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Naruto, from his spot against the snowy valley watched as the last of the 300-man unit entered the valley.

Making a cross-shaped seal, eight clones appeared, disappearing to do their assigned task. Naruto took a deep breath, centering himself to absorb the natural energy around himself, it took time, minutes went by as he closed his eyes working to merge the natural energy with his own. After 5 minutes he opened his eyes to show a full golden ring with a cross pupil.

Naruto made another cross seal, summoning another clone that popped immediately. The until had marched right into the ambush zone, when behind them explosives went off atop both sides of the valley causing an avalanche of snow to cover their exit. Naruto could hear the captain yelling at his men to reorganize, that an attack was coming.

"He's not bad."

Naruto pulled out a handful of ninja tools and channeled wind chakra through them until they were glowing white. He focused on the area where the captain was issuing orders and hurled the projectiles through the air with sage-enhanced strength, they cut through the air fiercely, killing the captain and a few soldiers around him, sending the rest into a frenzy.

"The captain!"

"Where'd that come from?!"

"It's a shinobi!"

Naruto abandoned his position. A few archers spotted him, they unleashed arrows as his form blurred against the side of the valley. Naruto made a cross seal as a single clone appeared, and took off towards Momaru and his men.

Four of Naruto's clones appeared in pairs, to the front and rear of the unit.

"VANGUARD SPLIT!"

Someone in the unit shouted. The pairs of clones made similar hand signs.

Their voices melded together as both sides let loose the same destructive jutsu.

"Wind Style" Great Breach!"

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu."

The jutsu at both ends converged incineration half the company with that attack. All the clones poofed away as the survivors tried to tend to the injured and put out flames.

They slowly regrouped, trying to stand firm. Naruto could hear shouts of bravery but their number was less than 100 now. Going through a long sequence of hand seals Naruto slowly manipulated the snow into water.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu." Naruto manipulated the dragon toward their rear until, near the caved-in entrance. The soldiers screamed in panic as the water dragon hit, crushing and drowning many.

A Naruto clone reached Momaru and his unit who watched stunned into silence at a young boy's decimation of grown men in a number as great as 300. The clone landed in front of Momaru who flinched back in fear.

This boy, no this Shinobi was dangerous. The sooner he left the Land of Snow, the better.

'Naruto' walked up to Momaru.

"It's time for your men to move in. They are decimated and demoralized. Move quickly." 'Naruto' poofed right after startling Momaru further.

"Taichou?..." Tadashi asked tentatively with hesitance in his voice.

"Are we going to attack?"

"Yeah, MEN! ITS TIME TO ATTACK!"

Momaru screamed rushing towards the until his men were knocked out of their shock and rallied behind him.

"Yeah!"

"Follow the Taichou!"

"For the Land of Snow!"

Tadashi followed closely behind Momaru, Momaru drew his sword. Tadashi let loose a few arrows that whistled past striking a few samurai in the front ranks. Momarus force hit the unordered, low-morale unit hard. Naruto watched from his perch as the remaining soldiers of the 300 unit surrendered. Momaru's unit had zero casualties. Tadashi had just finished tying up the survivors when Naruto dropped down.

Naruto turned to Momaru who was arguing with Tadashi.

"What do you two plan to do with these soldiers?"

Momaru squared his shoulders furious.

"They are traitors serving under Dotou, we will execute them."

"Taichou, there's been enough blood spilled. There's no reason to kill those that surrendered."

"Don't argue with me Tadashi! I gave an order."

Naruto looked at the surviving soldiers. They were wet and cold, some had burn marks from his jutsu. They barely had a will to live. He turned his head to look at the carnage, so many men dead, and for what? Dotou? Because their leader ordered them to, they came out here to die? Naruto looked down at his hand, as a shinobi of the Leaf, no as a shinobi, was he any different?

"We let them go." Both men turned to Naruto, Tadashi looked grateful, while Momaru drew his sword, pointing it at Naruto.

"Fuck that! Because of these cowards." Momaru waved his sword in the direction of the captured soldiers," Their general, my father, was betrayed and hung by his men!"

Some of the captured soldiers looked down, but they never forgot what they did.

"Momaru, more blood will not make your father happy. Stay focused on our goal," Naruto stared intently at him, "liberate Snow, Save Koyuki. She is your princess after all."

Momaru stared at it, sword handshaking. Momaru subtly looked around to see his men whispering. They looked uneasy with his decision.

Momaru sheathed his sword and walked away.

"Fine, do whatever you want."

Naruto watched him go, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding on to. Did he save those soldiers for Momaru's sake or his own? A part of him knew it was for his own sake.

Naruto walked toward the boulders that prevented them from exiting the ravine. Naruto stared, contemplating how he could create a pathway through when he heard a voice call out to him.

"Shinobi! Shinobi!" Naruto turned his head to see Tadashi jog up to his right side.

"Can I help you?" Tadashi bowed low at the waist.

"Thank you! For protecting our unit and saving the captain from making a mistake!" Naruto stared, he felt guilty. He killed so many men, yet he was being thanked for it. Naruto was at a loss for words, he felt unsure, so he settled for a nod. Tadashi visibly brightened, bowed again, and headed back to the men, rounding them up to get ready for the next push.

Naruto stared at the wall of boulders again.

"I wish I knew earth release. I'll have to use the wind to cut an opening."

Naruto placed him down against the boulders. boulders, veins bulged on his forehead, and a white line cut the bottom boulder but none of the others.

"Damn, I'm going to have to mold a lot of chakra to do this."

Naruto sat down in a meditative stance, closed his eyes, and began to breathe softly. His whisker marks darkened turning into something that looked like fangs, after 5 minutes he opened his eyes. There was a deep yellow ring around his eyes and a cross pupil that looked animalistic. Naruto stood up placing his hands back on the boulders. Taking another deep breath, he molded all of the sage chakra in his body, while Momaru and his unit gathered behind him.

"What's he doing Tadashi?"

"Creating a path, I believe."

Some of the other soldiers murmured to themselves. They had seen Naruto in action themselves, they did not doubt his abilities, not anymore but this. This was something else.

Naruto snapped his eyes open as he released a concentrated wave of wind chakra that cut a large V into the snowy, boulder area blasting it away. Naruto's sage features left him as he took off through the opening with the soldiers yelling and cheering behind him.

Naruto, Momaru, Tadashi, and his unit reached the rear of the capital. Naruto's eyes blazing gold could feel where all the enemies were, they were relatives unmolested. They probably thought the force of 300 would take care of any attacks from this side.

"Hmmmm." Naruto could feel Kakashi move to engage Nadare.

Kakashi with his book stowed away stared at Nadare with aloofness in his eyes.

Nadare started to chuckle, finding the entire situation hilarious.

"You've come back to die, Kakashi."

Kakashi raised his headband revealing his Sharingan eye that blazed with intensity.

"I've been dead for years."

Nadare flickered behind Kakashi, stabbing towards his head with a kunai. Kakashi twisted, catching his wrist, Nadare twisted his arm breaking free, jumping back to dodge Kakashi's kick to his kidney. Nadare flicked his kunai at Kakashi, formed a hand seal,

"Ice Style: Ice lances!" Lances from the frigid air formed into 10-foot lances that launched at Kakashi. Kakashi pulled out a kunai he used to deflect Nadare's, and threw his kunai at the circle of ice lances, forming the ram sign, his kunai exploded destroying all of the lances.

Nadare clicked his teeth, diving at Kakashi, he attacked ferociously, Kakashi, weaved in between blows, blocked his kicks with his thighs, and slapped an overextended punch to the right, leaving him open to a punch into his side, Nadare grunted, forming a ram sign with one hand, puffed his cheeks and let loose an icy storm point blank at Kakashi.

POOF*

A tree stump appeared, getting hit by the ice blast. It froze over immediately.

Nadare scanned the area. The samurai were fighting, buildings had collapsed from the conflict.

Jumping on top of a building, he continued to roof hop, scanning for Kakashi.

Nadare gritted his teeth.

"Come out Kakashi! Fine, then die." Nadare with lightning speed went through a long chain of hand seals.

Nadare landed on the ground, "Ice Style: Ice devastation." Spikes of ice started sprouting up all the entrances to the capital. The samurai that Kakashi came with as well as the defending forces were impaled by the ice.

A kunai imbued with lightning cut through some ice spikes in a flash, embedding itself in Nadare's chest portion of his chakra armor. He grunted in surprise. He looked down confused at first, then chuckled.

"Well, well, well. My chakra armor makes all the difference," "You can't beat me, friend killer."

A large dog burst from the snow below him, he bit into Nadare's left arm, and another dog bit his shoulder but could not pierce the chakra armor. Nadare quickly punched both dogs, releasing his arm. Nadare jumped, dodging three more dogs that burst from the ground attempting to restrain him. His right arm flopped uselessly, as he formed another ram sign blowing out a burst of icy wind, a few dogs were hit, poofing away right after.

"COME OUT KAKASHI!" Kakashi appeared to his side, landing a brutal kick to his liver. Nadare stumped then grinned. "Hahaha good!"

Nadare formed another one-handed sign, a sword of ice forming in his usable hand. Kakashi pulled out a kunai that he used to block, his blows aimed at his face, thighs, neck, and heart. Kakashi made eye contact casting a genjutsu on him, Nadare paused, gritted his teeth, and broke out, crouched, dodging the kunai aimed at his eye by a hair, stabbing forward, Kakashi made eye contact with him again freezing him just enough to jump out of range. Nadare breathed deeply, and a couple of drops slid down into his eye. He wiped it away, The blow was a lot closer than he realized. There was no way he could beat him with one hand. At this rate, he was going to die. Nadare narrowed his eyes, grinding his teeth. He formed the seal for the ice breath again, breathing it onto his bleeding arm to stop the bleeding. Nadare gave his arm a few test swings while watching Kakashi who stood there silently watching him. His sharing was a real problem.

"Ice Style: Frozen wind."

A light gust of snow, ice, and wind appeared obscuring their movements. Nadare smirked confidently. It was mist, he could feel Kakashi, but without his Sharingan, his genjutsu would not be a problem. There! He propelled himself toward him, forming another sword with his other hand. Nadare closed in behind an unaware Kakashi silently under the cover of his Jutsu. Appearing at his back, He swiped both blades at once, cutting Kakashi in half, *POOF* Kakashi disappeared, and a lightning-enhanced kunai pierced through the frozen wind, piercing right through Nadares already injured arm below the elbow. He screamed, losing the ability to hold anything in that arm. Nadare's eyes shifted left and right, sweat ran down his face in large quantities. This battle was lost, he needed to retreat. Nadare dashed out of the frozen wind, toward the castle to heal up.

"Lightning beast tracking fang!" A lightning wolf hit Nadare, and his chakra armor flared up absorbing the blow.

"HAHAHA, You can't kill me Kakashi!"

Kakashi appeared, watching a heavily bleeding and injured Nadare rush into the castle. The samurai he had traveled with had just finished their battle. He covered his Sharingan, letting loose a sigh at the chakra drain lessening.

"I wonder how Naruto is doing."

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Momaru and his unit made it to the castle, they began to storm it fighting their way to Dotou.

Naruto trailing the group, using his senses to cover the group. They were running across an old training ground in the back of the castle when Naruto sensed the buildup of chakra in the area in front of them.

"STOP!"

The entire unit stopped in confusion, Momaru turned to yell at Naruto when the entire area in front of them was covered in ice spikes.

Before they could say anything else Naruto directed them away from the upcoming battle.

"Take the left path, There are shinobi up ahead. I'll try to link up with you later, if not good luck."

Naruto nodded to the unit.

"Thank you for your help, shinobi!"

"You're one of us now!"

"Survive!"

"We'll party after the battle!"

Naruto smiled hearing their acceptance, he would rescue Koyuki.

Mizore appeared next to him at that moment, swinging a hammer fist toward his face, Naruto ducked, his reflexes enhanced by his unique Sage mode, A large Rasengan immediately formed in his hand, Naruto felt something else, he looked down to see ice spikes jutting out from the ground. Canceling his attack, Naruto grabbed Mizore's arm, using it to propel himself away from both attacks.

Fubuki landed on top of the castle, behind Mizore.

Fubuki spat, hate permeated her voice.

"Little shit leaf shinobi, We're going to kill you."

Mizore smirked, "Fubuki, no need to get angry, He shit himself on the first attack."

Mizore launched his cable, Naruto dodged to the right as the cable latched onto the wall behind him, he reeled himself toward Naruto as Fubuki threw ice shuriken at him from above. Naruto formed a cross seal, a clone appeared blowing out a Fireball Jutsu to melt the shuriken, the Sage-infused fireball continued toward Fubuki who had to jump down to avoid the flames.

The clone poofed right after, Mizore closed in throwing a mule kick, and Naruto spun around with a back fist into Mizore's gut cracking his chakra armor. Fubuki formed giant ice shuriken and threw them at Naruto.

Forcing him to back off from Mizore, molding chakra, Naruto quickly body flickered in front of a surprised Fubuki. She pulled out a kunai slashing at Naruto's face, Naruto pivoted to the right and, in one smooth motion unsheathed his Kusanagi cutting her arm off at the elbow.

"Ahhhhhh! MY ARM! GOD DAMN YOU!"

Mizore appeared behind Naruto, lashing out with his metal fist, Naruto flipped his Kusanagi into the air as it spun into a circle, Naruto slipped past Mizore's punch through his guard, Naruto uppercut him into the air, then body flickered into the air, grabbed his Kusanagi by the handle and drove it down through the chakra armor, piercing Mizore's spine paralyzing into the ground.

"FUBUKI! I can't.. Can't feel my legs…" Mizore continued to wail, moving his arms to try and grasp something stable. Naruto stared at him with a frown. The lethality of a shinobi battle. Shinobi were superhuman until they weren't. It sobered him up to see the damage he could do so easily. In his distracted state, Fubuki rushed Naruto from behind.

So slow, guess this battle over

With a quick twist and flick of his blade, Naruto cut Fubuki's head off. Her headless body collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut. Pulling out a kunai, he threw it into Mizore's throat silencing his wails.

Naruto stretched his sensory abilities to the limit, burning through his Sage Mode, he found Koyuki and Dotou in the castle, along with Momaru's men who weren't moving.

Sage Mode is dangerously low, I'll only be able to use one more high-level ninjutsu.

Naruto hurried inside. He continued running, he only heard the sound of his footsteps which worried him.

Naruto frowned sadly as he entered the throne room. Momaru, Tadashi, and their entire unit were frozen in black ice. Dotou sat on the throne smirking arrogantly. Koyuki stood to his right, a blank expression on her face.

"Friends of yours, child?"

Jutsu used:

Ice Style: Ice lances

Ice Style: Frozen wind

Ice Style: Ice devastation

Ice Style: Ninja tool medley

Lightning Style: lightning beast tracking fang