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Naruto savored the spray of the sea air in his face, while the boat surged forth through the waters. His first command had turned out to be an unused class of ship known as a 36-gun frigate, it had been named the Kyuubi, but he'd decided to rename it something better. And so the Konoha Naval Ship the Kon raced the waves.
His task today was scouting ahead for the transport and the other escorts. Sasuke in the 56-gun ship of the line Katon, and Sakura in the 12-gun brigantine were hanging back with the trader galleon of the ship builder Tazuna who was working to build on the Land of Waves navel forces. Kakashi's 48-gun ship of the line, the Icha, was swinging wide to prevent deep water pirates from attacking them while they were in transit.
Two days earlier they had ran across the demon brothers, and fought them off. Now they were being more cautious, especially after Kakashi had sent a messenger bird back to Konoha. It was now dawn, and the weather was fair, unfortunately the horizon had a sail, and from what he could see out of his telescope, it was a big one. So he was holding up from charging in until the others got closer, instead he ran up a signal for the others and waited, cutting close to the wind to keep the enemy guessing on his heading.