Hanyō Trials

by Dragon Man 180

Sequel to Naruto the Kitsune Hanyou and first story A Dream Is A Wish. Naruto and Hinata have to deal with one of the biggest trials ever, surviving high school in Nerima with Naruto's evil cousins trying to kill him! Mega Xover including Inuyasha, Ranma 12, and Tenchi Muyo. Warning, OC heavy, but main focus is Naruto and Hinata. Naruto is well on his way to Super Naruto status.

30. Trial 29: Assault on Oni Island

I don't own Naruto

Walking across the iced over Tokyo Bay, Naruto kept his eyes and ears peeled for any more tricks from Ichiro. He could tell Sasuke was doing the same with his Sharingan while Yugito and Takajou were using their own enhanced senses. Even though nothing attacked them, all the ninja kept their hands close to their weapons and were on their guard. Haku and Naruko were quietly discussing ice jutsu Haku had tracked down over the years and which ones were actually by anyone.

Reaching the edge of the barrier protecting Oni Island, Naruto scowled as he saw an army of Oni waiting for his group with a five-horned red oni carrying a sake gourd in one hand and a large tetsubo in the other standing at the front of the horde.

"Kitsune brat, I've got a bone to pick with you!" the five-horned oni bellowed.

"What did I ever do to you?" Naruto asked, though he had a good idea.

"Killed my wife and kid: Ibaraki Dōji and Kidōmaru," the oni said.

"That makes you Shuten-dōji, king of all Oni," Naruto said.

Shuten-dōji nodded, taking a huge gulp of sake from his gourd. "Yep, and you're lucky this barrier is between us so I can't get to you!"

Naruto sighed before glancing at his fellow ninja. "Would you guys mind terribly getting rid of all his mooks so I can focus on this drunken idiot?" he asked, getting nods from the other ninja.

"But you are going to sit down and tell us EVERYTHING you've been up to that includes pissing off Oni royalty," Haku scolded.

"Sure, Nee-chan, just got to get Hinata-chan back first," said Naruto.

"And how are you going to get through the barrier?" Yugito asked, sliding a pair of iron claws on in preparation for combat.

"Amaterasu-sama gave me a little trick," said Naruto as he drew Taiyōhiga before biting his thumb and sliding the resulting blood down the blade's length with a single swipe to either side. "Rise, Taiyōhiga! No blood, no bone, no ash!" The entire sword glowed golden before erupting in heavenly flame as the rays of the setting sun shone down on it and seemed to ignite the blood. Naruto raised the katana into the air and brought it down in a slash that carved through the barrier before it shattered, unable to hold up to Naruto's power backed up by the power of the Sun Goddess in defense of the land she watched over. Shuten-dōji's jaw dropped and the piece of meat he'd been snacking on briefly hung from his mouth before it fell to the ground. "Now, we can do this the honorable way and face each other one-on-one," Naruto said calmly as he sheathed Taiyōhiga.

Shuten-dōji roared in anger and the oni behind him bellowed as they psyched themselves up. "Or we could do this the fun way where my boys and I kill all you punks and take the women for our pleasure!" the oni king said with a leer.

Naruto facepalmed. "Or you could do it the stupid way and throw your army away, please leave him for me guys."

Naruto watched as his ninja allies tore through the oni, shaking his head as superior training combined with underestimation let the mortals get in killing blows on the yōkai.

"Please tell me all the foes you've been facing aren't this pathetic?" Sasuke asked as Shuten-dōji was left as the last oni on the beach.

"Sadly, most of them ARE that dumb. They keep forgetting that in the legends it's always a warrior or priest who saves the day," Naruto said. "Add in being a hanyō and they just keep underestimating me. My cousin Chiyo is probably the only one not to underestimate me from the start and she's an old school non-chakra ninja." Naruto pointed at Shuten-dōji. "Then there are big names like this guy, thinking they're invincible."

Shuten-dōji bellowed in rage and charged Naruto with his kanabō raised and swung it down, only for the club to pass through an afterimage as Naruto dodged the easily telegraphed attack.

"So, sort of like how even a Kage can be taken out by a lucky Genin?" Yugito asked as she cleaned her iron claws.

"Meh, more like how Gaara had a reputation for being unharmed due to his sand and lost it when Hinata-chan and I were able to bypass it in various ways," Naruto said as he tripped Shuten-dōji on his next charge, letting the Oni king sprawl in the sand. "Most of the really powerful yōkai I've encountered tend to draw on their reputation and legends about them to make up for a lack of skill."

"Stand still!" roared Shuten-dōji as he hurled his kanabō at Naruto, only to see a flash of flame as Taiyōhiga was unsheathed to slice the iron club from end to end.

"And they have no clue how to deal with a chakra-using ninja," said Naruto with a smirk as the split iron club fell to the ground.

Shuten-dōji's eyes were wide as he grabbed his sake gourd and took a big swig before suddenly spewing a jet of flame from his mouth. Naruto easily avoided the flaming alcohol, though his eyes widened as a jet of cold sake shot towards him next and he actually looked curious.

"Hot and cold alcohol, nice tricks!" Naruto said before darting forward to land a punch on Shuten-dōji, all the ninja seeing a seal appear on the oni king.

"I barely felt that!" Shuten-dōji said with a smirk as Naruto assumed a Battōjutsu stance. The Oni king charged towards Naruto, who took a step with his left foot before vanishing into a flash step. Shuten-dōji's eyes he swung his fist through empty air, Naruto reappearing behind him with Taiyōhiga in a striking position.

"Hiraishingiri!" said Naruto as he flicked the blade, causing Shuten-dōji's head to roll off his neck and fall to the ground.

"IMPUDENT BRAT!" the severed head roared as it rose up into the air, a new body forming beneath him. Curiously his left leg was white while his right was black and his left arm was yellow and his right blue.

"So that's your true form, fugly," said Naruto as the giant oni reached for him. Naruto shifted into Sage Mode and grabbed the oni's massive hands with each of his own, stopping Shuten-dōji's attack cold. "At least your legend wasn't lying about your strength, but I'm still not impressed!"

Shuten-dōji roared in rage but his anger turned to fear as Naruto slowly pushed him back, Yōki and senjutsu giving him the strength to overpower the oni king until Naruto lifted Shuten-dōji over his head with a roar and tossed the oni king into the air. Shuten-dōji's bellow of confusion ensured everyone on the island heard his ascent and all eyes fixed on him as he flew up into the air and then Naruto was above him, delivering a double-footed kick to his stomach to send him rocketing back down and using the massive oni's body as a cushion for his landing before leaping clear.

Shuten-dōji rolled to his side and spewed up all the food and alcohol in his system on the beach from the impact and was trying to catch his breath when Naruto charged in and sliced off his head with Taiyōhiga.

The oni king's head tumbled across the ground and bellowed with rage before launching itself at Naruto, only for Naruko's chakra chains to restrain it so she could slap an ofuda on the head. "And that's the whole royal oni family," she said as Shuten-dōji's head was added to the trophy scroll.

(0o0o0)

Ichiro and the possessed Hinata stared at the crystal ball that had showed them Shuten-dōji's defeat. "Well, that was unexpected," the girl said.

Ichiro growled in anger, his tails lashing behind him. "I will enjoy turning that boy into a new belt and giving you his sister as a plaything," he hissed.

(0o0o0)

Walking up the beach, Naruto and Naruko noticed all the oni in the small village staring at them wide-eyed. Numerous guards hurried out of their way and into their homes, clearly having gotten the message that the kitsune twins and their ninja allies were not going to stop. The villagers quickly cleared out of the way of the two kitsune and their ninja allies, doors and windows closing rapidly as parents caught sight of the advancing party and got their children inside.

The only Oni who stood in their path was a green-skinned oni woman who bowed as the twins approached her. "Naruto-sama, Naruko-sama, my name is Goki, you have already met my husband Zenki and my daughters Kei and Yuri," she said.

"Yes, your husband is a most-skilled fighter and your daughters have proven their skills as bodyguards," Naruto said.

Goki smiled. "You have two opponents waiting for you, one at the inspection island and the other at the garden one," she said before hurrying to her home and closing the door behind her.

"Alright, let's not keep our hosts waiting," Naruto said as the group moved across the small bridge to the inspection island, eyeing the large building that Chiyo had led him through the last time. "The inside of that building is pretty much an open area where they can set up a ring of tables facing either way so guards can move around as needed due to traffic flow." The rest of the ninja nodded and the twins led the way into the building, only to stop as they entered and saw a large robot waiting for them in the center of the room.

"What's wrong?" Hotaru asked just as a gate slammed down over each of the entrances, locking Naruto and Naruko inside with the robot while the rest of the ninja were stuck outside the building.

The front of the robot's chest opened to reveal Perro scowling at the twins. "Now I avenge my brother Gatoh and Mejiro-sama!" he shrieked before the chest closed and the mecha took on a battle stance. Naruto and Naruko took in the large laser cannons on its shoulders, the heavy gun arms, and giant booster unit on its back as they dashed apart, avoiding a stream of ten laser blasts the size of their torsos from the shoulder cannons. "This is the Jagarundi suit; Lord Ichiro gave me permission to field it against you!" shrieked Perro as both gun arms came up, three bazooka rockets shooting from each in an attempt to track the twins as they circled the mech. Perro spun the mecha around firing the shoulder lasers in every direction while a hatch on the back released floating mines that homed in on the twins, necessitating kunai and shuriken to detonate them at a distance.

"I didn't expect we'd get to use Nuku-nuku-sensei's lessons here!" Naruko called as she flipped to the ceiling to escape a stream of rockets.

"Less talky, more smashy!" Naruto yelled back as he slid under a mine and then jumped to the wall to avoid a laser.

"DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!" shrieked Perro as he continued to fire wildly, trying to hit either of the twins but not noticing they were maneuvering him closer to the walls of the building until one of the mecha's gun arms slammed into the wall and got stuck. Seizing the opening, Naruko and Naruto charged in, a Rasengan in each of their hands that they slammed into the shoulder laser cannons, reducing them to scrap. Perro's shriek of anger resulted in a pair of small cannons popping into the air and acting as attack drones, firing ring shaped lasers that the twins had to hop through.

"Got to wonder how many tricks he has?" Naruto pondered as Perro finally wrenched the gun arm free from the wall and swung both arm barrels to point at Naruko as she dodged a floating mine and the ring lasers. The kitsune kunoichi looked nervous for a moment before smirking as she vanished in a kawarimi, leaving the remote cannon that had been harassing Naruto in her place to be destroyed by bazooka fire while Naruto hurled a Fūma shuriken to take out the one that had been pursuing Naruko.

Dashing towards the mecha, the twins saw a set of missile launchers starting to open from the machine's back and each grabbed a piece of rubble to toss it into a launcher, forcing a jam and explosion that rocked the machine as their free hands met and formed a whirling fire and ice Rasengan. "Twin Hijutsu: Antipode Rasengan!" roared the twins as they slammed their jutsu into the Jagarundi's chest.

Perro's demented ranting was cut off as the Rasengan blasted him out of the building and up into the air in a direct line towards the south, his path sailing out over Tokyo Bay and into the Uraga Channel.

"Holy shit, I don't think I ever want to get hit by that!" Takajou gasped, the rest of the ninja nodding.

Takajou easily let the rest of the group into the building via cutting a hole in the wall with a dust jutsu, then repeated the trick on the other wall to let them make their way to the garden island, only for everyone to pull up short and stare at the island. When Naruto had been led through by Chiyo the garden had been peaceful and idyllic, perfect for a relaxing walk along a path that meandered from side to side of the island crossing a river and pond that bisected the island several times via small stone bridges. Now, miasma seemed to seep from all the plants and a purple fog filled the air while bubbling purple water filled the river and lake

"What the hell? Six days ago, this place was a relaxing park!" Naruko blurted out as the ninja stared at the island.

"Ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho!" came a demented sounding laugh as a large purple flower on a massive vine rose out of the back of the island and moved towards them before opening to reveal a green-skinned woman wearing only a single large purple flower petals over each of her breasts and a ring of them as a very revealing skirt around her waist. "Welcome to my garden of poison!" she said with a smirk as a vine whip grew out from each of her wrists.

"Briar the fake Kuno?" Naruto said in confusion. "I thought you got atomized by all our attacks during the Miss Nerima competition?"

"Wait, you were in a beauty pageant?" Sasuke demanded, his eyes locked on Naruto the same way his rabid fangirls had looked at him.

"Hinata-chan used puppy eyes on me and suggested it would help Naruko get used to being in control," Naruto grumbled.

"I hope there are pictures," Haku said with a grin.

Briar fumed as the ninja ignored her and several of the trees at the edge of the park shivered before growing a large purple fruit on one branch. The branches holding the corrupt fruit started to spin like a pitcher and all the ninja took note, easily avoiding the hurled fruit but frowning as the fruits exploded into a lingering cloud of poison. "Stop ignoring me!" the plant woman screeched.

"All right, you want our full attention? You have it!" Naruto and Naruko said as they glared at Briar. "Everyone else stay back, that poison is tough enough to have US retching on the floor, the last thing we need is all of you getting caught in it!" The rest of the shinobi backed up, Maki quickly making cloth masks for everyone from some of her binding cloth sandwiching a layer of Utakata's bubble slime between two pieces and merged into a single piece by the Suna kunoichi.

With their friends out of the way, Naruto and Naruko focused on Briar. The plant woman sneered at the two kitsune and large bulbs formed from the nearby trees and fired thorns at them like senbon, only for Naruko's tails to be covered in ice and shield the twins. Thorny vines shot out of the forest in an attempt to grab the tails, only to be countered by Naruto's flaming tails as the twins gathered their chakra before suddenly pausing.

"Hey Sasuke, remember that fantasy mission we had about that old hag's garden when we were doing D-ranks?" Naruto asked in an amused tone, both twins' tails wagging rapidly.

Sasuke blinked for a moment before grinning. "You mean where we deliberately failed?" he asked eagerly.

"Yep!" the twins chorused before biting their thumbs and slamming their hands to the ground with a cry of "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

Two smoke clouds the size of a small car appeared before the twins and cleared away to reveal Gamakichi and Gamatatsu. Before the toad brothers could say anything, Naruto hopped up on Gamakichi's back while Naruko landed on top of Gamatatsu.

"Gamakichi, flame!" Naruto said as he fed his wind chakra into the toad.

"Gamatatsu, oil!" Naruko added as her own wind chakra to the eternally hungry toad.

The toad brothers were well aware Naruto wouldn't act like he was without a good reason and spat out streams of wind enhanced fire and oil that turned into a massive flamethrower stream. The flames engulfed the entire island, burning away the corrupted trees and causing Briar to scream in agony and rage.

Haku had thrown up an ice wall to protect the other ninja and found herself sweating to keep it from just melting away from the heat of the combination jutsu. "What kind of insane training has Naruto been going through here in Japan?" she demanded, sighing in relief as Kurotsuchi raised an earth wall to act as an additional barrier.

"Probably getting to a level where he can fight one-on-one with his mother," Yugito said. "And I don't think that's an unreasonable estimate based on when I met her after the destruction of Otogakure."

The roaring flames and heat eventually died down and the ninja peeked out from behind the barriers to see a charred and blackened landscape aside from one tree on a small island in the middle of the pond.

"Oh man, the look on that old hag's face if you'd done that to her weed-filled garden," Sasuke said with a happy sigh.

"Somehow I'm now worried for whenever either of you get a Genin team," Utakata said with a sigh.

Takajou was actually drooling with a huge grin on his face. "THAT... WAS... AWESOME!" he cheered with both arms up in the air.

Yugito, Haku, Kurotsuchi, and Hotaru all sighed as Takajou and Sasuke both praised Naruto and Naruko's attack. "Boys and their love for explosions," they all muttered at once before blinking in surprise.

The group started moving along the path only to see the earth start to bulge around them before giant dark purple roses erupted from the ground and faced them before lashing at them with thorn whips. The ninja fended off the vines with their weapons until Sasuke had a clear shot. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" he roared, sending a massive fireball at the roses and reducing them to ash. The tree on the island shuddered before a large purple flower opened at the top revealing Briar.

"My babies!" shrieked the plant woman, the branches of the tree she was in thrashing with her anger.

"I'm going to make sure from now on I carry herbicide," Naruto said with a groan as the ninja started sprinting through the charred remains of the park, avoiding lashing roots, vines, barrages of seeds, giant thorns, and giant Venus flytrap jaws attempting to catch them. As they rounded the first bend and moved closer to Briar's little island, they could now see the tree was surrounded by a pile of bones. "Jubokko!" Naruto said as the tree started lashing out with branches that resembled arms with long twig fingers at the end. "Don't let it grab you!"

As the ninja started to scatter, Briar gestured and razor-sharp leaves shot from the tree towards them in an attempt to pin them down. Maki spun around and unfurled her cloth roll. "Tetsu nuno (Iron cloth)!" she yelled, the cloth becoming as hard as metal. The leaves slammed into the barrier and bounced off, falling to the ground. "Don't underestimate a ninja!" Maki shouted.

Briar snapped her fingers and the ground around the ninja suddenly bulged upwards in mounds before the ninja found themselves surrounded by figures with human-faced fruit for heads and bodies of mud and plants. The plant zombies charged the ninja, wielding giant thorns like swords. But the group barely slowed and Briar's minions were quickly reduced to compost.

"You ruffians, I'm going to turn you all into fertilizer!" Briar shrieked as roots erupted up from the ground in an attempt to skewer the group of ninja. Her eyes narrowed as they seemed to flow around the roots, moving closer with every moment. Feeling a shiver of rage, she raised her arms to unleash another attack only to feel a sudden chill.

"One bitch on ice!" Naruko's voice came from the northern shore of the pond where she'd created numerous giant pieces of ice to chill the water.

Briar's eyes widened at the trap she'd failed to notice. She could handle the poisoned water and even thrived in it, but the chilly water was killing her from the inside. Before she could attempt to attack Naruko, the rest of the ninja got in range for attacks and she found herself hit by a barrage of all five elements as well as exploding bubbles. Briar shielded herself in the giant flower at the top of the tree, but quickly learned that taking your eyes off so many ninja was a recipe for disaster as Naruto rammed a Fire Rasengan into the flower, blasting through the shield of petals. Briar had just a moment to see the sphere of fire coming before she was reduced to ash.

Naruto dismissed the Fire Rasengan but suddenly had a worried expression as he realized he was now falling towards the poisoned lake. Before he could start to panic, a long piece of cloth shot out to grab him and reel him in, Maki and Takajou working together to keep him from falling in.

"Thanks guys, I honestly wasn't expecting her to go down so quickly," Naruto said once he was back on solid ground before sniffing the air. "No sign of her scent, but I'm not leaving that to chance," he muttered as he activated Sage Mode for a moment before relaxing. "No sign of her at all; she's dead for good this time!"

Making their way across the rest of the former park, the group found the drawbridge to the castle down and the only guards they could see stationed out of the way. Naruko had dropped back into Presence Concealment, letting Naruto take the lead and draw all the attention as he strode up to the castle gates and pounded on them, a loud thud echoing out over Tokyo Bay. The doors swung open to reveal Chiyo sitting seiza in the center of the entrance hall sipping from a cup of tea.

"I'm glad to see you weren't dead, Naruto. I harbored a small fear that you'd been eaten by those shark yōkai and that was why I couldn't find your body," the kitsune kunoichi said with a smile. "You should have seen Ichiro's face when he received word from Yun that you were alive! He looked ready to piss himself and barely able to conceal it!"

Naruto smirked, never taking his eyes off Chiyo. "Everyone, meet Mochizuki Chiyome, legendary Kitsune Kunoichi and one of the only two cousins I like!"

Chiyo burst out laughing at the looks on the faces of Naruto's shinobi friends before climbing to her feet. "Let's move to the sparring ring, Ichiro's orders are I must defend the way up and fight you, so show me how much you've improved," Chiyo said, indicating a barrier sealing the stairs up to the second level of the castle and leading the way to the sparring ring, Naruto following behind her. Chiyo's ears suddenly twitched and she glanced behind her at the statue of her father before focusing on Naruto and giving him a raised eyebrow. Naruto raised his own and Chiyo shook her head before moving on.

Reaching the sparring ring, Chiyo and Naruto took their places facing one another. "Someone call it," Naruto said as he assumed a ready stance, with Chiyo doing the same.

Maki pulled a handkerchief from her pocket and tossed it into the air between the cousins. "As it hits the ground, start!"

As soon as the cloth touched the ground, Naruto became a black and gold blur while Chiyo was a purple and black one, the sound of metal impacting metal and sparks flaring up all around the sparring hall as Taiyōhiga clashed with the Dragon Fangs. Sasuke's head kept whipping around from impact to impact, his Sharingan spinning. Yugito seemed to be able to keep up with the clashing kitsune, following their progress even if she couldn't see them clearly. Haku was just able to keep track of the cousins while the rest of the ninja were only able to catch an occasional glimpse when they were looking in the right direction.

Suddenly, the Dragon Fangs and Taiyōhiga went flying into the air as Naruto and Chiyo skidded to a stop in the center of the hall before engaging one another in hand-to-hand combat. "Hmmmm, I see some Pankration in your style you didn't have before," Chiyo said after a few seconds. "You were also doing better against my blades than before!"

"I spent two months sparring with Chiron and Achilles, that's where the Pankration comes from," Naruto said. "Swordsmanship lessons from Lancelot and Beowulf while training with Fūma Kotaro V for extra experience against dual blade wielders."

"I see, such high-level opponents did much to raise your skill level," Chiyo commented before suddenly sweeping Naruto's legs out from under him, though the hanyō turned the tumble into a roll that got him behind Chiyo. Flipping to his feet, Naruto suddenly hurled a pair of small stones from his supply pouch, each with a different rune on them. The stones detonated on either side of Chiyo, hurling her across the sparring hall with a blast of thunder and force.

The Kitsune Kunoichi slid down the wall clutching her ears, feeling a blade at her throat she opened her eyes and saw Naruto beside her pressing the edge of a kunai against the skin of her neck. "I surrender," Chiyo said with a smile.

(0o0o0)

Naruko had once more slipped down to the jail cells as Naruto and Chiyo bantered, she knew Chiyo had sensed her but the older vixen seemed to be following the strict wording of her orders and challenging Naruto.

Naruko's ears easily picked up Hanzo's voice mid-insult as he hurled verbal abuse at someone. "... and my daughter could take you on, you useless skank!" he bellowed. "She's only six and shows more potential than you ever did! It's no wonder father let you sleep around to honey trap influential people; it was the only way to get any use out of you!"

"Must be taunting Kuroten," Naruko muttered to herself as she made her way down the stairs, Hanzo still insulting his sister's lack of skill and intelligence, and how a succubus was a chaste prude compared to her.

Reaching the bottom of the stairs, Naruko knocked out Zenki as he listened to the stream of vitriol before opening the door to see Hanzo taunting Kuroten from inside the only secure cell. The black-haired vixen was shrieking back at her youngest sibling so loudly she didn't hear the door open or Naruko walking up to her without any attempt to muffle her footsteps. Just like she had with Mejiro, Naruko froze Kuroten solid in an instant before slitting her throat. "Chill out, slut," she said with a grin for Hanzo, who winced.

"Bad pun," he said.

"Oh, don't give me the cold shoulder," Naruko said as she sliced off Kuroten's head and sealed it away along with her chain sword.

"No more ice puns please," Hanzo groaned.

"You're just mad I interrupted your insult spree at the frigid bitch," Naruko countered, causing Hanzo to pause before groaning and nodding. "Fine I'll stop, let me get you out of there," she said as she walked up to the cell door. Zenki regained consciousness just in time to see Naruko rip the cell door out of its mountings with Senjutsu enhanced strength. Shaking his head at the crazy kitsune, Zenki stayed out of their way as Naruko and Hanzo hurried out of the dungeon, only stopping long enough to seal away the contents of the treasure vaults they passed on their way back up and allowing Hanzo to regain his gear.

The two cousins reached the passage up to the entry hall just in time to hear Naruto's rune stones detonate and hurried up the stairs to see Naruto accept Chiyo's surrender.

"Glad to hear that, Chiyo-Nee, you're the only sister I have left and I've always liked you the most, even when you were pounding me into the group while training me," Hanzo said as he helped his sister to her feet.

"So, what happened to Kuroten?" Chiyo asked as her hearing finally cleared up.

"I put her on ice, slit her throat, and finally decapitated her," Naruko answered as she tossed the scroll containing said sealed head to Naruto, who added it to the one holding the rest of his slain cousins.

Chiyo nodded. "Well, Naruto, your next opponent is in the kabuki theater," she said as the barrier blocking the stairs shattered. Naruto started towards the stairs with Naruko at his side and their cousins behind them, the ninja rescue squad following behind on the ceiling, much to Chiyo's amusement.

Naruto stared at the Daitengu clad in noble robes and face palmed. "The bitch possessing Hinata-chan is Tamamo no Mae, isn't she?" he asked with a groan. "Running into one of the Big Three yōkai is possible, Shuten-dōji actually makes sense given we killed his family. But to run into a Tengu while a nogitsune vixen is involved means all three are on the island at once."

Sutoku Tennō slowly clapped. "Indeed, young fox, and it's quite amusing to see you and your mate being such a headache to Tamamo and her boy toy," he said with a smirk.

Naruto blinked before bursting out in a full gut laugh. "I take it you are not fond of him?"

"Moderately, yes," said the tengu with a scowl. "I can't stand his superior attitude just because he says he's transcended life and death. He never made the accomplishments I did as a human before becoming a yōkai, and Tamamo is just using him to get a new body and continue her usual antics." He eyed Naruto knowingly. "Your mate is proving most difficult for her to subdue if her mutterings at breakfast this morning were any indication."

"Hinata-chan learned how to be annoying from a master of the art," said Naruto modestly.

"Yes, she seems to take great joy in singing annoying songs and showing images of you humiliating opponents to distract Tamamo." Smiling, he pulled a large fan made from a single giant leaf from his robe. "I hear you are a master of wind and blade, young fox. As you kids say nowadays: bring it!"

With a grin, Naruto charged forward, Taiyōhiga lashing out in a Battōjutsu strike that was blocked by the fan with a ring of steel on steel, Naruto using the force of the block to spin into a riposte that Sutoku Tennō leaned back to avoid before swinging his fan, a gust of wind slamming into Naruto.

The blond skidded back from the gust and grinned. "You're holding back," he accused the tengu lord.

"Yes, but this is the level I would use against a samurai warrior twice your age and famous for killing yōkai," Sutoku Tennō said. "I want to see how far you can go, young one, not kill you."

"Then I'll kick it up a notch," Naruto said as he raised Taiyōhiga. "Blaze Taiyōhiga, no ash, no blood, no bone!" The heat in the room doubled as Taiyōhiga erupted in red orange flames along the edge of the blade. "Kaen-giri!" Naruto swung his word, sending a crescent of razor-sharp flame at the tengu, who leapt over the attack with a flare of his wings.

"Very good," said the tengu lord as he hovered in the air. "But can you strike me up here with the actual blade of your sword?"

Naruto answered by making a chakra assisted leap up in a rising slash. Sutoku Tennō grinned as the blade left a cut on one of his sleeves before snapping his wings out then down to send a barrage of feathers at Naruto, who used a kawarimi to leave the razor-sharp feathers embedded in a log

"Good, good, now show me your command of the wind!" Sutoku Tennō said with a smirk.

Naruto took a deep breath before forming the snake hand sign and exhaling with the force of a hurricane. "Fūton: Daitoppa (Great Breakthrough)!" he growled as the wind blast slammed the tengu into the wall.

"Oh, I'll be feeling THAT tomorrow," Sutoku Tennō groaned. He looked up in time to see Naruto's cheeks bulge before he sent out a massive air blast that slammed the tengu lord through the stone wall, where he lay on the roof of the first floor staring up into the sky. "What the heck hit me?" he asked in a daze.

"Fūton: Renkūdan, the personal wind jutsu of the Ichibi no Shukaku," said Naruto as he stepped out onto the roof. "Not as powerful as what Shukaku can manage, but I was able to master it during my recent training."

Sennoku Tennō started to reply before frowning as he felt his energy draining away and glanced down at his chest to see an Ofuda resting there as chakra chains bound him to the roof and then the edge of another ofuda drifted down over his eyes as well as Naruko's smirking face as she leaned over him. "Hmmm, my Yōki sealed, the chains draining my energy and strength... very effective," said the Tengu as he tested the chains' strength. "I concede defeat!"

Naruto and Naruko both grinned as they relaxed and Naruko removed the chakra chains and ofuda. Sutoku Tennō climbed to his feet while stretching and popping his back and snapping his fingers to dispel the barrier to the third floor. "Well, you kids have fun, I'm going to watch from what I hope is a safe distance," the Tengu said before taking to the air.

Hanzo and Chiyo moved to flank the twins, letting Naruto and Naruko stay a pace ahead of them as their ninja allies fell in behind the two nogitsune as the group made their way up the stairs and into Ichiro's throne room.

"We're getting Hinata-chan copies of that dress!" the twins chorused as soon as they laid eyes on Ichiro and Hinata's possessed body lounging on the throne. "In multiple colors!"

"Focus, Dobe!" hissed Sasuke as Haku and he both face palmed, the rest of the ninja and Hanzo laughing.

"And you wouldn't want to do the same thing for Haku-nee-chan?" the twins once more chorused.

"As if you weren't thinking of getting Haku an ice blue version!" the twins countered.

Chiyo was quick to smack the twins on the back of their heads. "Be serious, you two!" she growled.

"Sorry, sorry, kick teme and bitch butt first, ogle sexy girlfriend later," the twins chorused.

"First thing to do is get Tamamo no Mae out of Hinata-chan's body," said Naruto.

"Then make her regret being born," Naruko added as she flexed her claws.

"Oh? So, you figured things out?" Ichiro asked maliciously while Tamamo smirked, the haughty expression totally alien to Hinata's face.

"Baka, I knew the second I laid eyes on Hinata that she was possessed," Naruko said with a snort. "I couldn't help her since I had no idea who I was dealing with at the time, but now I do!"

"And it's round three for you and me, Ichiro-teme!" Naruto snarled.

Ichiro and Tamamo no Hinata slid off the throne, spreading apart as they did so. A purple Yōki aura of a nine tailed fox surrounded Hinata's body while Ichiro's black plate armor seemed to drink in all the light and warmth around him.

Naruto advanced towards Ichiro, who sneered while Naruko sauntered towards Tamamo no Hinata, who had what could only be called Resting Bitch Face syndrome.

"You've already tried to kill me and failed, and even knowing you can only temporarily damage me you return?" Ichiro sneered.

"Didn't you know that when you tell an Uzumaki something is impossible we say 'Hold my sake!' and make the universe bend to our will? I'm going to keep coming over and over because I can't stand the thought of what you'd do to the kitsune tribe if you were in charge. People have been telling me that I can't reach my dreams all my life and I keep persevering. It's my Nindo to never back down! So, I'm going to kick your ass so hard you're going to want to yeet yourself into the sun to die and get away from me!"

"Hah, at least you have the courage of a full blooded kitsune. Then come, Uzumaki Naruto! To the Death!"

"To the death?" Naruto countered. "No, we're fighting to the pain!" Seeing Ichiro's confused expression, Naruto rolled his eyes. "I'll explain in small words so you understand, you inbred incipient ignoramus imbecile idiot!"

"Very few have insulted me so and lived," Ichiro growled.

"Oh, then let me brush off some classics, you necromantic neanderthal," Naruto said with the smirk that drove enemies crazy. "I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy hair, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human head. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?" Hanzo and Chiyo both let out snerks as Naruto continued on, smirking as Ichiro's fists turned white. "I don't want to talk to you no more, you sons of a silly person! Go and boil your bottom, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Takajou was being supported by Kurotsuchi as he laughed silently. "I dub thee a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, super serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd in the way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition!"

"When did you learn Shakespeare?" Chiyo asked after the last tirade as veins bulged in Ichiro's forehead.

"I've had clones doing movie marathons and scouring the internet in disguise since we came to Japan," said Naruto, seemingly ignoring Ichiro. "I made sure to find some of the best insults I could!"

"And that first one?" Hanzo asked.

"Lovely English series by David Eddings," said Naruto. "The Belgeriad and Mallorean have some great material!" He turned back to Ichiro. "But to return to the original topic, to the pain means that the first thing you lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists, next your nose. The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right. Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why: so that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish; every babe that weeps at your approach; every woman who cries out, 'Dear God! What is that thing?' will echo in your perfect ears. That is what 'to the pain' means; it means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery, forever." Ichiro's face was now a bloodless mask and he slammed his helmet down on his head before lunging towards Naruto with a howl of rage and his crimson blood sword raised in both hands for a downward strike.

Naruto unsheathed Taiyōhiga in a blaze of fire and the sword's blazing blade edge met the blood blade with the sizzling sound and scent of burning blood, the two cousins snarling at one another through the blade lock.

Tamamo no Hinata smirked at Naruko. "Do you really think a clone that can die in one hit will be able to subdue me?" she asked.

Naruko scoffed. "I'm much stronger this time," she said. "You're dealing with the new Inari no Miko Senshi! I'm my own vixen now and not just a spirit like you, Tamamo no Mae!"

"Knowing my name isn't enough to defeat me, little girl," Tamamo said with a smirk.

"Not from the outside," Naruko said as she dropped her Presence Concealment from right behind Tamamo no Mae while her clone flipped the Nogitsune possessing Hinata off. "Kitsune Tsuki (Possession)!" The real Naruko said as she touched Hinata's uncovered back and the world went white.

(0o0o0)

Naruko grinned as she appeared in a representation of Konoha, specifically outside the Hyūga compound and could hear a frustrated Tamamo no Mae trying to hunt down Hinata inside. Turning away from the compound, Naruko made her way through the village to Hinata's favorite cafe for cinnamon buns and grinned as she found Hinata being fed bites of cinnamon buns by an Adonis version of Naruto dressed as a butler.

"About time you got here, I've been waiting since Chiyo said she couldn't find Naruto-kun's body," Hinata said with a smile.

Naruko returned the smile. "The bitch went right into the compound, didn't she?" Naruko asked as she slid into the seat beside Hinata as the fantasy Naruto vanished.

"Yep," Hinata replied. "Right into all of my traumas, childhood insecurities, teenage angst, and bad memories."

"No wonder she's so mad," Naruko said with a grin.

"You're feeling much stronger than usual. Did the two of you use a Double Cherry and Super Mushroom to split this time?" Hinata asked.

"Long story and no. But I'm here for good now, no more limited body," said Naruko before lightly pulling Hinata in for a searing hot kiss on the lips that had Hinata gasping. "Just a taste of what's waiting when we get back and have time to make out," purred Naruko as she stood up, her tails swishing behind her and making Hinata's cheeks turn red. "I also got seduction lessons from some of history's best Femme Fatales, I bet I can turn your knees to rubber Hi-na-ta-ch-an." Hinata actually squealed at that, a sound she hadn't made for quite some time, much to Naruko's delight. Hinata was suddenly VERY aware of how tight Naruko's armored catsuit was and felt herself needing a deep drink of water.

"Wow!" said a voice next to Hinata, who glanced over to see a succubus version of herself, though dressed very modestly for a succubus in a slinky backless dress that nevertheless showed all of Hinata's figure. "I think we are officially Naru-sexual," the personification of Hinata's lust said before nudging her main self. "Just think of how much fun we can have with BOTH of them cuddling us between them and no worrying about one vanishing in the night! And just wait until all three of us are legal age and can get married!"

Hinata smacked her cheeks to get her blush under control and stood up so quickly she knocked over the table she'd been sitting at as the succubus version of her faded away, but not before blowing a kiss at Naruko. "Then let's get that bitch out of my head!" she exclaimed, only to let out a small "eep!" as Naruko's tails pulled her next to the vixen.

"No rush, let me enjoy being with you on my own, Naruto has had plenty of moments, but I haven't gotten as many," Naruko said with a pout.

Hinata's eyes widened before she suddenly found herself pressing her lips to Naruko's without a second thought. "Then we'll have to work out a schedule for dates while we're here, definitely a few shopping trips to get you your own wardrobe," she said after breaking the kiss.

"Does that mean I get to see you model lingerie or will you give Naruto and me a show once we get back from shopping?" Naruko teased.

"Jiraiya has been a bad influence on you two!" Hinata groaned.

"We're not cheating on you and you're the only one we're interested in," Naruko countered.

The two continued to banter as they approached the Hyūga manor, Hinata taking the lead as they reached the gate and led the way to the location of the family dojo, where the sounds of Tamamo no Mae throwing a temper tantrum could be heard. "My my, you had almost eight days and you still got stuck in my mental defenses," Hinata said as they entered the dojo.

"Impossible, how did you hide from me?" shrieked Tamamo no Mae.

"You ran right into the mental defenses the Yamanaka clan helped me build to protect Konoha's secrets," Hinata said in a bored tone. "Everyone would assume the important stuff was in my family's manor or the Hokage Tower, but those are mazes to lead you around and away from the really important things."

"Now get out of her body or we'll force you out!" Naruko warned.

"You think you can cast out ME? I am Tamamo no Mae, destroyer of dynasties. Only a god could cast me out! Are you a god?" Tamamo screamed as she grew to her true form, crashing through the ceiling of the dojo and looming over the mental representation of the Hyūga mansion as a purple furred nogitsune with nine tails capable of destroying mountains.

"No, but I have the blessing of one and one for Hinata-chan, plus we're inside her mind, so SHE is a goddess in here!" Naruko said as she was covered in golden Reiki, her outfit shifting to a blue miko robe before the golden energy flowed to Hinata, causing pink reiki to surge around her before it to became golden, causing Hinata to seem to radiate sunlight as she grew to match Tamamo no Mae in size.

"Get out of my body!" growled Hinata. "Hakke Hasangeki (Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher)!" The wave of chakra Hinata released from her palm slammed into Tamamo no Mae and sent her flying across the mental recreation of Konoha to slam back first into the Hokage Monument. Golden Reiki formed into two giant lion heads around Hinata's hands as she charged Tamamo no Mae. "Jūho Sōshiken (Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists)!" she snarled as the lion heads bit into Tamamo no Mae, one managing to bite down on a single tail, causing her to scream in pain.

"I'd vacate the premises if I were you!" Naruko called in a sing-song voice as golden Reiki formed a nine tailed fox aura around her.

Tamamo scowled as spat a blast of poison Yōki point blank at Hinata's face, causing the Hyūga heiress to cry out in pain and instinctively release her foe to purify the poison away. Tamamo only had a second to try to regain her feet before Naruko's fox aura tackled her, sending them tumbling through the village. Tamamo no Mae managed to break free and spat a blast of purple poison Yōki at Naruko that she instinctively blocked with her tails, leaving herself open to a strike from Tamamo no Mae's claws as the nogitsune vixen tried to tear through the fox aura and reach Naruko.

Hinata came sprinting through the village and shoulder tackled Tamamo no Mae away from Naruko before following up with a palm thrust. "Hakke Kūshō (Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm)!" she hissed, the chakra blast forcing Tamamo into a tumble across the village. As the nogitsune struggled to her feet, Hinata managed to get behind her and grabbed all the tails she could and used them to whip the purple vixen over her head left, right, left, right over and over. Naruko could only laugh as Hinata started spinning into her family's ultimate defense. "Hakkeshō Kaiten! GET OUT OF MY BODY!"

Eyes dizzy from the spinning, Tamamo no Mae was unprepared when Hinata hurled her into the sky, vanishing in a flash of light.

"Looks like you enjoyed that," Naruko said as her aura vanished back into her body, sauntering towards Hinata as the Hyūga girl returned to her normal size.

"I'll admit, it was fun after having to put up with her taunts and threats for the past week since she possessed my body," said Hinata with a smile before smirking. "Shall we return to the real world and finish her off?"

"Of course, we're not letting her get away with what she did," Naruko said as she canceled her possession of Hinata, allowing the two of them to regain consciousness.

However, neither one noticed that one of Tamamo no Mae's tails had been torn off by the chakra lion heads when Hinata attacked her earlier. Hinata's lust approached the tail and grinned before grabbing it, smiling as it changed to match Hinata's hair and started shrinking with a body forming at the end. "Hello little sister," the succubus said as she rubbed between a pair of blue fox ears of a single tailed Hinata, getting a happy mewl in response as Hinata's inner child hurried up and started giggling while snuggling up to them.

(0o0o0)

A bright ball of purple light shot from Hinata's body and turned into Tamamo no Mae in her human form, snarling at Naruko and Hinata as Naruko removed her hand from Hinata's back. Tamamo conjured a black cheongsam for herself, the look on her face promising dire ends for the two kunoichi.

Hinata stretched. "Mmmm, good to be back in control," she said before eyeing the red seductress outfit she was wearing. "At least you have good taste in clothes and didn't dress me like a cheap whore," she said. "This outfit actually has class and I would wear this for a nice dinner party." Cracking her knuckles, her Byakugan activating. "I have seven days of pent-up frustration due to being possessed by you and you using my body to try to kill Naruto-kun. Naruko-chan, care to help me teach this bitch a lesson?"

Naruko grinned as she drew her ice daggers, the ice blades gleaming in the light. "Gladly!" she purred.

The two kunoichi glared at the nogitsune as their golden Reiki flared around them. Tamamo no Mae flexed her claws while glaring daggers at the two girls before vanishing in a body flicker, leaving them momentarily surprised. Luckily, Hinata's Byakugan allowed her to see the temptress fleeing to the upper floor and the two kunoichi took off after her while Naruto and Ichiro continued to lock blades in the center of the throne room, waves of Yōki radiating from the two of them as they fought to overcome one another. Haku and Yugito sprinted after them, ready to provide back up if needed. Chiyo followed, easily passing the two younger kunoichi.

A few moments after that, Naruto and Ichiro broke apart and started circling one another. "Your form has improved and the blade seems to flow more smoothly," said Ichiro. "You seem far too skilled for only five or six days of training."

"What can I say? I'm Konoha's number one maverick knuckleheaded ninja, I don't know the meaning of giving up!" Naruto replied.

Ichiro's face gained a sly knowing look. "Don't you ever feel constrained having to bow and scrape to the whims of mere humans? Why not embrace your true self and make them fear you?"

"As if anyone who grew up with him would actually fear Naruto," muttered Sasuke.

"My mom would grab my ear and twist so hard my future kids would feel it, then give me a spanking that wouldn't let me sit down for half a year if I let my ego get that big," Naruto countered. "Your belief in 'might makes right' will be your undoing!"

"And your faith in humanity will be yours!" Ichiro snarled.

"My humanity is what lets me keep on growing! Everyday I'm a little stronger than before," Naruto countered before darting forward, Taiyōhiga lashing out in a series of thrusts to probe Ichiro's defenses. Ichiro retaliated by smacking Taiyōhiga aside with a series of savage swipes that would have torn the sword from the hand of a normal human and Naruto was forced to weave aside from each one.

"Bah! Mankind is a cesspit of hatred and lies. Fight for them, then, and die for their sins!" Ichiro roared before flipping his cape back and sending three fireballs at Naruto. The young ninja spat out a wall of mud to block the attack and leapt over the top of the barrier while sending a clone out from either side. Ichiro scowled at the three-pronged attack and burst into a swarm of bats that bit and scratched at Naruto and his clones.

When all three burst into clouds of smoke and a kawarimi log, the bats shrieked in rage and swarmed around the hardened mud wall, only to find a large explosive note waiting. The resulting explosion sent bats splattering around the throne room before the survivors regrouped at the throne and resumed his normal form. "Bah, stop hiding in the shadows and face me like a man!" Ichiro snarled.

"He's a NINJA, we're SUPPOSED to be sneaky and hide in the shadows!" Takajou yelled.

"Naruto just so happens to be good at hiding in plain sight, hurling around destructive jutsu like they're candy, and traps," said Sasuke in a bored tone. "He regularly ran around in 'kill me' orange to make it EASIER for our village's ANBU teams to try to catch him after he did a major prank."

Ichiro glared at Sasuke, only to stagger back into his throne as his eyes met a pair of fully matured Sharingan. "What are you?" he gasped.

"Uchiha Sasuke, Jōnin of Konohagakure no Sato," Sasuke replied.

The kawarimi log burst into smoke as Naruto dropped the henge in surprise. "You're a Jōnin now as well as ANBU?" he demanded.

"Same for Temari-chan, Kankuro-san, Neji-san, and me," Haku added. "Everyone in your year but Hinata are Chūnin."

"What about Gaara?" demanded Naruto, turning his back to Ichiro.

"Gaara-sama is the Godaime Kazekage," Maki answered with pride in her voice.

"Gramps actually likes him and says he's got a good head on his shoulders for someone so young," Kurotsuchi added.

"I can't wait to spar with everyone when I get home!" Naruto said with a grin. "Let's see, got to fight Gaara to show I can fight at Kage level and for beating me to getting a Kage hat, fight Kiba and Lee to prove that kitsune beats dog and wolf, challenge Chouji to a Ramen eating competition, and play Hiraishin Tag with dad once I get home!"

Ichiro was shaking with rage at being ignored and jammed his sword into the ground as he raised both hands to point at Naruto. "Ignore this!" he hissed. "Dark Inferno!" three massive black balls resembling flaming meteorites formed around him before rocketing towards Naruto, who scowled as he assumed a guard stance. The three fireballs slammed into Naruto and engulfed him in three massive explosions that shook the palace. Ichiro laughed in victory as Hanzo and the other ninja looked worried aside from Sasuke who just smirked.

The flames died down to reveal Naruto's tails curled around him in a protective shell, reiki and senjutsu chakra visible to all as they unfurled to show Naruto totally unharmed. "You may see my human blood as a weakness but with human blood flowing through my veins, I never give up! When you have someone to protect, your power increases multifold!" The fur on Naruto's tails visibly stiffened. "Senjutsu: Kebari Senbon (Sage Art: Needle Senbon)!" Naruto said as all seven of his tails fired off a wave of Reiki enhanced hairs at Ichiro. The sheer number of hair needles meant that the area behind the throne was the only part of the wall not covered in needles and the throne had an outline of Ichiro's body on it.

Ichiro actually let out a whine of pain and the needle hairs all went limp and fell off him. "That HURT!" he growled.

Naruto simply smirked. "Then my Senjutsu attacks CAN overcome your invulnerability, good to know!" he charged forward, faking a thrust that Ichiro leapt over. Using a burst of wind chakra to propel himself up, Naruto delivered an upwards slash to Ichiro and spun for another, reaching just above Ichiro he brought Taiyōhiga down in a hammer strike that turned into a full body overhead spin to send Ichiro crashing to the ground. The nogitsune staggered to his feet just in time for Naruto to land in front of him and slash from Ichiro's right hip to left shoulder, loop around for a strike from the left hip to right shoulder to slice off Ichiro's armor, then repeat the same right hip left shoulder left hip right shoulder combo to leave a bloody X mark on Ichiro's chest as his robes failed to hinder Taiyōhiga.

Ichiro stumbled back from Naruto, only for the fox boy to blur forward with Taiyōhiga becoming a blur as Naruto used the Chestnut Fist to speed up his thrust and each stab of the blade left a bleeding wound on Ichiro's body. Naruto pulled back and made one final thrust, his blade piercing through Ichiro's twisted heart and sticking out the nogitsune's back. "Let's see you survive THAT!" Naruto taunted, only to receive a headbutt from Ichiro followed by a punch that sent Naruto tumbling into one of the throne room's walls away from his fellow ninja. Ichiro's sword flew through the air and pinned Naruto to the wall, his body going pale as the sword started draining his blood.

"Hah, an excellent attack, but no blade forged by god, man, yōkai, or demon can kill me!" Ichiro roared as he yanked Taiyōhiga out of his chest, ignoring the burns touching the hilt had caused his hands, which started healing as as soon as he tossed the sword behind him, so Naruto would have to get past him to retrieve it. "I think I'll drink your ninja friends dry to heal and finally finish you off!"

Sasuke immediately drew his ANBU tanto and moved in front of the group, Takajou twirling his nunchucks beside him. Utakata pushed Hotaru behind him, bubbles rising from his bubble pipe as he readied himself for battle and Kurotsuchi started gathering fire and earth chakra.

"I won't let you touch them!" growled Naruto as he gripped the hilt of the blood sword.

"And you're going to stop me, boy?" Ichiro taunted. "Your sun goddess-blessed blade couldn't kill me, what good will anything else do?"

Naruto wrenched the blood sword out of him, causing Hotaru to gasp as blood started soaking the right side of his ninja armor instantly before pulling a few pills from supply pouch and popping them into his mouth, the blood oozing from his wounded side stopping as his face regained some color. "You should know that an Uzumaki is most dangerous when we're pushed into a corner," Naruto said as he raised his right hand out, a seal glowing on his palm before a cylinder flipped out from its place in his back supply pouch and landed square in his palm. Bringing it to a guard position Naruto gripped the cylinder in both hands.

"A bladeless hilt? Did losing all that blood drain all sense from you?" Ichiro taunted.

Naruto blinked. "You actually have no idea what this is. Have you never watched Star Wars?" he asked.

"What is this Star Wars?" Ichiro asked in a puzzled tone, causing Hanzo to facepalm while back at the Higurashi shrine Ryeka was staring at the camera feed and shaking in near rage.

"And here I thought you were quoting Vader and making a JoJo reference," Naruto said with a shake of his head. "You uncultured idiot, I'm referencing modern media, but a barbarian like you has no idea what I'm talking about. Count Chocula and the Count from Sesame Street are better vampires than you!" Naruto channeled his chakra into the hilt and with a SNAP-HISS.

(0o0o0)

Everyone at the Higurashi Shrine with enhanced hearing winced as Ryeka shrieked, "HE BUILT A LIGHTSABER WHILE HE WAS PLAYING DEAD?" As everyone backed away from the angry aura she was projecting, she started to rant. "I"ve been trying to build my own lightsaber for the past six years, he only has two years of exposure to Star Wars and he managed to make his own?" Grabbing the nearest thing she could, which happened to be a massive oni kanabo war club, Ryeka twisted it into a pretzel.

"She gets her temper from you," Tenchi said to Ryoko and Ayeka.

Tossing the metal pretzel aside, Ryeka grabbed a holo tablet and started furiously sketching, muttering about how she had to prove that as a true fan of the series she WOULD build a working lightsaber and it wouldn't explode like the last fifty tries.

(0o0o0)

"A bar of light? Are you going to try to club me to death with energy?" Ichiro taunted.

"It's an elegant weapon of a more civilized age," Naruto said in lofty tone before smirking. "Shirohi no Yaiba (White Fire Blade). And Hiraishin seals don't vanish over time!" Naruto vanished, reappearing behind Ichiro as the dhampir nogitsune's right hand tumbled to the ground.

Ichiro scowled as tendrils of black blood extended down from his wrist to grab the hand, only to see it turn to dust. "Impossible!" he hissed.

"One hundred percent pure plasma blade that was never forged," said Naruto. "In other words, a blade of sun fire!" Naruto became a blur, and pieces were lopped off Ichiro one after another until only his head and body remained. Deactivating Shirohi no Yaiba, Naruto walked over to Taiyōhiga and picking it up. "Let's see if I can make this work," he said with a smirk as he sauntered towards Ichiro.

"You little brat, just wait until I regenerate!" Ichiro howled before Taiyōhiga lopped his head off. Naruto immediately used his foot to flip Ichiro's head into the air and started bouncing it up and down like a soccer ball, much to Ichiro's frustration.

(0o0o0)

Hinata and Naruko chased Tamamo no Mae up the stairs to the royal apartments and chambers meant for each of Ichiro's siblings. The nogitsune vixen hurled one of her poisonous Yōki blasts at the pursuing kunoichi, buying her enough time to get to the chamber she shared with Ichiro. Naruko and Hinata reached the door in time to see the nogitsune grab a set of nine bamboo tubes with cloth covers. Tamamo no Mae smirked as one of her tails pointed at Naruko and Hinata, before tracing an infinity design in the air. Both girls were blown back as a fireball erupted in midair. Hinata managed to spin into a water-based Kaiten, dousing the traces of fire on her and cushioning her landing while Naruko landed on the wall with a burst of icy wind to cool the corridor.

Naruko hissed in anger. "The fox rods; I thought those were destroyed long ago when Amaterasu defeated the false Kyūbi who terrorized Ryoshima Coast!"

Tamamo no Mae chuckled. "Oh, their power was drained, but I am a sorceress of no small skill. It was easy to charge them up to full power." Her tail traced a lightning bolt and the two kunoichi were already leaping clear when a thunderbolt struck the area between them.

"Oww! Okay, Hinata-chan, we're pulling a Zabuza!" Naruko declared as she formed the ram seal.

"Got it! Byakugan!" Hinata said as she activated her Dōjutsu.

"Kirigakure no Jutsu!" said Naruko before blowing out a freezing cold mist that filled the royal chambers.

Hinata could see Tamamo no Mae trace three horizontal lines with her tail and winced as a small tornado sucked up all the mist. "I was in Hinata's head for almost a week. I know all your little tricks!" Tamamo no Mae sneered at Naruko before her tails lashed out at the silver haired hanyō.

Naruko wove between the tails or smacked them aside before grabbing the last one and dispelling a henge to reveal Hinata. "Hakkeshō Kaiten!" yelled the Hyūga Heiress as she once more spun Tamamo no Mae using her family's ultimate defense, this time in much closer quarters and slamming Tamamo no Mae into the stone walls around them. The outer castle wall gave out first, with Tamamo no Mae swinging out with a screech as her tail hit the jagged edge of the hole, stopping her and causing Hinata to lose her grip on the tail.

The real Naruko launched herself at Tamamo no Mae, tackling the older vixen across the roof. They tumbled to a stop with Tamamo no Mae on top. "Big mistake, brat!" Tamamo no Mae hissed.

"Oh really?" Naruko asked before both her coiled legs slammed into Tamamo no Mae's belly, rocketing Tamamo no Mae up into the air. "Kage Buyō (Shadow of the Dancing Leaf)!" Naruko said from behind Tamamo no Mae as she matched the older vixen's movements before ice chakra chains erupted from her to bind Tamamo no Mae. "Omote Renge (Front Lotus)!" yelled Naruko as the two started to spin as they headed towards the ground. Naruko disengaged at the last moment, letting Tamamo no Mae slam into the ground head first.

Hinata was hopping down from the roof, her eyes seeing movement in the dust cloud. Before she could cry out a warning, another thunderbolt shot down from the sky and struck Naruko, making her shriek in pain. "Hakke Hasangeki (Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher)!" yelled Hinata as she sent a chakra vacuum wave at the dissipating dust cloud, blasting Tamamo no Mae into one of the outer walls of the castle grounds. Hinata charged in, glowing gold lion heads roaring around her palms. "Jūho Sōshiken Jōka (Gentle Step Twin Lions Purifying)!" yelled Hinata as she slammed the Reiki lion heads into Tamamo no Mae's chest.

Tamamo no Mae howled in pain as the lion heads bit into her, mauling her Yōki. She was barely able to trace a circle with a line on top to create a giant paper bomb in front of Hinata that blasted the girl away.

Tamamo no Mae had a moment to smirk before a Futon Rasengan slammed into her back, a glowing blue Hiraishin seal Naruko had planted on her using the chakra chains glowing. Naruko's attack from behind launched Tamamo no Mae at where Hinata was already recovering, the Hyūga Heiress' Byakugan blazing as she assumed her family's Jūken style, a triple layer trigram appearing around her. "You're in range of my divination!" she said before Tamamo no Mae crossed the boundary of the trigrams and Hinata's arms became blurs. "Two palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms, thirty-two palms, sixty-four palms, one hundred twenty-eight palms! Jōka Hakke Hyaku Nijūhasshō (Purifying Eight Trigrams, One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms)!" Tamamo no Mae hadn't had time to recover from the wind Rasengan and now Hinata's strikes were starting to disrupt her Yōki. Enduring the hits, Tamamo no Mae waited until Hinata was pulling her arm back for a finishing blow before drawing on the power of the Fox rods to refill and flare all her Yōki, purple gas erupting around her and forcing Hinata to abort her attack.

"Torture Device: Bronze Toaster!" hissed Tamamo no Mae, causing a large bronze cylinder to appear beneath Hinata and Naruko with the cylinders resting in a deep pit of red-hot coals. Tamamo no Mae started to laugh as the oil on the cylinders sizzled, waiting to hear the girls screams of pain as they struggled to keep from slipping off the surface of the cylinder and into the coals. Her eyes widened as she saw Naruko and Hinata unharmed and keeping their balance perfectly. "How?" she demanded.

"Water Walking," the two kunoichi chorused before speeding up, their chakra accelerating the cylinders until they bounced out of the pits towards Tamamo no Mae, who canceled the technique before she could be crushed and burned allowing the two kunoichi to regroup together.

"That might have worked on lazy nobles in ancient China, but not us," Naruko boasted.

"Torture device: Snake pit!" hissed Tamamo, a pit full of poisonous snakes, spiders, bugs, and even some minor yōkai opening beneath the girls, dropping them into the mass of poisonous beings.

Tamamo no Mae barely had time to smirk before Hinata's voice cried, "Shugohakke Rokujūyon Shō (Protecting Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms)!" and the sound of a massive blender rose up from the pit with bits of snake, spider, and poison yōkai flying into the air.

Naruko and Hinata leapt out of the pit, covered in gore from using chakra blades and a Futon Rasengan to shred through all the poisonous creatures.

Tamamo no Mae's eye was twitching as her tail made four downward swipes, unleashing a rain of poison water down on the two kunoichi, only to see Naruko throw her hands up and create an ice dome to keep them safe. Her next attempt was a pair of massive blocks with spikes pointing towards one another appearing on either side of the ice dome and trying to crush the two, only for Hinata to grab them and hurl them at Tamamo no Mae, forcing her to drop the poison rain and dodge.

Rushing out of the ice dome, Naruko hurled a smoke bomb at Tamamo no Mae, the resulting smoke cloud containing a foul odor that made Tamamo no Mae retch. But the nogitsune could still hear the whistling of something flying through the air and caught a Fuma shuriken in one hand and lashed out to destroy the one hidden in its shadow with the other, dispelling a clone. "I said I knew all your little tricks," Tamamo no Mae taunted. "I won't fall for that like Zabuza or leave my back open!"

Naruko smirked as the Fuma Shuriken in Tamamo no Mae's grasp burst in a puff of smoke to reveal Hinata. The Heiress' golden Reiki covered hands blurred, only managing sixty-four hits before Tamamo no Mae managed to smack her away.

Hinata had a grin on her face as she landed, while Naruko smirked. "What was that about knowing all our tricks?" they chorused.

Tamamo no Mae growled as she traced the infinity symbol in the air with all nine of her tails, only to blink as nothing happened.

"Looking for this?" Hinata asked, holding up the Fox Rods she'd grabbed during her last attack. Before Tamamo no Mae could react, Naruko had already sealed them away.

"Did you really think we'd use the same plan, knowing you had access to Hinata-chan's memories of all our missions?" Naruko asked in a condescending tone. "The mist was cover for Hinata to make a clone and henge into the Fuma shuriken. You were expecting a repeat of our first encounter with Zabuza, so it was easy to know how you would react!"

"Learn to look underneath the underneath," Hinata added in her best arrogant Hyūga voice. "We're little girls compared to you, and we still managed to outsmart you and steal your weapon. So much for the Destroyer of Dynasties."

Tamamo no Mae snarled as she assumed her true form, her nine tails lashing wildly in the air as a black crystal mirror in an ebony frame appeared floating above her back. "YOU... WILL... DIE!" she growled, poison dripping from her fangs and claws.

"Better than you have tried," Naruko countered.

Hinata bit her thumb and flipped through hand seals before slamming her hands onto the ground. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" The resulting smoke was blown away by Suzaku's wings as the Phoenix Queen took to the air while glaring down at Tamamo no Mae. "Suzaku-sama, I request your assistance against this mongrel," Hinata said respectfully. "She possessed me as part of a plan to kill Naruto-kun!"

"Ah, that explains why your signature on the summoning scroll became invalid. I thought something was wrong, but when Cinnamon failed to contact me, I figured it was just a medical issue."

(0o0o0)

Everyone watching at the Higurashi Shrine winced at the sound of Cinnamon facepalming. "Really, sister?" Thyme asked.

"I knew I was forgetting something, but can you blame me for not thinking clearly?" Cinnamon groaned.

(0o0o0)

"But I will happily assist you with putting this mongrel fox down!" the Phoenix Queen continued.

"Hah, looks like I finally get a chicken dinner big enough to enjoy in this form!" Tamamo no Mae countered before her black mirror glowed and fired a blast of dark Yōki at the phoenix. Suzaku easily avoided the blast while trilling a warbling insult as she did so. "You can't beat me on your own, Suzaku!" roared the nogitsune.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" roared Naruko as she slammed her own hand into the ground, a giant smoke cloud heralding the entry of Gamabunta on Oni Island. "Hey Boss, I know I haven't formally signed the contract yet, but this is the skank who possessed Hinata-chan to try to kill Naruto and me," the fox girl said as she stood on the boss toad's head.

"Hmph, I'll allow it, but you're signing the contract and owe me enough sake to get me drunk," Gamabunta said before breathing some of the smoke from his pipe into Tamamo no Mae's face.

"Big words from an amphibian!" Tamamo no Mae snarled as her tails lashed the air behind her.

Gamabunta smirked as he drew his massive blade. "Big words for a weak fox beaten by humans and trapped in a stone!" he said.

Tamamo no Mae growled as her dark mirror morphed into a large sword, easily matching Gamabunta's blade. The two lunged at one another, a loud crash ringing through the air before they landed. Gamabunta grunted as he placed a hand on a cut running along his side while Tamamo no Mae yowled in pain from a large wound on her chest.

A wave of heat was Tamamo no Mae's only warning as Suzaku dive bombed her, blazing talons raking down Tamamo no Mae's back and tearing a tail off. The blazing tails trailing behind the phoenix queen slammed into Tamamo no Mae like flaming whips and smashed her into the ground.

Tamamo no Mae's sword shifted to a string of giant magatama jewels. The string lashed up in an attempt to snare Suzaku only for the phoenix to perform an aileron roll and avoid the whip-like attack. As the beads came down, Gamabunta caught them on his sword and quickly twisted it, lashing the beads around his blade and yanking Tamamo no Mae off balance. The toad boss' cheeks bulged as he spat out a massive ball of wind enhanced water with Naruko's assistance, the massive attack slamming into Tamamo no Mae with the force of a tidal wave to send her tumbling across the ground.

(0o0o0)

Naruto grinned as he listened to the battle outside the castle while spinning Ichiro's head on his finger like a basketball. "Looks like your mate is losing," he said to his cousin.

Ichiro scowled at Naruto. The blonde ignored him and strode up to Ichiro's torso, pulling a large wooden stake covered in runes from his supply pouch. "If you think staking me through the heart will keep me from being reborn, you're even more of an idiot than I thought!" Ichiro taunted.

"Normal wood, yes. But this is wood from Inari-sama's realm blessed by as many gods of life and light as she could arrange with runes to bind you and seal your powers," said Naruto. "THEN I'm going to stab you in the mouth to kill you!"

Ichiro's eyes widened in fear, any other wooden stake would be an inconvenience and he would merely reform in his coffin after a few days. But a divine wooden stake in his body that currently lacked all his invulnerability would rob him of the ability to form a new body.

Naruto jabbed the stake into Ichiro's torso and the nogitsune felt the tentative connection to his body go inert. "You may have beaten me, but you've doomed Tokyo!" Ichiro snarled before jabbing his tongue at a rune just behind his upper teeth just before Shirohi no Yaiba was jabbed into his mouth and up into his brain. A blast of necromantic energy was released from Ichiro's head, tossing Naruto into the wall of the throne room.

As Ichiro died for good, three things happened at once: Tamamo no Mae sensed his passing and howled in grief and rage; several giant portals opened up around Oni Island to release a horde of Gashadokuro, a massive swarm of minor yōkai that started making their way towards Tokyo faster than most boats; and all of the bodies of Ichiro's siblings aside from Hanzo started glowing a sickly blood red. The corpses Naruto and Naruko had been leaving behind released the last of their Yōki into hovering orbs that shot across the bay to hover above Tamamo no Mae.

Chiyo fell to her knees with a scream, feeling her Yōki trying to tear itself from her body. "Damn you, Ichiro!" she screamed, feeling a piercing pain in her neck before everything went black.

Hanzo's eyes were wide as he saw the senbon Haku had thrown at Chiyo. "What the hell?" he demanded as he caught his sister's falling body and laid her gently on the ground.

"She is in a death-like trance, once whatever is happening finishes, I'll wake her up," the dragon hanyō girl said as she checked Chiyo's vitals with a nod.

Hanzo breathed a sigh of relief as Chiyo's Yōki formed an orb with the kanji for Envy in it before shooting out the hole in the wall to orbit Tamamo no Mae. He could smell his siblings' scents from their Yōki and each matched up to one of the six orbs, each bearing a different sin. Gin was Wrath, Kuroten was Lust, Yun Gluttony, Mejiro Greed, Chiyo Envy, and Ichiro Pride. "I'm supposed to be Sloth," he muttered, scowling as a Yōki orb rose out of Tamamo no Mae bearing the kanji for Sloth and completing the set.

"What just happened?" Kurotsuchi demanded.

"Ichiro put a curse on all of us, though mine appears to be a fake maintained by his magic," said Hanzo. "It would allow him to absorb our power after we died and send it to the last one of us still alive. So that bitch now has however much power remained in my siblings' corpses in addition to her own."

Naruto had recovered from his impact with the wall and sealed away Ichiro's head and blood sword. "I think Naruko and Hinata-chan have her handled; I'm going to go deal with that giant skeleton and yōkai army stomping towards Tokyo!" Sasuke, Takajou, and Kurotsuchi moved to follow Naruto, the rest moving to keep watching the battle between the two kunoichi and their summons against the empowered nogitsune.

Naruto's group took the fastest route off the island by running down the side of the island and out onto the waters of Tokyo Bay. Naruto grinned as he saw the various defenders of Tokyo gathered on the beach holding the giant skeletons off. He could hear Inuyasha unleashing the Kaze no Kizu against another one. The various Servants were working together, the Riders using their flying mounts to herd the Gashadokuro into kill boxes for the other Servants while the masters focused on the minor yōkai. Several of the groups that looked like they'd come from medieval fantasy worlds actually seemed bored as they dealt with the Gashadokuro like it was a Tuesday. And the Sailor Senshi were raining elemental attacks down while Sailor Moon and Mars combined their attacks to rain purifying fire down on the giant yōkai. Then a tall dark-haired man with a petite blonde-haired woman banging on a small drum appeared riding on the back of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton covered in ectoplasmic energy as the dinosaur rounded a corner and roared before charging towards a Gashadokuro and tearing into it.

"Hah, I see your giant skeleton and raise you a Sixty-Five-million-year-old T-rex!" yelled the man.

"Less taunting, more fire, Dresden!" yelled the woman, never ceasing her pounding on the drum.

"But Murph, how often do I get to sic Sue on giant skeletons?" the man whined before aiming a rod carved with runes at a group of minor yōkai advancing on a JSDF machine gun nest. "Pyrofuego!" A giant beam of blue white flame shot from the rod and reduced all the yōkai to ash.

"Nice one, Dresden. Bombarda Maxima!" yelled Harry Potter as he led a group of five wizards on broomsticks flying in a V formation across the battlefield on a bombing run that shattered a Gashadokuro into pieces while the minor yōkai around it were sent flying in bits and pieces by the massive explosion spell barrage.

Naruto could see a red-haired swordsman in blue wielding a katana, a humanoid frog with a sword and shield, and a round robot in the front line of the group while three women were behind them. One was a blonde haired girl in a white outfit armed with a crossbow, the second wore glasses and had a helmet with purple hair sticking out from underneath and some armor while shooting at the Gashadokuro with a gun, and the third was also a blond but was a muscular cavewoman throwing herself at the Gashadokuro with punches and kicks that actually knocked the giant skeleton yōkai back. The last member of the group resembled a blue haired vampire with a scythe chanting as he prepared a spell from the back of the group. "I need more time!" he yelled.

"Frog, Robo, let's do it! Triple Raid!" yelled the swordsman. His companions both set themselves and all three lunged forward, hitting the same spot on the Gashadokuro at the same time and knocking it back.

"Any time, Magnus!" yelled the blonde-haired archer as she cast an ice spell with the purple-haired girl casting a fire spell. Just like the devastating dual Rasengan the twins had come up with, the combination of fire and ice slammed into the Gashadokuro and made it roar in pain then stagger as the cavewoman darted around the street lifting cars and throwing them at the giant skeleton.

"Marle no pester silly mage, Marle fight with Ayala and Lucca!" the cavewoman declared before ripping a huge chunk of pavement up and chucking it at the Gashadokuro.

"Right, Lucca, you ready!"

"All set, Marle," said the purple-haired girl as fire magic swirled in her hands to match the ice magic Marle was gathering. "Antipode..."

"Bomb!" Marle yelled as the two attacks were fired into the air. As the techniques collided, Ayala crouched and launched through the resulting energy blast. The energy surrounded the cavewoman as threw herself into a flying kick that slammed into the exact place the swordsman, robot, and frogman had struck. The Gashadokuro staggered backwards as the elemental energy surged through it.

"And to finish it, Dark Matter!" roared the scythe-wielding vampire, a pyramid of dark energy shooting from his hands and growing larger to envelop the Gashadokuro for a moment. As the dark energy faded, the Gashadokuro roared as it raised its fists into the air, all the recently done damage repaired.

"Idiot, it's a necromantic construct; dark energy heals it!" Naruto yelled from where he'd been dealing with a bunch of the lower tier yōkai that were trying to sneak around the battle as he gathered his chakra and gripped Taiyohiga and sniffed to feel where his Yōki was clashing with the giant skeleton's. "Kitsune style Kaze no Kizu: Yakedo (Burn Wound)!" he yelled, slashing through the clashing Yōki auras. Unlike the Kaze no Kizu that Inuyasha used, this only created a single energy wave, but it was a blazing wind one that left a huge gash on the Gashadokuro's ribs and slashed off its left arm.

The red-haired katana wielder grinned as he sheathed his blade and started rising up into the air with his hands raised, a ball of green energy forming between them. "Heh, nice trick, but let's see how it likes this, LUMINAIRE!" The green ball erupted into a huge dome that covered several blocks, wiping out the minor yōkai in the area and sending the Gashadokuro tumbling to the ground bellowing in pain.

As soon as the katana wielder landed from casting his spell he whipped out his rainbow colored blade and joined Naruto, the frogman, and robot as they all charged forward, ramming into the prone Gashadokuro and slamming into its skull. Three blades and a metal fist slammed into the skull and with a sharp crack of breaking bone the skull shattered and the Gashadokuro started crumbling to dust.

"Whew, that is a nice spell. I'm Naruto, what's your name?" Naruto asked as he sheathed Taiyohiga.

"Chrono. My friends are Robo, Glenn, Merle, Lucca, and Ayala, while the pale skinned guy is Magnus," said the katana wielder as he sheathed his own blade.

Naruto grinned and raised his hand in a fist, Chrono bumping his own against it. "Great, so you think you can handle any more stuff that comes at you?" Naruto asked.

"Hah, Ayala like, we strong, no go down easy!" the cavewoman bellowed as she slammed her fists together.

"While Miss Ayala is a bit crude in her language, she is correct. We have faced harder challenges in our travels and these minor monsters are easily dealt with," said the robot.

"Heh, well, stay safe!" Naruto yelled before bolting off, hacking his way through any minor yōkai that got in his way. At one point he turned a corner and found himself cutting through a group of centipede yōkai with Artoria Pendragon and Mordred. "It seems we meet again!" he said as the three went back to back and slashed apart any yōkai dumb enough to charge them.

"Heh, good to see you've got some skill with that blade," Mordred said as she slashed through another giant centipede.

"If you'd been around in Camelot's time, I would have made you one of my knights," Artoria said before the ground started to rumble and three giant centipedes erupted from the ground, each one rising higher than a six story building and facing one of the trio. "Disgusting filth!" Artoria roared as she raised Excalibur. "EXCALIBUR!" The legendary blade of the Once and Future King started to glow, bright golden light shining and making the attacking yōkai freeze.

"Clarent Blood Arthur!"Mordred cried as she raised her own blade, blood red energy surrounding the blade and rising into the air as she faced her own giant centipede.

Naruto grinned as he raised Taiyohiga as wind, fire, and lighting chakra swirled around the blade to form a giant white blade. "Plasma Style: Blade Beam!"

All three swung their blades down at the same time, striking their respective giant centipedes and reducing all the hostile yōkai to ash.

"DIdn't think I'd get the chance to draw swords together with you," said Naruto to the two as they all sheathed their blades.

"Indeed, if we ever cross paths again, I wish to fight you and see how you might fare in the Throne of Heroes," said Artoria.

Naruto grinned and extended his fist, Mordred quickly bumping fists with him and Artoria doing the same after blinking in surprise. "Count on it!" Naruto said before dashing off looking for more places he could be of help.

(0o0o0)

Sasuke, Takajou, and Kurotsuchi had stuck together, the two Iwa ninja having a slightly better grasp of how the city was set up from their previous visit to deal with the Boulder teams after Naruto and the three of them were steam rolling through all the minor yōkai they encountered, taking the pressure off the JSDF forces that were fighting with everything they had to not give up a single block to the yōkai. The minor yōkai went down to a five round burst easily enough, but their sheer numbers would overrun the soldiers, given time. Kurotsuchi was quick to use Earth style to erect solid rock fortifications that also channeled the yōkai into kill zones for Sasuke and Takajou to focus their fire and allow the JSDF to reinforce their defensive positions.

"You're pretty good with Lightning jutsu," Takajou said conversationally during a lull between waves. "I was expecting lots of fire jutsu."

Sasuke snorted as he took a drink from a canteen. "While I do know quite a few, they aren't as precise as my lightning jutsu," he said. "I don't want to set the city on fire."

"And we appreciate that," said one of the nearby soldiers before grimacing as he bit into a ration bar. "Ugh, these things taste terrible!"

"Universal truth," said Kurotsuchi as she bit into one of her own.

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Tamamo no Mae smirked as the seven sin orbs entered her body, healing her and doubling her size. "Now the four of you will pay for your actions!" she growled at the two kunoichi and their summons.

Naruko sighed. "Why is it that as soon as they get a power up the first thing to grow is their ego?" she yelled at Hinata.

"Because she KNOWS we had her on the ropes and she's in denial," HInata yelled back, causing Tamamo to fume in anger.

"Must the two of you taunt the giant evil fox?" Haku yelled.

Naruko and HInata exchanged glances. "Yes!" they yelled back.

"Hinata, I thought you were going to keep Naruto under control since Jiraiya is useless for that. What happened to you?" Haku yelled.

"Spend at least a year in Nerima and you go slightly crazy," Hinata yelled back with a grin.

Tamamo no Mae, tired of being ignored, blew out a gust of poisonous flame that Gamabunta and Suzuaku had to counter with blasts of wind and water. The two summons held firm, not even thinking of abandoning their summoners.

"Brat, we could use some help," Gamabunta growled.

"Roger, Boss!" Naruko yelled as ice blue chakra chains erupted from her back and yanked Tamamo no Mae's feet out from under her. "Arctic Fox Style: Freezing Chains!"

Tamamo tried to regain her feet, growling as a coating of ice was spreading from the chains made it hard to get a good grip. She'd just managed to brace herself before Hinata came plummeting down with a Tsunade strength heel kick that hit like a bolt of lightning and a cry of "Sōtenkyaku (Heaven Spear Kick)!" The resulting impact drove Tamamo no Mae's head into the ground up to the level of her eyes.

"I'm so glad Godaime Raikage-sama put a stop to all plans to steal the Byakugan," Yugito whispered.

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Naruto ran around a corner to an intersection and stared for a second at the sight in front of him. He had come out behind a large group that was covering one of the larger intersections of the city. At that moment, a group of six centaur knights wielding a variety of polearms and an armored armadillo in a small steam powered armor suit were charging in a V formation through a horde of yōkai. An old man in a steampunk helicopter was flanked by a pair of bird people using swords as they worked together to keep the airspace clear while a team of mages rained fire, ice, and lightning spells down on any yōkai who survived the charging knights from one side while two elf archers and a centaur wielding a bazooka that fired energy blasts weakened the horde. But facing the Gashadokuro that had lead the group was a young orange-haired knight in black and silver armor, two dwarf gladiators with glowing heat axes, a samurai, a ninja, a robot, and a wolf man who were all hitting the giant skeleton hard and repeatedly, not giving it a chance to recover while a jellyfish creature spammed ice attacks and a white dragon flew around the giant skeleton breathing out streams of lighting that the giant skelton was attempting to swat out of the air. A group of JSDF soldiers were being tended to by a group of priests using healing magic while a large insect man stood guard for them and intercepted the occasional stray yōkai.

"Everyone get back!" yelled the young swordsman as he raised his green energy blade, which made Naruto do a double take as he swore he could hear Ryeka screaming about a second one. "Supernova!" he roared as he jabbed his sword into the ground. The hilt blinked rapidly before a giant blue laser shot down from the sky and slammed into the Gashadokuro, causing it to roar in pain before the swordsman's companions all launched their own attacks, causing the massive skeleton yōkai to stumble back. "We need a holy attack!" the swordsman yelled as the Gashadoruko started to regenerate.

"Mind if I cut in?" Naruto asked, having had the sense not to jump in with a group that clearly had a set of tried and true tactics.

"Please, this is giving me flashbacks of fighting Dark Dragon again," the swordsman said.

"Right, let's see how it likes this!" Naruto said as he raised Taiyohiga and wind swirled around the blade mixing with golden reiki. "Taiyōfū no ha (Solar Wind Blade)!" yelled Naruto as he brought the blade down, the massive wave of holy sunlight augmented wind slicing the Gashadoroku in half. The minor yōkai who had been following it found themselves slashed apart by smaller wind blades, causing a cheer from the JSDF soldiers.

"Heh, nice technique," the swordsman said as he clipped his sword to his belt before holding his hand out to Naruto. "I'm Max, leader of the Shining Force."

"Uzumaki Naruto, Chūnin of Konohagakure no sato!" said Naruto with a smile as he sheathed Taiyohiga. "You've got a pretty large group with interesting abilities," he said. "I'm especially impressed you have such a broad range of teammates and are able to coordinate so well."

"The boy is a good leader, he's got us through tons of battles," said the older white-haired dwarf with a grin as he relaxed now that the fighting was over.

"Indeed, while we joined the Shining Force near the end of the campaign Max-sama had already made a name for himself and earned the title of Hero," said the ninja with a Kakashi style mask smile, the samurai nodding as he rested his massive zanbatō blade on his shoulder.

"Heh, if we have time, I want to hear that story, but I've got to keep moving until we get an all clear," Naruto said before taking off.

(0o0o0)

Sasuke suddenly snapped his gaze up into the air, prompting Kurotsuchi and Takajou to look up as well. Two figures hovered in the air, one a relatively normal-looking humanoid with a long black ponytail and orange arm guards flying with the aid of a small flaming wheel hovering by each of his feet and carrying a two pronged spear that crackled with lightning. The other was more like a pale humanoid lizard wearing blue arm guards and riding on a thundercloud. "Careful, they're lightning yōkai," Sasuke said.

"Hmmm, so nobody remembers us after that inu hanyō killed us," the human one said with a frown. "It appears we need to show the world the might of the Thunder Brothers again, Manten."

"Yes, Hiten, but let me have the girl to make into a hair potion," said the reptile-like one.

"Make me into a hair potion?" growled Kurotsuchi as she flipped through hand seals before slamming her pams into the ground as the barriers she'd previously created turned into mud. "I don't think so! Doton: Doryūdan (Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet)!" The mud formed into a dragon head that started spitting giant mud bullets at the two yōkai, who zipped apart to avoid her being able to hit them both.

"Katon: Hōsenka (Phoenix Sage Fire) no Jutsu!" said Sasuke as he rapidly fired multiple fireballs into the air, keeping the Thunder brothers from getting out of Kurotsuchi's sight.

"Insolent humans!" roared Hiten as he raised his spear, causing lightning to form above it.

"Shit!" gasped Sasuke as he rapidly flipped through hand seals and braced his arm, lightning crackling around his hand and arching into the ground with the sound of a thousand birds filling the massive intersection.

"Die!" roared Hiten as he swept the glaive down, a massive lightning bolt shooting down towards the ground.

"Chidori!" roared Sasuke as he leapt into the air, intercepting the lightning bolt.

"Hah, do you really think a human could match the power of a yōkai?" Hiten taunted Sasuke as the two techniques clashed.

Sasuke gritted his teeth, knowing if he failed, the lightning blast would eliminate everyone on the ground. Then suddenly he felt a rock pillar come up beneath him, giving him the leverage he needed. "Never underestimate a human!" he snarled as he gathered his chakra in his other hand and the sound of a thousand birds rose from his other hand as a second Chidori blazed to life and stopped Hiten's attack cold. The humanoid thunder brother could only look on in shock as Sasuke braced himself before leaping forward from the rock pillar. Sasuke's first Chidori shifted from white to blue as it cut through Hiten's attack, allowing Sasuke to plunge the second into Hiten's chest with a cry of "RAIKIRI!" Hiten could only gasp as his body started to crumble into charred pieces from the discharge of the lightning jutsu.

"Brother!" yelled Manten, a giant ball of lightning forming in his lizard-like mouth. "I'm going to kill you, brat!"

"Think again, bastard. This is for my father!" yelled a new voice as fox fire slammed into Manten's mouth, detonating his lightning breath inside. Shippo landed on the rock spur Kurotsuchi had made for Sasuke while the ninja landed safely on the street, staring at his hands with a smirk on his face. "So Ichiro even revived infamous yōkai like you two?" Shippo growled.

"Fox brat, I remember you and that damn Inu hanyō!" growled Manten. "I'm going to turn you to ashes for what you did!"

"You're not even worth Inuyasha's time," said Shippo before hurling a bunch of leaves into the air that transformed into clones of him that all attacked Manten at once. Their blows didn't hurt, but the real Shippo was mixing himself in among them, forcing the thunder demon to keep blocking each attack.

"DIE!" shrieked Manten as he breathed out a stream of lightning and spun around, dispersing all the clones. "Hah, got him!"

"Idiot," said Sasuke. Manten spun, ready to blast the Uchiha, only to feel claws dig into his back.

"Kokoro no Kizu (Heart Scar)!" growled Shippo as his claws cut through Manten's yōkai and ripped the undead yōkai's heart from his chest, causing him to crumble into dust like his brother. "You're avenged, father!" he whispered, the ghostly outline of a kitsune man appearing and nodding in gratitude before fading away.

"So if undead yōkai showed up here, what about other places?" Takajou asked.

(0o0o0)

Inuyasha smirked as he stood over the dissolving corpse of Ryūkotsusei. "Heh, even easier than last time!" he said. "Now where did Shippo run off to?" Sniffing the air, he suddenly chuckled. "The Thunder Brothers? Yeah, Shippo has that in the bag!"

(0o0o0)

Ranma glared at the horse yōkai charging towards him with a flaming mane and tail. "I swear, the gods are laughing at me," he groaned as he avoided the yōkai's flaming hooves, fire breath, and bite attacks while leading it in a spiral. "Of all the yōkai, they send a flaming horse after me. I don't know how, but I'm sure pops is to blame for this!"

Entei was furious; he'd been brought back to life and had been rampaging through the streets of Tokyo until Ranma had come out of nowhere with a flying kick that actually knocked the yōkai horse down. He'd quickly regained his hooves and charged after the pig-tailed martial artist who was calmly avoiding all his attacks but forced into a shrinking circle of fire from Entei's attacks.

Ranma finally came to a stop and Entei reared up to crush the insolent mortal with his hooves, only to receive the mother of all uppercuts from Ranma that radiated an intense cold. The mix of hot and cold formed a twister that swept Entei into the air with screams of fury before the tornado tore him apart, letting ash rain down on Tokyo. "There better not be an ice horse next," growled Ranma.

(0o0o0)

"So Konoha has the Toad, Slug, Kitsune, AND Phoenix summons?" Maki asked as Naruko and Gamabunta combined their chakra to fire large ice blasts at Tamamo no Mae, the evil vixen trying to break free of the ice chains so she could dodge to no avail as Hinata had leapt down from Suzaku's back and darted around the trapped nogitsune vixen, focusing on disabling her limbs to keep her from getting leverage to break free.

"And Kakashi-sensei's dog summons, the Sarutobi clan has the monkey tribe summons," Haku reminded her.

"Add in Naruto-san and Naruko-san, I think anyone else attacking Konoha in the future is going to regret it," said Utakata as Gamabunta chopped off one of Tamamo no Mae's tails with his sword.

"Don't count Hinata out either," muttered Hotaru, watching as Hinata used a tree as a club and beat Tamamo no Mae's head into the ground. "I think she's the next coming of Tsunade."

(0o0o0)

Naruto landed next to Sasuke and raised an eyebrow. "Why do you smell like an overcharged battery?" he asked.

"He just cut through a yōkai lighting attack and pierced the yōkai's heart with his Chidori," said Takajou before Sasuke could answer.

"Really?" Naruto said before raising his fist up. Sasuke gave it a bump and Naruto grinned. "Woah, your lightning nature chakra is even stronger! I guess Kakashi-sensei isn't the only one who can call that jutsu Raikiri now!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes but couldn't help but smirk. "Think he'll be in shock enough for me to grab his mask?"

Naruto's eyes gained a trickster's gleam. "That has possibilities. But there's one last Gashadokuro and the rest of the defenders are pretty much exhausted. Any of you care to back me up in taking it down hard?" The eager grins he got from Sasuke and Takajou had Kurotsuchi groaning about boys and size competitions.

The three ninja took off, moving so fast they were a blur to the JSDF soldiers that had started pushing back against the minor yōkai with assistance from the other defenders. The trio passed through Obadai In Minato, where a group of twelve monsters that Naruto swore weren't yōkai had taken down the Gashadokuro attempting to destroy the Fuji Television Network building so quickly that the building was undamaged.

The last Gashadokuro standing had climbed into the Tokyo Dome and the limited entranceways had allowed the mob of minor yōkai following it to put up barriers to keep out everyone trying to enter through the narrow corridors into the main field of the dome.

Of course, to three ninja, it was child's play to run at the dome and run up the walls to enter through the breach the Gashadokuro had left in the roof of the dome. As the giant skeleton yōkai jerked around to see them, a glowing gold aura formed around Naruto while a dark blue aura formed around Sasuke. Takajou landed behind the two and immediately flipped through hand seals. "Iwa no Yoroi (Rock Armor)!" he said as stones rose up around him to form a thin layer of armor. "I've got the small ones!" he growled as he gripped his nunchaku and twirled them in a ready stance before leaping down to crush some of the minor yōkai beneath him and start slaughtering the rest.

"Then that leaves the big one for us," said Naruto as his golden aura formed a giant nine tailed fox around himself.

"Yeah, I think we should give it something more in its size class," said Sasuke as a giant blue skeleton formed about his body with lightning chakra crackling around it.

"What the hell is that?" Naruto demanded.

"Susanoo, one of the three Mangekyo Sharingan jutsu alongside Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi," Sasuke answered as a lightning saber formed in his right hand and a bow formed on his left. "You're not going full fox?"

"Not used to it, this aura matches my movements so it's better for fighting," said Naruto as he flexed his aura claws.

"Huh, it actually looks scared, think it's the first time it's faced anything close to its size?" Sasuke asked as the Gashadokuro started backing away from them.

"Probably. Let's break some bones!" Naruto said with a smirk. The next five minutes were a whirlwind of pain and agony for the massive skeleton as the two shinobi beat it like a drum before finally knocking it into the air with a dual uppercut and unleashing a column of wind and fire that reduced the Gashadokuro to ash as the two ninja landed on the roof of the dome before bumping fists with a grin, their aura flaring together.

(0o0o0)

Naruko moved towards Tamamo no Mae's head with an ofuda ready to slap on her head, only for the giant nogitsune to rear up and blast her point blank with a beam of poisonous Yōki that slammed her into the castle wall. Haku and Hinata rushed to aid as Tamamo no Mae broke free of the ice chakra chains and fled towards the mainland with a screeching in anger Suzaku in pursuit. The nogitsune had been interested in Hinata's memory of water walking and adapted them for her own use, speeding across the bay towards Tokyo. She was going to rip the Shikon no Tama from the corpse of its guardian before razing the city to the ground.

(0o0o0)

Naruto's giant fox aura suddenly paused and turned towards Oni Island, seeing Tamamo no Mae charging towards the city. "Bitch alert at 6 o'clock!" he yelled, causing Sasuke to follow his gaze before the two dismissed their auras and started running back towards the beach with Takajou right behind them. Tamamo no Mae had come to a stop in the shallows of the shoreline and growled as the three ninja landed on a building to block her way and putting them at eye level with her. "Hey, you old hag, I see you're running away with your tails between your legs, my sister and Hinata-chan must have kicked your butt!" Naruto bellowed, causing Tamamo no Mae's eyes to lock on him before her Yōki slammed into him Naruto grunted as he saw an image of Konoha in flames, Tamamo no Mae standing over the butchered remains of his family and friends. He could hear Sasuke reliving the night of the Uchiha Massacre beside him, while Takajou was muttering "Kurotsuchi, gramps!" over and over again while the defenders near them were clearly losing hope.

Tamamo no Mae chuckled as she sauntered across the water towards them. "Tremble before me mortals, for I am Tamamo no Mae, destroyer of dynasties and future queen of the Kitsune!"

Naruto lifted his left hand to his mouth and bit down on it, the jolt of pain freeing up his mind. "Inari-Ōkami-sama, please help your servant," he said quietly before feeling a warmth pulse out from his body. The sound of a fox yipping in laughter suddenly filled the air and a gust of wind shot out from Naruto, sweeping away the despair before he lunged forward with Sasuke right behind him, fox aura and Susanoo reigniting as they delivered a perfectly timed double punch that stopped the giant nogitsune in her tracks. The two shinobi side-stepped, letting a giant sphere of Dust Release from Takajou shoot between the space they'd just left. Tamamo no Mae snarled and her dark mirror grew into a large shield that blocked the jutsu, but then she found herself trapped between Naruto and Sasuke as they started pummeling her from either side.

Tamamo no Mae's mirror was blocking Takajou's dust release while half of her tails lashed out at Sasuke and the other half at Naruto, trying to get enough space to break free and blitz towards where she could sense the Shikon no Tama. An enraged screech from above was her only warning before Suzaku swooped down and raked the nogitsune's back with her claws before swooping up to soar over Tokyo. "That damn chicken!" growled Tamamo no Mae as Suzaku taunted her from the air.

(0o0o0)

"Don't you dare die on me!" Haku growled at Naruko as she quickly mixed up the strongest antidote she could with Hinata's help. Utakata and Yugito were standing guard over the medic nin and patient while Hotaru followed Haku's directions to assist the two healers.

"Not going to die, got to rip that bitch's tails off and choke her with them!" groaned Naruko. "Then shove a Rasengan through her shriveled-up heart!"

"And I need to skin her alive," added Hinata before smiling as the poison started to break down. "Give it a minute to fully purge your system, Naruko-chan," she cautioned.

"And then I'm going to chase her down!" Naruko said, getting a nod from Hinata.

"You're going to chase after the giant murderous fox bitch who already knocked you on your ass and poisoned you so much it got through your kitsune and Uzumaki resistance?" Yugito asked in a deadpan tone.

"Nobody ever accused the Uzumaki of being SANE," Utakata reminded the Kumo kunoichi.

Naruko grinned as she climbed to her feet and stretched before dropping into a runner's stance as a silver aura started to engulf her body until it was two stories high and in the form of a nine tailed fox. "I'm going to blitz her, the rest of you get the tail express!" Hinata, Haku, Utakata, Hotaru, Yugito, and Maki all let out yelps of surprise as Naruko's aura grabbed them each in one tail before she glanced at Hanzo. "Watch after Chiyo for me, Hanzo, we'll be coming back here after everything is settled!" Hanzo only nodded as Naruko turned towards Tokyo and took off, her passengers in her tails all visibly unhappy with the ride.

"Round three, bitch!" roared a silver aura covered Naruko as she pounced on Tamamo no Mae from behind, forcing the nogitsune to divert three of her tails from blocking Naruto and Sasuke to stop Naruko's attacks. Pressed on three sides, Tamamo no Mae didn't sense the danger until the last moment as Hinata was tossed into the air by one of Naruko's tails and came down on Tamamo no Mae from above with a chakra lion glowing with golden reiki in each hand, the other ninja sent farther to land on various nearby roof tops.

"Jūho Sōshiken!" roared Hinata as she slammed both lion heads into Tamamo no Mae's back with an impact that would have shattered all the glass within a block of their fight if there were any windows left. Each head bit into Tamamo no Mae's body and the nogitsune shrieked as Hinata pumped reiki directly into her, causing her Yōki to start visibly leaking out of her body.

Tamamo no Mae howled in agony from the attack on her Yōki and then screamed as Takajou used her distraction to dash forward and use Dust Release to disintegrate her right front leg just above the knee. As Tamamo no Mae fell forward, Sasuke's giant skeleton aura grabbed her in a headlock while Naruto and Naruko's aura tails become chakra chains that bound her in place while the rest of their auras faded away, leaving Tamamo no Mae bound in a web of gold and silver chains.

"Ready to surrender?" the twins asked as they glared at the nogitsune queen.

Tamamo no Mae snarled and tried to break free of the chains. "Never, I will not surrender to half breeds and pathetic humans!" she growled.

Naruto and Naruko's eyes narrowed before Reiki covered them once more. "Not even to Inari's Champion and Senshi Miko?" they asked, only to get a sneer.

"You are beneath me, you little maggots. Your mother is a traitor to all kitsune for mating with a filthy human and not drowning you at birth!" Tamamo no Mae hissed.

The twins growled at the insult to their parents, a flare of Yōki mixing with their reiki to give them both an orange aura. "Then I guess it's time for aggressive negotiations," said Naruto.

Tamamo no Mae was about to reply when two glowing pink arrows shot down from the sky while a flame arrow came from the shore. Suzaku glided overhead, Kagome and Kimiko on her back while Sailor Mars leapt down from the building where she had sniped the last of the Gashadokuro before turning her attention to the infamous nogitsune.

"Well, gee whiz, it seems you've managed to piss off the five strongest Miko I know," Naruto said dryly.

Tamamo no Mae panicked and tried to wiggle free, only to feel the reiki and chakra chains tighten even more around her.

"We need to seal her and make sure she can't be released or break loose," said Sailor Mars.

"Agreed," said Kagome, the Shikon no Tama glowing as it hung from around her neck. "Between the five of us I think we can manage to make sure she won't harm anyone ever again."

"I'll keep her held down," said Naruto, Naruko allowing him to take control of her chakra chains so she could step back. "You five seal her."

The five miko spread out around Tamamo no Mae. Naruko stood in front of Tamamo no Mae, facing the nogitsune's head with Kagome to her right facing the left front leg. Hinata faced the back left leg, while Kagome faced the back right and Kimiko the front right one. Reiki started flowing between the five miko, forming a pentagram and circle around Tamamo no Mae as the five miko began to chant "Rin Pyo to Sha Kai Jin Retsu Zai Zen!" With the last mantra, massive auras sprang up around all five. Naruko stood beneath the paws of a massive silver ten tailed fox, Kagome had four orbs orbiting her, Hinata stood beneath a giant white wolf with red markings, a large Greek warrior loomed over Sailor Mars, and Kimiko had a ghostly image of her grandfather's human form.

"By the power of Inari-Ōkami, you are sealed, Tamano no Mae!" Naruko chanted, the giant fox aura biting down on Tamano no Mae's neck.

"By the power of the Shikon no Tama, you are sealed, Baosi," said Kagome, naming the previous incarnation of the vile nogitsune as the Shikon no Tama blazed.

"By the power of Amaterasu-Okami, source of all that is good and mother to us all, you are sealed, Lady Kao!" HInata said, binding another incarnation as the massive white wolf plunged a sword of sun fire into Tamano no Mae's back.

"By the power of Mars, Ares, and fire, you are sealed, Daji!" said Sailor Mars, using the earliest known incarnation of the nogitsune as Ares plunged a spear into Tamano no Mae's back.

Kimiko took a deep breath as the image of her grandfather raised a ghostly Tessaiga. "By the power of the blood of Inu no Taisho, you are sealed, Destroyer of Dynasties!" she yelled as the spectral Tessaiga plunged down.

The moment the spectral blade pierced Tamano no Mae's flesh, black chains sprang out and bound Tamano no Mae, sealing her Yōki and power. "Finish it, my champion," said Inari's avatar as she released Tamano no Mae's neck.

Naruto drew Taiyōhiga and the blade blazed with reiki, wind chakra, fire chakra, and senjutsu chakra as an aura the size of a zanbatō formed around the blade. Naruto raised the blade back behind his head before swinging it down, Tamamo no Mae's head tumbling to the ground before her body shrunk down into a large chain covered rock. The oppressive atmosphere that had filled the air for the last week finally lifted as the sun rose over the horizon, the defenders of Tokyo cheering in victory.

Naruto and Naruko stepped up to the stone and examined it before glancing at one another. "Multiple redundancies?" Naruto suggested.

Naruko nodded. "As many as we can place..." The two pulled out sealing tags and started writing out seals and slapping them on every bit of free space on the stone. Kagome, Hinata, and Kimiko were quickly making shimenawa with some rope Hinata had grabbed from the docks, adding seals from Sailor Mars and shide from it as they wrapped it around the stone.

"That should hold her for a few centuries," said Sailor Mars with a smirk before all five miko and Naruto slumped, the adrenaline fading and leaving them exhausted.

Naruto, Naruko, and Hinata all winced as their stomachs rumbled at the same time, causing Kagome and Kimiko to grin while Sailor Mars muttered something about blondes being gluttons, much to Sailor Moon's dismay.

And that's done. We're on the final stretch, maybe two more chapters to finish this fic up and get our heroes heading back to Konoha. Next chapter is a "What happened while you were gone," chapter where we get to learn what happened from the perspective of Hinata and the rest of twins' friends.