Chapter 18

Naruto sighed as she looked at the ninja that had captured both her and Hinata. They had already been taken out of town and towards the Village Hidden in the Clouds. It was the female from before and unfortunately a lot more skill than she had first looked. It had taken her less than a second to disarm and tie Hinata up, when Hinata had woken up and attacked. And with Naruto already tied up the battle was over, at least for now.

Naruto looked at the ninja before decided to speak seeing as they had not tried to talk their way out of this yet. "Miss Ninja why must we remain tied up?"

"You were sneaking into my Country, and it is my job to find anyone that does this and bring them to my Village to meet with my leader." The Ninja said looking over at Naruto.

"Well we had our reasons; my adopted daughter is Hyuuga after all. And after the incident with the leaf village and your village a few years ago we decided to hide it and avoid the ports when possible." Naruto said using half truths to try and get herself and Hinata out of this situation.

"And why should I believe you? For all I know you are Leaf Village spies, bad ones at that," The Ninja said looking at Naruto.

"You don't but you don't have any proof either that I am lying to you," Naruto said staring the ninja down.

"I don't need proof I just need to drop you off then get back to my post," The ninja said.

Naruto sighed inwardly before she remembered her other trump card, Kyuubi. Hiding the smirk quickly, "Fine but if you keep us tied up, I cannot guaranty you will get there unharmed."

"My dear lady you are in no place to make any threats," The ninja said rolling her eyes at this.

"Well that is where you have two things wrong," Naruto said her hair cover her eyes as they turned red.

"Really point them out to me," the ninja said raising her eye brow in slight confusion.

"The first is I am not a Lady. The second one is I can make threats as you don't know anything about me," Naruto said as without warning a blast of charka was sent out from Naruto. The female ninja not prepared for it was blasted backwards just enough to be knocked off balance, why Hinata since she was sitting currently was knocked over onto her side. The ropes that had been holding Naruto were burnt off as she changed back to his male form. In a blink of an eye he reappeared and sent the other ninja flying away with a quick kick. He then moved over to Hinata and released her form the ropes that held her.

"Thanks Naruto let's," Hinata started to say then yelled out, "Duck Naruto!"

Naruto did not even look as he ducked down barely avoiding several Kunai that flew over him. Jumping away he spun around and faced their attacker drawing out a kunai as he moved. The female landed in front of them looking both annoyed and surprised, as she spoke.

"Well you are Naruto Uzumaki that means, and also the holder of Kyuubi," The Ninja said. Naruto looked over at Hinata but noticed she did not show any surprise. He filed this away for later as he turned his attention back toward the ninja in front of them.

"Yes that is me now leave before I decided to unless the full fury of Kyuubi against you," Naruto said smirking Kyuubi's charka flowing around him slowly like a cloud.

"Considering you barely have any training and cannot control even one full tail of power I am not worried when I can control two tails worth of power," The ninja said as blackish blue charka surrounded the enemy ninja, "Now let me introduce myself. Yugito Nii holder of Nibi."

Naruto blinked sliding a little out of his stance, "Really now. This would be interesting to see how this fight ended, though it will probably end the same as it did with one tail holder."

Yugito growled, "I am a lot stronger than that sand user. Now stand down or I will be forced to put you down."

Naruto growled, "Trust me it is not going to be us who lose here. You are out of your league, as we have more people and skills than you do."

"Kid I am a Jonin for a reason, I can handle you two Genin brats," Yugito said only to fall face forward onto the ground as Hinata landed a surprise hit on her neck. Naruto blinked in surprise till he realize thanks to Yugito and Naruto focusing all their attention on each other, Hinata had been able to replace herself with an old log behind Yugito and knock her out.

"Why thank you Hinata-san," Naruto said with a smile as he pulled out some wire reinforced with charka. Carefully he tied Yugito up as to make sure that she would not escape and cause them problems later. Then as he put the wire away he noticed some papers in his pack. "Hello what are you."

He pulled them out noticed about six of them were seals with the same design on the. The other was a scroll with nothing written on it. Shrugging he opened up the scroll, it was a letter. Noticing it was from Jiraiya he decided to read it.

'Dear Naruto.

It is me Jiraiya. I figured I would leave you some of these seals just in case you ever needed to forcefully control Kyuubi. I know you trust him, but this is just in case. These seals are demon contentment seals, which work in combination with your own seal. They should also work on other tailed beasts that are sealed, or they should. I have not been able to test them yet.

They should be able to draw you even out of a demon cloak state though you have yet to see it. I was going to give you these in person but you are out on that protection detail so I will just leave this letter and some seals. When you get back look me up, I might have found some more help with your art fighting style.

The Great Sage Jiraiya.'

Naruto rolled his eyes before he looked at the Seal tags. They were simple tags to be honest by the look of them. Carefully he pocketed them before he turned back to Yugito smirking since they were now fully in control of this situation, or at least had a better chance to remain in control with these seals.

Hinata then asked, "What did you find?"

"It was a letter and some seals the Jiraiya left me to deal with demons. By the way how come you were not surprised about Kyuubi?" Naruto asked.

Hinata looked away, "My dad told me a long time ago. Since everyone in our clan can see charka, I saw your red charka one day and asked about it. He had to tell more or else it would have ended badly for my clan or you. I would have told you before now, but… I was told if I told you I would be killed for breaking a law."

Naruto blinked at this he had forgotten it was a law to not speak of Kyuubi to anyone of his generation. "Fair point."

"Yes sorry about not telling you," Hinata said.

"No worries," Naruto said before making some clones, "Well let's get going before she wakes up. Is she going to wake up?"

Hinata nodded, "Yes, I did not kill her. But she should be out for an hour or two."

Naruto nodded, "Okay follow me and keep an eye open please. Just in case she called for backup before we left."

Hinata nodded and soon they were on their way again, heading in a different direction away from the Village hidden in the clouds. As they traveled Naruto noticed that Yugito was slowly coming to and as they reached the other some large mountain that surrounded the Village hidden in the Clouds. Passing long side of them they made their way towards the northing end of the Land of Lighting.

Looking around Yugito realized at once where she was and unfortunately for her while they were not far away from the village yet they were going to be soon. Growling she tried to break the wires binding her but found they were too tight and tuff to be broken so easily. Sighing she looked down at and noticed to copies of the ninja she had faced down, Naruto, below her carrying her along. Realizing these two where clones she noticed Naruto and the other girl walking. Soon they came to a stop as the sun reached high noon.

"So now that your free and have gone this far, now what?" she asked looking from one to the other.

"We are not sure yet," Naruto answered honestly.

Yugito sighed, "Great I am going to be stuck here even longer then. By the way since I know you are ninja now. Care telling me why you are both why you are heading away from my village or not towards back to your own village."

"Well I got myself banished and Hinata decided to quit and travel with me, seeing as she is a Hyuuga her family would chase her down we decided to cut through here since any other route bring us to close to land that the Leaf Village can use or have alliances with, on our way to the Land of Snow." Naruto said explaining. "The disguises were because we rather not risk being caught after what happened a few years ago."

Yugito nodded thinking about what he said, while he had no reason to lie to her. He had no reason to tell her the truth now either. Looking at him again she spoke, "Fine say I believe you. Would you let me go then so I could return to my job?"

"If we knew it was not a risk to let you go then yes, as it is. Well let's just say you better get used to us for now." Naruto said as he pulled out a map book and studied it.

"And when will you release me then?" Yugito asked with a slight growl.

"When we have reach the Land of Snow, at which time you will be free to leave, if you are not already considered a rogue ninja for leaving your post by then." Naruto said sighing slightly; he hated this type of situation where no matter what he did it would not end. But in this case he knew what he had to do, after all if it was him and Hinata or Yugito. He was going to take the option that made it safe for Hinata and himself.

Yugito growled and glared at him flaring her demon's charka only to feel suddenly weak. She gasped and leaned forward noticing Naruto pulling a piece of paper of her head and pocketing it. Growling weakly panting she glared at him, "What did you just do to me?"

"I put demon contentment seal on you for a few moments. As you can tell it is rather affective at it job," Naruto said picking up the book again.

Yugito glared at him as she tried to pull on her demons charka or even speak to her. But the normal connection was broken and she found doing either was impossible. Sighing she leaned back against a stone by her and stared up at the sky. Her day had just gone from bad to worse, "Fine so I am now weakened and unable to do anything to threaten you. Please let me go?"

"Sorry I cannot do that till we are safely away from your village," Naruto said sighing, "Trust me I do not like keeping people captive. But I am not going to risk Hinata's and my own future right now with you around."

Yugito just nodded, "Fine I guess I should be ready to receive my noticed that I have been placed in the bingo book then?"

"That or figure out a way to confirm you are or were taken captive by someone. You did inform someone you were going to be following us right?" Hinata asked as she came over her eyes to activate as she looked at Yugito.

"Well yes of course, then just tell them that we got wind of you and bolted. Feeling a sense of dread you followed us closely as you could but could not caught us. Or you could just tell them the truth." Hinata said.

Yugito sighed as it was true maybe she was worrying a little too much, maybe. Soon Naruto decided on the route and told Hinata what was likely their best choice. She looked at it and nodded in agreement. Before Naruto stepped back and summoned some horses, but to Yugito they looked like something out of a myth with their tail and mane made of fire. It was like she was looking at Hell's horse, but their bodies were pure white. Naruto climbed onto one of the four horses while the clones help Yugito onto another. Hinata got on one as well and soon they were off at a slow run moving northwest away for the village.

Yugito looked back as they road along at would probably be the last good glance of where her village was as a ninja of it. She knew that this line of thinking was hopefully not true, but still she could feel that she was not going to be seeing it again anytime soon as a ninja of it. Looking at the clone sitting behind her she sighed.

Later that night as they camp Naruto carefully set a bed up for her so she could be as comfortable as possible. As he sat down by the fire to take the first watch she spoke up, "You are different then the rumors and reports we have heard about you Naruto."

Naruto looked over at her and smiled a little bit. "I would believe that. Before the Chuunin exams a few weeks ago I was rather the hyper active ninja."

"If I remember correctly you were wearing an orange jumpsuit at least in the first report," Yugito said.

Much to her surprise Naruto chuckled, "yeah that is true. But I was forced to get rid of it after Kyuubi started training me."

"Kyuubi trained you? What about the Kakashi who was said to be training you, and why would the Hokage allow it?" Yugito said more than a slight bit surprised.

"The Hokage did not know of it, and my Jonin sensei is… was lacking. Also Kyuubi only really trained me for about a few days. The rest of what I know I have learned mostly by myself," Naruto said looking at the fire.

"You are self taught and still this strong," Yugito said mostly to herself.

"Yep, I almost had a good Sensei. But because of my banishment I will not be able to train under him. Before you ask it was going to be Jiraiya of the Sannin," Naruto said leaning back looking up towards the sky.

Yugito blinked this time in complete shock and surprise, "How did you earn something like that?"

"To be honest no clue really." Naruto said after a few moments of thought, "Anyway what about you?"

"What about me?" Yugito asked.

"What was your life like, who trained you," Naruto asked, "Since you seem to know a lot about my own life."

Yugito fell quiet at this; it was true there were not a lot of people who had not heard about Naruto thanks to his helping of the Wave Nation. Though fewer had actually gone in depth about his past life and why he was like that. She had been one of the few from her village to actually do it seeing as the report and rumors featured him having the powers of a tailed beast.

"So do I get to hear some?" Naruto asked looking at her.

"Not… not tonight. I think I will catch some sleep then we can talk tomorrow," Yugito said and was soon out like a light.

Naruto shrugged and summoned some clones and was soon asleep himself. They had made it through another day by luck. As they slept a large shape came into being before looking down at the group. It watched them for a few moments before disappeared again as if it had never been there. The only proof that it had been there were four large foot prints that sank a foot or so into the ground.

( Howdy Espo here.

I would like to let you know i plan on taking a three or four week break after i update my this story was updated. During this break i will be going through all my storys and proofing them from chapter one till now. A total of will be around 115 chapters.

Some stories will be possibly rewritten. This will not be one of them.

Also as to answer peoples questions on some things i have been asked.

1. I now have a beta.

2. Pairings have been decided. It will not be Hinata and Naruto if you are asking, and no for those that hate Hinata i am NOT killing her off.

3. As people have asked on and off i will explain Kakashi. He does not want to teach the team, never has he only said what he did to Guy to avoid losing face infront of his old friend. Trust me it will come to bite him in the butt later.

Well if you can think of any other question please ask them. Also please review and comment

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