Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 49: The Siege in the Land of Fire
Yugito woke up and found that Naruto was not in bed. Walking into the large lounge room she found Naruto passed out over his desk his fathers sealing notes to one side and his own to the other. 'He must have gotten up to continue his work through the night. He has never done that before though, I just hope he has had enough sleep' Yugito thought as she grabbed a blanket off there bed and draped it over him before going to the kitchen to make some breakfast.
Naruto began to stir when he smelt cooking eggs and toast. Forgetting where he was he made to roll out of bed only to tip the chair over. "Ouch where the hell am I" Naruto said groggily as he picked himself up off the floor.
Yugito had to stifle a laugh as Naruto fell over despite being slightly concerned that he may have somehow hurt himself the act of Naruto falling in his chair had been way too funny. "Ah good morning Naru-kun, it seems you decided to come out and work on your seals in the middle of the night. I hope your not going to be too tired for our mission" she chuckled as Naruto began assessing his surrounding's.
"Oh...Yeah I remember I had a breakthrough while I was in bed watching you sleep and I had to come out here and begin my work" Naruto said.
"Really what is it. I bet it must be something amazing if you got out of bed in the middle of the night just to work on it" Yugito said eagerly anticipating Naruto's usual overly complex explanation on his latest seal.
"Sorry Yugi-chan it's not finished yet so your just going to have to wait" Naruto teased.
"Hey that's no fair. I made you breakfast so you can tell me what you were working on" Yugito pleaded.
"Nope sorry not this time Yugi-chan. It's a secret and I want to show it to you and Jiraiya sensei together, but only once it is finished" Naruto said causing Yugito to pout but in the end nodded in acceptance.
"Well you better eat up we have half a days run ahead of us and we don't know what the situation will be like once we reach the village" Yugito said.
"Yeah your right. What's the time anyway, we wouldn't want to be late...Sakura is rather loud when people show up late" Naruto said wincing just from the memory's of Sakura's screeching.
"It's still early, only seven and we don't need to meet up at the eastern gate until nine" Yugito assured her fellow blond.
"Ah that's good. But before we go there I need to get some snack's at the store" Naruto said.
"What the hell for" Yugito demanded.
"Not for me. It's for Gamatatsu, he is the most difficult personal summons to have to deal with. I never get any problems for Kichi, but Tatsu, if you don't feed him he is about as useful as summoning one of the tadpoles. And the worst thing is he is going to be one of the large assault summons when he is older. How am I supposed to feed that, I would need an S rank mission's pay every time I summon him" Naruto moaned.
"Then why bother, why not just summon one of the other toad's. I mean there are hundreds of them" Yugito said confused by Naruto's plight.
"It's not that simple, I can summon the other toad's like Gamabunta and the other large toad's without issue, I can even summon the smaller ones Jiraiya sensei uses for infiltration missions. And the elders. But for basic use those two are my personal summons, and every time I call they will be who I get. Normally I get Kichi but if he is unavailable Tatsu comes" Naruto explained.
"Oh well it's not all bad there friendly at least" Yugito offered.
After breakfast Naruto and Yugito got ready in there combat gear and made there way into town to buy a large amount of chip's lollies and all other snacks that Naruto's yellow toad summons likes to eat.
Sealing away the junk food Naruto and Yugito made there way to the gate making sure to be early so as to avoid the lung's of doom and protect there eardrum's.
"Morning Sakura" Naruto said as they arrived at the east gate.
"Oh good morning Naruto, I wonder what we are going to find once we get there, from the sound of the mission report they seemed rather desperate for help considering there just some bandits" Sakura said.
"Yes well there not just bandit's there are also missing ninja and samurai among them" came the voice of Jiraiya as he hopped down from a nearby tree.
"Oh good morning Jiraiya-sama" Sakura said respectfully.
"How many are we talking here sensei" Naruto questioned.
"We weren't given precise numbers but from what I could gather well over two hundred" Jiraiya said seriously.
"I see so we might actually break a sweat hey" said Naruto jokingly.
"Well you might. Bandits run in fear of me for I am Jiraiya the Gallant" he said doing his kabuki dance.
"What ever sensei, I bet they would run away from your dancing though" Naruto said with a smirk.
"Low blow Naruto, seriously low" Jiraiya moped.
"Are they always like this" Sakura asked Yugito pointing out Naruto and Jiraiya's friendly argument.
"Yeah pretty much, you get used to it. It's actually kind of funny sometimes" Yugito said.
"Oh... Why do I have the feeling I shouldn't have taken this mission" Sakura said while Jiraiya began telling Naruto the reasons why his kabuki dance is important in an introduction for someone like him.
After a long and tedious debate about the importance of Jiraiya's introduction the group left on the road to there destination.
"What is the name of the town anyway" Naruto asked after around an hour.
"I think it is Tobima town, I think the locals named it after the Nidaime hokage after he created the river that runs throughout the village with his Suiton manipulation" Jiraiya said.
"Man he must have been crazy good at Suiton manipulation to be able to do something like that. To be able to just create a river. I can only create water if I have some water to start off with" Naruto moaned.
"Don't feel to bad, Tobirama was a genius with Suiton the same way you are with seal's, while he may be better than you will be with Suiton. You are a better seal master than he was" Jiraiya said as they continued to move on increasing there pace slightly.
Around three hours later they came to a large town in the middle of a large field. There was a large river that ran from a nearby mountain out of the woods and right through the center of the village. Large wooden wall's had been erected and there were very few entrances to the village by the looks of it only three. Of those three entrances there was only one open a small gate with several militia guards preventing entry.
"Halt who are you and why have you come here" a tall man asked with a bowl haircut like Lee's the only difference was his hair was light brown and his eyebrows didn't consume most of his face.
"Uh were Ninja from Konoha hired to protect this village" Naruto said.
"What they only sent four of you, we need more than that" the guard said desperately but still ushered them into the village.
"I don't get it sure this place is nice and looks like there are quite a few wealthy people living here but why is it being targeted by bandit's" Naruto said as he had a look around. There street's were paved in cobble stone and several large expensive houses scattered the otherwise normal looking village.
"It's because we are a small village that they attack us. They think we would just roll over and give them all of out money but we refused and a member of the town militia killed one of the bandits. After that they have been coming back every couple of nights with more and more people, they haven't attacked yet but I just know they are planning to" the guard said as he lead the four Konoha ninja to a small tavern where they were given room's to stay in until this situation was sorted out.
"So what do you think" Jiraiya asked the three younger ninja when they came downstairs for something to eat.
"I think it's a large group of bandit's trying to make an example out of this village. If they ruin one village others will be less likely to fight back" Naruto said.
"I was thinking the same thing, but we don't know how many we are dealing with, from some people they say there are close to one thousand others say slightly less than five hundred, without an accurate count we cant afford the leave the village unprotected" Sakura said.
"We are just going to have to wait. There are three entrances and four of us so I suggest Yugito and Sakura you two team up. Naruto and I have our summons to back us up if we need it" Jiraiya said.
"What about the town militia are we going to take charge, or just work with them" Yugito asked.
"I think we should let them act as normal as possible. They know the town and if they are acting weird the bandits might suspect something" Jiraiya said.
"Fair enough, well we're not going to help this village by just sitting around in here all night, I say we go get to work" Naruto said and began walking to the door.
"Wait we need to know what gate your going to take so we don't go there as well" Sakura called out.
"Oh yeah, I think I will take the northern gate. Oh while I am here, you guys should take some of these, there my elemental trap seals, just put some of your chakra into them to activate" Naruto said handing Sakura and Yugito a small stack of sealing tag's.
Naruto left the small two floor tavern and walked out into the cold night air. With no trees to shelter the village from the wind it felt like there was a gale blowing, and it was blowing his cloak around behind him. 'Well at least this will help with my Fuuton jutsu' Naruto thought as he made his way to the northern gate.
"So any activity yet" Naruto asked several members of the militia when he arrived to find them up a small tower with binoculars.
"No not yet, which is weird they are usually here before sundown just to show that they mean business" the guard said.
"I see, open the gate for a minute so I can get outside" Naruto said calmly.
"What you want to go out there! You will be killed when they arrive" the guard said in shock.
"Nah I'll be fine, besides if I am right the fact they haven't shown up yet tonight is not a good sign, I would say they are going to attack sometime later tonight once they have figured out there plan, that means you will need me out on the field with a strong wind blowing and a good water supply like we have tonight I can defend this gate no worry's" Naruto called back confidently.
The militia guards just looked at him shocked. It took them several minutes to come around and open the gate "Good luck out there, don't say I didn't warn you about this" the guards said. The moment Naruto was out side the gate slammed shut behind him.
'Ok now we play the waiting game... …. Fuck I am bored already' Naruto whined internally as he sat down on the cold grass.
Naruto sat outside for the next couple of hours, and sent several shadow clones to scout the area. At around one in the morning however he was given a shock, his shadow clone was destroyed. 'So it begins huh. There sure are a lot of them' Naruto thought before creating two more clones to go inform Jiraiya and the girls.
(With Yugito and Sakura)
The two kunoichi were busying themselves by playing with some cards when Naruto's clone showed up.
"Hey Yugi-chan, Sakura we got company. Around fifteen minutes out" Naruto said.
"Really how many" Yugito said.
"Hard to say it was dark from the north at least five hundred though" Naruto said.
"I see are they just bandits, I mean that is a serious number for just some low life group" Sakura said.
"I don't think so, there seems to be at least some missing ninja seeing as my clone was taken out by a Doton jutsu" the clone of Naruto said.
"So in other words we are outnumbered more than one hundred to one and there are at least some ninja. Why did we take this job again" Yugito asked.
"Oh come on it's not all that bad, I suggest you guys go scatter my seals around the entrance then move up onto the wall, that way you can use long range jutsu and projectiles. And we always have the militia to help out" Naruto said with a smile.
"How can you be so calm about this" Sakura yelled bonking Naruto on the head not realizing he was a clone.
"Oh well we better do what he said, it was the smartest course of action after all. And as for your question it's kind of hard to be worried about numbers when your Naruto. He can make hundreds of clones and not even feel the strain" Yugito said taking out the seals Naruto had given her and began placing them throughout the field.
(With Jiraiya)
The elder toad sage was sitting on top of a large yellow toad when Naruto showed up.
"So I take it they are almost here" Jiraiya said.
"Yeah I'm unsure of the number's though" Naruto admitted.
"That's fine. This kind of reminds me of the last war. But I want to know how so many bandits are able to work together, there has to be someone paying them enough to do this" Jiraiya said.
Before Naruto could answer however there was movement at the edge of the surrounding forest and hundreds of torch lit fires came into view. "We could always ask them" Naruto suggested indicating the area where the lights were appearing.
They continued to come for some time forcing Naruto to re-evaluate there amount. "Ok so there are around a thousand, that's no biggy just two hundred and fifty each" Naruto said to himself as they began to spread out around the clearing.
"Your a clone right, why don't you go tell them this place is protected by Konoha. If that doesn't work, well it looks like we are going to be busy tonight" Jiraiya said seriously.
The Naruto clone shrugged and walked out to meet the small army that had assembled around the village. "So the village has decided to finally surrender then has it" a rather scraggy looking man said with a short beard that seemed to grow wildly in every direction.
"Not exactly, I am here to tell you that if you attack this village you will die. It is now under the protection of Konoha" Naruto said.
Being the talkative bunch the bandits were they contemplated Naruto's words thoughtfully before shooting the clone with several bolts from a crossbow.
"I take it that it didn't go very well" Jiraiya said to himself when he saw the clone dispel.
(With Naruto)
'Well it looks like things are about to get very interesting' Naruto thought and created around twenty clones who each pulled out kunai and got ready for the attack.
Once all of the small bandit army was in place a large flare was shot into the sky illuminating the whole village and surrounding area and they charged.
Naruto didn't waste any time in retaliating, removing several of his small shuriken and handing them out to his clones. "Now!" Naruto yelled once the first wave was in sight and they threw the miniature shuriken.
Once the tiny projectiles were within range they expanded with Fuuton chakra and ripped a massive hole in the center of the charging line. What happened next shocked Naruto however as massive boulders appeared from the trees and were sent cascading toward the wooden walls of the village.
Entering sage mode Naruto charged forward slamming a fist into the boulder as hard as he could shattering it. It appeared that Sakura had a similar idea over at the other gate as he felt a second shake of the earth seconds later.
Jiraiya it appeared had gone on another route and turned the field in front of him into a swamp stopping the boulder before it had a chance to get anywhere near his gate.
This didn't dishearten the bandits at all and they just sent another wave of people charging down until they surrounded Naruto.
Not realizing that they were totally out classed by Naruto the bandits charged blades drawn ready to spill the blond jinchuuriki's blood.
Naruto however just calmly removed a small white knife from his belt and crouched low. Every strike that was sent his way was expertly dodged and countered. The only problem was the large numbers that were piling up around him and the even larger number of newcomers that either ran past and were intercepted by his clones or decided that they wanted to attempt to kill the fast moving blond.
Suddenly there was a huge explosion that came from the south east gate where Yugito and Sakura were Naruto jumped back from the approaching group of bandit's to give himself enough time to take a quick look.
As it happened the large explosion was caused from one of Yugito's more powerful Katon jutsu so Naruto relaxed slightly. Unfortunately the small distraction that Yugito had created had let the on rushing army overpower Naruto's clones.
Quickly rushing through some hand seal's Naruto used a Suiton jutsu to pull water from the nearby river and create a wave to wash the bandits away.
Naruto stood back and looked at the destruction he had caused. The dead bodies of many attackers scattered around the field and the others who were waiting to attack seemed to be thinking twice.
After another couple of moments the sound of fighting seemed to die away from from the village and not a sound could be heard apart from the many small fires that had been lit mostly by Yugito's jutsu's.
"I suggest you leave Konoha ninja" came a voice that seemed to be coming from thin air. "If you don't we will have to enter the battle ourselves. We require that town as a base of operations we don't want to have to destroy it" the voice said confidently.
"Pfft what ever just bring it on, I'm not scared of you" Naruto yelled out.
"Very well then. Prepare to die" the voice said and from the edge of the forest twelve men in cloaks came out and separated into groups of four, one group heading to each gate.
'So these must be the heavy hitters huh' thought Naruto as he prepared for there attack. From what Naruto could make out the group in front of him had two samurai and two missing ninja but he couldn't see the symbol on there forehead protector's.
Once the other two groups were in position the two samurai charged while the other two began running through hand seals.
Two large boulders grew from the earth and the first one began rolling straight towards Naruto. The second however was shot at the wall of the village off to the side. 'Oh shit I have to stop that boulder' thought Naruto and he ran forward to meet the first one that was aimed at him shattering it with a punch. Before he could turn to intercept the second boulder however Naruto was forced to duck under a swipe of a sword that was glowing from chakra.
"So samurai huh well let's just get this over with I have a boulder to stop" Naruto said urgently readying for another attack.
"Where not just ordinary samurai, we were members of Mifune's guard, a simple punk kid ninja like you is no match for us" one of the samurai said.
"So in other word's your not your average samurai... Well that's good, because I'm not your average Ninja" said Naruto who took that moment to race forward and slam a fist right into the face mast of the closest samurai and use that as leverage to jump up into a spin kick for the second.
Both samurai flew back and Naruto sped off forced to release his restriction seal's in order to stop the boulder.
"Well we have a talented one. I guess we better show him what it means to mess with us" one of the ninja said and both charged forward at a high speed. Unfortunately for them to Naruto it was not fast at all.
The closest one arrived and attempting to put Naruto onto the defensive went for a kick to his head which Naruto easily ducked under. The second arived and seeing that Naruto had just ducked went for a leg sweep only for the blond to roll to the side and knock the first ninja down with a leg sweep of his own before kicking the second in the gut sending him rolling back.
"You know, I don't think you guys thought this through very well" Naruto said calmly as the two ninja and samurai slowly began to stand.
"What ever kid, you may think your winning but we still out number you" the samurai with the busted face mask said and with a small sign to the forest men rushed forward from all around the clearing charging at the gates. 'I hope the others are doing alright because looks troublesome' Naruto thought before running through several hand signs "Summoning jutsu" Naruto said and he summoned Gamakichi.
"Heya Boss! What's up" Gamakichi asked.
"Kind of in a jam, we need to barbeque some bandit's and I need your help" Naruto said hopping on Gamakichi's back.
"Sure thing lets do this" Gamakichi said and jumped high into the air.
"Sage Art Collaboration Jutsu: White flames of the Heavens" Naruto yelled blowing out a huge gust of wind. Gamakichi joined in with fire and the two combined to form white flames incinerating anything in there path.
"What the fuck is he" said one one of the samurai after the flames died down and the onrushing army was burnt to a crisp.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, and unless you surrender your executioner" Naruto said jumping off of Gamakichi who seemed to be marveling at the power of there jutsu.
The four criminals seemed to think about this for a moment but then all charged forward at the same time. 'I wonder if Jiraiya sensei has to fight people this stupid' Naruto thought as he began ducking and weaving through the attacks directed at him.
(With Jiraiya)
It turned out that the group that had attacked Jiraiya were indeed that stupid no sooner had they attacked than Jiraiya made a a swamp under them and turned them into toads. When the army attacked Jiraiya had summoned Fukusaku and Shima to catch the approaching army in a genjutsu and then slowly knock them out and tie them up something that was proving to be taking awhile thanks to the sheer numbers of them.
(With Yugito and Sakura)
Yugito and Sakura were having a much harder time of things, but on the plus side Naruto and Jiraiya had both sent the majority of the militia that were guarding there gates over to help the two kunoichi.
They had split up each taking two of the group of four ninja each while the militia held the approaching forces off as best they could.
"This is insane they just keep coming" Sakura said slamming her fist into the ground creating a large crack in the earth trapping several bandit's before rolling out of the way of a downward strike from a samurai's blade.
"I know what you mean, this is not the ideal way of dealing with this kind of situation" Yugito said as she kicked one of the ninja in the side of the head but was stopped from finishing him off by his partner.
"What would be the Ideal way of dealing with something like this because if there is one I sure would like to know" Sakura said as she attempted to punch a samurai only for him to roll out of the way.
"Well there is one way I could make this a lot easier, but I don't know if I should" Yugito replied.
"Just do it. We aren't like Naruto and Jiraiya-sama if you have something that can help do it" the pink haired kunoichi yelled back.
"Alright then" Yugito said and her eyes began to change color from blue to yellow. What happened next sent the small group of bandit's and two ninja around Yugito flying.
Purple chakra began to rise around Yugito and the band's holding her hair in it nice neat ponytail broke and her long hair began flying about wildly behind her. She slightly hunched over and her fingernails became more like claws.
Slowly the purple chakra engulfed her and a single tail formed swishing behind her as wild as her hair.
"So, who wants to be first" she said her voice sounding demonic from the Nibi's chakra she was drawing on.
Nobody answered and slowly backed away, even Sakura seemed shell shocked. 'She's a jinchuuriki, just like Gaara but I have felt this before, I know I have. Back in the land of wave's, on the bridge but that mean's that Konoha's jinchuuriki is... Naruto' thought Sakura as she fell over from the realization of what Naruto held and of course the power that was radiating off of Yugito.
Yugito seeing that nobody wanted to attack decided that she would take over and charged leaving a path of destruction and bodies in her wake.
Sakura was still shocked still. 'Why wouldn't Naruto tell anyone. Kakashi sensei told me jinchuuriki are often hated, That would explain why Naruto's childhood was so bad. Now that I think about it Naruto's birthday is the same day as the Kyuubi attack... then that mean's the Bijuu he contains is the strongest demon of them all' Sakura thought feeling sorry for Naruto.
(With Naruto Moments Earlier)
Naruto was still weaving in and out of the strikes attempted by the ninja and samurai but everyone stopped when a huge explosion of chakra could be felt. 'That's demonic Yokai. Then that means... Yugi-chan' Naruto thought. His fun was over, now he was just worried for Yugito.
"Well I am sorry but this game has to end now" Said Naruto seriously.
Naruto moved faster than any of the could see and when he reappeared he had his fist planted firmly into one of the samurai's gut's. Not wanting to waste any time Naruto chopped him behind the neck making sure he was knocked out and moved onto his next target.
The other missing ninja and samurai didn't stand a chance Naruto took them down with ease before removing some ninja wire and tying them up. 'Ok now I have to go check on Yugi-chan. If she isn't alright I will make sure that who ever hurt her will beg for death before the end' Naruto thought to himself subconsciously channeling a small amount of Kyuubi's chakra.
When Naruto made it to the gate that Yugito and Sakura were defending he saw his blond girlfriend tearing through bandits who were now running in fear of the woman. There screams could be heard loudly as Yugito would catch them.
Much to Naruto's surprise most her victim's were not dead but just unconscious, indicating that Yugito was still in control. "Yugi-chan that's enough it's over. Look there running away, we won" Naruto said calmly landing slowly approaching her.
"Naruto what do you think your doing, she's dangerous at the moment" Sakura yelled in warning.
"No she's not she's my Yugi-chan. She knows how to control her demon" Naruto said as Yugito turned to face him.
While Yugito was indeed still in control, that didn't mean that Nibi had no influence over the blond kunoichi. The moment she saw Naruto her expression changed from angry and serious to hunger and lust.
Yugito charged and tackled Naruto to the ground and began passionately kissing him. However to Sakura all she saw was Yugito charge and tackle the newly promoted jonnin.
"Naruto are you alright" Sakura screamed and raced forward to save him. However once she arrived her attitude changed "Pervert" she screeched when she saw the two blonds seemingly oblivious to the fact they was basically dry humping each other in a battle field.
Sakura's intervention seemed to wake the two jinchuuriki out of a trance. And once they came to there senses they blushed a shade of red that would make Hinata jealous they were quite fortunate that the light from the chakra flares that had been illuminating the battle field were slowly fading now that the leaders of the small army were either incapacitated or dead.
"Hey what's going on over here I felt a surge of demonic chakra" Said Jiraiya arriving after capturing the last of the the attackers on his gate.
"Uh sorry Jiraiya-sama that was me, we were getting overwhelmed and well needed some extra help" Yugito said. Omitting the part about losing control and attempting to fuck Naruto in the middle of the open field.
"Well it looks like it is over. I sent a message to Tsunade and she is sending some squads of Anbu to collect the prisoners" Jiraiya said with a sigh.
"There were a lot of them but it's a good thing they were not very skilled. But still to gather a group that large, if they had more time and were allowed to continue unopposed they could have caused a problem to all of the land of fire" Yugito said.
Yeah lets just rally them all up, together to save work for the Anbu" Naruto said earning nod's in agreement before they each left to collect there captives.
The Anbu from Konoha arrived early in the morning much to the joy of the severely tired group. "When will you be returning to Konoha, Jiraiya-sama" a monkey masked Anbu asked.
"Well I think we have earned a break, but first. I'm going to sleep" Jiraiya said before yawning it had been a long night for the four ninja.
(Orochimaru's Hideout)
Kabuto was returning to Orochimaru's room with some medicine when the door opened in front of him.
"Sasuke-kun? Is that you or Orochimaru" Kabuto asked tentatively.
"Who do you think" said Sasuke turning on his sharingan before leaving the stunned medic still holding the medicine tray.
Once the silver haired ninja came to his senses he entered the room to see what happened for himself. Inside the room there was a lifeless husk of a snake which usually would mean that Orochimaru had changed bodies however as he had just seen Sasuke was very much still his same old arrogant self. Which meant only one thing. Orochimaru was dead.
End Chapter!
Ok it was just another fill chapter but I will begin moving into the search for Sasuke and Pein Arc's now but I am not going to focus on Sasuke much. Mostly because I him. Sorry if there are any fans but really hope he dies in the cannon even though something tells me they will save both him and Naruto somehow.