

"Meiru, put out a bounty on this kid. Put a million ryo on his head and that should get people flocking here to take care of him. I'm sure one of them will happen to be a missing ninja." Gato shooed his subordinate away, giving him a small task to leave.

Meiru left as he did leaving Gato alone with his few, highly paid guards. And as he did the short man grinned as he looked at the photo taken by one of the escapes. "And when they do I'll just tack on killing the bridge builder as an extra. But first let's see what you can do..."

"Naruto the Bloodedge!"

Gato's laughter filled the room as he bellowed, confident in his soon to be victory that would once and for all crush the Wave.

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A/N: And complete! This chapter was actually not easy to write compared to the others but I should get back on track now as I've been thinking ahead while writing this chapter... And that just doesn't help while writing. In fact I've been thinking so far ahead that I accidentally stalled on chapter 7 as well so... Yeah. It's done now though so next week's update isn't in jeopardy. Now if only chapter 8 doesn't screw with me.

Anyways things are starting to slowly fall into place and once I get out of this portion I will hit a grove, hopefully, as I've thought out the next portion of the story very thoroughly and it will be quite telling. This arc was simply to get Naruto started, get his name out and to show that he isn't all powerful. Trust me, next chapter proves that.

So if you've got anything to say, just drop in and give me a howler.

Peace Out.