Chapter 20

In the lands of Konoha, where the soil is rich, and where life blossoms a plenty, from looking side to side one could see forest and animals grazing and living finely, some enhanced by chakra and some just wilder than most.

As the birds fly, and the animals fled away from a blood curdling scream, going deeper into an abandoned training ground just a few meters away from where the villagers tend to be gathered, an area not so dissimilar to a natural forest but still within the borders of Konoha.

"Nooo!!! Please!! I bejdjsok," Choji couldn't fully beg for his life as a hand got thrusted onto him.

"Alright, who's left?" Nashi or what seems to be a clone of him said as he wiped some sweat off his brow.

"Naruto, are you up?" Sasuke asked weakly.

"I, I, I don't want to," Naruto stammered in fear as he lay down on the ground hoping that Nashi won't remember his existence.

"Hmm, 5 minutes should be up now, I wonder where Naruto is," he said and instantly where Naruto used to lie he was no more, "you thought you could run," Nashi suddenly appeared on Naruto's right, but when Nashi lunged forward Naruto dodged up and continued his frantic escape.

"Everyone, let's go while Naruto distracts Nashi," Sasuke said as half of them groggily got up.

"Where should we hide?" Shino asked not wanting to feel the bugs inside of him to feel that rush of painful shock ever again.

"H, H, How does he even do that," Sakura asked as she rubbed her calf.

"That's what he is aiming for us to achieve. Mastery over the elements that you can manipulate it without a set of hand signs," Shikamaru said as he got on one knee and placed his hands on the ground.

"I'll grab Choji, you guys get Ino," Kiba said as he pulled up the recently knocked out boy.

"Guys we need to move, now," Shikamaru said as he surprisingly got up faster than everyone, and before everyone could ask.

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Naruto's dying scream could be heard through out the forest, maybe the entire village also.

"Hmp," Nashi sat up from his bed rubbing his eyes he heard some muffled noises.

"Are you alright?" Was the first thing he properly heard.

"I is good, but why are you all looking at me like I died?" Nashi asked as he looked up to his team.

"Well because they thought you did," a sound came behind him.

"Hmm?" Nashi turned back just to see his blood clone, "good thing the mud clone worked," I said with a smile.

"Yeah mind telling us when you do something like that next time? We nearly killed one after finding two of you," Hayate sighed out.

"Yeah it was shocking to see two pukes knocked out, and if it wasn't for Tsubaki one of us might have killed you," Sai said.

"We couldn't be sure if both was real or not since out of all of us you constantly used clones, so I assumed you had some way to make a durable clone," she said while looking at my blood clone.

"Well we needed some extra hands, so I made it hastily," I said.

"If so how did it maintain itself for a long period of time?" Hayate asked after hearing that it was a clone.

"That's simple," the clone sounded out, "we use chakra absorption to substitute that problem, allowing original to use less chakra when creating us and subsequently allowing us to maintain ourselves for a long period of time,"

"Quite resourceful," Hayate said as he coughed into his hand.

"But wouldn't there be some risks?" Tsubaki asked.

"Generally yes," Nashi said.

"But seeing that i'm but a clone," clone Nashi.

"Made and formed from chakra itself," I said.

"A little poisonous atmospheric chakra does little," clone said.

As we finished we heard someone clap and as if we waited for it we both stood up and bowed down, "how long did you practice to get it down perfectly," Sai sounded out since the two was just looking, Tsubaki having a little twitchy eyebrow, while Hayate smiled a bit.

"Mind me asking something?" Sai asked and we nodded, "wont he like transfer the chakra it has when it disperses,"

"Hmm, doesn't that only apply to the shadow clone," I said as we looked at each other.

"Ahh, I see," Sai said as he wrote something in his notes.

"Does that mean all of us can learn that," Tsubaki said as she lifted a small box and placed it beside him.

"Quite," I said, "but learning how to absorb chakra is the hardest part of it. Learning medical ninjutsu is one of the first steps but that's only one, after that you have a sharp curve to being able to open your chakra pathways in a manor that allows you to absorb chakra, but that's not all you need to be capable of multi tasking as opening it is one step, sucking it in is another," Nashi said as all of them went with the usual path when Nashi begins his ranting mode, Tsubaki ignores, Sai writes down, and Hayate understandably listening.

"By the way how long have I been out?" Nashi asked since the last thing he remembered he saw two people flying away with koyuki.

"About an hour or two," my clone said.

"Explains the pain," I said as I slowly got up, "hey clone, you know what to do," I said as I spread open my arms showing my bare back at him, the clone grinned, while everyone looked at me curiously. The clone began to gather chakra between his finger after that he launched them at my back to which I winced in pain.

"Should last about 5 hours, though as you know,"

"Don't push it, you cant feel it doesn't mean it doesn't effect you," I finished his words.

"What did you do?" Hayate asked since he didn't know.

"Acupuncture," Sai said catching his attention, "pukes did these to all of us when we couldn't stay up for look outs or when we get exhausted or when in pain," said explained, since aside from casual supervision Hayate didn't know what they did when doing their preparation for combat.

Walking out Nashi figured out what Tsubaki had placed beside my bed, it was my clothes, to which I looked down and sighed in relief since I wasn't walking around with my jonson out. Putting on the clothes I walked out of the small tent that was hastily put up, walking out the blizzard was in full effect now, looking up it looks like night time had just struck.

"Good to see your awake kid, you took us for a loop there since you were heavily damaged, were even quite surprised that your up and about," Mr. Makino said behind me.

"Don't worry old man, i'm moving fine and alive," I said as I looked around, while waving my arms and leg.

"Sadly they took the princess," he said sadly.

"I am well aware of that old man," I moved around the small battle field dragging my legs.

"I don't think she will live, and i'm saddened but I think we cant continue this," the old man said sadly.

"I Don't think so, since i'm pretty sure I knew what they were after," I said crouching and rummaging around the snow.

"How can you be so sure?" Makino asked, curiosity in his tone.

"Well have you ever heard the full story of the rainbow light in the land of snow?" I asked as I stood up gripping something.

"Care to explain?" He asked.

I looked at him gripping the neckless I gave the clone, which I noticed wasn't on his ankle, "the princess of the snow, holds the key to shine the light and melts the snow," I said as I lifted it to show him, "we can probably bargain for her,"

"Dam, well i'll be, shinobi's sure are cunning," he laughed as he got that light back in his eyes, "i'll get them ready kid, I hope your correct about this,"

"You sure this would work?" My clone asked me.

"Well it worked in the story, plus i'm pretty sure he doesn't know how to access the dam thing so I think he is keeping her alive. I hope at least," I said as I grabbed something from the clone.

"Welp I hope we can survive," he said as he looked out at the snow.

"Alright Sai, lets form up," I said as I turned into a giant that is nearly transparent.

"Why are you semi transparent?" Sai asked.

"Don't know, thought it would be cool adding onto the thing I said about shinigami rules and what not," I said with a grin.

"Why do I have to be film guy," clone whined out.

We traveled through the forest as the others traveled through the tracks, we are traveling through the forest since clone's strings was still attached to the old fucker when he flew away so we had some strings to follow, though our plan wasn't fool proof since they could have easily cut the strings so that's the reason they are following through tracks, but our two say plan seems to be unneeded since when we got to the end of the string we found the location.

"This guy sure was dumb wasn't he pukes," Sai remarked as he looked up to a giant snow mountain where red lights flickered on an off slowly.

"Lets hope so, since if he knew then he probably set up some traps," I said as I punched the snow to see if there was some secrets, "ok no secret entrance or something," I said when the sound it made when I punched it wasn't metal.

"Shall we begin to climb?" Sai asked.

"Lady's first," I said and he began to look around.

"But miss doll isn't here?" He asked innocently.

I just sighed as my little jab at his looks went over his head, I just then pushed the snow to the side and grabbed the ice and did the same for the other hand and soon I began to climb.

"You sure we will reach there?" My clone asked as he was being dragged in a sled with Hayate.

"It's either that or we join them," Hayate said as two of my clones were fully transformed into wolves made to drag a big sled to make their journey cinematic for the camera crew, while behind them dragging on was the rest of the crew, the camera crew and the resistance group.

"Well i'm guessing Tsubaki is having the time of her life huh," I said as I saw Tsubaki basically shining as she was introduced to the relentless cold attacking her, "bet she's already planning to counter the cold, either that or she already found a way,"

"HMMMM!?!?!?!?!" Was the only sound an enemy shinobi could do as I crushed his throat while covering his mouth.

"Are you sure about this pukes?" Sai asked as he stood as look out.

"I don't know either, but seeing as this one has keys I would bet that we are close to the jail area," I said while nabbing the keys off his corpse.

"What should we do when she doesn't require our help?"

"We're shinobi Sai, if she doesn't require it we push it," I said as my figure disappeared and turned into one of the enemy, transformation finished I dragged the body in the corner and placed it in the vents that we crawled through.

"Wont they notice that we broke in here?" Sai asked, because before we were here.

[a few minutes later]

"How do we even enter?" Sai asked as in front of us is something we never had to come across before, it was a metal wall, there was no key hole or even hinges we could pry it from, however there was a control panel, looking closer it was a key pad thing, Sai suggested to do random numbers but I had other plans. Charging my hand with electricity I punched through the dam thing, with my power I punched through it and with my electricity I short circuited it, though Sai was very cautious and so looking up we found the vents, which we entered.

[flash back end]

"Don't sweat it pale buddy, plus if they come at us we got my clone to overwhelm them with numbers," I said as I pointed at the transformed clone.

We moved forward after confirming him that we got backup upon backup plans if ever needed, so without hesitation we walked into the prison that I was sure she would be held at. Looking around did us nothing because apparently that wasn't the only prison area since sadly for us there is in total 4 of them, one on the north, east, south, and west, all representing this giant fortress on top of what I think is a giant frozen rock, it doesn't help that everything inside is dark and is lit up with fucking purple lights.

"Pukes, I found a schedule," Sai said as he poked his head out of a room.

"Well lets hope they keep records of where they imprison their prisoners," I walked in and stepped over two dead people.

"Looks like we got an hour or two before the next shift happens," Sai said as he pointed at the papers he held.

"Welp we can pull the good old IOU," I said while looking at the trash pile of sticky notes.

"What about the bodies?" Sai asked as he filed through their most recent documents.

"Well their's a giant pit we could drop them in," I said while looking down at the heavy fall.

"Have you checked the bottom? We don't want another incident like the last time we dropped bodies down a hole," Sai reminded me of one of our extermination missions where I haphazardly dropped a body down what I thought was an empty well that turned out to be a secret entrance, which made us have to work with no sleep for 3 days to hunt them all down.

"Fine, you got any sealing scrolls?" I asked as I rummaged inside my satchel to see if I had any spare storage scrolls that I don't use to store food or clothing.

"I do," Sai then pulled out a sealing scroll, which he stored the bodies with.

"Alright lets clean this blood up," I then pulled out a scroll which popped out a chemical solution that dissolves blood, which I used to spray the surroundings.

"Where do you think they are holding the princess?" Sai then looked at the building's layout.

"Well if our experience were to be trusted I think they are holding her near the center," I encircled the center.

"Most likely, but how will we be doing that without being discovered, and going through the middle would not work seeing as it would be the most guarded, and going back and forth would lead suspicion towards us," Sai stroked his chin.

"True, and after our little stunt with one of their strongest the security must have been increased," I then began to think, that is until I heard a knocking at the door.

"Hey its time to change shifts," the man outside said, I stopped Sai before he could slit their throat.

"We could use this situation," I then transformed and opened the door, "isn't this shift to early?" I asked after seeing that this one was bigger than the ones we just killed.

"Yeah, but da boss wanted us to change early, something about unfamiliar energy and shit," it was clear he didn't care and just wanted to finish this quickly.

"Ahh, so where are we going to transfer?" I asked.

"Ya stupid or something," he got closer at me and tapping his pointer finger at my chest, which I needed to stretch out my body so he would tap my head, "from here ya move to da west wing, clackwise an shit," he then moved out of the way to let us pass.

"Thank you sir," I then moved out as Sai followed me, moving out we saw a giant N on the wall marking us in the north.

"It seems like were going to need to move clockwise pukes," Sai grinned at me.

"As if I didn't already know," I rolled my eyes, "but biggest question currently is where is clockwise?" I rubbed my chin.

"I mean we could just move right" Sai pointed towards the right.

"Hmmm, you calling me stupid" I gave him a smile.

"More wondering it than thinking it," I just sighed seeing he didn't get my joke, and went to the right, walking further we reached a hallway that had a W on the wall, walking in we found the room that held the guard and regurgitated the same information just south instead of west.

"Hmm," I peeked my head out to see if anyone was their, "Sai lets search the cells," we nodded at each other and ran around, Sai going from top to bottom and I jumped down forming clones to run around each floor.

As soon as I landed, one of then popped, "well fuck," I then jumped back to the first floor, I threw a kunai at Sai to get his attention.

"Well hello their princess," I then leaned on the bar forgetting its properties, "ahhhh, fuuuuck," I then countered it with my very own lightning which was strong enough to fry the bars with lightning tags on them.

"Well don't you look awesome," she said staying on the corner.

I sighed, "Princess, look," I held out her neckless, which she then began to search her chest finding nothing.

"So it was you, you're the reason I lost my neckless," She then got up on her feet and walked closer, "Give it back,"

"Wait hold on, you don't want to get electrocuted now," I wagged my finger at her.

"What are you doing?" Sai asked after arriving.

"Nothing much, just doing the save," I then unlocked the door letting her walk out and dropping the neckless on her hands.

"Thank you," she said which curling inwards and looking at the crystal neckless which got Sai to look at me, and I just gave Sai the same look.

"Welp its time to escape," Sai then walked towards me.

"Follow me I know where to go," she then nearly tripped as a shockwave suddenly exploded in the castle.

"Welp it looks like the attack has started," I then looks like they have arrived.

"FOR FIRE BALL!!!!!" All of the clones said out as they picked up rocks that was on fire thanks to the layer of oil, and threw them with chakra burst to increase their speed, making it strike with the same power as a cannon.

"Bro we are running out of chakra," one of the clones said as he picked up a rock.

"Mud bro has our back," one of them said.

"Where the fuck is mud bro!?!?" One of them said out.

"I'm right here ya idiots," blood was on the railing absorbing the chakra, "now get your asses over here and start sucking," I then pulled out a stick and stuffed it full of chakra, hearing a shard snap not so dissimilar to when a branch is about to give out blood instantly threw it as hard as he could not to mention the following sonic boom that jammed it deep into the walls, after striking the walls it suddenly exploded.

"ATTACK!!!!!" The director yelled out as the resistance and warriors, along with Tsubaki and Hayate charged in, while the two were disguised they charged in front to shield most of the people who were just regular civilians with sharp sticks and blades.

"Lets get out of here fast, cause if we don't this place will fall," I said as I prepared to run, but before we could she stopped me.

"Wait, I know where to go," she said, as she turned her back towards us we looked at each other shrugged and followed her.

"Pukes you sure about this?" Sai whispered to me.

"Well by the looks of it she's playing us, but if i'm correct she'll lead us to the big boss," I whispered back.

"I don't know, what if they set up a trap for us?" Sai began to look around us to try and find a hint of a trap.

"Ok Sai clone up, make sure its an illusion to not waste as much chakra," I answered as I began to fade from existence and a clone takes my place, I slowed down so that it would go ahead of me, after that Sai did the same.

"Lets go up and walk through the roof," the camera clone said.

"Shit, forgot you were their, but good plan clone," he rolled his eyes at me and we began to walk up the wall until we were upside down.

"Wait what if she asks us something?" Sai asked.

"We'll have to wing it buddy," I replied since I to noticed the distance we are from the princess.

"How stupid are they to just leave the chakra running through the rails on," one of the clones said as he threw another rock.

"I don't think they expected clones like us to just out right use it against them," another one replied as he threw a log that was sharpened at the tip.

"True, by the way any of you saw Hayate or Tsubaki?" Another clone asked.

"Don't know, but from what I can guess they went inside the building," a clone holding a camera said.

"What about the director?" Another clone asked.

"Don't know, but from that old mans passion i'm betting my money that he entered the building with them," another clone tossed a corpse at one of the towers.

"Should we you know, enter?" A clone with a mustache asked.

"Yoooo, how you got that stash," a clone asked as he ripped a dead enemy body in two to double his ammo.

"Were clones, just transform, also I don't know, it would end the fun to quickly," a clone said as he and the others put up a earth wall to protect themselves from the kunai launcher.

"This is getting super stale bro," one said as he attached a note on a corpse and died throwing it at one of the towers, when the body splatted agains the glass it exploded as the tag activated.

"Should we follow his lead?" A clone asked.

"Banzai?" Another one asked.

"Banzai," and it went down hill from there.

"BANZAI!!!!" A clone yelled out as from the wall an army of clones ran out with rasengan's and chidori's charge on each hand.

"BANZAI BITCHES!!!!!!" As each clone got close to the wall the ones behind jumped and all of them crashed to the wall and an explosion of electricity and pure force was felt, those who were on top shit themselves as feral looking children screamed banzai as they pushed their chakra charged hands against the wall of glass, and on that day the front wall of the castle fell to some drugged up children screaming banzai.

"Pukes what are they doing to make such a strong shock wave?" Sai asked as he felt the entire castle shaking.

"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this," I said as we finally entered the throne room, and as Sai had predicted an ambush had occurred as both the pink haired girl and light blue haired guy tried to string up the clones we had set up.

"What!?!?!" Both of them asked as me and Sai instantly jumped down on them, mine slightly faster as I used chakra burst to create a devastating and quicker end to my enemy, but sadly she dodged and the shock factor didn't land since the other dude also jumped out of the way.

"FUBUKI!!" The dude yelled out as Sai launched a gut punch, which he decided to ignore which was a horrible idea as instead of it landing weaker it instead landed with full force as Sai gripped on the purple crystal we had broken into four pieces one for each.

"NADERE?!?!?!" She yelled out confused at how the brat could hit him, as I got closer she saw the purple light within my palm, after seeing that she decided to fly up to prevent him from catching her.

"Thanks for the easy combo bitch," I said confusing her until wires suddenly became visible, it tightened around her which then I pulled as hard as I could deviating her from her path and making her stomach land firmly to my foot that came flying at her, stunning her mid air I then kicked her down adding chakra burst upon impact to increase the damage, before landing I made sure to kill her as I threw a bottle of alcohol and a few fire crackers at her.

As I landed the fire behind me came to life with the explosives, "Utterly useless," the old man said as he threw princess yukie down, he then removed his yukata and charged at me.

"Looks like someone is as stupid as he looks," I then threw the gem at him lodging it between the wires attached on the yin-yang thing on his chest and his armor.

He ignored this and continued to charge at me, I prepared a chidori, seeing as he was only charging forward I responded in kind as I to rushed at him, him on the other hand saw the elemental attack and launched his fist at it, and as chidori and fist collided what happened was his hand split into two like some sort of dinosaurs mouth opening but in this case ripping open with blood and bones.

"AHHHHHH!!!" He screamed like a bitch as he held on his bicep as I couldn't stab through their since my arm was to short to reach deeper, "H-H-HOW!?!?!?!" He yelled confused making me actually realize that this man never knew the weaknesses of his technology or he was just confident about it.

Before I could respond at his question a white blur passed by me and tried to scoop his boss, but he failed as my wires that I tied around doto's arm tugged him back, which me and Sai didn't let to waste as he jumped down at him tanto in hand, he rolled to the side just to be pushed deeper into the ground with a rasengan to the head that grinded his face into ground meat leaving nothing but a pile of blood, bone, and some brain matter splattered around.

"So can we kill him or do you want the honors princess," I asked behind him as princess yukie walked out of the shadows behind him.

"P-p-princess, my niece, y-you wont do it r-right," he stammered out in fear seeing her standing above him with the very same knife she tried and failed to stab him with.

"Did you kill my father," she said silently.

"C-come again?" He asked in fear.

"WHY DID YOU KILL MY FATHER!!!" She yelled out as she lunged the dagger in her hand into his throat, "WHY," stab, "WHY," stab, "WAS IT YOUR GREED!!," stab, "WAS IT BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO BE HEAD," stab, "WHY," stab, "HOW COULD YOU," stab, "HE JUST WANTED THE BEST FOR US," she plunged her dagger into his face once more, now exhausted and tired she let go of the knife seeing as she couldn't pull it out any more, "why, why did it have to be us, why did it have to be you father? You just wanted to see spring in this desolate land, WHY!!!" She finally let out years of tears that was buried deep inside, she had finally let out tears that laid frozen for years.

"Hey princess, want to see something cool?" I asked after exiting the hidden door behind the throne.

"Do what you want, i'm tired," I then did as she told, I picked her up and walked towards a wall that I broke with a kick.

"Where's Nashi Sai?" Hayate asked.

"Follow the foot prints," Sai pointed at the busted through wall.

"I'll stay and help," Tsubaki said as she helped Sai remove the armor they were wearing.

"You remember what your father wanted to tell you?" I asked as we finally arrived at a clearing, there seven massive pillars stood, yukie was drowned in memories the moment she laid eyes on this familiar land, it was where her father tended to take her out when ever she felt sad, in this area where once in a year the light would clash and collide to show the world a blinding array of colors.

"Believe in the future, if you do the spring will surely come," a gentle voice echoed out, something unheard to most, but someone unmistakable for the little princess, "what will you do when it comes koyuki?" And she bursted into tears again as she could remember her father once more.

"Do not worry your pretty little head, you will see the spring not just in pictures but in reality, for as your father I will bring you joy," she remembered the words of her father, as they got closer to the middle Nashi let her down gently, he then inserted the crystal key into the center, soon after their surrounding temperature began to rise, "you will be able to feel it one day koyuki, here in our home," memories entered her again.

As the snow began to melt, the pillars began to shine, and in the middle Nashi let out all of his chakra, his chakra turned into a rainbow color as the light began to reflect off of it, "by the way happy birth day princess koyuki," I grinned at her as I let out my chakra exhausting myself.

"Is he going to be alright?" Sam asked as he continued to film.

"Cant you see, he's dedicated," Makino said as they continued to film the fading genjutsu of Hidero, fading like Nashi's chakra.

"Will he be ok?" Tsubaki asked.

"Meh, looks like original just crashed after the acupuncture wore off, it probably wore off long ago and he just continued to push himself," clone said as he lifted my sleeves and jeens to see wires wrapped around two planks sandwiching his legs.

"Well I guess things don't change huh," Hayate said as all three of them laughed at Nashi who was in a coma for three days.

"How are we going to break this to him?" Sai asked as he pulled out an image of Koyuki kissing him in his sleep, it wasn't a normal peck on the cheek but a straight up kiss on the lips, on the side of the photo was her signature with a heart instead of a dot in the letter I.

"Black mail?" The clone asked.

"Isn't he you?" Tsubaki narrowed her eyes at the clone.

"Hey don't look at me like that, I may be a clone but I live life to the fullest, plus if I ever need a disguise I can just turn older or something, probably get myself a beautiful stash, or even look old as hell, or grow myself a vagina, I could be a real life hermaphrodite if I wanted to," the clone rambled on.

"Whats a hermaphrodite?" Sai asked.

"Its when a man or a woman is born with both a penis and a vagina," Hayate informed.

"So does that mean this hermaphrodite can create its very own line of children?" Tsubaki asked.

"In theory yes," and all of their voices faded out as they continued the line of dialog.

"YES FINALLY OUR FIRST REAL MISSION,"

Chapter end.

As always thanks for reading have a good rest of your day, afternoon, night or what ever time your in, as always tell me if there are some mistakes, what things I can fix about my righting, basically tell me what I can improve on.

Question of the day: can one enhance the 1000 years of death with chakra elements? Like can Kakashi just chidori his 1000 years of death and slice a man or woman into from there asshole? And if so what would you guys call it?