AN: Yo happy humpday! here's another chapter. As always, thank you for the comments, faves and loves.

Naruto stared at the frozen corpses of Momaru, Tadashi, and their unit. Naruto clenched his fists until blood dropped below him.

Dotou stared down at him arrogantly.

"These rebels thought they could walk into my castle and kill me?" Dotou chuckled, he reached his hand out grabbing Koyuki by the waist pulling her into his lap. She had to stop herself from squirming away. Dotou cupped her face with his hand.

"Is this what you came here for leaf shinobi?"

Dotou licked Koyuki's neck causing her to shiver. Naruto growled bring a smirk to Dotou's face.

Koyuki looked down into Naruto's eyes. Her voice came out softly and resigned.

"Naruto, thank you for showing me that I matter." Dotou rolled his eye in annoyance. Koyuki pulled a hidden knife out stabbing him I'm the chest.

Dotou grunted, reaching up to grab her neck. His robes fell off showing the knife embedded in dense chakra armor.

"Koyuki! I'm coming!" Naruto body flickered toward Dotou, Nadare appeared in the middle of his jump kicking him back into a wall.

Naruto roared! "Get out of my way!"

"Nadare, kill him. Do not fail me again."

"I will not fail you, Dotou-sama."

Dotou stood up, molding chakra. He placed a hand against the wall, ice crept up the wall until it exploded, the wings on his armor flapped furiously, He took off through the opening, carrying Koyuki by her neck. Naruto watched them go trying to think of a way to stop them when the sound of Nadare placing his palms on the ground snapped his attention away.

Shit! I lost focus

Nadare smirked, "Ice Style: Ice time." Placing his hands on the ground Slowly black ice began to creep over the entire area, everything it touched, it froze and everything it froze shattered, it covered the frozen Momaru and his men, shattering their body into icy particles right after. Naruto searched for a way out, while analyzing Nadare as the ice grew closer. He was in one spot without a single movement. Naruto could feel his chakra draining rapidly. The concentration required to use this jutsu had to be grueling. Naruto threw a few kunai at Nadare, in response the black Ice around him sprang up forming a wall to protect him.

Naruto created 8 clones that jumped on the corner walls, the black ice covered the entire floor and ceiling. It was slowly making its way to the walls. Only wall walking was safe currently.

Every clone went through the same hand seals, Naruto included, this attack had to be intense enough to break through the black ice barrier. Each 'Naruto's cheeks puffed up and he blew out unleashing a firestorm from all directions.

"Senpo Fire Style: Fire Dragon Jutsu!"

The firestorm melted some of the ice and forced Nadare to abandon spreading the jutsu to try and shield himself, black Ice walls rose up. Melting under the intense flakes being continuously spewed. Soon the clones began popping one at a time as their chakra ran out. One last Naruto went to move when a black ice tendril lashed out, freezing him on the spot.

Naruto stood frozen in the black ice.

Nadare stood up chuckling to himself.

He shook his head, "Should have killed me Kakashi."

"No need, Rasengan!" Naruto with a frozen leg appeared in Nadare's guard, hitting him in the chest. The Rasengan exploded sending him spiraling backwards into a wall, the chakra armor cracked minutely.

Naruto's Sage mode features vanished from his face. He hunched over breathing heavily with sweat rapidly accumulating on his forehead.

Nadare walked out from the smoke. He narrowed his eyes on Naruto's form. "You're not that bright, whatever power up you had is gone now. Judging from your current state, I doubt you could defend yourself. It's over, boy."

"Over for you," Naruto made the ram sign,

Nadare smirked, pointing below Naruto's feet. "Looking for that exploding tag?"

Naruto looked down, his eyes slowly widened as the tag activated, He dove to the side as the explosion went off, propelling him off the throne area onto the bottom floor.

Naruto stood up with a curse. Nadare sprinted at Naruto, creating an ice sword In his hand, Nadare slashed down, Naruto sidestepped the attack, jumped over a slash at his legs, continued to pivot side to side to dodge his attacks, Naruto drew Kusanagi. Partying a few attacks. Nadare stabbed toward Naruto's heart with his right hand, Naruto with a quick turn, blocked the stab, ran his blade up the ice sword, and cut to his right, like butter the Kusanagi sliced through Nadare's wounded left arm. He started to bleed profusely. Naruto started to go on the attack, Nadare threw his sword that doubled In size, Naruto held up his sword to block, grunting with effort to cut through it.

Nadare winced in pain, he brought his right arm over, hovering over the missing stump, molding his chakra, an ice arm sprouted from the stump. It was thick with claws. Nadare flexed his ice hand as Naruto stood up on shaky legs.

Nadare let out a breath of ice cold air. The black ice around him crawled up his arms and legs forming armor around him, he rushed Naruto, sliding on the ice to double his speed, Naruto focused chakra to his feet to keep some balance as he fended off Nadare's aggressive attacks. Naruto could feel himself losing the battle to exhaustion with each slash he parried, every claw swipe he ducked. His breaths came out harsher.

Nadare was skating circles around Naruto, attacking from every angle. Naruto ducked a slash and went to twist away when his foot slipped, Nadare grinned thrusting his claw towards Naruto's heart.

Shit! shit! shit! I… can't move!

A fingerless glove hand grabbed the back of Naruto's shirt, dragging him away from the fatal strike. He let out a huge sigh of relief.

Naruto let out a small laugh

"Finally, senpai."

Kakashi let Naruto down as he narrowed both eyes on Nadare. This scum always killed his little brother in all but blood. Kakashi let his killing intent saturate the area. Naruto felt goosebumps on his arms.

Kakashi's voice was low and firm.

"Naruto, go get Koyuki, I'll be there shortly."

Naruto paused for a second, was his senpai angry?

"Now." That one word from Kakashi received a nod, Naruto bolted for the opening as Nadare moved to intercept him.

"The only place you're going brat is to the Shinigami!" Nadare appeared right behind Naruto, swinging toward his neck, Kakashi appeared slapping the blade to the side, following up with a kick to Nadare's temple that sent him crumpling to the ground..

"The only one going to the Shinigami is you."

Naruto disappeared through the opening.

Kakashi walked slowly, his sharingan was blazing. The three tomoe were circling analyzing every twitch of Nadare's body. Nadare jumped up, dashing at Kakashi.

"Die Kakashi!" He attacked with his I've blade viciously while trying to use his Ice claw to land a sneak attack to Kakashi's soft bits.

Kakashi effortlessly dodged his attacks with his hands in his pockets. Nadare's patterns were too obvious to his sharingan.

"I see, you completely lost that arm. Most of your jutsu arsenal is out. You're barely a threat now." Kakashi said while lazily dodging blows.

Nadare started to froth in anger. He sped up throwing attacks as fast as he could to force Kakashi to slip up. The cold wind howling with each attack thrown.

Kakashi hmmed, "lightning blade." Kakashi's hand was encased by lightning, he parried the ice claw destroying it with his jutsu. Nadare stumbled back in shock trying to regroup, Kakashi's lightning blade transformed into a wolf, it bit Nadare's handles arm sending volts through hid body. He collapsed and looked up at Kakashi's sharingan eye in fear. His body froze up, trapped in a genjutsu, Kakashi threw a kunai into his throat ending the battle.

Kakashi sighed, lowering his headband.

Naruto was exhausted, pushing his body beyond his limits he felt Koyuki miles away. He quickly caught up in time to see Dotou enter a crystal into some machine.

"What the hell?" The snow melted rapidly as large metal boxes rose from the ground.

Dotou raged! "Heaters! The great device was Fucking heaters!"

Koyuki was crying, she remembered her father's words.

"You truly brought spring to this country father."

"Dotou!!!" Naruto yelled, sliding down the hill to face him.

Dotou snarled in rage, this miscreant leaf shinobi just won't die.

"I'll kill you myself brat!", he formed hand seals. Pointing his palms at Naruto, He intoned "Ice Style: dark dragons!"

Two dark misty ice creatures hurtled toward Naruto who served dodging one, the other smacked him hard sending flying into the snow, Naruto grunted pushing himself on to his feet. He swayed for a moment, working to stabilize his body, Naruto had to save Koyuki, she was right there, He looked up to see Koyuki watching him with tears on her face. He couldn't save Hana, was he going to fail again?

Dotou pulled out a kunai, he walked towards Koyuki with disdain all over his face."I'll kill you now, it won't accomplish anything, but I'm angry and don't need you anymore."

Koyuki stared at him down with anger blazing in her eyes. She wasn't afraid anymore, not of this place, not of her uncle, she wasn't afraid of her own death, but of Naruto dying for her.

"Naruto! Run, please save yourself."

Naruto's eyes widened as he saw the look on her face, it reminded him of…. Hana. Naruto gritted his teeth in rage. No more holding back.

Kyuubi, please help me.

A dark cackle in the back of his mind was his answer. Naruto felt a great rage start to override his emotions.

A wave of red chakra burst from his body. His wounds healed, his exhaustion disappeared and he felt amazing. Naruto disappeared, punching Dotou in the face sending him reeling back.

"You will never touch her again."

Dotou spit his blood into snow.

"Haha, what will you do? Kill a Daimyo? The pressure from the other Daimyo will increase tenfold on your pathetic village."

"I don't care." Naruto made a shadow clone that picked up Koyuki piggy back it took her back to the castle, "I'm going to kill you and no one will stop me." Naruto let his killing intent manifest.

Naruto cracked his neck and disappeared, body flickering behind Dotou, a Rasengan hit his chest, the chakra armor glowed absorbing the attack.

Dotou laughed mockingly.

"My chakra armor is a lot more advanced than the other prototypes.

"SHUT UP! ODAMA RASENGAN!", the large purple Rasengan grinned into Dotou, Dotou grunted and tried to free himself but it kept spiraling, he looked down to the chakra armor breaking to cracks until the crystal core shattered.

"No, No!" The Rasengan slowly drilled through the armor, Dotou could only watch in horror.

"Ahhhhhh….." Dotou screamed before falling silent, a large hole In his chest.

Thanks fox.

Naruto walked toward the opening to see Koyuki tripping over herself in the snow to reach him. He could only laugh and shake his head

"You're really uncoordinated for being a native."

"Shut up asshole! I left when I was a small child."

"Ah, that explains why you remind me of a child when you fall on your face."

Koyuki's face started to get red. She dove, tackling him into the snow.

"Naruto! You asshole!" She yelled before giggling which turned into laughter that he joined shortly after.

A few days later Koyuki was crowned Daimyo of Snow, Naruto and Kakashi watched the proceedings with content smiles. After the festivities were over, they started to make their way to the docks.

"Naruto! Kakashi-san!"

Kakashi looked confused.

"I'm a san now?" Naruto chuckled, "I think that means your an old man senpai."

Kakashi ignored him, pulling out his book to read.

Koyuki reached them, she had an entourage of soldiers and court personnel following her every move. She bowed and they followed.

"I can not thank you two enough for all that you've done for not just me but the Land of Snow. If ever you are in need of anything, come see me and I will take care of it."

"A favor from a Daimyo, nice." Naruto said, they bowed in thanks, Koyuki frowned at Naruto bowing to her. She turned to her entourage, "I need 5 minutes privately please." They obediently backed up to give her majesty her space. Koyuki stared at Kakashi for a moment, she made a motion with her hand for him to leave. He gave her a slow nod, waving as he departed to their boat.

Private space secured, Koyuki looked at Naruto imploringly. "Please never call me Daimyo, or Koyuki-sama. Also don't bow to me ever."

Naruto looked at her with a fond smile.

"You're a Daimyo now, I'm just a shinobi." Koyuki stepped closer, her eyes scanned his face. She kissed him, Naruto was surprised at first but returned her kiss, Koyuki let out a pleased moan before pulling away with a blush and smile on her face.

"I will always just be Koyuki to you. I was offered the lead role In a new movie in a few years, maybe when we're older, you can join me." She said with a smirk, showing a icha icha paradise book.

Naruto felt an atomic blush cover his face, he scanned Koyuki's beautiful figure, nodded to her. She gave him an envelope, one more kiss and he headed out to the boat.

Naruto and Kakashi boarded the boat sailing back to the Land of Fire.

Kakashi walked over to a somber Naruto looking out over the ocean toward the ever shrinking land of snow.

"Something on your mind, Naruto?"

Naruto was quiet for a moment, formulating his thoughts.

"Can shinobi ever love?"

Kakashi let out a gentle sigh. He stared at his sensei's son, only 14 yet he was skilled in a majority of the shinobi arts. He struggled with making connections yet excelled at romance. Yet again he had to leave the one who he could have been with behind. He could empathize, but he was too young to be so negative.

"To be a shinobi is to endure. To endure is to hope, to hope I'd to live."

Naruto turned his head to squint at Kakashi, he let the words ruminate in his head, he understood, love would come again.

"I understand. "

"It's ok to feel what you're feeling."

"Not to change the subject on you, but is there anything you would like to work on while we're traveling for a month?"

Naruto turned around excited by the idea of training.

"Senpai, are you good with lightning nature?"

Kakashi smiled beneath his mask.

"I'm decent."

They made port back in the Land of Fire, Naruto and Kakashi waved to the crew as they headed back toward the Leaf Village. It was a long trek and neither of them were in a hurry. As they climbed over the first hill on the way back into the forest they were familiar with, a sparrow flew down toward Kakashi. Naruto felt a small natural chakra signature heading toward them, He looked up to see a sparrow. Naruto squinted his eyes, it looked like one of the village's messenger sparrows. Did the village already have another mission for them?

The sparrow landed on Kakashi's extended arm. He took the small scroll from the sparrow, unrolled it and read the message quietly.

"We're headed to the land of waves, Team 7 has run into some trouble with a missing-nin from Kiri."

Jutsu used:

Ice Style: Ice time

Ice Style: Dark Dragons

Senpo Fire Style: Fire Dragon Jutsu