AN: Hey…

Disclaimer: Every time I need to write this I cry imaginary tears of guilt, because every week I see Naruto diminish, but never the less. I do not own Naruto… or is it Sasuke now? Meh might as well be.

'Our paths may change as we go along, but know that I will always be there for you my sister' – anonymous

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Chapter 3: The decisions we make

After his meeting with Hiruzen Sarutobi it was safe to say that Naruto was not in a good mood at all, apparently Yohei did not get this feeling from him though and decided to start up a conversation "So, that went well huh?"

Naruto looked back at the amused shinobi and glared a little at him "Shut up, Yohei." And with that he continued his walk in silence.

Yohei looked toward Hikari and decided to start up a conversation with him instead "Sooo… what do you think of all this then?"

Hikari had a thoughtful look at that question and pondered it for a moment "Well Yohei-san, I'd say that if Konoha would so choose to keep our kin here there would not be much that we could do because of our clans weakened state." He paused there to think about the situation a bit more "But of course Rida-sama will not let it rest there since she has never agreed with Miroko-sama giving Konoha her daughter."

Now it was time for Yohei to look thoughtful "Hey you think we should give Naruto some time alone with his sister? We could go hang out at that Dango shop from earlier"

Hikari looked into Yohei's hopeful eyes with some amusement and nodded in agreement "I think that would be most wise Yohei-san, but you should address Naruto-sama in a more respectable way in the future"

Yohei scoffed at that "What? Nah man there is no need for that, me and him go way back… like two days back" And to prove his point he walked up to Naruto and slung his arm around his neck "Tell him Naruto"

Naruto looked at Yohei in a bit of confusion, he had not been paying attention to their conversation in the least "Huh… what you talking about?"

Yohei face faulted at that, but Hikari was not affected in the least and smiled at Naruto "He was just asking if it would be alright with you if we were to go to that Dango shop that Yohei-san was talking about earlier, Naruto-sama"

Naruto was a little caught up in Hikari's pale blue eyes that seemed to be shining with amusement and yet kept its dull blue color, but quickly recovered "O, yeah… yeah you two can go. I'll find you if I need you."

When Yohei heard those words leave Naruto's mouth he completely forgot about how he had been ignored and jumped up with a fist pump shouting "Yes, Comrade you are such a great team leader!"

Hikari could not keep in his amusement at seeing Naruto's shocked expression when Yohei had suddenly sprung up behind him and shouted in his ear, and let out a low chuckle "Kukuku yes, well then we will be seeing you Naruto-sama"

Naruto watched his temporary teammates leave and then decided to sprint to the Uzumaki Temple that his sister was staying at in order to get there as quickly as possible.

Hokage office

As soon as Hiruzen had come to the conclusion that he would need help on what course of action to take, he had called for his advisors immediately. Now he was looking at his old teammates and former friends, he knew that the only one that would actually stand by him if he were to keep those Uzumaki here would be Danzo. He would also be the only one able to ensure their loyalty after that with his 'special' kind of training, but that loyalty would also only go toward Danzo and Konoha then, and not him. His former teammates would probably have other ideas but he needed to know what they thought on this matter before he could make a decision. Hiruzen cleared his throat in order to make sure that he had their uninterrupted attention. "You have heard about the Uzumaki surviving the invasion I assume…" at three collective nods he continued "When I informed their young heir that we could not let their clan members go because they were now apart of Konoha he gave me an ultimatum."

Danzo slightly narrowed his eyes at those words "He dares to make a threat against Konoha?"

Hiruzen lit his pipe and took a long drag from it, before slowly exhaling "He says it is only the truth."

Homura decided to make his thoughts known at that moment "Has he said that we will be considered traitors to the Uzumaki?"

Hiruzen looked at his old teammate for a moment "Yes, Homura-san…"

"Did either Miroko or Rida survive the invasion?" This time it was Koharu who had spoken up. Looking at her, Hiruzen could clearly see that she was in deep thought

He sighed "It was confirmed by young Naruto that Rida did survive and because he said that he would be reporting back to her I believe that Miroko is either dead or he is badly wounded"

Danzo had had enough of jumping around the topic at hand by now and decided to bring them back on track "We cannot allow them to leave Hiruzen. We worked too hard to get those Uzumaki here, there is no way that we can just allow them to walk out of here… and besides they are weakened now."

Hiruzen nodded at that "My thoughts exactly, Danzo. However we must not forget that we are also currently in a world war, even if three of the five great nations have been weakened."

Homura nodded in agreement "And if anything were to happen to the Uzumaki heir within our villages borders then no matter how weakened the Uzumaki are they will retaliate."

"If we can not have them all then we must at least get some of them"

Everyone in the room turned toward Danzo who had been the one to utter those words. It was Hiruzen however that asked "How do you propose we do that?"

Danzo let a rare smirk tug at the edges of his lips "We handle it like we handle all our off the books operations" at the Hokage's understanding look he continued "Just give me the word and I will send my men out to intercept and abduct at least three Uzumaki girls"

Hiruzen took another long drag from his pipe, slowly exhaled and then put it out. He looked long and hard at Danzo while he put his pipe in the drawer under his desk and put his elbows on the desk while folding his hands in front of his face. "Danzo, if I give you this order you need to know that if you were to fail and Konoha is connected to it somehow. I will throw your ass in the line of fire"

Danzo stared back at his Hokage with an equally intense stare "I understand" 'I can not let my deal with Hiashi fall through because of this'

"Then you have your orders, Danzo" When his advisors stood up and bowed to leave, Hiruzen could not help but give a little smile. 'Danzo… you think I'm playing into your hand but you have no idea that my hand is so far up your ass that I'm moving your mouth'

Uzumaki temple in Konoha

When Naruto arrived at the shrine he was ecstatic to see his little sister again, but as his hand neared the door to knock he felt unsure of himself. 'What if she hates me for letting them take her' He remembered that day like it was yesterday and he thought about it almost everyday. How she had screamed at him to not let them take her away, the pleading look in her eyes and when he just stood there with tears in his eyes, the betrayed look she had given him; the brother that had promised to protect her. He did not know how he would make her forgive him but what he knew was that he had to try somehow, and with his nerves in order he knocked. There was no answer so he knocked again. When there was no answer yet again, his heart fell but he quickly convinced himself that she was not there and so decided to look for her at another place. Just as he turned around and started to walk away the door to the shrine creaked open, and when he turned around a little girl at around six years old was peaking out of the door with purple eyes that were looking curiously at him.

When she stepped out of the shrine he took a look at her. The little girl had a round face that was framed by her fiery red hair. She was wearing a sleeveless kimono-style blouse that was yellow in colour and held closed with a green obi over a short-sleeved mesh shirt with a pair of dark blue shorts and brown shinobi sandals and now that Naruto was looking at her eyes again he could see that she had obviously been crying for some reason. Naruto tried to say something but nothing came to mind and she just kept on looking him over, as if she could not believe that it was him. "Sis…"

She looked surprised when he said that and took an involuntary step back, but then her eyes filled with hope. "Brother?"

Even her voice sounded hopeful, had she been this alone all this time? "Yes Kushina-chan… it's me" he lowered himself onto his knees and opened his arms to give her a hug.

He did not even have time to settle on his knees when a yellow blur crashed into him and knocked him over onto his back. "Brother… they said you were dead!"

He looked down at his crying little sister and rubbed her back. "It's ok sis… I'm fine, yeah?"

She slowly rose her head up from his chest and looked at him with tear stricken eyes and giggled a little at his verbal tick "Yeah…"

Naruto gave his little sister a big smile "So red… wana get something to eat?"

At that Kushina's eyes lit up in delight and she gave him a bright smile too "Yes, I have the perfect place!" and with that she jumped up and started dragging him to the place she was talking about.

Naruto just laughed as his little sister dragged him along and all the while he had a huge smile on his face 'I'm so glad she does not hate me'

Outside a small stand

Naruto looked at the small stand that Kushina had dragged him to with skeptical eyes "You sure this place has this 'food of Kami', red?"

Kushina looked at her brother with wide eyes of shock "How dare you doubt this holy place, brother!" then she huffed and stormed in.

Naruto just looked at his sister in amusement and read the sign "Ichiraku's Ramen, hey? Hmm… couldn't be that bad" he shrugged and then walked into the stand just in time to hear his sister order.

Kushina was standing on a stool talking to a young woman with brown hair; she was also wearing a uniform so she must have worked there "Can you give me and my brother two large salt ramen, please"

The women nodded and then went into the back of the stand, probably to prepare the order. Naruto sat next to his sister who was now also sitting down and waited for their order. Kushina seemed to get impatient as she started taping on the counter with her chopsticks, but then she looked at him and spoke with a little hesitation "Hey brother…"

Naruto looked down at his little sister "Yeah?"

"Can I go home with you now? … they… they put this seal on me to seal this supposed monster in me and… and aunt Mito said that I need love to conquer the hatred that it would bring to me"

Naruto's eyes softened and he frowned a little. He turned toward her and put his hand on her shoulders "Red… you know I love you right?" at her nod he continued "And you know I'd do anything for you right?" again she nodded "I want you to know that I can't bring you home yet…" At that however she lowered her head and her eyes started to water a bit, so he slowly lifted her head up with his hand by her chin so that she could look him in the eyes and see that he meant these next words "But I want you to know sis… I might not be able to do it now but someday… someday I will be bringing you home." He smiled a little at her.

Kushina gained a small smile at that "Hey brother…"

"Yes?"

"Do you miss me?"

Naruto smiled brighter at that and picked her out of her stool and gave her a big hug "Of course sis!"

Kushina laughed and hugged him back "Thanks for coming to see me brother!"

At that moment a young man with narrow eyes, black hair and a white chef uniform came out of the back and smiled "Kushina-chan it is so nice to see you here again! O… and who is this with you?"

Kushina smiled brightly at the man "Teuchi-san! This is my brother, Naruto Uzumaki"

Teuchi smiled at Naruto and bowed "Ahh… nice to finally meet some of Kushina-chan's family"

Naruto bowed his head in return "Nice to meet you too Teuchi-san"

And just then the same women from before came back out with two big bowls of ramen and Teuchi gestured toward her "And this, Naruto-san, is my lovely wife, Sesana."

The women smiled sweetly toward him and put the ramen down before them "There you go Kushina-chan, nice and warm for you"

"Thanks Sesana-san!"

Naruto smiled back at the women and her husband "Thank you" and then they both ate their meal.

Outside the Uzumaki shrine

Naruto walked toward the Uzumaki shrine happily talking with his sister, and said girl was currently seated on his shoulder with a bright smile on her face. Naruto had enjoyed his time with his sister and he knew that he would miss her once he left. Kushina jumped down from his shoulder once they reached the door and looked at him with almost sad eyes. He crouched down to look her level in the eye "Hey… I promise that I'll come to get you when I can, yeah?"

She smiled at him and then asked a question that she had wanted to ask all day "Hey brother… do mother and father miss me too?"

Naruto felt a pang in his chest when he realized that Kushina thought his father had also survived the invasion, it was only natural that she would think so since their father had been so much stronger than him "Mother misses you greatly, Red…"

Kushina smiled a little but then it dropped when he did not continue to say that their father missed her too "And… and father?"

Naruto swallowed thickly "He… didn't make it…"

At that Kushina went still before looking down "O…"

Naruto frowned at his sister's sad demeanor and decided to bring up a happier topic "Hey… so what was that about the academy that you were talking about earlier?"

Kushina perked up at that "Old man Hokage said that my body would be more accustomed to the seal next week so I can finally start my ninja training again!"

Naruto smiled at how quickly her mood did a 180 "Haha… just make sure that you get strong, yeah? I don't want to come back and find out that my little sister is still a little wimp!"

Kushina glared at her brother and went red from her rage "Hey! I am not a little wimp!"

Naruto laughed and ruffled her hair "Sure thing, Red"

She just huffed at him and turned her head away with a pout. Naruto looked at her with a little smile on his face "Hey, Red…" she glanced at him from the corner of her eye, clearly interested in what he had to say "I brought a gift for you… but since you're mad at me and all, I don't know if I should even give it to you"

Naruto had to laugh when her eyes widened comically and she frantically waved her hands in front of her "What do you mean not give it to me! You should give it to me to make it up to me!"

Naruto chuckled some more before he tried to calm her down "Hey now, don't worry I'll give it to you" he pulled out a scroll from his back pouch and handed it to her "Go ahead… open it"

Kushina did just that, opening the scroll and putting a little bit of chakra in it. Out of it came a blood red katana, two longer than average kunai that were blacker than usual and did not seem to reflect sunlight. Then she saw two scrolls popping out too "What are those?"

Naruto decided to explain what all the gifts were "The katana is from mother, the daggers are from me – they are chakra conductive with strengthening seals on them, the scrolls are for kenjutsu and advanced sealing art"

Kushina smiled at her brother and then jumped to hug him "Thanks a lot brother! And tell mom I said thanks too"

Naruto hugged her back "It's my pleasure sis and I'll tell her"

Kushina stepped back from her brother and re-sealed the items before looking at him with sad eyes yet again "I guess you have to go now right?"

Naruto gave her a sad smile "I'll be back really soon, just make sure you stay safe, yeah?"

Kushina gave him a foxy smirk "Just you wait… when you come back again I'll kick your butt brother!"

Naruto chuckled and ruffled her hair "I'll be proud of you no matter what, sis" he gave her one final hug and then watched her walk into the shrine until she gave him one final wave and then closed the door "No matter what Red… I'll get you out of here one day." And with that he walked back towards Konoha's main gate, prepared for whatever outcome.

Konoha: main gate

Naruto had decided to just shunshin to the gate after his stroll took too long. When he arrived and saw all the children from his clan running around and playing games he had to smile at the site.

When Hiruzen saw Naruto appear in front of him with his back turned he could not resist the smile spreading across his face 'So inexperienced' "Naruto-kun… I do hope you had a wonderful time with your sister"

Naruto jumped a little in surprise and quickly turned around to stare into the smiling face of the Hokage "Ahh… Hokage-sama I see you have come to your senses"

Hiruzen's smile widened at his statement "Of course… our alliance is too important to break after all"

Naruto could not believe how nice this man came across. This was exactly the reason why he did not trust people who came off as too nice "Yeah…"

Just when he thought he would have to continue his conversation with the Hokage he was saved by Yohei who came swaggering up to him "Yo comrade! We've been waiting a long time for you man." He slung his arm around Naruto's shoulder "Sorry Hokage-sama… but it looks like it's time to go."

Hiruzen caught the little disrespecting tone in Yohei's voice but he had years of experience in crafting his mask and did not even skip a beat in replying to that statement "Yes, of course… you all must have much to do back in Uzushiogakure"

Naruto looked at the Hokage with narrowed eyes before nodding and turning around, Yohei followed him. Once they were out of earshot he decided to ask Yohei something "Hey, Yohei, is everyone here?"

Yohei nodded "Yip. Megume-chan said everyone is accounted for"

Naruto nodded in satisfaction "Good then it's time to head home, yeah?"

"Wow man that is just amazing, hey? You just stole the words out of my mouth! Well without the whole 'yeah?' thing you got going on…" Yohei was about to continue but when he turned his head to talk to Naruto he was already running out of Konoha. He shrugged and then followed the team leader.

Somewhere around the same place they camped before

Naruto was quickly reminded that they had children in their group and that he had to slow down so that they could travel at a comfortable rate. Ever since they had been traveling at a slow pace and it had been a boring trip for him. He suddenly heard someone come up next to him and looked around to see who it was and came face to face with a smiling Hikari.

"Naruto-sama… we think it's time we stopped for the night and set up camp so that the little ones may rest."

Naruto had a thoughtful expression at that and after a moment of thought he finally responded to Hikari "Yeah there is a clearing up front, we can camp there for the night." With that he sped up in order to go scout said clearing in order to make sure there were no nasty surprises for them.

When Hikari saw him speed up ahead he slowed his own pace down in order to fall back and let the other adult shinobi know where they planned to camp for the night.

Much later at an ungodly hour to wake up

The sky above was colored in the color of the blackest steel one could find and the only thing disturbing the almost pure black color were the few grey clouds scattered across it. In a clearing on the outskirts of The Land of Fire a group of ninja were camped for the night in order to give their young charges enough time to rest for their journey back home. One particular shinobi though had decided that he needed to rest too and so left three people up to take watch while the others slept and of course he was one of those lucky shinobi to sleep. Currently our hero was having a peaceful sleep with a pleasant dream. He could not understand however why he was suddenly feeling earth quacks in his dream… and was that Yohei's voice he could faintly hear? Why would he be dreaming about that idiot?

"…ruto!" a little bit of consciousness came to Naruto and he realized that he was not dreaming about the idiot but that he was actually being woken up from his sleep. Rage quickly filled Naruto when that thought solidified in his head and he jumped up on his feet and grabbed the offending person by the throat. "Why the fuc…" Naruto could not finish his threat because he suddenly heard a loud boom coming from his right and looking toward the direction he could see that flames and rocks were trying to break the barrier that they had put around them. Naruto looked at Yohei who had ripped himself from his grip in the meantime and was looking at him with glaring eyes. "Who the fuck is attacking us, Yohei?"

"We don't know man. They got these weird black robes on with completely white masks. They don't seem to be Konoha ninja but we can not rule it out."

Naruto nodded and his eyes narrowed for a bit before he lost any and all emotion and gained an impassive look "Have you secured the children in an extra barrier?" when Yohei nodded and took off toward the site of the newest explosion he took deep breaths to calm his nerves 'Mother fuckers are gonna pay for waking me up at this ungodly hour'

When he finished his calming ritual he heard a loud noise that sounded like glass breaking. He cursed his bad luck and sprinted to the place he saw the latest explosion all the while folding his chakra over and over just under his skin, ready to unleash it at any moment an enemy came into view. He also felt the new sensation of his bloodline giving him this little itch in his lower back, as if it was asking to be let loose and for some reason he loved that feeling.

As Naruto ran through the tree tops he could feel the chakra flooding the surrounding area from every shinobi in battle and the killing intent that was being mixed in with it was almost intoxicating. Naruto had to let his own killing intent leak out in order to nullify the effect that it had on him in order to keep his focus. As soon as he did this he caught a glimpse of a small white object moving past him in the crook of his eye and he rapidly spun around and dashed in the direction he had seen it move. He did not go far however as he was blown away by a ball of mud that sent him careening through three trees, it would have broken his back had he not been reinforcing his body with chakra before-hand. He knew however that he did not have the luxury of time to recover from that attack and forced his already aching body to do a flip in mid air to position him so that he would be able to jump off the next tree he was suppose to crash through.

When he jumped onto a new tree branch he immediately had to dodge a volley of kunai and shuriken. Those he could not dodge had to be hastily parried or risk further injury, however when he thought he was in the clear he was completely caught off guard when explosions ripped the forest behind him to pieces and he was sent flying to his attacker. Naruto looked on in horror as his attacker leapt toward him with his sword drawn and preparing to slash at him, and his life flashed before his eyes. He thought that he would die in this battle but he quickly stopped that thought process in order to focus on molding chakra, just as his enemy was about to bring his sword down on his head chains with kunai tips exploded from his back and impaled the man before him in the head.

Naruto stumbled into the now dead man and continued to fall toward the ground with a loud thump. He groaned when the fall put more pressure on his back. 'Mother fucker who the fuck are these guys? He almost broke my damn back before the fight even begun!' He stood up and looked down at his dead enemy for a moment before kicking him one more time in the face "You won't be mes…" Suddenly a loud boom went off behind him and when he spun around to look at the direction it came from his eyes widened in fear.

"No…" Another boom echoed throughout the forest but this time the sound of glass breaking accompanied it and he could also see the barrier break that the children were in because of the fire lighting up the night sky. Naruto flared his chakra and sped off in that direction with fury in his eyes 'Damn you Hiruzen!'

Barrier that the children were in: few minutes ago

Yohei dodged the slash of one of the enemies and quickly went through hand seals for a technique "Water Style: Water Bullet!" He immediately let the technique loose at point blank range and the high-pressured water bullet tore through the shinobi in front of him, spraying blood in every direction that it could. Yohei fell to a knee clutching his side where a large gash could be seen, this momentary lapse cost him however as a fireball was sent his way. He tried to jump out of the way but he soon realized that he would not make it out of the way and started to look for another way out, this proved to be fruitless as there was none so he just braced himself for the impact. The only impact that came however was him hitting the ground, hard. He looked around in confusion but quickly saw what saved him, it was an earth wall. He silently thanked Hikari and then unsheathed his twin katana while he had the chance, the enemy had had him on the ropes from the beginning and did not even give him a chance to do this. As he turned around and charged at the closest enemy he could sense he charged his katana with his wind chakra and did an x-shaped slice at him, two arcs of wind escaped his katana and sped toward the enemy. The shinobi turned around as he felt someone's chakra flare for a moment at his left, when he saw the x-shaped arcs racing toward him he calmly raised his hand into one seal and then sunk into the ground.

Yohei was not to be disheartened however and did the same attack on the ground until his enemy jumped out of it. When the shinobi did this however he let loose a massive mud ball at Yohei, Yohei's eyes widened temporarily but quickly composed himself and sent countless arcs of air at the mud ball, slicing it into multiple small pieces and letting it fall harmless on the ground. The enemy shinobi did not seem to care about this and when he landed, just sprinted toward Yohei while unsheathing his short-sword. Yohei had his attention on the multiple mud pieces that were falling and he almost missed his enemy when he tried to decapitate him, but he did see him and just managed to duck in order to save his head.

Just as Yohei was about to slash at his opponent he saw him fall limp and his head fell in front of him. Yohei looked at the new chakra signature in his vicinity with annoyance "You know, Hikari-san, I appreciated the first time but I had this"

Hikari looked at Yohei for a moment and then smiled "Ahh… sorry Yohei-san, I just saw you struggling a bit and decided to help"

Yohei was about to reply but then he felt a huge chakra buildup to his left, his head snapped in that direction at the same time as Hikari's "What the fuck is that?"

His question was soon answered as a gigantic boulder that was lit on fire crashed into the barrier that was protecting the children. Hikari lost his emotionless mask and his eyes widened in realization and fear "No! They want the children!"

Yohei's eyes widened as well and then new adrenaline pumped through his veins as pure hatred was visible in his eyes. He sprinted in the direction where the chakra had yet again begun to build up, his injuries completely forgotten in order to save his kin. Hikari was more composed than Yohei but anyone that knew him well enough would know that he was furious at this moment by his narrowed eyes, his chakra flared before he dashed in the same direction as Yohei.

Yohei could not believe the nerve of these shinobi. How dare they try to kidnap the children of the Uzumaki and think that they would get away with it in any way possible? He sheathed his twin katana and flared his chakra while running through hand seals. When he was in mid jump to the next tree he braced himself while letting loose the technique he had been building his chakra for "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" Normally this would have been a low level technique but with the amount of chakra that he put into the move it was no surprise when wind exploded from Yohei's hands and completely ripped the forest in front of him to pieces.

The technique continued on its path of destruction, almost like it was a tornado in its own right, it was too slow to reach the enemy however as the same attack hit the barrier, this time however completely shattering it and continuing on its path of destruction. When Yohei saw that, he slightly faltered in his sprint, but then he remembered that they want the children so they are probably safe. Now that the barrier had been shattered however he had a bad feeling and pushed his body even further to reach those scum in time. In the back of his mind he knew that he would be in a world of pain if he survived this.

With Naruto

Naruto came skidding into the recently created clearing, by some wind jutsu he presumed, and stabbed an unsuspecting enemy nin in the back of the head. Eyes still blazing with fury he spun around while going through hand seals and released a massive amount of chakra "Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Murder" The same thing happened as with Yohei's low-level technique.

The sheer amount of chakra that was pumped into the attack exponentially increased the damage that it would do because when the electricity rushed out of his hands it was so charged that it almost turned white. The speed of the attack caught three enemy nin off guard and it disintegrated them on contact. In his rage induced state a shinobi by passed his senses and rushed in to slash him in the side before quickly retreating when Naruto tried to stab him with a kunai. Naruto glared at the shinobi that had slashed his side and sent six chains hurling in his direction at break-neck speed. The chains did not make it to their target however as a rock knocked them all off target. Naruto immediately dashed to the shinobi who had used that attack because that had to be the one who broke the barrier, just as he was about to engage the enemy however they seemed to all retreat into the surviving forest. Naruto wanted to run after them and destroy each and every one but he had to make sure that the children were alright and so he dashed in that direction.

As Naruto neared the place where he could see the children all huddled into a circle, crying, he slowed down and surveyed the surroundings. The first thing he noticed was that the area surrounding the children was destroyed, one would not guess that this had been a forest clearing not too long ago, the second was that six of the adult shinobi that had been protecting the children were here. They were all beaten up and in bad shape, what he did notice was that there was no medic healing them. "Where is the medic?!" He winced when the wound on his side acted up.

Hikari pulled himself up from the ground while holding his side as well "I am afraid he died Naruto-sama"

Naruto fell to his knees as his back could no longer support him and winced further as that action aggravated his wound even further "Damnit… what now"

Yohei spit a bit of blood out as he leaned against a tree and chuckled a bit "We will have to tough it out this time Naruto"

Naruto knew that he was right about that but he knew they could not continue now "Fine, we will rest for a bit and then move on. Create three of your strongest barriers around us Ookami-san."

An older looking shinobi grunted in acknowledgement and limped to do his job. The rest of them unsealed what medical equipment they had with them and started tending to their wounds. Naruto hated to admit it but this time he lost, and he lost bad.

AN: Updated: December 2.

Also I feel kinda bad for not thanking the guy who put my story in his community… thanks man. And the power levels are as follow:

Naruto: High A-rank

Yohei: Mid A-rank

Hikari: High A-rank

Rida: High S-rank

Nasha: High A-rank

thank you to the people who follow and favorite this story I really appreciate it. And to those who take the extra time to review I appreciate your input on this story

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