A/N: Lost Page's are this fics version of alternative/original events of the main story that had been written out or redone.

Lost Page 3.5

Original Naruto vs Artemis

Naruto stood upon the sensing the hatred that now surronded him, and called out internally, calls out. "Shukaku, I need you on defense, nothing can get past us."

Shukaku cracks his back, stretching like any other canine, before grunting. "And nothing will."

Naruto smirked, turning to Chomei. "Gonna need all the eyes I can get. You ready Chomei?"

Chomei buzzed and nodded. "Consider it done."

Naruto broke into a grin as he looked to his favourite nekomata. "Matatabi. Gonna need to be able to react ahead of time. Care to lend me your strength?"

Matatabi purred as she offered a paw. "Always."

Naruto nodded fist bumping the flaming feline.

Back outside, Naruto slowly raised to his feet, head held low as he took a breath, mentally counting the enemies via their hatred that spiked again as he stood. Twenty-one and they are moving to encircle him. Their spacing suggests visual range communication.

Counter?

Matatabi speaks first, "You have access to my claws remember…? They are by far your strongest option."

Naruto replied as swiftly. "True, however they prevent me from using more than a few of my techniques. Weapons too. They are last line of resort. Trump card if you will."

Son Goku interjected himself here speaking with pride. "Then, you are using my blades then, huh?"

Naruto didn't reply, and the ape didn't need him too, as he watch Naruto's haori flap in the wind, and his hand slowly and methodically, and somehow menacingly drew his Bijuu-issued tanto from the small of his back. His left hand plucked a three-pronged kunai from its holster, and he takes up a defensive stance, kunai held reverse grip ahead, Tanto at his back to strike.

The hatred sources all together spiked as their intent became squarely focused on him. He could feel their rage in the wind. Now that's an idea. The next moment both blades were coated in razor winds, just as the first shots were fired. Nine and three o'clock.

With a single twirl on the balls of his feet, Naruto deflected the silver arrows away harmlessly, despite still keeping his eyes shut.

The twenty-one signatures fell off briefly, but twenty came back stronger than before and the intent to kill along with them. The feel of parting air, from multiple directions, soon reached the shinobi and he gripped his blades tighter. This many archers, at this range, and this well trained is going to be a real challenge. Even for him.

A caw was called from up high and the next moment Naruto Uzumaki was about to show the Greek pantheon the folly of crossing him. The folly of fighting him as he defends his family and friends. For challenging him in a forest, they may not be the same ones he grew up with, nor the ones he had laid his life down to protect but they were close enough.

Like a bolt of lightning, Naruto was in movement, cutting left, slicing three arrows in one wind enhanced slash, deflecting two from ahead, ducking beneath the two from behind, flipping up, slashing right another one, and far more powerful than the rest.

The explosion blasted through a tree. This told Naruto that one was far more powerful then the rest and he cannot take this lightly. Landing on his feet, swivelling on the balls of his feet, the wind around his tanto exploded as he swiped hard knocking off the next wave off course.

Four more, twelve, nine, six, and three o'clock. Naruto calling out. "Shukaku!"

A mound of sand erupts from behind, as the wind explodes from both weapons that slash across one another causing gale force crosswinds and the remaining three off course while the sand catcher the one at six o'clock.

The winds flicker across his whiskers, caused him to flip his tanto into a reverse grip and call out mentally, "Matatabi, Shukaku. Gonna need you both."

"Got it!" Both called back, and in response the azure flames erupt from his tanto, and thick sandy winds from his kunai as he swipes again and catches a single high speed arrow between them.

Sparks fly as he is pushed back, beginning to loose ground, when Son Goku and Kokuo come in clutch, the ground begins to melt, and Naruto's legs begin to steam allowing him to resist the push back as he finally deflects the attack off to the side. The explosion rocked the forest, scattering the few birds that had remained.

Taking a quick breather, he glances at his tanto and surely enough there are more than a few cracks running across its entire length. Kissing his teeth, he retuns it to his holster with Son Goku adding. "Better the weapon than you, Naruto. Don't sweat it."

Flicking another kunai into his now free hand, Naruto nods replying. "I know. Just that you've spent so much time on them…"

He doesn't have time to lement on that thought for long as the next coordinated barrage began. Naruto takes a deep breath, whispering internally. "Chomei, your up now. Matatabi, time to show time itself that it needs to speed up."

Both Bijuu smirk, nodding to that, and M-C-M flashes up, body loosening up, synapses firing at unrecordable rates that super computers would be jealous of. His eyes however become compound and catch every single movement. Just in time.

Two from either side, three and nine, with a second wave from four and eleven directly after. Staggered attacks. Oh sweet summer children. Basic. Using acrobatics that would have set world records, Naruto bent around both first two, then flipped over the second two. The hidden third wave, was sliced through by the flowing winds supplied by his Tanuki friend.

Another high powered shot appeared before he touched down, only to be bicycle kicked clear of the blonde, who lands in a three finger handstand, pushing off with a blast of steam, over the next six that impacted two seconds after he left.

Another flip, and he slips out another trio of kunai, flicking his equipped off in opposite directions, taking hold of a fresh two before kicking the last loose one off at the target at eight o'clock, and landing with a graceful flourish, crouched with a single arm down.

It seems planning has gone out the window and a fire at will given as now a flood of silver ripped through the trees. Again, Naruto held no emotion on his face. Stamping his left foot down and a chunk of rock rose to block his eight till eleven o'clock allowing him to focus to the other side.

Again his hands were a blur, cutting or deflecting the arrows, flipping and weaving in impossible to track patterns with feline levels of flexibility and reactions. For a solid ten seconds he cut through, flipped, or bent out of the way of at least sixty projectiles. Some were close but this is a fight, it wasn't good enough.

This ended when the rock at his back exploded, and he flipped up again and like last time his kunai 'slipped' from their hoslsters as he spun, and an eruption of wind happened to blast them in all directions. Angles that may have been in the directions that may have an archer in them.

As he dropped, now unarmed due to his 'clumsy' behaviour he can sense the powerful sniper like shot speeding towards him and he grinned, internally calling. "Isobu. Gonna need your stopping strength."

He feels the nod as the three tails chakra rushes forward into his joined arms, held up in a defensive position, and the bracers there harden to impossibly dense levels. The collision was intreasting. Again, Son Goku and Kokuo were reinforcing his legs, supporting the defensive effort.

Eventually he sensed shots from coming from all sides which caused Son Goku to flare his chakra, immediately sink the ground directly beneath Naruto. As he falls, the arrow he had been blocking ricochet off at the increased angle of attack.

The explosion from the arrows impact hid the hole from view. Naruto takes a breather as all the various chakra in his system begins to return to the seal, leaving his chakra coils burning somewhat. It wasn't too bad but like a faint tingle.

Looking up, he notices the dust was slowly clearing so Naruto calls out his backup kunai from his wrist seals before taking a very deep breath to calm his racing heart. With his eyes shutting on the first exhale, he locks in on the sources of hatred. His second deep breath, overlaps his kunai beacons atop that mental map.

They lined up.

They must have thought they were failed counterattacks upon them so did not bother checking them. Naruto grinned as once again, winds flood his kunai that he grips tighter, whispering below a breath. "Namikaze art: Hiraishin Level Three."

In a golden flash, Naruto vanished and over the next ten seconds twenty similar flashes ripple throughout the forest, followed by girls screaming loud from slashes across their backs.

The screams told Artemis that her entire elite unit was just taken down in one go. How? That human was. She blinked. She tracked a kunai flying right at her. Letting an arrow fly, she spots a second off to the right. She leaps up to the next brunch only to hear a thud to her right.

A golden flash and a foot was barely blocked by her abrupt defence. Pale moon meet yellow and green. For all of half a second they just stared as the shockwave of air flow through the auburn and blond hairs.

The goddess narrowed her eyes as she pushed his foot back, and pulls her hunting knives, where as Naruto vanished into another flash of gold. With her natrual born instincts, she ducks beneath a blade of wind, barely visible to the naked eye, and she leaps after the male.

Just as she catches sight of him again, he vanishes in a golden flash, appearing off to her right mid slash that she blocks then kicks out. Naruto uses said leg as a hand hold, flipping over the block and leads into a reverse heel kick.

Artimas lands hard, on her feet as she slides, but again the second she looks up a flash of gold and Naruto was there mid strike with wind coated kunai. She deflects the double swipe, and follows it with a flowing kick. Again, with feline grace, Naruto uses said leg s a foot step to aid his horizontal momentum, and threw his kunai at her at their point blank range.

Artemis ducks aside to avoid the threat, yet as she lunges for a counter strike, Naruto flash's away again, before reappearing on her opposite side, spinning ball of white chakra in hand. Not understanding what it was, the goddess used both her blades in a cross guard to block it.

The attack exploded on contact, knocking both parties back. Artemis flipped mid air and landed on her feet though she had been disarmed. A first for her. Another yellow flash and she ducks aside as another wind slash cuts through the tree she was beside.

Sliding to a stop, she forms new daggers, just in time to block the flash and double downward slash. Up close, Artemis can now clearly see the feline like eyes and smell of this male. It made sense of his reaction times now. He must have some feline relation.

Yet before she could formulate further she felt something grab her ankles, aburptly she was yanked beneath the dirt up to her neck and pinned in place. Stunned for all of five seconds, Artimas glared at the male ahead of her who just grinned foxily back before waving and vanishing in another flash of gold.

Five minutes later, he flashed back to find the goddess still in place, Naruto nodded at that. It seems surpression seals still work in this world as intended. She glared up at him upon the clearing of the golden flash. Not knowing her problem with him is, Naruto approaches and places his hand on her head.

She screams at him, trying to bite his hand but Naruto didn't care and together they flashed back to the original clearing, now much bigger and littered with craters.

As soon as they both appear, Artemis lands on her front, face in the dirt, but the call out of. "Lady Artemis!"

Napped the goddes up to see all her hunters gathered and bound before the surviving Oak tree. Artemis muttered. "Girls…"

Her glare turned murderous as she looked back to Naruto who was standing above her and she goes to summon her daggers but nothing happens. Again, she tries but nothing. Her eyes widen in horror, as Naruto grinned, arms crossed, announcing. "You have no power here, lady. I suggest you shut up and behave or things will only get worse for you."

His voice grew colder throughout his scentance, eyes too brokered no argument as he killing intent slowly began to rise. Naruto was in no mood for games. He was simply relaxing and getting some rest among the leaves like he used to and these guys come in jutsu flying.

What the fucking hell?

Just then, a caw from up high dew eyes up as a single raven flew down and landed on Naruto's left shoulder. Or tried to, as he seemed to flash away again, before returning behind Artemis and glaring at the crow, growling low. "Show yourself. You are no raven."

The raven cawed again as it dropped into the shadows, that grew even darker as eventually out steps a fairly well-endowed looking teen with long, striping black hair above a cute childish face, pointy ears and a smile Naruto would recognise anywhere. A sadistic smile buried beneath a cheery façade.

The shadows seem to make up her frilly, one-piece sundress, but calling it that, seems about hypercritical as it's made out of something, Naruto would say was if the night was given form. Elegantly and with purpose, this woman smiled filled with a cheer that put Naruto on edge the closer she slinked towards him.

Gasps from the captives as they notice her frame and recognise that power, it could only be one primordial. Artemis growls. "Nyx. What are you doing here?"

The now identified Nyx giggled far to innocently for Naruto's liking, it was so artificial and well practiced his shinobi senses were running wild. Nyx finally speaks up. "Come now, Artimas dear. Is that anyway to talk to your superior?"

Artimas growled deeper but a cough at her back reminded her of her current position, powerless and at the mercy of this male. A cold sweat ran down her back as she mechanically turned and glanced back to see the absolute steely gaze of the male on Nyx that it was unsettling.

Naruto did not know their history but he did not like this situation. It was getting out of hand and even Ddraig was shifting uncomfortably. So he cut in before a cat fight breaks out. No offensive Mata. "I do not mean to be rude but you have been following me all day. Explain yourself as I am in no mood for games."

That damn giggle from Nyx who grinned as she looked over the clearly wounded hunters all gathered together and bound with some kind of runes preventing their powers from activating. As expected of the True Sage. She spoke. "To defeat the best of the Hunter's of Artemis so effortlessly. So beautifully. Filled with grace and ruthless efficiency that gets me all hot and bothered."

Naruto knew this type alright. His battle against a certain special Jonin came to mind. But let's not unpack that as he says. "Get on with this. We do not have all day."

She smiled at him, before nodding and getting somewhat serious, Nyx informing. "I just happened upon you after coming to verify my information about your defeat of the Red Dragon Emperor. I admit I was skeptical but this has all but confirmed my suspicions. So, I have come to offer only an – introduction. My name is Nyx, a primordial goddess of the Night."

She curtesies with a big beautiful smile that sickened Naruto as another face super imposed upon hers briefly, blooded with dead eyes but smiling none the less. Nyx continued, unaware of Naruto's thoughts. "It is a pleasure to meet you, True Sage of Six Paths."

Naruto's eyes narrowed on this woman, so she was looking for him. And the gasps from the bound group show that they too were looking for him greatly now what to do about this. She said this was only a introduction, so no doubt she will.

His through two were cut through when Artemis barraged him and the shadows behind him retreated, having successfully accomplished their task. Naruto glanced around and spotted the returning shadows. Damn it. He wasn't thinking about the Nara like abilities. This is terrible. What did she just do?

Nyx giggled again as she began to step away. "Well, I have what I wanted to do completed. I will be seeing you sage. I will be in touch."

As she began to sink into the darkness her parting words caused him to grow concern, Nyx saying. "As for my gift – consider it my ticket payment for giving me such a splendid showing."

Shoving Artemis off him, he growled. "Gift? What are you getting at?"

She giggled again, before her whisper reached his ear. "Cracks show potential for a future, no?"

Pondering those words for a moment it was Son Goku who figured it out first. "Naruto-boy! Your tanto!"

Retrieving said blade on reflex, Naruto spots that the cracks were now filled in with darkness itself that flowed with a sense of unending darkness that rippled from handle to tip then back. He kissed his teeth, muttering. "Damn. Gonna have to throw this away now. Over a year of service. Down the fucking drain."

Artemis cleared her throat, drawing the solid steel mix matched gaze of the annoyed shinobi, her hands shooting up immediately. "Wait – we mean no more trouble."

Naruto snorted at that, sliding his blade back into the holster on the base of his back. "Only after I defanged you all. Doesn't give much weight to your words at this point."

Artemis inclined her head at that let out a breath before asking. "So – you're the sage that we sensed a few days ago?"

Naruto growled, not gracing that with a response as he turned inward. "Okay guys. What should we do…?"

A/N: This was the orignal Draft of the fight. Dunno. Really know which one is better. I needed a way to help Naruto to disappear, thus Shinigami's arrival to turn away the Shinto Pantheon. This one might have been better but at the time I just started again and added the whole fox network Kurama ends up starting. That has its own subplot starting.

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