A/N: Hey guys, back with chapter 8! Got some answers for some reviews at the bottom.

Enjoy!

A few days had passed since the confrontation with the brotherhood back at the village. The man who tried to assassinate Irelia was sent off to the Tuula Monestary. This was a prison they sent dangerous individuals or criminals of treacherous crimes.

Irelia was given a surprise when she got so much support from the people. In fact, the locals were so mad that she was attacked, that they wanted to go hunt down any member that was apart of the Infamous Navori Brotherhood.

She pleaded with them that she would handle their brethren and instead requested that everyone kept their spirits high.

Naruto on the other hand ended up finding a sword at a local swordsmith. It was relatively a low grade weapon, but it was decent enough for him to learn swordplay. He stored it in his scroll and said he would practice when they had the time.

They were currently traveling through a forested area in the midwestern part of Navori. Naruto had seen all types of creatures that looked straight out of a fairy tale.

"Man this forest is thick, I think it would've been easier if I just jumped through it." Naruto complained.

Irelia sighed, rolling her eyes at the blond. He had been complaining for the last few hours since they entered the forest.

"You complaining isn't going to make it any quicker Naruto. I told you earlier that if we were to use your method, we may end up disturbing the wildlife. Naruto huffed as grumbled something under his breath.

"What was that?" She growled. Naruto gulped and waved her off.

"Nothing, just talking to myself" he replied. He noticed that she has gotten a bit more pissy the past day or so. He wasn't sure why she was acting like that, but he assumed that she was on her women cycle. He wasn't going to dare question her on it.

As they continued walking, kurama decided to speak up. 'Naruto I don't know if you notice, but it felt like you guys have been being followed for the last mile or so.'

'I feel like we been watched this since we entered the forest, but I assumed it was the wildlife or as Irelia says, the spirits.'

'That would be the case but there is something off about this signature, it feels familiar.'

'Familiar? What would feel familiar to you?' Naruto asked. He was brought out his thoughts when Irelia spoke up.

"Looks like our little friend had finally gotten closer." Irelia said, looking towards some trees to her right. They both stopped moving and Naruto tried to see if he can finally spot who was trailing them. Quickly, but silently he made his way over to their target and landed right above them in a tree.

It was a black haired woman; and she had ears? She looked up and went wide eyed when she seen him staring at her. Naruto noticed she had yellow eyes and whisker marks as well. She was quite attractive too, but the thing that caught him off guard was the giant white tail.

She gasped before she took off running. "Hey wait!" He said, chasing after her. Irelia shouted after him, but it fell on deaf ears. 'Dammit Naruto!' She thought.

The woman was quite quick and nimble, she was navigating through the forest and all the obstacles as if it were nothing. Had Naruto not been boosting chakra in his feet, he would have most definitely lost her. They ran a bit further before they came into a clearing in the woods that showed what looked to be a small hut.

He was quickly gaining on the fox girl, but before he could catch her; he had to dodge a slash of wind. Looking at where it came from, he seen a man with brown boar that was up in a pony tail. He was wearing what looked to be blue but torn samurai armor. He had a long katana like blade drawn and he was glaring at naruto.

Naruto quickly unsealed his sword and got in a basic stance. The guy raised an eyebrow at him before he sighed.

"You should get lost kid, with that stance you may end up hurting yourself." He said.

Naruto looked taken aback before he cleared his throat. "You are the one that attacked me! I'm new to the sword thing so don't mind that. I have some questions for your friend though."

The man looked to the woman and she looked away from his scrutinizing stare. "I was merely observing them while I was out hunting. He started to chase me when I took off." Her tail fully relaxed and it actually split into nine!

"You are troublesome fox woman, you know that? Now we are comprimised." He said as he got prepared to attack Naruto.

Irelia had finally caught up to them and was panting a bit. She could run, but parkouring through a forest to catch up to a Ninja and a Vastaya was a different story.

Naruto turned to look at her and rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "Hey Irelia, sorry about that. I got a bit carried away chasing that fox girl."

Irelia simply glared at him before she focused on the two individuals. "That's not just any fox girl, she's a vastaya. One that fits the description of stories I use to hear."

"Makes sense why I got called one when I first met you." Naruto said.

'You be careful Naruto, this vixen is very powerful. She's radiating with magical energy.'

"Kurama said she is radiating with magical energy." He said to Irelia. She nodded as she kept watching the two in front of her.

"Never thought the heroine of Ionia would be traveling through this forest. Shouldn't you he on the frontlines?" The man said grabbing their attention.

Irelia raised a eyebrow at the man. He was still in a ready stance to lash out at them. Her blades subconsciously materialized behind her.

"And who might you be? Not everyday you see a samurai in the woods with a Vastaya." She asked.

They all stood their in a tense stand-off before the man drew his sword quickly. Taking a fast but precise swing at that them, he sent another wind slash at them. Irelia and Naruto both jumped out of the way to dodge the attack.

Quickly rushing the man, Naruto eyes widened seemingly had his sword already aiming to strike him down. When the blade made contact, Naruto disappeared in a cloud of man eyes widened when he seen Irelia was upon him, flawlessly guiding her blades to impale him.

He deflected her attacks and got into a bit of a dance with her. Each of their attacks being parried by each other. The man dashed at her and took a swipe at her blind side. Irelia used her flexibility to dodge and put some space between them.

A few Naruto's appeared and tried to gang up on him with their swords, but they were swiftly cut down. Naruto looked like a little kid trying to hit the man with his sword. The man shook his head before he casually cut his sword in half.

Naruto eyes widened and he formed a Rasengan his hand. He thrusted it towards the swordsman and he quickly jumped back. He closed his eyes as the wind started to pick up around him.

Next thing Naruto knew, the man sent a wind tornado at him. "Ayseo!" Naruto was launched into the air and the man blinked towards the blond quickly. Taking quick and precise slashes trying to finish Naruto off. He cursed when Naruto disappeared again showing he was another clone.

Irelia took that moment of vulnerability to attack the man, but she had to dodge a blue orb thag flew at her. The fox girl that was previously watching now had what looked like blue fire surrounding her.

She dashed towards Irelia as she threw fire at her. Irelia quickly dodged as one of the balls of fire went past her. The fire collided with a tree and it burned it down within seconds. 'That will be a big problem if I am hit with that.' she thought.

A sudden sharp pain was felt on her back as she turned to see she had been cut in the back by the swordsman. She bit her bottom lip and quickly move back from both of them. The man got ready to attack again, but Naruto appeared next to her with his mystical palm technique quickly healing her wound.

Naruto seemed to let out a growl as he activated his chakra mode. A massive wave of killling intent washed over the two and they felt like they were being suffocated by the air. The ground ended up cracking underneath Naruto and Irelia as he glared at them.

"I suggest we stop this little charade or I am going to come at you at full power."

The man read his sword as a bead of sweat went down his forehead. 'This kid is strong, way stronger than the girl. HellIm not sure if even Ahri stands a chance against him.'

He looked over to see Ahri eyes were glowing pink. He knew that she was up to one of her trickery spells. She was probably trying to charm the young man. His theory was correct when

he noticed that the boy stiffened. 'She really got him.' He thought. Irelia noticed as well and put two and two together. She hurriedly tried to rush the fox vastaya, but she was intercepted by the swordsman.

"I suggest you stand down if you don't want him to die." He said while locking eyes with her. Irelia growled at him, but didn't move any further.

She watched as Ahri motioned for Naruto to come towards her. She did it kind of seductively, and that seemed to infuriate Irelia even more. Naruto made a couple steps before he stopped. Ahri furrowed her brows in confusion before she felt herself get grabbed.

Her eyes widened in fear when she noticed that she wasn't in the forest with everyone no more. Instead she was in a dark building area that had water in it? She heard a loud growl that made the hair on her tails stand.

"Vixen I suggest you never try to charm my host again. While it might work on his poor human mind, you are putting yourself in grave danger doing that." a deep voiced growled. The shadows cleared and she was now standing in front of a giant orange nine tailed fox.

"Who are you? Are you one of my people? I should be the only one left!" She asked in a panicked tone.

"I am the Nine Tailed Fox of the Tailed Beast. I have no idea what you speak of, me and my host are not from here." Kurama said.

"Then where are you from?" She asked.

"Let's have a chat about this later, I suggest you stand down. My blond idiot will be regaining his focus any second." He said as he pushed her out of their mind scape.

'The old man wasn't kidding when he said there is some beings that got great powers.'He thought.

Naruto blinked and noticed that he was holding Ahri with outstretched Kurama arms. She gave him a look of surrender and he let her go. He didn't know how, but somehow his mind went foggy and it was just him and Irelia? He blushed at the rather suggestive way she had looked.

"Are you ok naruto? You had went stiff there for a bit. " Irelia said grabbing his attention. He blushed as he slapped his cheeks to rid himself of the images in his head.

"Yeah I'm ok, I was like under a illusion I think. Seem some crazy stuff, but I think Kurama broke me out of it."

"We should stop this now Yasuo, I don't think we need to fight them anymore." Ahri said to the samurai next to her.

Yasuo eyed her for a second before he looked back at the two teens in front of him. He sighed and sheathed his blade. "I need some booze, I can feel this is going give me a headache." He grumbled, crossing his arms.

Irelia and Naruto looked at each other before they shrugged. Naruto dropped his chakra mode and Irelias blades dematerialised.

Ahri smiled at the two before she walked up to Naruto. "Sorry if I scared you two. I just wasn't expecting more humans to be traveling through this forest. I'm Ahri by the way." She said.

"Naruto Uzumaki. I didn't mean to frighten you either sorry about that. I was just curious about you." Naruto replied.

Ahri stared a bit more at Naruto and noticed he had whisker marks as well. He was taller than her and a bit handsome. He had bright blue eyes and that blond hair of his made him seem kind of feral.

Irelia noticed Ahri was staring a bit too much at Naruto and she got a weird feeling in her chest. She didn't understand why, but the way Ahri was looking at Naruto it was agitating her. Yasuo came up as well holding what was Naruto's broken sword.

"Sorry for destroying your blade. I thought it would have been more durable, you don't use a sword of that quality in a fight."

Naruto took it and laughed. "Well I literally started practicing how to use a sword a could days ago. I didn't want to spend a bunch on a fancy blade and not be able to use it properly."

"You started learning a couple days ago and tried to use it in a fight? The person you traveling with isn't a sword master. How do you plan to get better?" He asked with a amused stare.

Naruto scratched his cheek and looked away. "I was just planning to figure it out." He mumbled. Yasuo just stared at him in disbelief before he bursted out into and Irelia both looked at each other, but gave a small smile at Naruto's annoyed expression.

"Well feather duster head, I can't even do that now since you cut my blade in half!" Naruto said, narrowing his eyes ste the taller man.

Yasuo stopped laughing and stared at the blond for a second. "I guess you're right, sorry again kid." He said before he walked off back to his hut.

"Hey you bastard! What are you going to do about my sword?!" Naruto shouted as he followed after the samurai.

Irelia had turned to Ahri when she noticed that it was just them two there. "What is a vastaya doing out here with a human?" She asked.

Ahri looked at the young girl for a second as her tails wagged behind her. "You can say that I am on a bit on a journey. I met Yasuo here a few months ago, he is on a journey of redemption. We've kind of gotten along since we met and I haven't left yet I guess." She said.

Irelia eyed her for a bit but nodded. "What are two humans like you are doing here? Yasuo seemed to recognize you as well."

"I kind of been the face for the resistance to drive off the invaders." Irelia responded.

"And your cute whisker faced friend? He's obviously not a normal human. Especially not with the power he carries inside of him." Ahri asked. She had a bit of a glint in her eyes and that bothered Irelia.

Crossing her arms, she stared down the vastayan woman. "Naruto is a special case, I'm sure he would tell you if you asked…" she said. Irelia was definitely not a fan of her, there is something mischievous about this one.

"Oh ok! I will do just that." Ahri said quickly, taking off toward the little small hut that the men took off toward earlier.

Elsewhere

Seira sighed as she has relaxed herself into the bath. It was just another day of her old day to day duties of helping out the elders in Olma. She definitely missed having Irelia around to enjoy that bath with.

She had wondered how her and Naruto's journey was coming along. The blond goofball had worked his way into her heart as well and she held him just as close as Irelia and Oze now. 'I wonder if the alone time has brought this closer yet?' She though as she let out a giggle to herself. She heard footsteps and turned to greet the new comer. She was honestly surprised any other woman was coming to the bath this late.

Her face paled when it wasn't a woman, but a tall man. "Zel…" she said in a low voice. She noticed he had his hands behind his back and he smirked at her. Seira crossed her arms accords her chest and tried to back away further into the bath.

"It's been awhile Seira, I must say you still look lovely as ever." Zel said with a grin. Seira shivered under his predatory gaze.

"What are you doing here? Especially in the women's bath you pervert!" Seira hissed, leveling a glare at him.

"Peeping on you is the last of my worries. What I want to know is where did Irelia and the blond bastard go? Mar didn't find them in your home, so I can to find you personally." He asked, his told cold and direct.

"Why does it concern you? Even if I told you, what are you planning to do? Not like you will catch up to them." Seira responded. Zel sighed as he took a deep breath. Seira was always a girl he liked, she use to be so timid until she got around Irelia.

Zel started pacing back and fourth as he tried to think of how he wanted to say his next words. He grinned as he stopped pacing. "I don't think your realize how much danger you are in Seira. Oze is dead…" he said, getting a glare from the girl " Irelia isn't here to protect you. Tev and Tarsyn are probably drunk in some damn bar, and any of the other fools won't even know you would be gone." He finished as he crouched down to stare at her.

Seira was going to retort, but a loud splash came from behind her. Quickly turning around, she had a handwrap around her throat and she was shoved her beneath the water.

Clawing desperately at the hand, she noticed it was a man that was holding her down. His cold red eyes struck a bit of fear in her heart. She was brought back up to breathe again and she sucked in the air as if it was her last.

"Where were they headed?" Zel asked calmly. When Seira just glared at him, he sighed. He motioned at the man and he dragged her back down, putting her back under again. Seira refused to scream, she would not let herself break to protect Irelia and Naruto.

After he felt she was underneath long enough, he motioned for her to be raised up. When his subordinate pulled her out of the water, it looked like she had passed out.

"She would rather let herself be drowned that answer. Just toss her on the ground over there, she's useless now. We need to move quickly and get to Estriva. Kino and Mazu should be able to track her down." Zel said.

The man nodded as he tossed Seira roughly out of the bath so she didn't drown. He got out of the bath next and moved towards the exit.

Zel looked back to Seira's unconscious form and went and grabbed a towel to toss over her exposed form. Despite her trying to cover for Irelia, he still found Seira likeable. He couldn't leave a fine woman like her exposed like this.

'If your healing magic wasn't useful, this bath would be your resting place. I am going to need you as a tool later, better rest up.' He thought as he exited the bath.

Somewhere in the great Navori Forest

"Absolutely not."

"Why not? You were sending out wind slashes, and I know wind chakra. Teach me you bastard!" Naruto shouted angrily.

"Doesn't mean you deserve to be taught how to wield a sword kid!" Yasuo stated back, drinking some more of his booze. He let out a burp before he grabbed a piece of meat from a plate.

Naruto eye twitched at that. For some reason this guy reminded him a bit of Jiraiya when he first met him.

They all surprisingly had a very civil conversation after their fight from earlier. Yasuo learned that they were just passing through the woods to get to the Placidium faster.

Irelia asked more about why he was here in the woods living with a vastaya, but he brushed her off. He didn't go into detail, but said that he is on a path to find out the truth about something.

She didn't really buy it, but decided to dig into it. She knew when to respect someone's personal conflicts. As for Ahri, the Vastayan woman told them basically everything. She was surprisingly open about her history and how she ended up here in the woods with Yasuo.

Her biggest worry was the whole life essence thing, draining people's souls is a bit much. The thing that really made her worry about Naruto, was the obvious attraction she had for him.

She was glad Seira wasn't here, that girl wouldn't let her hear the end of it. Irelia had accepted the fact that she did like the blond a bit, but she wanted it to play out on its on.

Irelia was brought out her thoughts when Yasuo roared in laughter again at Naruto. The poor guy was really trying to get Yasuo to teach him. He was most definitely a swordmaster and with the right training, Naruto could become a very lethal warrior. Especially when he used Kurama's chakra.

"Look kid, even if I did teach you, what sword are you going to use?" He asked.

"You could always let him use that other sword you keep stored-" ahri started but Yasuo furiously glared at her.

"Hell no! That was my Masters sword and I'm not going to let some kid practice with it."

Ahri pouted and crossed her arms underneath her chest. Trying to push them up a bit bigger to show off her impressive cleavage.

"Naruto's been so nice though Yasuo~. I'm sure you wouldn't mind having your first apprentice!" She cooed. Yasuo stared at her completely unfazed by her obvious seduction. Naruto blushed a bit and tried to look away.

He made the mistake of looking at Irelia and she glared at him. Awkwardly laughing, he decided to look towards the sky. Hoping to get distracted by the star filled atmosphere.

"What is your reasoning for wanting to learn the way of the blade?" Yasuo asked, his tone a bit serious this time.

"I want to expand my skills. I never had a large jutsu arsenal and I have accepted that. By learning with a weapon, I can add an extra skill to my fighting style." He replied.

"You can't just learn a sword in a few days. This is a practiced art, and it takes years to become a great master. I'm not saying you can't pick it up quickly, but the road to become great with a sword is a long one."

" I love a challenge! If you think time is going to break me, then you got another thing coming." Naruto stated boldly. Yasuo simply stared at him, but smirked.

"I like the confidence kid, I give you that. However it's going to take alot more than that. You need discipline, wielding a sword takes discipline at the highest degree." Yasuo stated.

"That won't stop me. I never back down and I never give up. That's my way of the ninja." Naruto proudly said. Yasuo raised an eyebrow at him. This kid was something else, that's for sure. Irelia smiled at him and Ahri was star struck.

Yasuo pulled out a glass and put in front of Naruto. "If you want me to train you, you are going to have to throw one back."

"Well why didn't you say so from the beginning?!"

Yasuo gained a devious smile and poured him a glass. Irelia started to get a really bad feeling about this. She's never seen Naruto drink, and she had a feeling he didn't know what he was getting himself into.

Yasuo poured himself a glass and held it towards Naruto. "If you can handle this all in one go, then I will consider taking you on as my apprentice. I will be honest, you are a bit strange but I respect your determination."

Ahri grinned because she was curious how he would handle Yasuo alcohol. She tried it once and she cringed at the taste. Not for her, but she did admit she definitely felt good after it.

They toasted and both downed the whole glass. Naruto felt his throat burn and his head started spinning instantly. "O-oh thwats grate!" He said as he hiccuped.

Irelia palmed her forehead. Of course he was a lightweight! He's probably never drank a lick of alcohol in his life.

'Drunk off the first drink are you? I think I am not going to help sober you up. Take it as payback for boldly claiming you are the Alpha here.'

"I am impressed you handled that shot kid. Want another?!" Yasuo asked with a shit eating grin. He thought the kid would've spit it back up, but he didn't.

"Hit me!" Naruto said holding out his glass. Yasuo laughed as he poured the blond another shot. He started downing his own share as well. It felt good having another guy to throw some drinks down with. He hasn't felt this happy since his brother Yone.

He mentally shook his head of his estranged brother and focused on his drink. He looked to the blond kid and smirked. 'He kind of reminds me of myself. Young, dumb, full of himself. He does have spirit, he's full of it. Maybe taking on a apprentice for once won't be so bad. Master probably would have loved that.'

Naruto had wrapped an arm around Ahri as he started rocking back and fourth singing god knows what. Irelia didn't take too kind of that and glared at both of them. Ahri stuck her tongue out at Irelia and that made the Blade Dancer even more mad. 'Oh this may be interesting turn of events indeed.' Yasuo thought as he started to down the whole bottle.

A/N: So to answer a couple of questions. Naruto is one of the most powerful beings in Leagues lore. He is literally at his peak of power, just without the boosted Six Paths Sage mode that Hagoromo gave him. I did that because I didn't think he needed it. He can use his regular sage mode with KCM just like he could in story. I did give him a basic mystical palm technique, I think he is competent enough to have that. He's not as dumb as he was in canon because he is literally coming from a war into a new world. He's thinking logically. I am going to have learn how to use a sword, and who would be better than the man who can control wind with a sword? Hopefully that clears up some confusion. I pray I am not rushing Irelia's and Naruto's relationship, I want it to gradually increase, but not too fast or way too slow. Also this is strictly a Irelia x Naruto story. I don't do harems, there will be other characters being playful but that's it!

Thanks for reading!