Don't look back, Uzumaki

by Tofuman41

The discovery of Nagato's Rinnegan by Jiraiya finally causes Tsunade to take a more active role in the Shinobi world, both are forced to call an old friend for a favor, a favor to take Genin Uzumaki Naruto into hiding at his Academy for Yokai. everywhere Naruto will go, trouble will follow just behind him, now with an Anxious Human, a Possessive Yuki-onna, and a Ditzy Vampire.

25. Way to Fall

Cool. Cool. I'm so so sorry it took so long, I had to learn about Arctic warfare for this, and almost died, legit but anyway that's for the end…lots of Konoha people in Yokai for now anyway. Akua's age is a little confusing, anime mentioned or implied her to be younger than Kahlua but couldn't find anything solid, my bad.

Did you know there have historically literally been zero military battles in Antarctica? That fact held up this story for like Months while I had to give myself a crash course on theoretical warfare in those conditions, and still needed to fix things.

4/ 5 I just need one more chapter to wrap all this up, sorry.

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"Konoha is gonna work me to death…"

A brown-haired man looked at the sunrise peeking over a construction site in a residential area holding a coffee mug as he calmly took a sip.

He watched some workers get ready to start creating new infrastructure for these new homes and sighed knowing this peaceful moment was about to be ruined by the sound of heavy equipment.

"Still if it wasn't for this new Caffeine stuff…I'd be on Chakra pills instead and honestly, that would kill me a lot faster…I should probably invest in this stuff before it gets big…" he mused, before tensing up, a blonde-haired woman stormed up to him and he quickly stood at attention with a salute.

"Tsunade-sama!"

"At ease, Yamato."

The man relaxed only slightly as he still saw a grave look on The Woman's face along with several Shinobis, he only recognized Genma but all of them were still shadowing their new Daiymo.

"I have a complete change of assignment for you." She quietly spoke as he took a sip of his coffee

"Of course, Tsunade-sama." Yamato repressed the urge to sigh, something Tsunade caught while she was looking at the bags under his eyes.

"A Search and rescue mission…I will be coming along with you, my honor guard, and perhaps more Shinobis will be joining us." Tsunade quickly explained folding her arms, the former Root Shinobi could only see Genma's stoic look.

"You'll have an extended vacation when you're done, I promise," Tsunade stated in a sincere tone as the man gave a slow nod

"Good…now meet me in my office by midnight and pack for an extended mission…" She softly spoke and closed her eyes, Yamato gave a hesitant nod before exiting the work site in a hurry.

Tsunade hummed for a second before something caught her attention and she quickly turned around the same path she walked down to see Hinata being escorted by several of her clansmen.

"Tsunade-sama…" She greeted her with a small smile and bow.

"Hinata…you caught me by surprise," Tsunade spoke with a frown as she looked at the rest of her escort team.

Hinata smiled.

"I suppose I did…"

She lacked her stuttering completely as her posture gave off a more confident look.

"I would like to speak to you privately…"

Tsunade could only frown, she could see it was only a thinly veiled persona but the blonde Daimyo also had a feeling she knew what this was about.

"Sai, Genma, leave us." dismissing her bodyguards.

Hinata did the same with her escort team and followed Tsunade into one of the new buildings still under construction.

"I'm no longer requesting to be on the search party for Naruto-kun." Hinata spoke in a low voice as Tsunade raised an eyebrow.

"I'm demanding to be on it." Hinata elaborated in an oddly stern tone.

Tsunade restrained the urge to show any anger and folded her arms with a scoff.

"You think you're in any place to make demands of me?" Tsunade spoke, narrowing her eyes at the new Hyuga Clan head as she shook her head.

"No, but I need to go look for Naruto-kun myself, I've lost sleep over it…you had my Clan elders killed and that did bring a great things to us and unite the branches...but I care about Naruto-kun too much and Hanabi-neechan and Neji-niisan aren't enough, I need to join them…" Hinata proclaimed, Tsunade took a sharp breath and ran such a scenario in her head.

"This girl might have some issues…." though surprisingly she still nodded.

"Okay…fine, you'll be a good aid to me, I suppose." Tsunade declared. Hinata's face brightened up and she nodded

"Yes, Tsunade-sama!"

"But…"

The Senju woman suddenly grabbed Hinata's shoulder, the new Clan head was surprised at the speed and grip.

"Don't go making demands like that again, I'm your leader, got it?" She warned, putting a little pressure on the girl's shoulder

"I-I-I understand." the Hyuga girl relented, feeling her previous confidence falter slightly.

Tsunade grinned and released her pressure

"...And I have to wonder what will you do if we discover Naruto really left of his own free will?" She alluded to Hinata blinking before a look of horror appeared on her face

"Betray the Village? of his own free will!? He would never!" She retorted through the Daiymo only folded her arms and gave her a stern stare

"Regardless, We're going to find out for ourselves, meet me in my office at midnight as well, I want a handful of your most trusted clansman with me and you will need to find your own temporary replacement," Tsunade explained

Hinata looked lost in her thoughts before giving a small nod.

"It will be done, Tsunade-sama!"

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"Kami…it's freezing…" Naruto shivered as he held a ram seal and became transparent.

Finally getting close enough he drove behind a burned-out truck, realizing what he was behind the Shinobi hummed and peeked over his little hiding spot.

"Wrecked armored Vehicles, brass is still around here…wow they really fought for this place…" Naruto's musings were cut short when he saw a single truck entering the fenced-off zone.

Naruto curiously watched from a distance as the truck was let in and soon made his way down for a closer look.

He couldn't tell how the actual building looked in detail due to the approaching snowstorm but what he could make out was more than enough.

"Now that's just strange…"

Naruto stiffened completely and nearly broke his jutsu, hearing his earpiece suddenly go off.

"Relax! Relax! I left a small camera, tracker, and microphone so I can guide you!" the Bus driver's voice came in through the earpiece again as Naruto cautiously pressed on it and clung to the snow.

"You almost gave me a heart attack…" Naruto growled before he continued to watch a human mercenary by the entrance of the fenced-off base, another thing that caught Naruto's attention was the fact the fences had so many breaches in them.

"Sorry, but anyway the Western gate is still your best bet to get in, as you can tell…they had quite the firefight…Karin is still here too."

"Hi! Remember don't over-exert yourself…I can't have you dying on me!"

Karin's voice coming through was a little bit of a surprise to Naruto but he could only frown hearing the concern dripping in her tone before quietly pressing on the earpiece

"Reassuring." He sarcastically replied before smiling slightly.

"But thanks."

Having a little bit of family actually genuinely caring about him still felt strange but it was welcomed.

Naruto waited for a few seconds before starting his approach, he quickly noticed a few spent rounds already sinking into the snow.

"High-crawl and low-crawl…" Naruto hummed, tugging himself over the snowy ground.

Naruto only found himself trying to ease his nerves.

"Hey, did you fucking see something move over there?…" the man muttered, Naruto cursed seeing another mercenary appear from a checkpoint not too far, he clung to the Snow and released his Jutsu.

Naruto placed his face on the ground, his Arctic military fatigues completely covering him as he heard his earpiece go off again

"Make your way into that office complex from the Western Gate…"

A few lights passed over his head and his breath hitched, somehow he still passed through the breach at the gate and threw himself behind a pile of pellets.

"Swear it was over here…"

Once again Naruto cursed, hearing a second guard.

"You saw that too?"

"...could be one of those Facility rats trying to make a run for it."

"Ha! In this weather? They'll freeze to death!"

Naruto finally noticed a camera not too far covering the two humans and had to repress the urge to sigh.

"This is gonna be really freaking hard…" Naruto mused before suddenly

"We'll get the IFV to check it out, I'll call it in…"

Naruto raised an eyebrow upon hearing that but still continued to crawl away from the two guards and somehow snuck past the fencing and into the actual base.

"IFV…" he tried to remember what that even stood for before his eyes widened slightly, hearing an engine's rumbling.

The Uzumaki could only frown seeing the large Armored-Vehicle with a large turret drive up the main gate with the same guards.

"Infantry Fighting Vehicle, They have some armor too…okay…Fuck…" Naruto cursed and continued to crawl around the courtyard, Eventually hiding inside an open steel container, a puff of smoke appeared next to him as a clone in the same military uniform shivered.

"Keep an eye out for me…" Naruto whispered as the Clone peeked out from the steel container while Naruto pressed on the earpiece.

"Hello? I need a little help here…" he whispered.

"...Yeah…yeah…sorry, what's up?"

Naruto grunted before peeking out with his clone and seeing the Armored Car driving back, its headlights shining on the snowy road in front of it.

"I don't have anything heavy enough to take out an IFV…" Naruto flatly got to the point and the Bus driver sighed on the other end.

"So If I were you I just wouldn't engage it…You're gonna have to find something heavier to use…or you could just try your Ninjutsu…make sure you don't get caught and don't forget that the gun mounted there can shred you in two within seconds, don't take any stupid risks."

Naruto restrained the urge to scoff before shaking his head and dispelling the clone next to him, the Uzumaki glanced back at the armored car going back into the snowy fog as he squinted his eyes, Naruto managed to make out an air hangar with a few attack-helicopters in decent conditions.

"Those aircraft things…damn it! I need to get inside before this blizzard gets started!…"

His blue eyes scanned the IFV returning back from the outer perimeter, its headlights almost illuminating the path in front of it before stopping in the middle of the road and Naruto only shook his head.

"They didn't see me…Good."

Eventually, he found the actual entrance to the facility and noticed several men standing all in different locations. Even a machine gun nest by the doors.

He could only sigh once again before looking at his transparent hands and nodding to himself

"Just don't break my jutsu…okay…" Naruto mused and continued to crawl along the now gravel road as he passed the fenced-off perimeter.

The Shinobi finally found himself near the entrance as a duo of guards stood still, looking straight ahead with their weapons, he sighed seeing the locked steel doors before shivering as the falling snow started to get heavier.

Instead, he quietly jumped on the walls, using his Chakra control to stick to the surface, and began to crawl upside.

"Hey! I found fresh tracks out here!"

Naruto stiffened, hearing a distant voice from the guards causing him to turn back and the IFV's headlights flared up again.

"Time to go!" Naruto hurried himself up to the nearest rooftop and huffed, landing himself over the ledge just as he heard an engine start up again.

The blond Shinobi scanned the small rooftop, seeing it was clear, and went for the office door. With a little bit of Chakra, a storage seal wrapped around his wrist gave out a puff of smoke.

Naruto huffed and made sure his finger was off the trigger well as a small handgun was now in his hand, the smoke cleared and he quickly checked if it was loaded.

Naruto kicked the door open with a pistol in hand and cleared the hallway with ease. His blue eyes quickly caught and fired on a security camera before cautiously taking a pause.

Without making a hand sign, he mindlessly tossed a storage scroll behind him

*poof*

Three clones appeared behind him, one catching the scroll.

"Hurry up." Naruto ordered.

The clones huffed, each pulling out weapons of their own and loading them.

"Stack on me." He whispered as his clones quickly grabbed their weapons and followed their boss's orders.

The Uzumaki kicked the door to a small office space open and once more cleared the entire area with his clones managing to cover him.

He let out a sigh of relief as the clones got organized.

"Please set up a base of operations here…and give me an advanced warning," Naruto ordered the dozen of his clones all then scattered. .

he scanned the office space, he hummed as a clone followed him with a battle rifle in hand.

"You shot the camera, they know something's up…" His clone pointed out as the real Naruto nodded, looking through each Computer.

"I know, I know…next time I'm going back to using a Kunai or something," he muttered, realizing he already made a small error.

"Don't worry about it…The Facility's Original Security guards are held up in their own sector and barricaded if my sources are right, they've got the camera room locked down too so don't worry too much about the cameras, Fairy Tale won't catch you…."

Naruto nodded hearing Nurari's voice in his earpiece and looked over at his clones, two were positioned with rifles in the hallway, and a few were in the office space all armed.

He let out a sigh of relief now knowing he could somewhat let his guard down and a green scroll appeared from his pocket.

In a puff of smoke, a few USB sticks took their place, and Naruto could only frown, going through them before remembering the correct one and pocketing it.

"Time for relaxing part of my job…" Naruto tried to joke as he picked a good desktop and took a seat.

"Take this more seriously, Naruto. the world is still at stake." Karin's voice made the blond Shinobi clear his throat, remembering what was at hand.

"I know…but I'm still taking a lunch break while we're doing this, can't go on with an empty stomach," Naruto replied, taking out a red storage scroll

Karin rolled her eyes while adjusting her glasses

"Yeah…enjoy yourself…"

His earpiece was now silent and Naruto's clones were already making instant ramen on a portable stove in a random corner.

"Hey boss! It's almost done!"

Naruto gave a thumbs up before sticking the USB stick in the computer then he sighed, pressing on his earpiece.

"…I just still suck at using a computer and you're asking me to find out if they can really fire these things?…"

"Relax kid, I'll guide you, what I really need is to know what employee has a security clearance and you'll pick up what I need from there.…"

Naruto gulped, looking at the number of programs, passwords, and security questions among a list of other things.

It nearly made his head spin as his fingers pressed on the keyboard, though a grin suddenly found it's way onto his face as a clone passed him a cup of ramen

"Alright get this over with…"

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"I wonder why it's so empty in this town right now…this is supposed to be a tourist spot…Not nearly a ghost town" the former Anbu mused, looking at the very, very few residents around.

"Arctic gear, check…summoning scrolls good to go…" Yūgao took a deep breath, going through her pockets

She paused and turned, looking at the gates of a train station

"The end of the world…" She read the train station's name and shook her head at the irony, it was then that something caught her attention as Mizore and Ruby stood not too far from her, along with them the rest of the Newspaper Club were wandering around.

"Patagonia…" Ruby tried to say the word as she looked at the map,

"I didn't think the headmaster had any places further than Japan…" she shivered as a cold breeze hit her from the south.

"This energy in this place is giving me a fuzzy warm feeling…" Yukari commented with a grin as she looked around the pleasant but vacant town.

The quaint shops and buildings were still foreign to the whole group however Mizore actually quietly enjoyed the breeze and scenery with Kurumu next to her.

"Wish I actually knew some Spanish…" Tsukune muttered, looking at the signs while Moka carefully followed behind him

Kurumu shot them a jealous glare before huffing and going back to Mizore.

"We're gonna be working with your Konoha Shinobis again?" Kurumu questioned the former Anbu.

Yūgao glanced at her but said nothing.

"We have to...it's our last chance now," Mizore answered for the former Anbu who glanced at the two teens and motioned for the group to follow through into the train station

The first thing Mizore noticed was how the place was literally empty. Almost liminal…and creepy.

"Kami…I'm really glad they gave us a four-day weekend off…."

"Well, you know why they did…"

a familiar voice caught the former Anbu's attention as she tried to locate the source

"I know that voice!" Yūgao smiled to herself and called out

"Kakashi-senpai!

The Masked Jounin sighed realizing his peace was disturbed.

The Pink-haired girl stiffened seeing the Newspaper Club along with Yūgao and she quickly composed herself.

"Hi…didn't expect to see any familiar faces all the way out here…" She waved as Kakashi lazily greeted Yūgao.

"Chunin Uzuki." Kakashi almost jokingly said

"I…Yes…" Yūgao paused being reminded of her demotion before seeing the Copycat Shinobi motion for Sakura to go with the Newspaper Club.

Sakura cleared her throat.

"You guys…wanna meet up with Sasuke-kun and Team Ten?" She offered in a low voice and smile as the entire Club stole glances at each other.

"Tsukune and Moka have my number, don't worry…but don't get separated" Yūgao added in an authoritative voice, Mizore scratched her cheek. A part of her really wanted to stay and listen in on the conversation but reluctantly she walked away.

As Kakashi watched the Newspaper Club leave, he sighed.

"You've already tried to catch Naruto, haven't you?" He spoke in a hush tone as Yūgao scoffed before showing the few bruises on her arms.

"He had a few tricks up his sleeve.. I got caught off guard, that's all." Yūgao muttered, Kakashi motioned for her to walk with him

"And you're still gonna try again?…" Kakashi asked, taking a deep breath and looking around the empty train station. Yūgao's eyes fell

"I can't lose him, I'm a Konoha Kunoichi still and you know he's eventually going to get himself hurt and if the Monster world finds out there's a real Kyuubi out there..." She mused wondering the implications before sighing

"…help me, senpai." Yūgao gave him a pleading look and Kakashi hummed, seeing an empty train suddenly pull into the station.

The Copycat Shinobi closed his eye and only shrugged.

"I don't think Naruto's in the right mental state to be out there still…I mean you should know… you were there with Ino-san when he was diagnosed, he needs support right now." Yūgao huffed, folding her arms under her chest.

Yūgao was lost in her own thoughts about Naruto until she noticed Kakashi was a few feet in front of her and motioning to get on the train.

"Come on, I'll help you for that favor you did for me back in Kusa but first we're gonna need to find our strange friend."

Yūgao was dumbfounded for a few seconds before scoffing and smiling realizing who Kakashi was talking about

"Moving, Senpai!"

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Sakura cleared her throat, walking around the completely empty town and every so often she would steal glances at Mizore as the Yuki-onna only stayed quiet and played with her lollipop.

"I see Naruto gave you guys a hard time…" Sakura gave a sorrowful look as Moka cringed thinking about her wound and held her abdomen while Ruby looked over her light bruises and scratched her cheek.

The rest of the group stayed quiet while Sakura got the hint of just how bad it was.

Tsukune sighed, trying not to think about how he had to avoid the confrontation due to just being outclassed

"Kami…what am I even gonna say to him?" The former Human mused before Kurumu suddenly latched on to his side.

"This is kinda romantic, isn't it, Tsukune-kun? Being in a foreign country like this…" She squealed, Moka huffed and latched onto Tsukune's other arm

"No, Kurumu-chan this place is kinda creepy…where is everyone, why is it so empty?" Moka questioned, a little frightened by the lack of passersby as Sakura only gave a frown looking off into the distant ocean.

"...They're busy right now." The Young Kunoichi tried to lie though it completely fell flat on its face as Yukari scoffed

"Busy?" Yukari raised an eyebrow, Sakura closed her eyes for a second before shrugging.

"There's a big mission going on here, all civilians were told to evacuate or stay indoors until the 'military exercise' is over, is that okay?" Sakura finally admitted and walked a few more steps ahead.

"I'm not going into anymore details…" She declared.

The group once again stood there a little dumbfounded before following after her.

Eventually they had reached the suburbs as Mizore finally spoke up.

"Is Naruto-kun involved in this mission?"

The question caused Sakura to only smile at her.

"Oh…well…I never said a thing." the Young Kunoichi commented, Mizore folded her arms and her left eye twitched slightly

"So he really does do dangerous missions like this…? With actual militaries? Are those his 'training exercises'? " Mizore spoke in a low voice while the Newspaper Club got quiet and Ruby stiffened.

Sakura only scoffed, waving her off.

"Well… this one was a special occasion and this entire mission got a lot of last-second changes I even heard it was supposed to be a team of two…Yūgao and Naruto but…you know how that turned out if I'm being honest right now… everything has been improvised in the plan since Naruto left." Sakura cleared her throat

Mizore and the rest still looked confused, though Sakura only gave them a sheepish grin.

"S-so basically Everything got thrown out of whack but Naruto's close by so don't worry…and we're here!" Sakura added suddenly, pointing towards an unsuspecting two-story suburban home

"Come on! I'm not sure they're all home yet but they sho-"

"I can't deal with you, Nara."

"Then make it make sense to me, Uchiha."

The approaching group had to stop upon seeing Sasuke and Shikamaru burst out of their apartment building.

"Ah, I guess they're home?" Sakura sighed as the two Shinobis in front of her took note of the group.

"Oh…people..." Sasuke stated in a low voice, stealing a glance at Shikamaru who shrugged.

"I guess it's something about Naruto?" He immediately questioned and on sight, Mizore gave a leveled gaze at the two teens.

"Yes…"

"Hey! Sasuke-kun! We still need to schedule your next session!" another voice called out, Ino's voice caused the group to once again glance at the door just as she appeared with a paper in hand.

"I'm booked back at the Academy so the usual time isn't gonna…" Ino didn't even finish as She took note of the Newspaper Club standing not too far.

"Oh hi! Naruto's friends! Please come in!" Ino was quick to grab Moka's arm as she urged the entire club inside the apartment.

"Ah Ino…there's sensitive informatio-" Shikamaru's voice was cut off by a sharp glare from her

"They're Naruto's friends, I'll deal with it…this is my field…you know that." Ino shot back the Nara clan heir blinked at her actions before letting out a sigh and relenting.

"I'm still wondering how she got such a high position on this mission sometimes…"

"What a drag…" he murmured lighting one up as Sasuke shook his head at the Nara clan heir

"I still can't believe it was you and the dope that picked up that bad habit…the dope I expected to act like an idiot but you?" Sasuke mocked in a friendly tone

Shikamaru actually raised an eyebrow at the jab but shrugged and watched the Uchiha go back inside.

The Nara Clan heir stood there taking a small smoke break. The Jounin looked around the apartment block and began to wonder about his blond friend.

"Leaving the Village…Naruto's so fucked,Team Seven is too…" Shikamaru scoffed to himself with a frown and took another drag of his cigarette.

"And so is my team" smiling to himself and realizing what camp he was in.

Choji suddenly pushed the door open with Sasuke and Tsukune behind him.

"Hey. Shikamaru!"

The Jounin sighed seeing his peace was so quickly disrupted.

"Naruto's friend here is actually a Shinobi contractor…what did you say your name was again?" Choji patted the former Human on his back as Tsukune looked mildly sheepish.

"Tsukune Aono.."

Shikamaru stole a glance at Sasuke who waved him off.

"Ino kicked us out, she wants full-time with Naruto's other friends...So, we're gonna go stay with Kakashi-sensei…" the Uchiha trailed off, Shikamaru only blinked at the former rogue Shinobi as Choji was making small talk with Tsukune

"-And back home, if you ever get to Konoha…my clan's got its own restaurant."

"This whole thing is gonna be really troublesome though…" He finally finished his cigarette.

Sasuke began to hum feeling his pocket vibrate, finally not surprised by the sudden action

he took out his own small black flip phone and smirked at the message on the screen

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"... where the hell is the facility's layout." Naruto scowled with a bored look as he scrolled through the database of the computer, gathering as much information on it's employees and layout

A thought suddenly crossed his mind as he pressed on the earpiece

"Hey, Karin?" Naruto spoke as the earpiece buzzed for a few seconds

"Yes?"

"How did you manage to slip away from Konoha?" Naruto questioned as his cousin fell quiet for a few seconds.

"Oh…the Creepy Bus driver picked me up from the Academy after their Ambush failed…a lot of waiting around for you to get up though…"

The response was short but satisfactory to the Uzumaki, he was about to respond when he suddenly laid his eyes finally on a real updated map of the entire facility.

"Oh, that's perfect!" He exclaimed looking at where he needed to go and his smile completely disappeared as he looked at just how big the entire thing was.

"Ha! We have our work cut out for us this time…"

"S-So, since I'm in the office complex, I have to get out of this place, run through t-their armory by the cafeteria, bring down their airfield, get into the silo and disable them…" Naruto mused trying to think of a plan and map out his route before his earpiece buzzed again

"You need to get that USB stick to the main control panel at the silo to disable the missiles first and then link up with the security guards that are still held up deeper in the storage warehouse, Now get going."

Naruto hummed and noticed his clone approaching him.

"Boss, you want us to scout ahead?" A Clone whispered over as Naruto gave them a small nod.

Naruto grumbled before grabbing his pistol and heading for a door, his clones stood alert waiting for anything

"Yeah, dispel if anything goes wrong, I think I'm going to need a lot of Shadow clones to cover more ground…remember…small teams of two, watch each other's back and make more clones if you need to" Naruto ordered, still coming up with future plans in his head.

"Scavenge for whatever you need…guns, grenades, whatever they have…you use," he added

Several more clones appeared in a puff of smoke along with them all saluting the same.

"Boss." They spoke before turning transparent and disappearing into the hallways.

The Uzumaki let out a sigh of relief, knowing he had some type of advance warning with his clones, and cautiously continued into the office complex

Naruto held his breath and began to sprint through the hallways, surprisingly it was empty and unlike the outer perimeter, it didn't even look like there was even a firefight here.

"Did these guys even put up a fight over here?" Naruto mused

The Uzumaki then finally pushed through a corridor and could see a spiral staircase, but what bothered him most of all was the silence.

"I really don't like this…"

He then finally paused, the ground rumbled as he heard the sound of a large engine for a few seconds before he saw a spotlight through one of the windows.

Almost instantly he ducked back to avoid being spotted

"What the fuck?" Naruto cursed, taking a peek out the window, his heart froze seeing an attack helicopter circling around the perimeter of the office complex.

"Are they already on alert?"

Naruto's breathing went still as he skillfully crawled under the window and continued on his way.

"Great…just gotta get down to the freakin cafeteria…" Naruto ran down the stairs until his eyes finally widened in shock.

Time slowed down as a random guard with a rifle and a balaclava was walking up the stairs,

The Man gasped seeing an intruder but almost instantly, Naruto grabbed the man's shirt and tossed him down the rest of the stairs.

"Crap! Crap! Crap!"

Naruto cursed, pulling out a pistol and firing several shots into the man's fallen form.

He exhaled, seeing the man go limp and blood flowing out.

"Did you fucking hear that?"

"That's gunshots! Spread out!"

"Great! They know you're here now! Good job!"

"Oh Fuck." Naruto cursed once again running down the stairs and grabbing the rifle off his back.

The Uzumaki quickly loaded the weapon, he was fast enough and quickly put himself against a wall.

Naruto let out a huff and a puff of smoke appeared next to him as the Clone took the rifle off his hands and blindly fired into the cafeteria

"Okay, Okay, I still remember this, those clones better come back around…" Naruto grabbed a small storage scroll and a bottle of alcohol appeared in hand, along with a lighter.

"Hey! The boss needs help! Cover him!"

"Where the hell did they come from!?"

The Uzumaki smirked, hearing gunshots go off and the fire fight intensified.

He coughed heavily taking a swig before sparking the lighter as it gave out a small flame, Naruto held his breath before peeking out of cover

"Fūton: Toppa." Naruto exhaled, causing the small flame to roar into a decent sized fireball that began to engulf the cafeteria.

"Oh fuck!"

"Fire! Fire!"

"Put me out!"

"Down! get down!"

Several voices were heard as the improvised incendiary attack caused a panic in the cafeteria. Naruto quickly put himself behind cover again and allowed his clone to cover him with scattered gunshots as the flames spread on anything flammable.

"I really wish I had an affinity for fire like Sasuke." Naruto thought and made a quick hand seal

*poof*

A dozen more clones appeared around him while the Uzumaki heard the chaos ahead

"Don't let any of them get to their heavy guns in the armory. Be very aggressive! Go!" Naruto ordered

The clones charged into the cafeteria.

"If we shoot them they disappear! What the hell are these things?!"

Naruto rolled his eyes with a little grin before becoming transparent himself and hearing his earpiece go off.

"You're like a little one-man army sometimes, you know that?"

The Uzumaki sped from cover to cover, seeing his clones get the upper hand on the masked mercenaries.

"Okay…that's the door to their armory…" Naruto whistled, seeing several corpses already lining the ground, some of the mercenaries attempting to set up heavy machine guns by the open armory's doors.

"Gotta speed this up…" Naruto suddenly ran up to the metal doors and with a hand seal, a few dozen more clones appeared

"Oh hell! Where do they keep popping up from!"

The transparent Shinobi snickered and go into the armory, Naruto's eyes sparkled as he laid his eyes on all of the heavy weaponry

"Grenades…Machine guns… Stocks of ammo… Kami, this is perfect…" Naruto smirked, the clones all latching on to anything they could hold and he quickly stored away what he could in some scrolls.

Naruto then laid his eyes on a heavy machine gun being carried by two clones and felt one of his clones place a belt of ammunition on his shoulder, his eyes darted around before he saw a strange vest.

"That's Kevlar, pick it up, it might save your life by catching a bullet." the Bus driver's voice made Naruto smile and he quickly grabbed the thing.

"All ready to go, boss."

Naruto cursed, he turned transparent before running back into the cafeteria.

"Flank these fuckers!"

"Shift your fire! They disappear after one shot!"

Naruto continued to curse before finally managing to get into his desired position, a corner looking over the entire area after a short flight of stairs.

"Set up the tripod and get your clone to keep feeding you ammo."

Naruto's breath hitched as one of his clones finished adjusting everything, the Uzumaki placed the rear of his weapon on his shoulder and fired upon his targets.

*Brzzzzt*

"Get the fuck down!"

"I don't wanna die!"

"We need backup now! There's way too many of these things!"

Naruto clenched his teeth as he suppressed the Mercenaries, firing as much as he could before suddenly…

*Click*

The Gunfire from the Uzumaki stopped and he moved down to cover as one of the two clones took the machine gun.

"Oof...hey! It's jammed." the clone complained

The real Naruto rolled his eyes at his clones trying to fix the weapon and began to crawl away from the two.

"Good luck, guys!"

"Don't you remember? Pull, observe, and push, you idiot! We learned this with Sensei!"

Naruto hummed as he left his bickering clones and began to plan his next moves, realizing his clones were pushing the Mercenaries out of the Cafeteria and building completely.

"Gotta start pushing outside too…get by the hangar now and then the silo…. Naruto looked a little worried of the missiles suddenly taking off though nothing came.

Still holding his transparency Jutsu, the Uzumaki dashed down an empty hallway and the sound of gunfire became slightly distant before he suddenly pushed through the doors of a random abandoned room.

His breath hitched as his blue eyes darted around the space vacant of any humans.

"A freaking locker room…perfect." Naruto suddenly held up a familiar hand seal and pulled on a lot of Chakra

"Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

The entire locker room was engulfed with smoke as finally, hundreds of clones appeared, some of them were already dashing out to reinforce their fellow clones

"I haven't made this many clones since…well I can't remember…" Naruto mused before pausing as the memories of some dispelled clones reached him

"And I'm going to need a lot more…"

"Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Once again, hundreds of more clones came into existence and made a run for the exit, though this time, Naruto huffed, needing a second.

"Boss?"

The real Naruto grumbled looking at the few clones staying behind, all armed with various different types of firearms.

"We're still gonna need more guys…maybe in the thousands." the Clone spoke as Naruto closed his eyes, trying to remember the last time he had this many Shadow clones out.

"There was that time in the Chunin exams with Orochimaru's boytoy…" an image of Kimimaro's menacing glare and bone bloodline technique flashed through his mind causing Naruto to shiver and scoff.

"Whatever, I just need to be smart about this…I need to clear that airfield and the power station needs to come down too."

Naruto could only frown, thinking about the helicopters in the airfield as he held up another hand seal

"Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Kakashi mused, looking at the snowcapped Andes mountain range in the distance, just behind him in a forestry trail was a quiet Yūgao.

"This isn't a mission, we don't have to be extremely quiet." Kaakshi suddenly spoke up as the former Anbu perked up, snapped out of her own thoughts.

"I-I know, Senpai, I was just thinking about the Newspaper Club and Tsunade-sama's visit for a second…"

"Those kids? I wouldn't worry about them…" The Copycat Shinobi brought up as Yūgao walked a little bit ahead of him

"They aren't really kids, Senpai, we're not that much older…"

Kakashi gave a stiff laugh.

"In terms of life experience? I'd say we're pretty far ahead and well…we're pretty seasoned Shinobis for our time, not a lot of teenagers get thrown into a World-wide Shinobi conflict straight out of the gates." He casually spoke

Yūgao could only frown, thinking about her genin days and her time in the closing months of the Third Shinobi World war.

"Half of our graduating class didn't come back from their first mission…the ambush at Mt. Tennō…" Yūgao trailed off, she began recalling her younger self still training and eager to join the fighting only for that to change when grieving families with Shinobis carrying carts of the dead scrolled through the gates of Konoha.

"We didn't even spare the time to bury some people properly until after the war…the whole thing was a mess, wasn't it, Rin…Obito…" Kakashi paused for a second thinking about his Genin teammates and their own tragic end.

"...Even those of us that survived didn't really leave unscathed…" the Copycat Shinobi suddenly stopped walking

"so I still say let Naruto be free…out of all us coming over here, he should be the one to get to enjoy this world's peace and he's happily made his choice." Kakashi stated and Yūgao only gave him a frown, folding her arms.

"..and Konoha?"

"Konoha will live without him…why should it matter, anyway?" The Copy-cat Shinobi nonchalantly replied, Yūgao scoffed.

"You know just as I do that if anyone in the Monster world finds out about the Kyuubi…" She trailed off again as the Masked Shinobi scratched his chin

"And you have a good point…but that won't convince Naruto to return and fight for Konoha again. Frankly, he doesn't care about anything but himself and his few precious people." Kakashi replied, the former Anbu looked up ahead at a cabin just in a clearing of the woods.

"...but…what about the Academy?" Yūgao brought up Kakashi only shrugged.

"That…might be up in the air, I think…" Kakashi then pointed over to the cabin.

"And That's what we're looking for." He muttered, walking past her as Yūgao was suddenly snapped out of her thoughts and caught up with him at the front door

"Up in the air? So…is that implying he might…" Yūgao trailed off, hoping Kakashi would speak but the Masked Shinobi only nodded and Yūgao let out a sigh, She could only ponder on that bit of information.

"I mean…that's a decent chance."

Kakashi quickly knocked on the door as Yūgao composed herself and gulped.

"This is definitely that creep's retreat…" the former Anbu awaited as the door opened

"Oh, hi I sensed you guys a few ways back!"

A familiar red-head opened the door, her glasses quickly tipping off the former Anbu

"Karin?"

"Yeah, yeah…he figured you'd show up…" She exhaled, motioning for them to come in as they took note of how cozy the cabin was…

"Less of a safehouse and more of a getaway…" Yūgao shook her head at the view of the snowy mountains in the distance.

"Right, just out of the office complex…" Nurari's frown was evident as he motioned for Yūgao to step in, cautiously the Anbu did so and noticed how many computers, radios, other things of which she didn't' know the names of.

"We could've used you as backup but right now it looks like trying to get you in there will be troublesome…" The Bus Driver's glowing eyes blinked as Yūgao finally noticed the main computer with Naruto's bodycam.

"Hey! I'm still here!" Naruto's voice caused Nurari to sigh while Yūgao felt dread creeping up on her knowing what mission Naruto was on.

"Oh…Oh no…" She worryingly looked at the screen.

Kakashi looked at his own little flip-phone, making sure there was an actual signal here.

His single eye quickly scans its contacts till finding his genin pupil's phone number

"You started the mission without me?" Yūgao spoke in disbelief as the Bus driver blinked at her.

"We weren't going to wait on anyone…my apologies…but our world is at stake..." He stated and the former Anbu could only bit her lower lip

"But…" Yūgao tried to argue.

"I would've gone…but I figured Naruto is more familiar with the surroundings of this world and I'm still bound to Konoha." Kakashi casually spoke and continued texting on his phone.

Nurari rubbed his chin and motioned for his kitchen

"Take a seat, we'll talk about what we can do about sending Naruto more backup…and Karin can take over for now…"

Karin stood by the computer with headphones on and a small microphone, she pushed her glasses up and fixed her lavender outfit.

"At least they're gonna send Naruto some Shinobi back up…" the red-head looked at some official paperwork and gulped

"U.N." She read out before looking over the report.

"Once you're done with the power station, push for those besieged security guards, get them out if you can, they have families to go home too…" Karin spoke over the microphone though with a small grin

Yūgao sighed, taking a seat as Nurari went to the refrigerator for a drink.

"Can you get me to him?" She got straight to the point while the Bus driver got a bottle of vodka completely chilled, the man was quiet for a few seconds as he poured two glasses.

"Get you to him? Of course, I can…I just need to know you won't force the kid back to being a Konoha Shinobi."

Yūgao's frown was apparent to Nurari though after a few seconds of silence, she was only forced to let out a sigh once again

"Well, I know I can't force him to fight for Konoha…" Yūgao stated, finally coming to terms with that fact.

"But…Yokai Academy shouldn't be on his shit list, I'm worried about him getting killed out there…if he wants to stay in this world, then I guess he should stay here but he shouldn't abandon Yokai Academy over things Konoha did…" Yūgao finally explained, the Bus driver only shrugged taking a sip of his alcohol

"That's good you finally see it that way…" He sighed

Kakashi scratched his masked chin and curiously watched the exchange.

*Bzzt*

The White-haired man relaxed only slightly upon seeing his student's name on the phone.

"I have to step out for a moment…"

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Mizore's frown was evident as Sakura paced around the room with an oddly serious look, the rest of the Newspaper Club took a good look around at Team Ten's apartment. Kurumu was equally cautious, keeping close to the Yuki-onna as Moka took a seat at the kitchen table.

"Anything to drink for you all?" Ino offered, Moka winced slightly and shook her head as Yukari took a seat with her.

"Ah...it's okay…wait is that like Hot chocolate.." Moka quietly looked at the foreign variants of foods she knew while Mizore finally joined them.

Ino gave a small grin as she made a batch of the drink before going into her room, Kurumu only shrugged as she and Ruby watched Sakura go through her pink flip-phone with a conflicted look on her face

"Uh…okay…s-so Naruto's doing some crazy dangerous…job, and he's been doing these since we started the semester?" Kurumu tried to comprehend, Sakura gave a small nod and sigh

"Y-Yeah, something like that but like I said he wasn't supposed to originally go alone…" She murmured though the Succubus heard her and growled

"He's our age! I don't think he should be..I…I mean I'm sorry." Kurumu took a deep breath to compose herself, the Succubus turned away and huffed.

"It's so freaking weird…" Kurumu only muttered as Mizore finally stopped looking out the window of the Kitchen, Ino suddenly took off into her room and closed the door behind her

"Are…we going to get him after this mission?" Mizore questioned, her leg anxiously bouncing as she sat down and watched the Kunoichi pace around

Sakura only looked at her phone and kept texting

"Yeah, I'm trying to get that to happen…right now actually." her emerald eyes scanned the words on her phone as she looked up at the Yuki-onna

"You know Tsunade-sama is coming to visit right?"

Mizore only gave a nod and played with her lollipop, thinking about Naruto's Hokage Scoffing.

"People keep bringing it up to me like it really matters." Mizore casually spoke, trying to keep her cool.

"You're brave…Good…" Sakura smiled and closed her phone before looking at the Yuki-onna

"But she's not gonna let Naruto go that easily ya know…" the Jounin pointed out, causing Mizore to frown and Ruby's face to go blank.

"Do you think she would really force him back?" Mizore whispered and Sakura gave a small nod.

"Naruto being the Kyuubi holder…he's too important to Konoha to really lose even if Naruto doesn't want to come back, I'm sure she has ways to force him…" She brought up as the rest of the group got slightly uncomfortable with the mention of the Fox.

A frown then flashed on Sakura's face

"…I hope it doesn't come to that, I don't think it will…Tsunade-sama still sees him like a grandson…"

Mizore folded her arms and played with her lollipop, the entire apartment suddenly got a lot colder, Sakura blinked suddenly seeing her own breath in the place, Moka and Kurumu shivered being next to the purple-haired friend.

Ruby was completely blank instead staring out the window and looking at her wand

"Then I'll do everything I can't to make sure it doesn't." Ruby suddenly spoke up as the entire room looked at her and she took a deep breath.

"Naruto-kun deserves to be happy and if he doesn't want to be a Shinobi…then I'll do everything in my power to keep your village away from him." Ruby glared at the Haruno girl.

Sakura placed a finger on her chin in slight amusement as she took note of the rest of the Newspaper Club's surprised faces and cleared her throat.

"Hey, you can relax, you know I'm on your side…" Sakura huffed with a reassuring grin, Mizore and Ruby composed themselves with their anger while suddenly Ino came back with a black folder

"Hey Sakura, I found it…Oh jeez…it's cold…" Ino shivered as she held the item and looked at the group.

The entire room perked up as Ino set the folder down. Ruby gasped slightly knowing it was the same one holding all records of Naruto's missions.

Ino began to shiver only slightly, recalling Tsunade's short temper while getting Moka some hot chocolate.

"You know…Tsunade-sama…She's the leader of our village for a reason and you're a person of interest in her eyes because of Naruto." Ino recalled, reading Mizore's file though the Yuki-onna only shrugged

"I know…I know…" she dismissed

Sakura finally closed her phone and placed a reassuring hand on Mizore's shoulder.

"She won't be alone though, I'll make sure of that."

Mizore grinned only slightly knowing she had Sakura's support but Ino's face turned into one of disbelief.

"Wait You're going against Tsunade-sama!?" Ino yelled, Sakura only shrugged and opened the black folder.

"I sure am." Sakura casually spoke with her own smile while Ruby gulped seeing the files of their little underhanded missions being shown.

"Sorry…I guess you should know the truth…This was a joint venture between Konoha and the Academy." Sakura passed around several papers to each member.

"Saizou?..." Yukari raised an eyebrow looking at Moka then at Ruby.

"Isn't that the weird orc guy that attacked Moka-chan and Tsukune-kun? He was murdered…" She questioned before scanning the file,

"You guys had a hand in that?" the Small Witch questioned

Ruby stiffened and gripped her wand though she shook her head

"It was for the good of the Academy and Naruto-kun wasn't going to do this alone…" Ruby defended, while Yukari gave her a look of disbelief and shook her head.

"…I mean I guess he was an ass…" Yukari only looked at the report and grimaced.

Kurumu then looked at another paper while Ruby worryingly looked at the papers being passed around.

"This one is about the attack on the Hospital…" Kurumu murmured, Moka's breath was still as she saw Mizore's last name on one of them and quickly grabbed it.

"Mizore-chan…" Moka quietly spoke as she passed it over.

Mizore's pale blue eyes were a little dull as she read the title.

"On Okuto Kotsubo and Shirayuki Mizore …"

Her heart rate began to speed up as she felt her throat close for a second and her eyes water.

She cleared her throat before looking at Sakura.

"Can I keep this? Or at least have a copy…" Mizore spoke looking over the actual date of the mission.

Sakura blinked, looking at the Yuki-onna before giving a small nod

"Yeah, well of course but that's actually a copy of the real report I got in the Academy, we got a machine in the workroom….Ino?" Sakura turned over to her blonde friend as she handed her the file

"Go, please."

Ino shrugged and went off to do so, Sakura's emerald eyes went back to Mizore. The Yuki-onna's eyes scanned the contents of the mission and her face was a mix of emotions.

She was puzzled at first, then anxious now…it was a little bit of fear.

Mizore sighed as she re-read the mission details, she didn't have a word to describe what she felt until finally Yukari broke her thoughts.

"I can't get over this…" The small witch's violet eyes shot up at Ruby as she folded her arms

"Naruto-niisan was hired to take out only specific people right? People that wanted to hurt us…" Yukari only got a nod for confirmation from the older witch, Kurumu then walked over to her friend and placed a hand on her shoulder

"What's in there, Mizore chan?"

Kurumu whispered, the Yuki-onna's eyes flickered as she hid the paper from the Succubus.

"Personal things." Mizore declared before looking at Ruby.

"Did you know about this?" She questioned while the Witch shifted slightly

"Uh…S-Somewhat…Naruto-kun didn't really talk about it…" Ruby answered though felt all eyes on her except Sakura as she was watching Mizore's body language.

Mizore only cleared her throat before grabbing the copy of the mission for herself and stuffing it in her bag.

"Well…then, I'm still keeping a copy of this."

Sakura curiously looked at the Yuki-onna before she motioned for Ino

"Do you mind making Copies in Shikamaru's room?" Without a word, Ino actually did as asked while Sakura went back to the rest of the girls.

"This is a lot to take in." Kurumu suddenly spoke up as Yukari nodded in agreement

"I…still don't think Nii-san had any fault in it." She added, Mizore's eyes softened and shifted slightly, looking at her wrists.

"She might be right…"

"You know Sakura-chan, I don't think it's a good idea to go against Tsunade-sama…" Ino trailed off as she returned with papers in hand and the Pinkette only shrugged

"I'll be fine, I'm her student…" Sakura replied though Ino gave her a flat look

"And me? I'm technically involved in this now, my clan can get Top secret security clearances for a reason but I'm here giving out these files." Ino suddenly paused as she saw her childhood friend's face shift into a look of slight concern

A sudden high-pitched screech from a boiling teapot got everyone's attention

Ino perked up

"Oh, the tea is ready!"

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

"I swear this can't be real…." A familiar Hyuga looked out the window of Yokai Academy as his Dojutsu flared to life and looked around at his surroundings.

Every student he scanned only yielded the same results.

"But they have no Chakra, so they're real…" Neji shivered before feeling the glowing eyes of the chairman on him. Shizune only grinned as she finished telling the Jounin next to her about the Monster world.

"…Easy, boy…I think this guy is important but this place isn't right" Kiba had to whisper to his Canine companion as Akamaru took a slight defensive stance toward the Headmaster as the Dark Lord now stared down the dozens of Shinobi in his office.

"So many Shinobis now…And the Hokage is arriving?" Mikogami mused as the rest of the Konoha Shinobis stood still.

"S-soon." Neji only replied before taking note of Shinobis with him, the Hyuga Jounin didn't even correct the headmaster.

Iruka was completely silent, even Kiba and team Konahamaru wisely kept quiet as they allowed the Jounin to take the lead.

"Then about your mission…" Mikogami eyed the rest of the Konoha Shinobis as he looked at some paperwork that was presented to him

"Logically it is for Uzumaki Naruto…isn't it? Shino suddenly spoke up, putting all the pieces together Neji nodded as his pale eyes met the Headmaster's own glowing eyes and a short silence set in

Team Konohamaru looked at each other with excited grins almost unable to contain themselves and Iruka suddenly nodded.

"That makes sense actually…that's the only reason why Tsunade-sama would invest so heavily into one specific Shinobi…and send so many familiar and valuable Shinobis here…" Iruka added as his face then turned into one of worry as he realized it was that Naruto had gone rogue.

"That means he's really a Rogue Shinobi…" the newly promoted Jounin instructor looked heartbroken.

Kiba suddenly growled at the idea

"That idiot?! Going rouge?! Like hell!"

Fū flinched at the outburst though paused at the idea of the Kyuubi Jinchūriki being rouge just as she started her career as a Konoha Kunoichi…it was completely out of left field.

A Glare from Neji quickly calmed down the rash Chunin and Kiba shrunk back, Akamaru only whimpered at the exchange and huddled close to Kiba.

Neji took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"It's true." Shizune's voice wasn't meek, her face turned stern as she was still a Jounin of Konoha

"Uzumaki Naruto went rogue a few weeks ago, we were so spread out and had so much trust in him that no one really expected this…he blindsided us…" Shizune's voice died in her throat after that.

"We will need a map of this world to proceed with our mission and begin conducting recon operations." Neji did his best to show as little frustration as possible as the Headmaster nodded and provided a map of the world to the Shinobis.

"Of course…" He could only grin handing the paper over.

"You know you're breaking regulations! You have to run it by me first!"

"I don't give a fuck!"

A muffled voice finally cut it as several bangs were heard.

"I have information! That's important! It's my right to tell them!"

Neji raised an eyebrow hearing that familiar high-pitched voice.

A smaller silhouette pushed through the doors as the new arrivals stood still and a gasp was heard

"N-Neji-nii-san…" the voice was small though Team Konohamaru and Iruka all laid their eyes on the familiar face.

"H-Hanabi-chan!" Konohamaru pointed at her with a light blush as Hanabi turned her gaze on them, her former classmates.

"I…why are you guys here?"

Anko sighed as she stepped into the office with a sheepish grin and glanced at the Headmaster.

"You're back...early..." He stated, looking at the two Kunoichis

"I hope you don't hate me for this…I'm still a Kunoichi of Konoha and I have my orders. Naruto's still a target to me too…Team Seven also kinda dumped her back on me after a day of her yelling…" the former apprentice of Orochimaru whispered over and scratched her cheek, Mikogami could only look stoic as he realized Anko had chosen her loyalty to Konoha.

"I understand and don't blame you…" He sighed before cautiously watching Hanabi gather herself for a second.

"They sent you guys?" Hanabi huffed, pointing at Team Konohamaru as Iruka gave her a friendly grin and nodded, seeing a former pupil was always nice regardless of the situation.

"Good to see you, Hanabi, they did in fact send us for a retrieval mission…" Iruka started though Kiba scoffed

"Yeah, for the dope…"

Hanabi actually looked confused for a second before Neji sighed

"For Uzumaki Naruto..."

"I know where he is!" Hanabi suddenly blurted out as the entire office fell quiet, Neji then gripped his younger cousin's shoulder.

"...Where?"

Anko could only frown as the Snake mistress felt a pang of guilt for some strange reason.

"This is still gonna fuck me down later, I just know it…"

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

"Left side! Left side!" a clone yelled before taking cover yet again, he grit his teeth reloading his battle rifle, another clone crawled alongside him and another blindly fired not too far away from them.

"There's no front line with these bastards!"

A stray bullet hit an unfortunate mercenary as he peeked out of cover, another held his breath watching his friend's corpse fall. The same clone still aggressively rushed down his position with a rifle in hand with no disregard of its life

"Retreat! Retreat, god damn it!"

The clone said nothing in return and fired several shots at the second masked mercenary.

Brass hit the ground and the smell of gunpowder was apparent to the clone as it blinked at the falling corpse of the masked mercenary before moving on.

Finally the real Naruto peeked out of the office complex and looked into the power station just a short distance away, though the snowfall was starting to get heavy and the wind began to slightly pick up…

Still, his clones were doing their job and now pushing further in while the others flushed out any wounded mercenaries still alive.

"Kami, this place is cold…" Naruto cursed as he leaned against a wall, he peeked over to his clones as they began to push further up the airfield.

"This is actually it's warmer season…like it's peak…"

Naruto scoffed at the bus driver's words, looking at the at the light snowfall and watching his clones as they entered a hanger

"There's like four of those things to clear…then the power station, that's a lot of clones I need to reinforce…" Naruto watched through binoculars from the building, just for a split second let his shoulders slump and his guard down….

*Bzzt*

The sound of heavy gunfire from above made Naruto's face pale as he threw himself back into the building and heavy chopping caused by its rotors caused him to curse as he realized what that was.

The Kyuubi Jailer pushed himself as fast as he could back into the bundling throwing himself to the ground

"Oh Fuck! That almost got me!" Naruto yelled, turning back to see smoke and glass, his clones desperately now trying to engage the attack Helicopter.

He crawled along the ground still anxious about even popping his head out to the flying machine, Naruto didn't even notice himself trembling in slight fear of the machine.

"My speed is the only reason I survived that…" the Uzumaki finally calmed himself down, realizing he was all there and still alive.

"Haha! You've really kicked the hornet's nest now Brat! they're sending the heavy stuff!-"

Narutos' breath hitched as his earpiece buzzed out, a demanding and feminine voice appeared in its place

"Chunin Uzumaki Naruto! This is your Sensei! What were you thinking about accepting this mission?! I need you to hold back and wait for actual Shinobi Reinforcements before proceeding!" Yūgao's familiar voice merely caused Naruto to sigh and roll his eyes, before cautiously peeking out from cover.

He made more clones to help out before pressing on his ear piece.

"Not a Konoha Shinobi…and why are you even here?" he demanded, Yūgao scoffed and was quiet for a few seconds

"Clearly to make sure you don't die…" She calmly replied as Naruto's eyebrows furrowed, pressing his earpiece

"Is that what you think?"

"Now's not the time to argue!..you need to-"

She was cut off when Nurari's voice appeared again.

"Okay disregard her right now…that…that's a French Gunship, She might be old don't take any stupid chances and fuck around! Now's the real time for your heavy stuff!" Nurari's tone shift made Naruto's heart skip a beat.

He watched cautiously from the office complex as the gunship flew high above to avoid small arms fire, then clicked his teeth as an idea came to mind.

"Easy…" Naruto muttered as the clones all got close to him, he gulped and held his hand out, Chakra began to swirl around his palm of his hand and very quickly a Rasenshuriken appeared in his hand with it's familiar buzz

"Kami! It stings!" he growled, and looked at his clones with a nod

"Cover me!" Naruto yelled running out of the office complex, his ocean blue eyes were wild as he easily tracked down the aircraft and threw his Ninjutsu.

"Fūton: Rasenshuriken!" after letting go, Naruto almost immediately threw himself back into cover, peeking out he saw he completely missed and closed his hand

"Release!" Naruto clenched his teeth and the Ninjutsu exploded just behind the Helicopter.

*Ka-boom*

Naruto held his breath seeing the jutsu manage to just engulf the Aircraft, he watched the machine tail-spin into a hangar

*Ka-boom*

A second explosion was distantly heard as the burning pieces of the Helicopter made contact into the thin steel roof, the real Naruto was already panting before the sound of gunfire caused him to go back inside for cover.

"That was…something…" Naruto finally caught his breath and heard his earpiece go off

"How are you doing on Chakra?...I know we're Uzumakis but it's not an infinite source and that's a lot of shadow clones…" Karin's voice caused Naruto to hum as he held his now numb burned up hand and began to quickly bandage it.

"Good…I think." Naruto grit his teeth feeling the sting now and seeing only a dozen clones in the distance desperately attacking a distant machine gun nest

"…You're moving on to the power station next, those security guards are still holding up there along with the missiles…" Nurari's voice caused Naruto to sigh and press his earpiece again

"Got it."

Naruto made a single hand seal and a few more dozen clones popped into existence, he let them immediately reinforce their frontline after watching them go off, the Kyuubi Jailer suddenly turned transparent and was about to make the long and dangerous run in the direction of the power station.

"Hey, boss! need a ride?"

Naruto blinked, hearing his clone's voice and an engine rumble. Two clones had taken an old strange looking machine, one of them even mounting the machine gun in the front.

"We found out it's just a button to press and start driving!"

"…a BTR.. your clones are the worst brat…"

The Uzumaki only began to crackle as he hopped on the back and got on the heavy gun.

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

"And that's all I saw, sir!" a pale white masked mercenary stood completely still in an elegant room, only usually reserved for the high brass of humanity.

A puff of smoke was exhaled from a black-haired man as he took a drag of a cigarette, fixing his slicked back hair as he did so.

"I didn't expect them to call our bluff or for Humans to really coordinate this…"

Once again, he glanced at the photos on his office desk.

"Doubt they're normal human forces…and not a Monster I know of…"

He casually looked around the room not even concerned with the news had just received.

"You probably shouldn't have sent everyone back to HQ…we were probably gonna need a few of them to stop whatever this intruder is…" A feminine voice piped up, fixing her white winter dress.

the man turned over to his subordinate with a frown as he looked around at the room's paintings.

"Yes, we were caught off guard it seems…I imagine it's one of the troublemakers that's been giving our grunt operations trouble…"

The woman fixing her light blonde hair as she raised an eyebrow

"Oh Yeah I heard about that…"

"Are you gonna want my Sister and I to deal with it, Miyabi-sama?" She questioned, he paused for a second before tapping his cigarette.

"Yes, go on ahead, Kahlua…" He took drag of his cigarette as he suddenly began to rapidly grab files, Kahlua blinked and almost cutely looked at him

"Sir?"

"I'll be going back up to our Island…have your sister take over things from here and do get back to me when you have something for me…" Miyabi only chuckled to himself looking at a hastily snapped photo of his intruder.

Kahlua only placed her finger under her chin looking at the photo of the masked intruder

"I don't like his mask…" She murmured before looking at her employer

"What about the Human bombs? And the operation? You know We spent a lot of our human resources on this, those lives and equipment can't be brought back so easily…" She spoke, picking said photo up, the mercenary looked uncomfortable with how they were speaking of humans..

Miyabi loaded a handgun and adjusted his tie.

"But we got what we wanted, right? Our name is once again among the lips of Humanity's elite and the meek of the Monster world besides…those masked goons were always expendable."

*Boom*

A gunshot rang out in the room as the mercenary fell without a word, blood pooling out of his body as Kahlua gasped

"You can't just waste blood like that!" She stated and nearly instinctively went to drink what she could get before suddenly sniffing the bleeding and dying mercenary.

"It's not even worth it…" Kahlua grumbled to herself as the man finally put out his cigarette and took a second glance at the now-dead mercenary

"Still, you could be you're right, this was a pretty expensive venture and we're stuck with missiles that can't be launched…." He mused for a second before going through the desk and finding a strange book

"...but capture this one if you can…if nothing else we will be able to find out who exactly has been interrupting our plans and your sister can use this to help you" He smirked and went for the exit.

Kahlua stole a glance at the body before she quietly headed out of the elegant room and down to where she last saw her sister…

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Naruto could still see his own breath and shook off the snow with a shiver, he watched the snowfall disappear and sat himself against a concrete barrier.

"Wow, I guess there isn't gonna be a storm…" he mused and ducked his head back behind a concrete barrier.

"Boss! It's all clear on the first floor!" a clone yelled out as the real Naruto let out a breath of relief and began to run from cover to cover.

Naruto quietly entered the eerily quiet powerstation and sighed seeing waves of wires and corpses of mercenaries, some of them missing their weapons.

He smiled though seeing a clone run up to him with a rifle in hand.

"We cleared out most of the bastards on this side of the facility, boss…and we actually found the security guards still holding out but they shot at us thinking we were the enemy…" A clone huffed before picking up a rifle from a dead mercenary.

Finally, one male body caught his eye and he paused, lowering his weapon.

His uniform was different, Naruto quietly approached the unmoving body and gulped. For a second Naruto was still then his earpiece suddenly buzzed

"Security guard…guess he tried to make a stand or escape…" Nurari's voice made Naruto's eyes fall in slight sadness as he saw the man's ID and though he couldn't understand the language, he could make out how young the deceased man was.

He then heard a sigh on his earpiece

"You're probably gonna see a lot more of this since we're getting closer to their holdout and the missiles too…"

Naruto readied his weapon again and stayed close to the walls as his clones continued on ahead

"More running and running…" he mused to himself and cleared the hallway with his muzzle.

Another body caught his eye…this time a scientist in his trademark white lab coat, his glasses shattered and a pool of blood stained the tile floor.

"Perfect! Check if he has his security clearance on him!"

Naruto could only grimace having to mess with the dead and quickly got what he needed. The Uzumaki made his way over and tried to scan the card

"Access denied?..." he grit his teeth before trying again

"No dice…Screw this." Naruto grumbled before holding out his uninjured left-hand

"Rasengan!"

*Boom*

A cloud of dust and debris surrounded Naruto as he looked astounded, the Rasengan had only punched through a small hole and if he had to guess…the door was several inches of steel.

"Kami…damn it…" Naruto huffed looking at his work before placing several explosive tags.

He once again sighed and took out several storage scrolls.

"Ah…just to let you know, there are Friendly Shinobi Reinforcements on their way." Nurari's voice was low and a little concerned but Naruto only scoffed and brushed it off

"No, Konoha is not friendly to me and never will be…" He growled a puff of smoke appeared in front of him and quickly disappeared revealing several old- Military grade C3 and a few C4s on the steel barrier

Naruto let out a breath of relief seeing a few of his clones standing on the entrance before he held a ram seal.

"Katsu!"

*boom*

The large explosion was muffled but Naruto paused, gaining some of the memories from his destroyed clones caught in the blast, he dashed back to the blast site and his grin was wild as he saw smoke reach even the first floor now

Naruto ran back down to the stairs as a few of his clones already pushed ahead and paused

Some of the steel door was still on it's hinge but a large enough hole had been made thanks to his Rasegan's penetration

"Kami…that's insane." Naruto continued on and shook his head before finally he heard muttering.

His eyes widened slightly

"Good, those security guards are close by now…they might be…put off given your age and how you managed to handle yourself, just give them as little information as possible…"

Naruto only shrugged and tried to come up with excuses

"And hiding my Shinobi Identity? What about language barriers?" Naruto questioned but the Bus driver's voice was quiet.

"See that's an issue…you're gonna have to get rid of your clones and go yourself with just firearms, no Ninjutsu, nothing…"

Naruto scratched his cheek

"Figures…" he rolled his eyes before quietly one by one dispelling his clones.

A wave of memories hit him and the Shinobi groaned in frustration

"Kami…those were a lot of freaking clones…" Naruto felt his brain nearly give way before suddenly shaking his head

"No Clones…okay…" Naruto could only frown now as he walked down the steel corridors with only a small handgun, the only thing guiding him being a flickering light

"Clones aren't out of the question, remember we want these guys home alive…I'll handle your cover story, relax."

Naruto's teeth clicked almost tuning out the Bus driver's voice, in front of his eyes the bodies of security guards and mercenaries littered the floor, the occasional Scientist or Facility worker …finally after some time, he heard muffled voices though the steel corridors

"Just repeat after me and you'll be fine, they were made aware that there was some help on its way and I'm sure they kept an eye on you thanks to their security cameras…. but they aren't expecting someone exactly like ike you so just listen to me and it'll smooth over your lies."

Naruto sighed before finally making out a mix mash of foreign languages, not a bit of Japanese was heard and it caused the Shinobi to get on edge ever so slightly.

"Can't believe we're still here…that explosion was loud…we should be going up there.."

"We can try to fight our way out…"

It was English and a mix of something else, he could barely make it out due to his prior experience but it was there. Naruto began to take off his mask and show himself, he eventually cautiously lowered his firearm.

"Friendly!" Naruto yelled suddenly, the voices suddenly stopped and shuffling was heard

Naruto's earpiece went off again and he took a deep breath, making sure to repeat everything he heard.

"I'm Friendly! Reinforcements sent from Japan!" Naruto cried out with a very heavy accent as he showed his hand out from the corner of the hallway

"There was no radio in…"

The silence was palpable for a few seconds before a rifleman turned the corner pointing his weapon at him.

"It's a kid…" The Security guard spoke still in English as Naruto's breath hitched seeing the end of a rifle barrel then saw the look of disbelief on the guard's face

Naruto only held his hands up before footsteps were heard and a man with a rifle was seen, the Uzumaki straight away knew that uniform several other men pointed at Naruto while

"You and I have a lot to talk about…boy…" the Man spoke in perfect Japanese causing Naruto to stiffen though quickly that changed as he lost his composure and brightened up.

"You speak my language!" Naruto cried out with a grin though the man only adjusted his weapon on it's sling

The Man said nothing but merely motioned Naruto to follow him.

The Uzumaki hesitated, there were so many thoughts running through his head as he saw men with rifles pointing at him while he quietly followed behind

Technology beyond Naruto's own comprehension were all over the hallways as he continued down following along, though he also took note of the troops with heavier guns holding their positions.

The Silence was palpable until they finally reached a circular room and a few well-dressed men stood in front of Naruto.

"I-I'll be your translator." A man with a lab coat and rifle in his hands stepped forward as Naruto gave the man a short bow.

Naruto shivered as he stood away from an air vent, the room dark and only lit up by a few lights and a roundtable.

A man smoking a cigar caught the Uzumaki's attention, he could only make out his silhouette until the man stepped into the light.

"So this is our 'government experiment'?" the head security guard's language bewildered the blond Shinobi as the other guard escorting him began to translate

"Good, for the most part it's clear, we'll send a team to secure the area for the rest of the Science team…" His frown was still keeping Naruto on edge as he got the message repeated back to him

"I hope you know We're gonna need your help to get us all out alive...so I hope what they said about you is true." The man suddenly straightened himself out and looked at his fellow security guard.

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

*Bang*

A door was kicked open to a dark room with cameras and casual whistling was heard as a black-haired girl carried a cup in her hand.

"…good, this security outpost still has their coffee maker working…wish they still had some tea left…" Akua's frown was now evident as she looked at the mini-security camera, it wasn't much but it did manage to catch most of the fighting from the western side.

All around here were weapons of all kinds, scattered about.

"Solid clones just like him…" Akua only sighed, looking at her hands with an unreadable expression, and continued to shuffle through every snapshot of the intruder.

Eventually, her Rose Pink eyes closed, pondering on her theory if it really was the Shinobi that she had gotten to know just a few days ago…

"Why the hell is he getting in our way?" She grit her teeth before the door suddenly opens behind her

"Akua-nee-chan, he left you in charge now…" Kahlua spoke in a low voice as she placed the strange book on the table.

"And He wants us to capture the intruder alive," she added, Akua blinked and grinned slightly looking at the book

"Jeez, really? He wants us to capture him and he's even going to let us use that old book?…." Akua trailed off as she went over to grab a sniper rifle though the Vampiress was unable to hide the smile from her sister.

"He doesn't think it's a normal human…so it's of interest to us," Kahlua informed, looking over some firearms around the security outpost.

"Oh this one isn't a normal human for sure...this is gonna be fun, Kahlua-imouto." a sudden brightening of Akua's mood and her tone of voice caused Kahlua to blink at her

"You sound like you know something, Nee-chan."

Akua hummed, making sure the rifle's scope was good to go and taking some ammo.

"I messed around with a Yoko who could make clones of himself…" Akua casually explained but her Sister nearly had to double-take

"A Yoko? Clones? Wait, you spent time with a guy?!" Kahlua shouted as the door opened and Akua slung the scoped rifle over her shoulder

"Yep."

Kahlua looked flabbergasted and held the old spell tomb close to her.

"W-What was his name?" She asked a little curious what kind of man was able to hold her sister's attention.

"Naruto."

Now Kahlua blinked, hearing that name before an image of a Blond cheeky teenager in a suit flashed through her mind and paused.

"Naruto…"

Naruto was the one who had her sister's attention…but he was also a suspect in the murder of one of their biggest investors, a few months back. She paused for just a second as Kahlua recalled and began to connect the details…

For the second time today, Kahlua was caught off guard.

"Naruto?"

*Snap* *snap*

"Pay attention."

Kahlua blinked and lightly glared at her sister's snapping fingers, Akua only gave her a serious glare in return.

"I'm gonna go tell the guys who hijacked the Artillery pieces to lay those butterfly mines around this facility and around the back naval station so we can funnel him in. This is still actually serious,Kahlua-Imouto, this intruder of ours is already a quarter through with our force, so I need you to back me up… this guy is full of surprises and we want him alive..." Akua explained

Kahlua hummed, she wanted to say something more but shook her head

"Alive?...Will do, Nee-chan."

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Mizore's frown was evident as Sakura paced around the room with an oddly serious look, the rest of the Newspaper Club took a good look around at Team Ten's apartment. Kurumu was equally cautious, keeping close to the Yuki-onna as Moka took a seat at the kitchen table.

"Anything to drink for you all?" Ino offered, Moka winced slightly and shook her head as Yukari took a seat with her.

"Ah...it's okay…wait is that like Hot chocolate.." Moka quietly looked at the foreign variants of foods she knew while Mizore finally joined them.

Ino gave a small grin as she made a batch of the beverage.

Kurumu only shrugged as she and Ruby watched Sakura go through her pink flip-phone with a conflicted look on her face

"Uh…okay…s-so as of right now, Naruto's doing some crazy dangerous…job, and he's been doing these since we started the semester?" Kurumu tried to comprehend, Sakura gave a small nod and sigh.

"Y-Yeah, something like that but like I said he wasn't supposed to originally go alone…" She murmured though the Succubus heard her and growled

"He's our age! I don't think he should be even..I…I mean I'm sorry." Kurumu took a deep breath to compose herself, the Succubus turned away and huffed.

"It's so freaking weird…" Kurumu only muttered as Mizore finally stopped looking out the window of the Kitchen, Ino suddenly took off into her room and closed the door behind her

"Are we going to get him after this mission?" Mizore finally questioned, her leg anxiously bouncing as she sat down and watched the Kunoichi pace around

Sakura only looked at her phone and kept texting

"Yeah, I'm trying to get that to happen…right now actually." her emerald eyes scanned the words on her phone as she looked up at the Yuki-onna

"You know Tsunade-sama is coming to visit right?"

Mizore only gave a nod and played with her lollipop, thinking about Naruto's Hokage Scoffing.

"People keep bringing it up to me like it really matters." Mizore casually spoke, trying to keep her cool.

"You're brave…Good…" Sakura smiled and closed her phone before looking at the Yuki-onna

"But she's not gonna let Naruto go that easily ya know…" the Jounin pointed out, causing Mizore to frown and Ruby's face to go blank.

"Do you think she would really force him back?" Mizore whispered and Sakura gave a small nod.

"Naruto being the Kyuubi holder…he's really too important to Konoha to lose even if Naruto doesn't want to come back, I'm sure she has ways to force him…" She brought up as the rest of the group got slightly uncomfortable with the mention of the Fox.

A frown then flashed on Sakura's face

"…I hope it doesn't come to that, I don't think it will…Tsunade-sama still sees him like a grandson…"

Mizore suddenly took out her lollipop from her mouth and pointed it at the Haruno girl, the entire apartment suddenly got a lot colder.

Sakura blinked suddenly seeing her own breath in the place, Moka and Kurumu shivered, being next to the purple-haired friend.

Ruby was completely blank instead staring out the window and looking at her wand

"Then I'll do everything I can't to make sure it doesn't." Ruby suddenly spoke up as the entire room looked at her and she took a deep breath.

"Naruto-kun deserves to be happy and if he doesn't want to be a Shinobi…so I'll do everything in my power to keep your village away from him." Ruby glared at the Haruno girl.

Sakura placed a finger on her chin in slight amusement as she took note of the rest of the Newspaper Club's surprised faces and cleared her throat.

"Hey, you can relax, you know I'm on your side…" Sakura huffed with a reassuring grin, Mizore and Ruby composed themselves with their anger while suddenly Ino came back with a black folder

"Hey Sakura, I found it…Oh jeez…it's cold…" Ino shivered as she held the item and looked at the group.

The entire room perked up as Ino set the folder down. Ruby gasped slightly knowing it was the same one holding all records of Naruto's missions.

Ino began to shiver only slightly, recalling Tsunade's short temper while getting Moka some hot chocolate.

"You know…Tsunade-sama…She's the leader of our village for a reason and you're a person of interest in her eyes because of Naruto." Ino recalled, reading Mizore's file though the Yuki-onna only shrugged

"I know…I know…" she dismissed

Sakura finally closed her phone and placed a reassuring hand on Mizore's shoulder.

"She won't be alone though, I'll make sure of that."

Mizore grinned only slightly knowing she had Sakura's support but Ino's face turned into one of disbelief.

"Wait You're going against Tsunade-sama!?" Ino yelled, Sakura only shrugged and opened the black folder, Ino looked on in disbelief at the breach of conduct with her friend but remained quiet.

"I sure am." Sakura casually spoke with her own smile while Ruby gulped seeing the files of their little underhanded missions being shown.

"Sorry…I guess you should know the truth…This was a joint venture between Konoha and the Academy." Sakura passed around several papers to each member.

"Saizou?..." Yukari raised an eyebrow looking at Moka and then at Ruby.

"Isn't that the weird orc guy that attacked Moka-chan and Tsukune-kun? He was murdered…" She questioned before scanning the file,

"You guys had a hand in that?" the Small Witch questioned

Ruby stiffened and gripped her wand though she shook her head

"It was for the good of the Academy and Naruto-kun wasn't going to do this alone…" Ruby defended, while Yukari gave her a look of disbelief and shook her head.

"…I mean I guess he was an ass…" Yukari only looked at the report and grimaced.

Kurumu then looked at another paper while Ruby worryingly looked at the papers being passed around.

"This one is about the attack on the Hospital…" Kurumu murmured, Moka's breath was still as she saw Mizore's last name on one of them and quickly grabbed it.

"Mizore-chan…" Moka quietly spoke as she passed it over.

Mizore's pale blue eyes were a little dull as she read the title.

"On Okuto Kotsubo and Shirayuki Mizore …"

Her heart rate began to speed up as she felt her throat close for a second and her eyes water.

She cleared her throat before looking at Sakura.

"Can I keep this? Or at least have a copy…" Mizore spoke looking over the actual date of the mission.

Sakura blinked, looking at the Yuki-onna before giving a small nod

"Y-Yeah, of course…we got a machine in Shikamaru's room…Ino?" Sakura turned over to her blonde friend as she handed her the file

"Go, please."

Ino almost shrugged and went off to do so, Sakura's emerald eyes went back to Mizore. The Yuki-onna's eyes scanned the contents of the mission and her face was a mix of emotions.

She was puzzled at first, then anxious now she was only…

Mizore sighed as she re-read the mission details, she didn't have a word to describe what she felt until finally Yukari broke her thoughts.

"I can't get over this…" The small witch's violet eyes shot up at Ruby as she folded her arms

"Naruto-niisan was hired to take out only specific people right? People that wanted to hurt us and the rest of the Academy…" Yukari only got a nod for confirmation from the older witch, Kurumu then walked over to her friend and placed a hand on her shoulder

"What's in there, Mizore chan?"

Kurumu whispered, the Yuki-onna's eyes flickered as she hid the paper from the Succubus.

"Personal things." Mizore declared before looking at Ruby.

"Did you know about this?" She questioned while the Witch shifted slightly recalling the Night and the state Naruto had returned in.

"Uh…S-Somewhat…Naruto-kun didn't really talk about it…" Ruby answered though felt all eyes on her except Sakura as she was watching Mizore's body language shift.

Mizore only cleared her throat before grabbing the copy of the mission for herself and stuffing it in her bag, while Kurumu leaned back on her seat, thinking about the confrontation with Naruto then.

"You know how insane this was for us to find out? It was a lot to take in." Kurumu suddenly spoke up as Yukari nodded in agreement.

"That's been my whole experience coming here." Ino casually replied with a sigh before glancing at Mizore herself.

"Ah…Mizore-san." Ino started, the Yuki-onna faced her even Sakura looked at her childhood friend in curiosity as well.

"Do you really see a good future with Naruto? I mean you've already come this far for him, right? Not a lot of Academy girls would do that and going up against Tsunade-sama isn't a joke…" Ino questioned almost in her Kunoichi work-like attitude

Some in the room were taken aback but not Sakura or Mizore as the latter felt the diamond necklace still in her pocket. Kurumu, though, was actually interested in this and surprisingly sided with Ino

"Yeah, Mizore-chan, you think it can still work out when we all get back to Yokai?" Kurumu added, Moka grinned slightly but Mizore only glanced at Ino and thought about the Konoha Kunoichi's question

A few seconds went by before she actually smiled and pointed her lollipop at Kurumu, her eyes flickering blue.

"I can make it work." She stated before turning to Ino

"And I do see a good future with him but about your Hokage…"

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

"And How the hell is this going to work exactly…?" Naruto questioned as he looked at the old trucks, he gave the commander of the guards a frown as the translator stood next to him.

"There's mines all over the perimeter now. Everywhere. Those weren't our stockpile though…but from a drone we sent out we know those are butterfly mines …"

Naruto closed his eyes and pressed his earpiece

"This true?"

"Wasn't so before…I don't know where they got these types of landmines, they've been banned thirty years ago and have been off the market since then!"

Naruto could sense the awe in Nurari's voice and only wondered how dangerous these were before the man in front of him motioned for him to look at the real paper map of the facility.

"They took the artillery guns we use for the ceremony and just used those…once you return…we will need to silence those guns on our way out."

The Translator gulped as he finished explaining everything to the Rouge Shinobi before the Commander motioned for the entire unit to follow him.

"Where are we going?" Naruto asked

His translator glanced at him with a grin

"Down To the main power station and then from there…the missile silo," he explained back to Naruto.

The Shinobi nodded before hearing a foreign language being spoken in front of him as the head of security directed orders.

"You're leaving our zone of control as well, so expect some enemies." He added, Naruto raised an eyebrow looking at his translator

"I'm going alone…" He concluded and hummed looking at the last Machine gun nest completely pointing at one single door.

"Don't know what's still there…Probably more of those invaders…, do you know where they are from?" the Translator stated in a low whisper as Naruto saw the machine gunner readjust his weapon, holding his breath for a second and looking at him.

"Them? well…I don't know, I'm just doing what I'm told…"

"A Government experiment that can clone himself…" He murmured in disbelief still remembering the conversation he had to take part in along with Naruto.

"Okay. we don't have a lot of time, so what's next for us? Where do we go to be extracted?" the translator asked in a surprisingly calm voice.

*Bzzt*

Naruto took a deep breath and remembered what Nurari explained to him

"Where I Came from and where they started the original attack, the Western wing. From there I think I was told that beyond the destroyed housing area by the main port, there would be naval ships…and some landing craft." Naruto almost relayed in an almost robotic voice.

The translator spoke back to the commander and whispered among themselves

"It's not gonna be that easy…there's still the warehouse with the heavy stuff…" The Commander's mutters in English were able to be made out by Naruto as he raised an eyebrow looking at the war map

"Alright, we'll secure the entire western section before making the run down to the port…"

"There's still those butterfly mines, that's where our little government experiment friend here can probably help us…" the Commander grimly spoke looking at Naruto's younger eyes

"It's a little disheartening to see someone so young caught up in all of this." He finished off, his translator blinked for a second as he repeated it back to Naruto

Naruto's blue eyes trailed off slightly as he began to ponder on that comment.

"Is it really that strange?" Naruto asked his translator friend who didn't even need to look at his superior officer

"Quite…I'm in my late thirties and have seen my fair share of life, kid, you look half my age and if your story is real…man our governments must be kinda fucked up for making an experiment out ya." the Man adjusted his helmet and continued to follow, Naruto could only frown and grow even more concerned hearing this.

"Where are you from, sir?" Naruto questioned his translator as the Commander held his hand up and pushed the entire escort team against a wall, the translator knew it was almost time and awkwardly looked back at his acquaintance.

"Hawaii." He answered, Naruto blinked at the answer, vaguely knowing of the sandwich islands from his geography classes but was only left with more questions

"It's time…" the Commander finally ordered as he held his breath prepping to open the closed door.

"From here on out, you're on your own again, we can't stay long after the power is out or we'll freeze to death…" He added, Naruto nodded looking at the dark corridor ahead of him.

Finally, Karin's voice finally came through on the comms.

"You're almost there."

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Nurari sighed, letting his finger off the earpiece.

A near deafening sound caused Nurari to only casually sigh he was already far from the safehouse in rural Tierra de la Fuego …it was more of a vacation home but still, now he was in an airfield, the Man looked upon an important piece of weaponry

"T-This is one of those fighter jets…right?"

The Anbu woman next to him trembled as she put on a parachute and said her quiet prayers

"You asked for the fastest way to Naruto's location? I present to you…the MiG-25…my actual prized possession ..." Nurari took out a last cigar, recalling just how he got his hands on such an aircraft before laughing to himself.

"Well, in terms of my human weapons, anyway, I enjoy helping out in some airshows." he looked over at Yūgao as she got her nerves under control, never seeing such a weapon and now she was placing her life's hands in it."

"It was originally for recon or training but now modified to drop a special payload…you." Nurari took a drag of his cigar while Yūgao glanced at Kakashi who only shrugged at her before pointing to the inside the aircraft

"I must say…this is…something." Kakashi murmured while in slight awe.

"The pod here will drop down real fast, the parachute is set to go off and there's a way to manually do it…" The Bus driver grabbed a helmet and mask, Yūgao took a deep breath after that.

"I'll need to get back to Karin…" Kakashi alluded to it as Nurari gave a frown and tossed him his car keys.

"Right…drive safe, don't crash."

Kakashi repressed the urge to chuckle as he caught the keys, that last part sounded more like a threat. The Copycat Shinobi walked away from the airfield and past the human checkpoint who waved him off and let him through.

"Sasuke should be at the meet up point…Sakura should follow."

Kakashi hummed as he stared at the vehicle, he rested for some time before finally starting the car.

"…Well, now My Team could be considered rogue…Tsunade-sama is probably going to freak out…but that's not my prerogative." Kakashi was still focused on the road as he was still a novice driver.

"Those who abandoned their friends are worse than trash…ah..well, Naruto does need me…more than Konoha does." Kakashi sped up ahead to pick up his students.

*Boom*

Kakashi actually perked up inside the car.

"The Sound barrier?" He looked in his mirrors to see a flying jet speeding off in the other direction, he wondered about his former Anbu comrade now preparing to drop from the flying aircraft.

"Must be fun…" The Copycat Shinobi hummed to himself before seeing another highway and sped up

VVVVVVVVV

A familiar onyx-eyed Shinobi looked at the starry sky above with some relief, just behind him was a restaurant almost in the middle of nowhere, and around them almost an endless forest but Sasuke knew for sure where they would be going next.

"Man, that steak was amazing! To think we found this place outside of the city, Shikamaru!" Chouji cheerfully remarked as he held his stomach Sasuke and Shikamaru walked ahead of

"Kami, the endless cuisine of this world, oh yeah thanks for paying, Sasuke!" the Akimichi clan heir remarked. Sasuke only nodded and looked away from his friend, Tsukune yawned slightly.

"Food makes me tired, can I talk to Naruto now?" Tsukune questioned, Sasuke sighed and shook his head, while Shikamaru looked at a copy of the receipt

"Pretty expensive lunch, Uchiha. What's the occasion?" Shikamaru asked

"Gotta make it up to some people who were on that retrieval mission a few years ago…" Sasuke answered as Shikamaru blinked at him before shaking his head and going for another cigarette.

"Right, thanks for the free meal."

Sasuke then motioned for Tsukune to follow him as he took out his phone, several seconds went by before a call finally came up.

"Kakashi-sensei?" The Uchiha greeted before the Copycat Shinobi's voice came through.

"I'm close by already, don't worry."

Sasuke smiled while Tsukune looked more confused before seeing a speeding sports car run down the highway ahead of them, and in an instant Kakashi stopped in front of them rolling down the window.

"Come on, we still need to get Sakura after this."

Shikamaru sighed, seeing his smoke break cut so early, Choji's eyes were fully wide in awe at the vehicle

"Whoa! Where did you get that, Kakashi-sensei!"

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

An hour had gone by for Naruto as he quietly snuck past the mercenaries still around, he clung to the shadows, maintaining his Transparency Jutsu as well.

Oddly enough these men were a lot more oblivious than the ones outside, not that Naruto noticed yet, he was still trying to make way to his target as fast as possible.

His earpiece suddenly went off with Karin's voice coming through.

"H-Hey, Naruto?"

A lot more choppy than Naruto would've liked and he pressed his earpiece.

"Where's the creep?"

"On his way…with the Konoha Anbu…"

Naruto growled before Karin added

"Relax, I overheard them talking about letting you go, I think she's gonna stand down…"

"You're in luck that the launch pad is just next to the substation…what a shitty design, no wonder they shut this place down…" Karin's complaint made Naruto sigh in some relief at the very least it would all be done in one go.

Finally after some more time, His blue eyes began to trail across the sign above him and with a grin he entered another steel corridor.

"Okay, this is their Substation…there has to be something like a button or box or something…" Naruto finally noticed how empty the area was, just endless wires, boxes, fuses, and cords. The entire place was a huge mess, still quietly Naruto avoided stray wires before hearing distant rumbling.

He looked up at the ceiling and before shrugging.

"Why don't I just start attacking things with Ninjutsu and see how it goes?"

A clone suddenly appeared next to Naruto, without a word said, it created a Rasengan in it's hand and ran at an electric box

*Ka-boom*

The Real Naruto smiled seeing his clone destroyed and the lights flickered before several more clones appeared next to him

"Alright, just get to work, guys." Naruto waved off, leaving his clones there and going back out to the corridor.

Several minutes of sneaking around for the Uzumaki before he found the correct junction.

A strange yellow and black button would flash every few seconds, distantly he could hear a firefight and had frown before pressing on his earpiece

"N-...Naru-to."

Karin's voice was cutting out completely before it stabilized

"Naruto! Kami, I might…we might lose contact for a second given how deep you're in this base, that's the correct hallway for the missiles….be careful from what I'm reading here, that yellow and black signal is the radiation detector so the waste and material used to make the missiles can kill you, short-term…or long-term." Karin finally explained before cutting out once more.

Naruto could only groan slightly, needing to worry about another thing before shaking his head

"Just glad I'm not freezing my ass off up there anymore…it's still cold down here though…" Naruto sighed, before noticing a mercenary in this area so close to the missile, the man suddenly turned around so quickly that it startled Naruto.

"Did he see me?" He tensed up before staying completely still and noticing something off about this one

"He's got glowing eyes…" he noted, the Mercenary suddenly turned back as if nothing was wrong, Naruto eventually eased up and continued down his way.

"Keep going…" Naruto huffed going through the steel corridors as a few shots suddenly rang out

"Intruder!"

Naruto paled thankfully, all of those shots missing him. He began firing back, and a clone suddenly appeared next to him, grabbed a pistol off his hip, and began to join him

*Clung*

"Oh! Come on!" Naruto cursed seeing his rifle jam before leaping behind the cover, his clone had puffs of smoke appear next to him as two more clones appeared and took cover.

The real Uzumaki continued to curse before a sharp pain suddenly hit him and he looked

"Kami…"

Blood trailed down his leg as the Uzumaki struggled to move it, he closed his eyes and was about to press on his earpiece when suddenly

"Need a hand?"

Naruto's eyes opened seeing his other self standing just in front of him with those same red and black eyes looking back at him.

"You really got us in a bad spot, this time." his red-eyed self casually and nonchalantly peeked out of cover, the blue-eyed Naruto held his foot in pain and yelped slightly seeing the amount of blood spilling

"Just be glad it didn't actually hit you and just barely grazed you…still that's some blood but you should know the Fox won't let us die." He grinned

As soon as those words left his mouth, Naruto watched red-swirl around and try to heal his leg

"Don't be so reckless and be acting like an idiot out there." Naruto felt his red-eyed counterpart place his hand on his shoulder and a wave of the Kyuubi's Chakra flooded his system

Naruto's own blue eyes turned blood red as his other self disappeared, the firefight going on around him beginning to intensify slightly

"We can't die, we're almost out of their grasp…"

The Uzumaki grunted and began to crawl along the floor with a rifle in hand as he continued to head into the missile silo

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

"...and then you'll need to finally hit the last room." Karin's voice came through as Naruto shivered slightly finally laying his eyes on the large weapon and it wasn't alone, a dozen of them all open to the surface like it was nothing

"These things are frozen to hell! There's no way they were ever able to launch them…" Naruto grumbled, he continued to cling to the shadows as the sunlight from the outside above.

"So these things can end the world or something, huh…I didn't think they'd look like this…" Naruto rolled his eyes vaguely remembering the idea of Mutually assured destruction back in the Academy, it was the main reason why Monsters were essentially forced into hiding…

As he walked through the railing brigades of the facility out to the main control panel, Naruto couldn't help but get his mind stuck on Yokai Academy.

"The Cold mornings before homeroom, Kami, I hated waking up that early…but it's not like being a Shinobi is better for sleep, it's way worse…" Naruto sighed, knowing it was less than a month ago.

"Lunch back there wasn't that bad either…I heard some human public schools have the worst food, hell I got ramen when asked!…" His reminiscing and musings caused him to finally smile slightly recalling the times he sat at the tables with the Newspaper Club finally Naruto was able to at least push those memories aside.

in his pocket was a small red scroll, the Uzumaki without a word, poured some Chakra and with a puff of smoke. A USB stick along with a paper appeared in hand, Naruto could only frown as he heard Karin on the other end of his earpiece humming and trying to grab something.

"It says just punch in the codes to completely make them cold…they may not be able to be launched but they're still active…" On the other end, Karin was flipping through more papers

"Umm…so there's a small office portion reserved for world leaders…it's right down the hall."

Naruto nodded hearing this before looking at the confusing technology in front of him and he finally stood in front of a small laptop just sitting on the front of a desk.

"You found it!"

"Are you fucking kidding me? Is it really this easy?" Naruto cursed in disbelief, expecting far more complex Technology and security.

Taking a seat, Naruto blinked and threw the correct numbers on the screen.

"And now just four…two…zero." Naruto smiled seeing the laptop completely shut down

"Y-You actually did it? Alright cool! You gotta get the hell out of there." Karin was relieved to see the correct screen before it faded away.

Naruto sighed, before leaving the computer and dashing down the next hallway, a big part of him was still paranoid they could go off at any second but eventually, he found himself back where he should be.

Karin let out a giant exhale of relief and felt mountains of pressure seemingly melt off her shoulders.

"I can't believe you actually did it…" She mused looking at the screen with Naruto's video feed, her attention was then caught by the outdated layout of the facility next to her, a realization finally came to her.

"Huh…so we kinda just saved the world right now, right?" Karin adjusted her glasses and puffed out her chest

"Ha! That's crazy!" She leaned back on the back for a few seconds and watched Naruto's camera feed.

Suddenly, for almost no reason, Karin stiffened and stood up with an excited look. Leaving her post with Naruto and quickly going for the door.

"S-Sasuke-kun!" She suddenly shouted, The Kunoichi dashed for the front porch. Upon opening the door, Karin could see the headlights of a sports car speeding up the dirt road.

Taking some deep breaths and composing herself, Karin watched the group of Shinobis park and exit the vehicle

Kakashi waved at the redhead before pointing at Tsukune.

"He needs to talk to Naruto." The Copycat Shinobi stated, almost instantly Karin passed her headset to Kakashi as Tsukune and Shikamaru followed him

"It's all yours! Hi Sasuke-kun!"

The Uchiha sighed upon seeing the obsessed Uzumaki girl again.

"This is for Naruto…"

Kakashi folded his arms walking his former pupil walk past him with a grin hidden underneath his mask

"Time for Sakura's group now…"

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A Single Security guard looked through a small hole in the Office complex with his weapon, it was still cold, far colder now that the power was out.

Still, he was completely glad this so-called 'government experiment' managed to take out most of these strange invaders that stormed this research base and took everyone hostage.

He could only frown recalling how many of them died

In the far distance, the Guard could see the destroyed tiny residential area of the now mostly dead researchers before letting out a sigh

"Is the Government experiment coming back? We're already in position…" a security guard stated, a runner came up from a ladder and motioned for them

"Grab your shit, we're getting a final count of everyone and moving down, the kid's back and I think those landing crafts are for us...I thought we would've gotten an airlift…"

The other guard shrugged before preparing to follow his comrade down.

*Kaboom*

"Hey! The fuckers from the missile silo just went on the attack!"

Gunfire suddenly took their attention as it sounded just outside.

"Shit! They're throwing everything they have!"

"Follow orders and just run for the port!"

The Security guard quickly jumped down with his comrade and tried to return fire, unlucky catching a stray bullet.

"Ack!"

The man grabbed his knee before suddenly transparent figure materialized in front of him

"Sorry!" the blond Shinboi greeted, both men turned pale seeing Naruto just appear there.

"Glad, I decided to speed this whole thing up." Naruto let out a deep breath seeing the guard's wound and took out a Kunai. He curiously could hear distant explosions as well

Without a hand seal, several clones appeared next to him, shocking the men further.

"Take care of him, will ya?" he ordered as a clone's hand suddenly began to glow green

"Hey, don't move so much!"

Naruto shook his head, knowing the man only needed some basic aid for the bullet wound, and with his medical ninjutsu it would wrap up entirely.

Regardless, with a rifle in his hand, the Uzumaki continued to rush outside with some clones, his face turned into one of confusion as the sounds of explosions became clear.

Finally, he reached the exit of the office complex, laying his eyes upon what should've been an easy retreat.

"What happened to an orderly withdrawal!?" Naruto yelled out.

Not a single reply as more and more guards just ran down from the office complex, eventually, Naruto located a few men at the very first entrance in a snowy ditch, just by the hole in the fence where he had originally come in from.

*Kaboom*

His eyes widened, as explosions rang up from the ground and killed a score of men.

A pit formed in his stomach and Naruto's eyes rushed over to those few men who were inside a ditch next to a pile of debris but actually looking like they had some structure and with that in mind, Naruto rushed over to them.

"What happened to bound back and an orderly retreat to those boats?" Naruto pointed at the distant landing craft showing up in droves.

The men gave him strange looks as none could understand the language before one stepped forward.

"Artillery and landmines, we're not going down there!" he answered, Naruto blinked at the man's accent before shaking his head, he couldn't believe he had forgotten about the two big guns

"W-where's it all coming from?" Naruto questioned as he watched several more security guards continue to run for the landing craft. .

The man pointed in the opposite direction

"Up there, like a thousand meters back, there's like three canons they used for ceremonial reasons but now…" He trailed off, Naruto growled

"Guess, I'm going back…"

"Thank you!" the man called out before hiding back into the ditch.

Naruto dashed in the direction seeing a yard of shipping containers, the entire place created a maze-like section that made the Shinobi just a tad uncomfortable.

"Shipping yard…they had one of these back in Osaka." Naruto mused for a while before finally seeing a few empty courtyards where containers could be.

"Those look like kill zones…" his musings were cut short when his earpiece suddenly went off

"N-Naruto?"

The voice was familiar but it completely caused him to stiffen with some hesitation, Naruto pressed on his earpiece a little confused.

"Hello? Do you have the wrong frequency?"

"It's Tsukune…"

Naruto's heart almost dropped

"I–...sorry? Tsukune? Where the hell is Karin?" Naruto blinked for a second as a few clones ahead scouted the area.

"She's, uh, taking a break but yeah, it's me…what the hell are you doing?I'm watching you through the little body camera on you."

Naruto opened his mouth to reply, though a million other things were on his mind now

"I..this is a job." Naruto managed to get out, he found himself leaning back on one of the containers, taking a breather.

"A job? Right, there was something that your friend Sasuke said…"

Naruto scoffed in disbelief

"Sasuke? You know him?"

"Dope? Are you done? Hurry up and get back over to the mainland, we need to talk to you. Shikamaru and Choji are here too."

The blond Shinobi shook his head and now felt anxious at so many Konoha Shinobi suddenly on the line.

"Relax, dope, I promise that we're not after you."

"The fuck is going on?" He questioned as Tsukune's voice came through again.

"Well, I…don't think I got the chance to talk to you since you ran off."

Naruto paused, continuing to walk down the container maze, a bit part of him wanted to cut his friend off but he stopped finally, in the distance he could see the smoke of the artillery guns actually firing upon the men trying to escape on floating landing craft

Finally, after some deliberation, Naruto's face went completely stoic.

"Alright. So let's talk." The Whiskered Shinobi stated in an oddly guarded tone, Tsukune on the other end shook his head

"S-So about Konoha, screw that, I mean for you! Thank you and them for helping me be a contractor and all but I'm really here because…we…I know we messed up now back at Yokai Academy and…about Mizore-san, even if all of that happened man, we're still friends and I'm sorry for how we reacted."

Naruto stayed silent for a few seconds trying to process that.

Passing one of the containers and completely exposing himself in this shipping yard, Naruto was only lost in his thoughts.

"Okay…so what do you want?" Naruto finally asked, pressing on his earpiece almost bewildered.

Tsukune was silent for a second before speaking

"Come back to Yokai…I mean you don't need to be with Mizore, you know, it's one break up but I still need my Shinobi Instructor there…maybe it's selfish man but it's just not the same without you."

Hearing his former human friend reassure him about their friendship made Naruto sigh once again.

"I can't just walk back into the Academy, besides, I don't work for Konoha anymore…"

"You can just-"

*bang*

Naruto only felt the force of something hitting him on his abdomen, the force sweeping him off his feet and onto the ground.

Time stood still before the Uzumaki collapsed and tried to scream.

"Naruto!"

Tsukune's voice was dripping in horror though Naruto still was conscious.

"Kami! That hurts!" he cried, holding his abdomen and somehow throwing himself behind cover, he felt the wind completely knocked out of him still.

VVVVVVVVV

Akua clicked her teeth looking through the scope as she pulled the bolt back and brass touched the ground, her eyes still looking at the distant blond silhouette.

"You lucky bastard, I know that didn't kill you." She murmured before looking at her sight picture ahead of her.

"But I'm not trying to kill you, I think I want you alive…" Akua began to smile and peeked through the scope again.

"Hmm…now where are you?" She hummed with a light blush.

VVVVVVVVV

Naruto groaned pressing against the steel container

"You idiot that actually got us!"

His vision blurred for a few seconds before his earpiece suddenly went off and Karin's panicked voice came through

"I'm here! Naruto! Kami! You're so lucky you have that vest!"

Naruto's breath was still ragged and he took said vest off to look at the wound

"It stopped the bullet but the impact still broke a rib…just sit tight and be more careful!" Karin reminded her distant cousin, the Shinobi coughed and shook his head before feeling a surge of the Kyuubi's Chakra fix his shattered bones.

"A sharpshooter…"

"A Sniper, I also heard them called," Karin spoke, a clone appeared next to Naruto as it peeked over before suddenly turning transparent.

"Listen to her and don't fuck this up."

The still-rattled Shinobi managed to hear his other self's voice now dripping with a little hostility.

"Go." Naruto ordered with ragged breath as the clone dashed off to the next container.

Naruto himself narrowed his eyes in the direction of where he assumed the sharpshooter was and held himself up against the metal container.

"I wish I could summon Ma and Pa, Sage mode would help me find that bastard instantly." Naruto took a deep breath and grit his teeth still feeling the blunt pain of the bullet impact on his kevlar vest

"And it would probably help with this too But I'm still alive…at least." before signaling his clone to reappear and began to peer out of cover casually

The Clone held his handgun and continued to run in the direction of the sharpshooter

*Bang*

The Real Naruto sighed seeing a poof of smoke in place of where his clone once was, completely destroyed, he narrowed his eyes before several more clones appeared next to him

"Confuse her."

"Hey, Naruto!"

Tsukune's voice coming through for a second time caused Naruto to stiffen as he leaned against a steel container, a wave of anxiety overcame him as he realized his friend was watching him.

VVVVVVVVVVV

"Don't worry too much, Karin's trying to find a satellite image of the area and help with this!" Tsukune exclaimed, almost not believing what he was seeing. Karin was panicking, flipping through the binder the bus driver left her while silently praying for her cousin.

Sasuke watched from the living room with an intense glare and waited on the computer screen for what his childhood friend would do next, with a deep breath he turned to Shikamaru.

"You guys should be heading back when the girls get here…" He murmured, the Nara Clan heir rubbed his chin looking at the outdated map of the facility from several decades ago

"Naruto's in some deep shit. that guy's so troublesome…you still want us to stall Tsunade-sama?" Shikamaru asked with some concern. Chouji raided the fridge, eventually coming back with some soft drinks.

"Are We going back with Ino and Kakashi?" Chouji questioned as Sasuke nodded.

"You guys don't need to risk your Shinobi careers or anything but if you can buy us some extra hours…" Sasuke trailed off while Shikamaru rubbed his neck

"It'll be a drag but We'll think of something…it's for Naruto…" He murmured before finally

Tsukune's eyes went back to the computer screen as he watched his friend cautiously peek from adjusting himself.

"Mizore-san's on her way." Tsukune's voice was only met with silence and a lag on the computer

VVVVVVVVVVV

Naruto closed his eyes and took a deep breath feeling himself finally healed from the bullet's blunt damage.

"Really?...Mizore's on her way…" Naruto mused for a second, and occasionally, the Rogue Shinobi could even hear bullets from his clones scouting ahead and drawing fire from Akua.

A wave of the Kyuubi's Chakra suddenly pulsed through him and didn't leave his system. Naruto suddenly heard another distant rifle shot and his clone yelling before a puff of smoke dispersed above just a few containers away.

He sighed and without a hand seal managed to get his Transparency Jutsu on, cautiously, Naruto peeked over to his clones.

"Do what I'm doing and rush to the bastard!" Naruto barked, the clones stiffened for a second before they suddenly turned transparent and began to move towards the sharpshooter.

His lips curled into a frown as he pressed his earpiece

"Tsukune…I'm a little busy at the moment." Naruto paused for a second and tried to calm himself down.

"I know! But hey listen even if it doesn't work with Mizore, I still need my friend…"

"This really isn't a good time..." Naruto stated before suddenly making a mad dash for another steel container, silence was heard for a few seconds until…

*Bang*

Naruto closed his eyes feeling the memories of a shadow clone hit him and once again his curiosity began to peak

"Whoever this person is…they can see my clones even if they're transparent…" he grumbled before suddenly seeing his own clone a few steel containers away.

*Bang*

He watched another clone in an instant get destroyed.

"Boss, the bastard's hiding up by the artillery piece, I can literally see the silhouette, I think they're mocking us…" the clone stated.

*bang*

Naruto scoffed, hearing another rifle shot but smiled this time as he peeked from cover, in the distance he could see a small black silhouette completely exposing themselves, almost as if they were sports hunting casual game.

"Kami, I love Shadow Clones…" Naruto's thoughts trailed off slightly as a few of Naruto's clones began to show themselves to draw fire and with a smirk, he dashed toward a closer position

"And This Cocky idiot…" he narrowed his eyes getting a closer look at the now feminine-looking silhouette in front of him, throwing himself behind a container He suddenly huffed finally feeling slightly exhausted from using so much Chakra

"Not seen? Good…time for a Rasenshuriken.." Naruto's face hardened and he tried to extend his hand.

The Uzumaki tried to pull his Chakra but only saw his vision stagger.

The world suddenly turned gray, his actions slowed down as a clone simply materialized in front of him with no warning.

"Look, I can't take this, we're pinned down here and if that person gets one good shot on us, we're done." The Clone's red eyes squinted as he pulled on his counterpart's arm

"Hurry up and get this done, the Fox is gonna start letting you borrow a lot of Chakra, no questions asked...but it'll take a second."

The blue eyed Shinobi watched as Red Chakra began to swirl around his shining jutsu, he could feel his core stirring and pulses of the Kyuubi's Chakra run through him.

The high-pitched screech of the Rasenshuriken began to form in front of him, now slightly tinted Purple. He felt completely pumped and a wave of adrenaline came over him as he peeked out of cover.

"Fūton: Rasenshuriken!" Naruto aimed correctly and released

Akua gasped in shock, actually feeling the intensity of the approaching jutsu.

*Kaboom*

Smoke and dust blew back as Naruto tossed himself behind the container while A Shadow Clone stayed out in the open.

"Do you see anything?" he yelled out

Naruto's clone paused and held his rifle close to him

*boom*

A silhouette suddenly fell from above and slammed into the clone's head.

Dust kicked up in front of Naruto as he threw himself back again and dropped his weapon completely.

"Kami! What the fuck was that?!" Naruto paled at the speed and shielded his eyes from the debris.

Red eyes pierced through the dust and suddenly dashed at Naruto, in a split second, Naruto almost instinctively put his arms up and blocked a kick.

"Damn that hurts!"

His own widened eyes, influenced by the Kyuubi, stared back at Akua's almost bored face though that quickly turned into a sneer.

"Why are you here, Naruto?" She spoke with venom in her tone, though the Masked Shinobi only let his guard down in total shock, not believing it was Akua in front of him and the fact his cover was so easily blown

"..."

Akua narrowed her eyes at the silence of the Masked intruder

"Jeez, okay well that's just great, judging by your reaction, it is you…why the hell are you getting in our way?" Akua demanded to know though Naruto only stayed silent.

"Look, you're the only Monster, I know who can do those attacks, especially those clones!"

His earpiece suddenly went off again.

"Naruto! Okay! Relax, I'm here." Karin's voice came through as Naruto was getting over his shock, completely ignoring his earpiece and instead focusing on the Vampiress in front of him.

Naruto stayed completely quiet not even believing Akua was here, he was about to reply but paused upon seeing her hardened stare.

"Well?"

The blond Uzumaki was still silent for a few seconds before suddenly Akua lunged at him with her red-eyes blazing.

Naruto had the Kyuubi's Chakra move to his forearms and ease the incoming impact of Akua's attack again.

Once more, the red-eyed Shinobi felt the blunt force of Akua's hit before sweeping her feet and going through several hand signs almost in the blink of an eye

"Fūton: Daitoppa!"

Akua gasped not expecting an extremely sudden strong burst of wind to slam into her and push her into a container

*bang*

"Ow! You asshole!" She grit her teeth pushing herself through holding against the unexpected harsh wind.

Akua held her breath before almost disappearing in a blur from Naruto's sight of view, he suddenly leaned his body to the side just as a fist slammed through the Steel container behind him.

Naruto paled and pulled back

"Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Dozens of Masked Clones suddenly rushed her as she growled, the real Naruto running back into the maze of steel containers. Akua expertly dodged one fist from a clone and easily twisted it's forearm, she slammed her other fist into another and caused both to disappear instantly.

Naruto finally took a breather to take in the fact it really was Akua and began to sweat as he watched his clones be easily dealt with

"Naruto, do you know her?" Tsukune's voice still came through

Once more though Tsukune was ignored, Naruto had all of his focus on the Vampiress in front of him just as she finished off his last clone.

"Naruto! I know it's you! Who the hell else has clones like this!?" Akua shouted, losing her cool ever so slightly. They had some distance between each other but their line of sight was clear.

The Uzumaki paused before he lifted up his mask to reveal himself completely, his red eyes caused her to look at him with intrigue

"Okay…Okay…yeah, it's me but why the hell did it have to be you, here…" Naruto trailed off, sheepishly scratching the back of his head

"This is my job!"

Naruto blinked at her outburst as they both almost let their guard down

"Oh…Your industrial espionage job?" he scratched his whiskered cheek

"How much was this job worth for you anyway?"

The Vampiress gave him a bewildered look hearing that tone-deaf reply before suddenly slamming her fist on the ground, causing some ice and concrete to fly up and the Rogue Shinobi to flinch.

"I asked you a question first! Don't change the subject!"

Naruto felt a pit in his stomach upon hearing her angry tone, he really didn't know what to tell her but Naruto did suddenly make a single hand seal and turned transparent

Akua began to lose her composure again and laughed

"You're really going to just run? From a Vampire?" She almost grinned like a psychopath before narrowing her eyes at the empty spot in front of her, focusing on her senses

"You're better than this, Naruto…you should know you can't bypass a Vampire."

"Especially me…"

VVVVVVVVVVV

Mizore cautiously looked out the window of the speeding sports car, her hair fluttering in the wind. The view was absolutely breathtaking but still her mind was on Naruto and his mission.

"Mizore-chan! Roll up the windows!" Kurumu shouted her hair flying everywhere she sat in between Mizore and Moka, The Yuki-onna gave a short glance towards her friend before doing so.

Ruby fidgeted herself at the other end and sighed.

"He couldn't bring a bus at least?"

Kakashi glanced at the rearview mirror looking at the four Academy students squeezed up in the back

"I wanted to go fast."

Ruby cursed him under her breath but Moka spoke up

"D-didn't you say you just learned h-how to drive?" She nervously asked

Kakashi silently sped up the dirt road over a hill and hit a small bump, the entire vehicle buckled as the Copy-cat Shinobi pointed to his covered eye

"I learn fast."

Sakura adjusted her headband and hair with a sigh at the former Anbu

"Sorry about leaving your friend with Ino and about the tight squeeze here…" Sakura turned over as Moka waved her off

"it's all fine…Yukari wanted to get back to the Academy and Japan instead…" Moka fidgeted around in her seat as Kurumu huffed

"She had so many questions about Ino-san's clan and wouldn't shut up…" Kurumu trailed off

Kakashi's single exposed eye saw the familiar safe house ahead and took a deep breath feeling the vehicle come to a complete stop

"Heads up, we're here," Kakashi stated Moka went still before stealing a glance at her friends

"Are you guys ready?"

Ruby looked out the window before nodding while Mizore rubbed the back of her neck feeling the vehicle come to a complete stop.

Kakashi shrugged and motioned for the others to leave.

The door opened ahead of them revealing a girl with red hair, one that Mizore had never seen before, Ruby on the other hand…

"Karin!"

"Ruby!"

The Uzumaki pushed up her glasses in shock before clearing her throat and motioned for the two to come in

"Come in, quickly."

Mizore blinked slightly at Karin's urgency though followed Ruby inside the safehouse

"I don't know what happened!"

"He's engaged in combat…relax."

"Relax?!"

The two voices caused them all to look at the Camera feed, Mizore's Lollipop fell while Ruby's face paled

Sasuke ignored the two women behind him and motioned for Tsukune to move

"Dope! Don't get out of cover yet!"

Tsukune sighed at the Uchiha before looking at his two friends

"We showed up at a really bad time." Tsukune's look only caused Mizore to walk past him and sat down next to the Uchiha

Sasuke looked at the strange girl in slight bewilderment as she grabbed the spare headphones without a word

The Yuki-onna looked at the camera feed, her heart almost dropping hearing, Naruto's ragged voice

"Hey! What am I supposed to do here?"

She paused hearing so much worry in Naruto's voice, he sounded genuinely worried for his life now and Mizore watched Naruto as he dashed from cover to cover.

"…this is so dangerous and reckless of him." Mizore whispered under her breath, Sasuke glanced at the Yuki-onna girl

"Aren't you going to say something to him?"

To Mizore, the guy next to her was still a stranger but regardless, she put the headphones on and opened her mouth

"Uzumaki Naruto…"

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The still Transparent Shinobi felt his breath leave him as he pressed against another steel container, his nerves finally got the better of him.

For once the Uzumaki made a mistake in dropping his jutsu.

Naruto really didn't know what to say, he didn't expect this and multi-tasking so many things…

"Hey…Sorry, I'm not sure I…should talk right now." he pressed on the earpiece, and the Shinobi paused hearing the static turn into the soft voice he was all too familiar with

"I can see that, you're an…I'm sorry, how the hell can I accept this?…"

Naruto had to ignore Mizore's worries for now as several shadow clones appeared next to him, the Uzumaki motioned for his clones to make a defensive perimeter.

"I don't think that's my biggest concern right now," he replied, anxiously listening for any gun fire or any movement that wasn't his or his clones.

"Not your biggest concern?! I crossed the ocean just to see you! I spent a few school days out here and I might get kicked out of Yokai because of my flunky attendance. And you're…doing this and you know what?..." Mizore trailed off as she thought about everything she had done up to this point and finally, she exhaled.

Naruto remained quiet at that, recalling her only recently getting off those contracts and how Naruto vowed that he would make sure his ex-girlfriend would attend her classes.

"I don't even care about any of that, I want you to come back to the Academy, come back to me."

"...I'm sorry but Konoha…"

"Screw them!" Mizore spat back as she stood up from her seat, Sasuke hid his amused grin at the girl's outburst.

The Yuki-onna took a deep breath, realizing where she was and how she needed to conduct herself. Finally, Naruto heard the words that made his heart skip a beat.

"Stay with me."

"I…I'm sorry, please just wait till this is all over, I'm so busy."

Mizore felt herself get slightly annoyed by that comment but Sasuke cut her off.

"Now, sorry for cutting your girlfriend's reunion short, but you need to catch us up, dope, how do you know that girl? She seemed pretty upset and caught on to you."

Naruto could almost feel Sasuke's eyes narrowing on him and cautiously he felt the Kyuubi's Chakra continue to pump into his system again.

Mizore blinked at this

"What girl?"

Naruto only sighed in frustration upon hearing Tsukune's voice next

"Yeah and she said she was a Vampire?"

Mizore removed the headphones for a second and turned to Tsukune

"Vampire?" She questioned as Tsukune gave her a reluctant nod

"Y-yeah, the girl he's fighting is a vampire…"

Mizore blinked and glanced at Moka before her attention was caught by the tv screen.

Naruto's now blood red eyes flared into life as his features began to turn feral once again, his wounds very quickly began to heal themselves, the very familiar Kyuubi Chakra cloak began to form.

"This…this is alot of Chakra…" Naruto panted

He staggered to the ground, the Shinobi looked up and finally his other self in front of him, hand extended

"Wanna tag out?" His red-eyes now just mirrored Naruto's own and the blond Shinobi nodded and took it. Finally a beacon of Red Chakra shot out and Naruto's vision turned crimson.

He almost took a new breath of life and had to shrug it all off as he heard his own Shadow clones begin to disappear in a fit of agony, a single tail finally appeared at the end of the Chakra cloak as Naruto began to slouch

"Naruto-kun? Is that the Fox…" Mizore's voice came on the earpiece, though the Uzumaki began to feel the device heat up

"Dope, you know that's not something you rely on..." Sasuke's tone had a hint of worry in it as Naruto shook his head and grunted, grabbing his earpiece and microphone.

*Crack*

Naruto felt relief, finally being able to focus for once and let the pieces crumble to the ground.

"Kami, I just need peace and quiet…" he hummed seeing Akua standing on a steel container some distance away.

"You're not a Yoko…" She declared with her eyes completely narrowed at Naruto.

"No peace and quiet, I guess…"

The now Kyuubi-cloaked Shinobi scoffed and gave her a fanged smirk.

Akua began glaring at his slouching posture and with no regard to her safety took steps forward to Naruto.

"I don't feel any Yōki off you, not a drop. But something is still off about you, you're not a normal Yōkai and no hybrid…."

A sudden red Chakra claw tried to swipe Akua into a steel container, it went right through her, completely unfazed and unharmed. The Chakra claw retracted and attempted a second go at Akua only for the same result.

For a second, Akua stopped and gave him a taunting grin

"Something wrong?" Akua asked almost mocking tone, though before Naruto could say anything, she suddenly disappeared and Naruto's breath suddenly hitched

He instinctively held his arms to cover his face as Akua's fist slammed into it again though Naruto flinched as the force was still felt, the Kyuubi-cloak only dulled the pain.

"She's…not anything like Moka." An almost primal fear came from Naruto's human side as he saw Akua's eyes, as if his own body knew from generations prior the danger that posed in front of him.

He barely had time to block a second punch though Akua finally got close enough to slam her foot into the Shinobi's abdomen

Naruto felt his breath still leave him as his body slammed into another steel container, he gagged for a second before looking up with fury, he was about to move when a voice in his head began to speak again

"She has his abilities but doesn't have his eyes…" The Kyuubi's rumbling caused Naruto to pause and for Akua to blink at the sudden change, a then sudden wave of red Chakra made her recoil.

Naruto's single Kyuubi tail had split into two, while the energy around him began to get really wicked.

"We need to take him alive…but he's getting really dangerous…." Akua mused, seeing Naruto on all fours as he pushed out ragged breaths.

The Vampiress almost couldn't believe this was the same person she partied with and with no hesitation grabbed the old spell tome she was given.

"I can't take any chances with you then…"

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Mizore almost looked in disbelief, they lost audio communication with Naruto and the only thing she could see was the blurry camera feed.

"That reckless idiot!" She cursed while Sasuke leaned back on the computer chair.

"Naruto is fighting a Vampire like Moka, right?" She questioned with a slow voice as Akua finally appeared on the screen, though her details were shaky, Mizore could still make out what she needed

Sasuke though quickly cut them both off

"I might have to go talk to that creepy guy from your Academy about what just happened…there might be a second microphone on the body camera." the Uchiha stated before quickly leaving the camera room

Tsukune only nodded and watched the fighting on the Camera feed, Mizore suddenly stood up and went for the rest of her friends on the porch.

She played with the lollipop in her mouth as she tried her best to keep her nerves under control

"The things I do for this guy…" Mizore took a deep breath, opening the door to see her friends still talking with some of the Konoha Shinobis and Karin.

"Moka-chan, I need you for a second," Mizore called out as the Pink-haired Vampiress blinked

"Eh? But I just got my tea…" Moka gave her friend a sheepish grin though the look on Mizore's face caused her to straighten out and quickly follow her.

"What's this about, Mizore-chan, Tsukune-kun?" She questioned as Moka was led back into the home and in front of the camera feed

"Naruto's fighting a Vampire."

Everyone looked at her as if she grew a second head, only Karin gave a knowing nod about the situation.

"A Vampire?! He's insane!" Ruby cried out while Kurumu only cringed at the volume, though Mizore only shrugged

"Seems like he knows her too."

Moka wordlessly began to follow Mizore back into the house.

She nervously caught up to her Purple-haired friend until laying her eyes onTsukune

"Tsukune-kun!"

Tsukune scratched his cheek and motioned for Moka to sit down, Tsukune gave her a warm smile as Moka spun on the chair slightly before looking at the blurry camera feed.

She could barely make out Naruto's actions as he defended himself from…

"No…There's no way, Why is he…" Moka blinked in surprise as her suspicions were confirmed by her inner self

"So is that really Akua-neechan? But I thought she would be over with Tou-san,. Why is Naruto…" Moka's thoughts were cut off when she got a clear view of a familiar face giving Naruto a chase.

"Akua-neechan, it's her…" Moka's face flashed into concern

"Do you know anything that could help us?" Mizore questioned her Pink-haired friend as she stiffened

"Not a word!" Moka completely stopped herself from speaking upon hearing her inner self

"Keep this all to yourself until we get a chance to speak to Uzumaki directly." Moka blinked

"Does it matter that much?"

"Yes! And We're gonna find out how those two know each other and what's going on here…"

"Moka."

The Vampiress blinked upon seeing Tsukune and Mizore giving her a strange look

"You okay?"

Moka nodded

"Just thinking…um…I'm not totally sure, I might need more information." She mused watching Naruto make distance between him and Akua

"That's not gonna work, Naruto-kun…" Moka took a deep breath as her Rosario did glow one last time

"Now he has my interest.…"

"He seems to be holding on…so we should keep watching," Moka added

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Several strange Runes of all colors began to appear around Naruto, completely encasing him as Akua began to mutter words from the book, the Uzumaki looked around slightly bewildered.

Naruto glared at the Vampiress in front of her as he let out another primal roar and another beacon of energy shot down on the Uzumaki.

Akua was a little taken aback at the amount of Chakra she was witnessing, and for once got a little concerned.

A Third tail appeared catching Akua's attention, immediately the runes shattered causing her to gasp in shock.

The Kyuubi-cloaked Shinobi rushed at her at a blinding speed, and in close range, the Uzumaki slammed his fist into Akua's forearm and for once she winced at the pain

"Jeez, he's not giving me a breather…good.." She trailed off with a sudden smirk knowing this was her element, Naruto's larger frame didn't matter, as she continued to block a flurry of hits from Naruto

"I didn't know you'd hit a girl, Naruto-kun." She almost teased, casually blocking a punch and trying to land her own.

The Uzumaki only scowled and winced at the intense strength of Akua's blows, though eventually, he managed to place his foot behind her leg and trip her.

Akua gasped, she wasn't given a chance to cover as Naruto suddenly latched on to her leg and swung her into a steel container.

This time, She quite literally disappeared into the steel container causing a chill to run down Naruto's spine

"She went through that thing! Like just phased through it!" He mentally exclaimed before tensing up, Akua's silhouette almost completely blindsided him again as he barely dodged a fist from her.

Naruto began to pull back still bewildered again at the strange ability, the Kyuubi's Chakra then began to influence him and he dashed at her before extending his Chakra claw

The large Chakra claw appeared to blitz Akua until Naruto stopped, suddenly his eyes widened and he threw himself to his side as another silhouette came from above

*boom*

Naruto didn't need to cover his face from the dust and dirt being kicked up and he narrowed his eyes at the silhouette and continued to make space.

"Sorry, Akua-nee-chan! I just wanted to know when was a good time to pop in."

The familiar voice caused Naruto to freeze up, he finally got a good look at the person in between them and almost blinked.

"Kahlua?" Naruto tensed up as the blonde Vampiress cheerfully waved at him

"Hi, Naruto-kun! It's been a while, hasn't it?" Kahlua giggled as Akua walked up behind her

"You two know each other?" her red eyes curiously glanced at her sister as Kahlua twirled her hair locks

"Oh, We've…gotten acquainted too...to think you were the one behind all of those headaches for us, Naruto-kun…Why do we have to be fighting? Why don't you just surrender…" Kahlua trailed off with a sudden pout.

"Take him seriously, Kahlua-Imouto, we want this done quickly…" Akua reminded before finally disappearing in another blur.

Naruto stiffened and put his arms up just in time to feel Akua's fist blindside him and slam his chest, he tried to grab her again as she pulled away but to his shock again.

His actual hand went right through her, no matter the Chakra Cloak.

Akua giggled at his bewildered look before another kick nearly took him and only barely blocked it in time, the Uzumaki continued to do his best blocking heavy hits from Akua as she forced him against a steel container.

"Vampires…aren't a fucking joke."

The Red-eyed Shinobi huffed, holding his hand just in time to block her punch and push her fist into the steel container

*Boom*

Akua winced as her bare little fist punched through the steel container and quickly pulled out leaving a small hole. Naruto finally found an opening and slammed his palm into Akua's abdomen.

"Fūton: Reppūshō!"

Akua gasped again at the strong gust of wind slamming into her at such a close proximity, she flew back some distance but quickly broke her fall.

out of the corner of Akua's eye, another beam of dark energy beamed suddenly caught both of their attention as Kahlua's right earring fell to the ground.

"Hahahahah!" Her hollowing laughter caught Naruto off guard and put Akua, a little bit on edge, watching her young sister's transformation so soon.

The Kyuubi-cloaked Shinobi was then blindsided as Akua suddenly opened the spell tome and held her hand out.

Once again several glowing runes of all colors appeared around Naruto, completely encasing him this time.

"We usually don't go beyond three tails…" Naruto scowled feeling just how heavy these magical restraints were, the world slowed down for a second as the red-eyed Shinobi saw his blue-eyed counterpart flash in his mind

"We shouldn't, we can't control anything beyond three tails!"

Another deeper and more booming voice then followed him

"It's not your choice, brat."

The Kyuubi's voice reoriented Naruto's attention to Kahlua's form as her right arm completely turned into five deadly sharpened bat wings.

Naruto felt his blood boiling before finally another burst of red Chakra completely dwarfed Kahlua's own transformation and Akua once again blinked in surprise at the the fourth tail's appearance, but what shocked her more was the skin beginning to peel off Naruto's face.

The white around his eyes completely went away as the Chakra began to darken.

Akua cursed, pointing the spell tome in Kahlua's direction to protect her with a strange pink glowing rune.

"You're only making this harder on yourself!" Akua yelled, though Naruto didn't even bother to reply, his own mind was filled with turmoil as he held his head in pain, and even banged his head against the runes with no regard for his safety.

"I can't let you go beyond three! not again!…" Naruto could hear his other self speak before suddenly feeling a large pool of his chakra tug away and his transformation completely came to a standstill though his face showed dark-red Chakra underneath his skin.

"What are you doing you jackass! We're in the fight for our life!" Naruto growled as the dark red chakra began to turn into a burst that completely shattered the magical runes.

Akua watched as the Runes still gave out under the Kyuubi's Chakra and Naruto only continued to squeeze his head in frustration as the Fourth tail began to recede back into him.

"We can't trust the Fox with anything beyond three! Hell! I don't even trust it with three! We'll lose our lives if we give in so think about our future!"

"Gah! I don't have time for you." Naruto finally shook his head and threw a storage scroll on the ground.

*poof*

For a brief second, Naruto's red eyes blinked and his vision staggered, his brain suddenly throbbing in pain

"Who do you think you are?!"

Naruto could hear his other-self roar as his body almost disobeyed his orders and once again he felt another tug of the Kyuubi's Chakra be ripped away.

"We're not surrendering ourselves to that…" Naruto huffed

The Third tail began to recede quickly just as Naruto picked up his own blade, and twirled around the weapon into a Kenjutsu stance.

"Don't run!" Kahlua's voice was almost desperate.

The Kyuubi's Chakra was still quick to fill into the Kanta and join the rest of Naruto's Two-tailed Chakra cloak.

He had just enough time to block the razor bat wings coming his way

Naruto pushed her back and took a slash at the vampiress though to his complete shock, he sliced nearly through her as some strange liquid exposed itself to him.

For a brief second, Kahlua smiled despite her injury, the Uzumaki could see tears beginning to stream down the Vampiress's face.

"Please don't go."

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Moka's breath hitched, watching Naruto now engage both of her sisters as her legs trembled. Truth be told, she was barely holding it together in her own head, something both Mizore and Tsukune noticed.

"Don't shut down right now!" her inner voice rang out as Moka's heart threatened to escape

"I know this is completely insane, Uzumaki is fighting both of them and is actually holding his own…something I wasn't totally sure was possible but you have to keep this to yourself, we don't know why he's involved with our family now..."

"Moka…" Mizore's voice was soft though her friend only shook her head.

"I'm sorry, I can't help you, Mizore-chan, but These Vampires are pretty strong, I'm just…surprised Naruto-kun is holding his own pretty well." She murmured before the Camera feed suddenly turned red and then completely normal, Tsukune watched his friend on with worry while Mizore was close to breaking down as the camera turned red for just a second

"He should just escape…this is insane, he already did his job!" her voice cracked in fear as she watched Kahlua's transformation and Naruto go in for a close engagement.

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The cloudy sky darkened over the Antarctic military base as Naruto continued to use his blade to block continuous slashes from Kahlua's bat wings.

"Kami, She's fast!" Naruto barely had time to block a vertical slice and threw the Vampiress back again, another slash and the Uzumaki was only able to react.

Finally the Uzumaki actually managed to stab at her side, to his shock, Kahlua grabbed the blade and brought him closer to her weeping eyes

"Why are you doing this to me, Naruto-kun? You and I both know we don't have to fight…" She murmured, Naruto looked at her in confusion before slamming his free hand in her abdomen the same way he did with Akua.

"Fūton: Reppūshō!"

Naruto released his blade still lodged in the unstable Vampiress, Kahlua flew back and slammed into another steel container.

"Hahaha, please, Naruto-kun…" She took a deep breath removing his blade from her side

The Uzumaki did not give her time to recover, he took out a single tagged Kunai and sent the object flying her way.

"Ah?" Kahlua gasped, feeling the Kunai embed itself in her shoulder

"Katsu!"

Only one explosion rang out.

Kahlua didn't bother to shield herself from the small blast but the smokescreen caused her to giggle, she only merely had her body regenerate any injuries as She sensed something from all the dust being kicked up.

"Rasengan!"

Naruto's speeding form dashed for Kahlua as she looked up in shock at the pretty blue orb in Naruto's hand

*Squeach*

Numbness was all he felt before Naruto saw his right forearm detached from his body along with a mess of blood and his Rasengan completely disappeared.

Kahlua paused, seeing the sudden and brutal act almost instantly, Naruto hit the ground along with his removed appendage, he began to squirm on the ground as his Kyuubi cloak began to fade away.

"Ha…haha." Naruto almost laughed, not believing this was real, his right forearm was gone

He felt no pain yet but with how much blood he was losing and how quickly…he turned pale.

Still, Akua casually walked in between the two by some shipping containers with a smirk.

It was then Naruto felt the pain and let out a blood-curdling scream,

"Gaaaaah!"

Naruto grit his teeth trying to stop the blood and he quickly begins to lean himself up against a container

He tried not to throw his bloodied stump around but soon began to see his vision go dark, the only thing Naruto could finally make out was Akua approaching him.

"Jeez, Naruto-kun, Relax…I'm not gonna let you bleed out…" She kneeled down at the bloodied Shinobi and quickly began to tend to his wounds.

Akua was quick to bandage the appendage and stop the bleeding before noticing the Uzumaki was still losing consciousness, the Vampiress extended his neck and Naruto almost didn't resist her due to the blood loss and shock.

"He might want you alive for other reasons but…I think I personally found a place for you…" She quietly whispered the last part to him before sinking her fangs into his neck.

Akua began to pump waves of her blood in him, Kahlua huffed watching her older sister for a few seconds before noticing just how long Akua was putting blood in the Shinobi

"Akua-nee-chan? Can we hurry and clean up here?" She murmured as Akua continued to pour her blood, it was almost another minute before she pulled back

"Yeah..s-so…besides…we want to find out why he's been on our asses for so long…" Akua trailed off with a rare exhausted sigh, she looked at her handy work on Naruto's neck but for once couldn't believe she felt some exhaustion from this fight and just how much blood she gave away.

Kahlua walked over and began to inspect Naruto's form, she noticed the small camera that had recorded and miraculously survived the whole ordeal

"Oh, we had people watching us…" She gave a smile at the camera and childishly waved.

"Destroy it, please…" Akua requested, taking a breather from everything. Kahlua hummed as she grabbed the bodycam and crushed it in her palm.

it was then Kahlua noticed a marking on Naruto's neck and she gasped

"You've marked him, Akua-nee-chan?!" Kahlua shouted in disbelief as she picked up the unconscious Shinobi and looked at her older sister as she took a deep breath

"Well…If he survives the transformation, I think he'll be a worthwhile guy to have around…besides…he's not a monster, I know that for sure." Akua casually stated Kahlua looked at the unconscious blond Shinobi with some interest but no more words were said as the two began to carry off their new prisoner.

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End

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Don't string me up, yet, please, it's been a year, I'm just trynna give you some content,I just need one more chapter for recovery and Mizore will be back in Naruto's arms, I legit had to spent like 6 months in the hospital, won't get into it, glad to be alive and breathing and better yet, it was paid for. Anyway, this story will continue, till my death

Sorry it got a bit graphic, expect a bit more of that next chapter before we get back to the nice stuff, Naruto needs to pick up his good cool shit soon.

Akua and Kahlua winning? Hard to write, very hard to write. They're even with Naruto on his Kyuubi 1-3 tail state, I think anyway, like I said, any advice would be appreciated for that one, it held up the story for sometime, OH naruto's arm, you'll know what I'm doing with that

One more chapter, just one more, it's even a recovery romance and I can go back to Rosario vampire and the Academy. I'll do hotfixes when I can, god bless my adhd and my spiteful refusal to die.