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I believe I need to ask this question. Which would you my honest, and caring readers prefer. Do I keep writing chapters like I have and update 4 times a week or would you prefer longer chapters but I will only update 2 times a week?. I hope you let me do things this way because you hopefully get to enjoy this story, and new material more frequently. I know that I could describe to you the way the gore and injuries in more detail, but I sometimes feel is I do that too much, this story will go from a romance, which is what I wanted you fine people to enjoy, into a horror, but as always I welcome suggestions.
Naruto knew that the sand ninja were very much into surprise attacks, but he needed to find a way to detect their approach quicker than he had done so far. His mind was also occupied by Mikoto who was worrying him somewhat. She seemed to be really anxious about something, and when he asked she just blushed and walked away. But he had to do something about the detection range problem first.
He though maybe if he took a soldier pill he could make 1000 shadow clones to maintain a detection perimeter around the camp. He would scare the living daylights out of the sensors in the camp. But what other choice did he have, he simply had no time to go to the land where the wolf contract lived, and learn their sage arts. It would take no less than a year, and a year away from Mikoto and Koji would cause him to die out of sheer dread and worry. He needed to find a way, he felt that maybe using shadow clones he could cut the time down to a month, but Sakumo was not going to let one of his most trusted ninja off the war, for an entire month. Mikoto would want to go with him, and Fenrir had made it quite clear, Sage arts are to be kept absolutely secret. He as their summoner had earned the right to learn them, but no one had in over 2000 years so they kept the training quite private, secret and on a personal level.
But little did he know that he would have that month off, as the reinforces were actually hurrying to their location after the Hokage learned what had happened. He felt that the camp needed a few more powerhouses to put down Suna out of the war. The reinforcement came from Minato Namikaze, and his red haired lover, Kushina Uzumaki. Kushina had been granted leave from her duties at anbu's assassination division. She had earned the moniker of the flaming red death of konoha. Naruto was meditating while keeping a small perimeter of shadow clones only 5 miles wide. He had to summon 500 shadow clones, and it did scare some of the ninja sensors in camp. Mikoto knew that Naruto was pushing himself, so she took a close guard position to where he was meditating. Unless you would like to call what Koji called a pair of love birds making an excuse to spend some quality time alone, you could almost swear that nindog was laughing at his partner's comments.
As one of the clones dispelled, and he saw that their reinforcements were on their way. He got up and tried to walk towards the Captain's tent. Try being the key word, he nearly fell over as he got back up. 20 shadow clones had dispelled from the south, east, and south west. Hell he needed to walk towards the location of Captain Hakate, "Mikoto I need you to tell Captain Hakate that we have a situation. We got 100 puppeteers coming from the east, 100 fan users coming from the south west, and 100 swords coming from the south. The good news we have reinforcements incoming from the north. But they will not make it in time before the battle starts. I would tell him himself but I am having my remaining shadow clones do a paper bomb trap field in the direction the enemy are coming. When they dispel I will not be able to walk for at least 5 minutes, and we don't have time. Please, report to the Captain and come and give me a hand." Mikoto understood and ran towards the location of the Captain.
He sure did not like the feeling of all the memories of some many clones at the same time. The sand ninja were in fact learning and becoming well aware of his camps abilities, how much longer would this camp have to be present in these lands before they have some sort of leave. He often found himself thinking that it would be nice to share a few evenings alone with Mikoto, so he could enjoy her company and not have to worry about an enemy group doing yet another surprise attack. But the chances seemed to be slim at best, and the way Fugaku kept sending proposal letters to Mikoto made him wonder a few things. What did Fukaku do all day, he was a Captain of his own camp. For crying it out loud, where did he find the time to write those insults he called marriage proposals in the first place. He knew that the war was important to help defend the allies of Konoha, but deep inside he also knew that they could not afford to lose a camp. But that did not mean that he could not daydream of hearing the dreadful news that Fugaku was savagely maimed and died on the battlefield. Oh well happy daydreams had to wait, duty calls after all.
As he finally got over the dizziness, he walked over to the Captain's tent. "So your clones done preparing the traps? or the enemy are a few minutes away?" Sakumo looked at him and asked, "Field prepared, and they are a mile away from here." Sakumo smiled and tried to make a joke, "So are we going to enjoy the fireworks as our reinforcement arrive? or are they going to be interrupted by a surprise attack?" Every jounin laughed at the antics of their Captain and their unofficial second in command.
Sure enough as Minato and Kushina made their way to the Captain's tent a loud explosion was heard. "You would think that they would at least try and look for traps." Naruto was heard saying as Minato walked where he and Sakumo where looking at the enemy. "They are in a hurry to try and eliminate the person they now call the armored red fiend of Konoha. The figure killing him is a top priority so they changed tactics and are in quite the hurry." Sakumo laughed and looked at Naruto, "Boy they used to call me the white fang, now it seems you sure getting popular with those desert dwellers." Naruto looked as stoic as he could at the moment. "If they want to hurry to get to their afterlife, I am sure going to send them on the Uchiha Express."
Kushina came over to him to say hello, she did not remember ever having the pleasure of doing that. As she walked she felt something familiar about this Naruto Uchiha. But what was it that made him feel like she was just like him. No way that there was another jinjuriki in this camp. As far as she knew she was the only one in Konoha, Kurama was not happy either. He was practically screaming imposter as he saw Naruto thru Kushina's senses.
"Look Bro, there is something off from that girl. You might trust your fellow ninja, but watch out for Kushina. I don't like the feeling she is giving off!" Naruto told his biju that there was nothing to worry about. He simply reminded her that there was no jinjuriki placed on the front lines. If Konoha did have one they were to valuable to be put at risk so early in the war. "You keep saying that, but I tell you something about her makes me sick to my stomach. I just know that she has something that wants to kill me!"
As in for some celebration, the ninja watched as a group of enemies went up and exploded one after the other. The enemy lost 60 ninja before they realized what was happening and decided to finally do something smart. They used sand release jutsu to gather sand and compress it to be as hard as rocks, then they threw those rocks with wind jutsu. The effect was that the traps exploded and they could finally get to their enemy. The thing Naruto wondered was how dumb could a group be. If the enemy had so many traps ready what would stop them from having even more traps closer to camp. The more they think that they had this camp figured, the more disappointed he became of his enemy and he just had to prove them wrong all over again.
As the group of enemy gathered together and rushed the camp, they heard a popping sound and then a hiss. Boy this was not the way they had planned this out. They both looked up and saw some metal spheres go up, and then it exploded raining kunai at the advancing enemy. Kunai Grenades, a bunch of kunai tied together to a single paper bomb at the center. When this off the paper bomb acted like a launcher as sent the kunai flying at the enemy.
Naruto had killed 100 enemies yet again. The remaining clones appeared after dropping their camouflage and the remaining enemy attacked. The had their camp's help, but a single puppet was sent to kill him in the confusion of the battle. He launched sembo at him but missed and sent some at Kushina and Minato. The sembo were came out of Kushina as he was as mad as she could be. "You dare try and kill my lover. I will send you to hell in life, and then you will tell them that get ready for a big group. Because I am not leaving one of you sand bastard escape! You will all go to hell!" Kushina had completely lost it, and gone into beast mode. The red coat that covered her began to grow more tails, until she had 3 waving tails. She ran towards a now really scared enemy group. "Demon style: Hell descent jutsu!" In a matter of seconds they were all attracked to a single spot and the ground turned black. The enemy saw as hundreds of red skeletal arms arouse from the black ground and dragged on after the other underneath the ground killing, screaming and begging for their lives.
She was not done yet, "Now for you pretender, there can be only one ruler of the 9th circle and that is me! You will fight me in a duel in my mind scape. It is your buju or mine. But there can only be one!" Naruto was ready to fight, but Mikoto was worried for him. Kushina was her best friend, but she wasn't known for mercy when she was like that. She prayed that her Naruto would come out of this alive, she couldn't stand the idea that she would never be able to enjoy his company again. To her he was the most precious treasure, but had she been honest with her feelings. She would know that what she was feeling and more strongly as time went on was love.