18 Chapter 18: Battle of Shanxi

Naruto was currently staring at one of the best armories of the world...and he was practically drooling at the sight of so many weapons. Plus, the veterans were playing some kind of music in the armory that was making him feel as if he could fucking do anything.

Sharp kunai, exploding tags, shuriken, swords, armor, glasses, 3D Gear, Kunai launcher...and every goddamn weapon a shinobi would want.

"Hell yeah!"

He couldn't control his happiness on seeing the best weapons Konoha had...and he was free to choose anything he wanted. The veteran soldiers chuckled a little when they saw the expression on the 13 year old's face.

"Damn Rookie..."

Almost every veteran had the same thought when they saw Naruto drooling over the weapons...they knew he must be tough, or else Han wouldn't have let him join the vanguard...but still the boy was a kid.

"Slow down shithead...or you'll have an orgasm!" said a soldier nearby in a mocking tone, and the next instant a kunai passed right by his ear cutting a few of his hairs...nothing serious, but he certainly was quite surprised by this.

"Can it Jackass!" said Naruto challengingly, and the other soldiers had a hearty laugh on hearing that...the kid had balls, even the soldier who mocked Naruto chuckled a little and came forward and instead of hitting him offered Naruto his right hand.

"Welcome to the vanguard brother...let's fuck some Iwa bastards" said the man confidently, he had light black hair and was quite muscular, his face was covered by a bird mask and he was probably 20-25 years old.

Naruto shook his hand firmly...and gave him a firm salute in return to show his respect to the veteran.

"I'm Phoenix...we'll send Iwa bastards back to their damn caves sir!" said Naruto firmly, and the man gave him a firm nod and went his way.

Naruto started packing a lots of kunai, if one could say he was taking dozens of kunai and shuriken, and was sealing them in a scroll, he then started filling some water in a small tin can when a voice stopped him.

"Your're not gonna need that kid," said another soldier, and Naruto was quite confused by his statement.

"Then what should I take?" asked Naruto curiously, what was wrong with taking some water for yourself?

"Take lots of sake and drugs..." said the soldier jokingly,

And the baffled expression in Naruto's eyes was enough to make the hawk masked soldier chuckle a lot. Kids were so easy to fool, he just wished he could have seen the boy's face when he asked him to take drugs...it would have been priceless.

But Naruto was quite surprised when the Hawk masked blacklight was given a light bop on the head, and he saw it was given by what appeared to be a blonde female. Damn, and she was hot- D cup breasts, a curvy figure and shiny blonde hair that reached up to her ass and were tied firmly in a ponytail.

"Like the show kid?" teased the hawk masked Anbu again, and this time Naruto was glad he had put his Anbu mask on...or else the woman would have seen the dark blush on his face...damn fucking hormones.

He heard a slight "Tsk" voice coming...and the next instant the hawk Anbu was sent sailing to a nearby wall with a light flick of the woman's hand.

"Remind me never to piss her off..." thought Naruto nervously, as he saw the Owl masked female Anbu giving him a victory sign.

"Leave the rookie alone...he's new, and get ready the commander's coming in about 1 minute," said the woman seriously, and all the other blacklight started gearing up quickly as no wanted to piss of Han.

"They're not what I expected them to be..." said Naruto nervously, and the woman gave him a hearty laugh.

"We all are like a family...we bicker, we have arguments but we watch each others back always. And we all are young too...well except for a few old geezers, so when we're not on mission we are all like friends...and not some stuck up emo's. Don't worry you'll fit in just fine" reassured the young woman, and it relieved Naruto a little.

"Thank you..." said Naruto gratefully,

"Don't mention it...after all blondes have to stick together. Just take the 3D gear, kunai launcher, soldier pills and lots of kunai and shuriken...leave the rest as it would just slow you down. As for the water...I advise you not to take it considering we are jumping from 10,000 feet" said the owl masked female flatly,

"10,000...what!" said a shocked Naruto...but the women just ruffled his hair and went her way.

Naruto quickly started sealing his stuff...and he quickly put on his 3D gear, he knew they were jumping from the sky...but he had never jumped from 10,000 feet. They were only trained to jump at the most from 8,000 feet.

"Well...there is a first try for everything," thought Naruto hopefully,

He put a bunch of kunai in the side pockets of his pants, and he put on a dark black flak jacket on his chest...and the scrolls containing his weapons and first aid in the various pockets of the jacket.

Lastly, he checked the 3D gear that was hanging on his legs, and made a last run on the equipment checking all the gas pipes, as well as the hooks that would be used to swing him in the air and help him in landing.

"ATTENTION!"

As soon as the loud voice was heard, every blacklight soldier stood in attention in a three rows, and since Naruto was the shortest in height he was at front. The music immediately stopped too.

Han came forward and the man was dressed in his entire shinobi armor, and with a large sword on his back. The fox mask on his face combined with the 3D gear on his legs was enough to make any normal shinobi cower in fear of this man.

"Iwa has begun its march and will reach Shanxi in 3 hours...their bombing squadron has already took off, and it will be up to us destroy the early units of the bombing squadron as well as the first few waves of the ground forces, so we'll be jumping from 10,000 feet and we will catch the bombing squadron by surprise and blow them pieces," explained Han briefly,

"Commander, how many of us will be at the front and how many will be helping you at the trench line in setting up our defenses?" asked a cat masked blacklight quickly,

"A small squad of 5 members compromising of Hawk, Owl, Bird, Eagle...and Phoenix will set up traps and will hold the enemy forces as long as possible, and then fall back after inflicting heavy damages," ordered Han firmly, and there was some hesitation in the blacklight soldier's mind which didn't go unnoticed by Han.

He looked at them seriously, and they knew he wanted to hear what was troubling them right now.

"Sir, what kind of ability Phoenix has? We don't know anything about him.." said the Owl masked female from earlier seriously,

"He is a sensor...and a master of nin, gen and shurikenjutsu. I trained him so don't worry he's the best cadet of his batch," said Han flatly, and the other blacklight nodded quickly,

Naruto recognized three of his teammates, as the young female who helped him...and the other two as the ones who had joked with him earlier, all of them gave him a firm nod accepting him as a teammate...even the unknown Eagle blacklight gave him a nod in respect.

"The rest of you will be with me and we will setup our post in 5 mins...and our task will be to cover the recon squad when they retreat, Any questions?" asked Han seriously, and he just received firm salutes indicating his men were ready.

"Let's roll"

With great speed the blacklight troopers started moving to the birds that were going to take them to the battlefields, Naruto was just about to move when Han put a hand on his shoulder.

"You okay there kid?" asked Han flatly,

"I've trained my entire life for this...I won't let my comrades down," said Naruto quickly, but Han noticed a little hesitation in his voice.

"Something wrong?" asked Han curiously, and Naruto took a deep breath...Han was his teacher and despite their differences during these years, he had become quite close to this man...he was like a foster father to him.

"I'm a little afraid of this battle, I don't think I am capable enough to be with the recon squad at least," said Naruto hesitantly, and Han poked him softly on his mask.

"Afraid of battle?" asked Han softly, even he knew Naruto was young...and this battle would be terrifying.

"Hai" said Naruto honestly, and he was ready to be scolded but instead Han just ruffled his hair in a fatherly way.

"Then you have gained something invaluable as a shinobi...the fear of battle will keep you alert, A true shinobi is a soldier who can endure...and one who is afraid of battles to some extent, even I'm afraid of battles." advised Han sagely,

"You're lying..." said Naruto flatly, and this time he surely received a light bop on the head.

"I can't see the future...nor do I know the true strength of my enemy, so being a little afraid will help you in staying alert. Just watch your corner, and get your comrades back to the trench...I believe in you, Naruto" said Han affectionately, and he saw a lone tear slipping from the young blonde's eyes.

Naruto gave him one last salute and ran towards his comrades...but he said two words that touched deep within Han's heart.

"Arigatou...Tou-san"

The wild winds of the sky were hitting his body with full force, if not for a pair of his glasses on his eyes he wouldn't even be able to keep his eyes open in such an atmosphere.

Everywhere around him were clouds, and the air was so cold that his body was shivering...looking at the dark clouds in the sky...he had a feeling it was going to rain soon.

Naruto looked below and there was nothing but thousands of feet between him and the ground...and approximately 6,000 feet between his squad and his targets.

He looked around and saw his squad giving him a thumbs up indicating it was time for the jump...and his heartbeat increased a little. A small smile came on his face as he remembered how he and Armin were thrown from the sky a few years back...and they had survived back then, and it would be the same this time too.

"Oi...Naruto, we'll go in first, and try to take all of their fighters out," said the owl masked female who was the leader of the squad,

"No...I'm skilled in shurikenjutsu, it'd be better if I go in first and take them out...and if I miss any targets then you guys can cover me by taking them out...this way we won't suffer any injuries...I can sense there are 12 of them down there," said Naruto seriously, and his leader thought about the suggestion for a moment.

"Owl...we should let him lead, the commander said we can trust him, let's give him a chance...we can clear up the targets if he misses," said the Hawk masked Anbu encouragingly, and Naruto gave him a thankful nod.

Owl thought about it for a moment, but after a few seconds gave a firm nod to Naruto.

"Show them hell, kid"

Naruto nodded and the next moment he jumped from his bird quickly, without any hesitation and he soon felt the full force of the air around him and started descending towards the ground.

He felt the rest of his squad jumping a few seconds after him, and he knew he had to make sure their trust in him was not wasted.

The next moment he activated his sharingan with his two tomoe spinning quickly in order to pinpoint the exact location of his enemies...and he used his sensor skills and was quickly able to pinpoint the exact location of the bombing squadron of Iwa.

The 12 were flying in a close formation...they never expected anyone to jump on them from 10,000 feet as they believed it was impossible...and it was indeed very difficult.

If not for his shinobi training he wouldn't even be able to breathe at such high air pressure...but he was not an Anbu for nothing.

A few minutes passed as he continuously descended towards the ground...and now he was clearly able to see Iwa's bombing squadron a few hundred feet below him.

His hands slowly went towards the left pocket of his pants...and he slowly took out a kunai from his pouch.

There was no shivering, no hap hazard movements...just him and his target. He remembered what Shisui had taught him about this form of art.

"What's he going to do with one exploding kunai?" thought the Owl masked female curiously, she was a few hundred feet above Naruto and was ready to take out the enemies with her team if Naruto missed.

The targets neared quickly and now the squad was tensed as Naruto was just nearing his targets and he was not attacking.

"Is he unconsciousness?" asked Bird through signs to Owl, but she just told him to wait for 10 more seconds...and after that they would move in.

Time passed, and now Naruto was just 30 feet above the Iwa squadron...and what happened next shocked the entire blacklight squad.

He flipped suddenly in the air and none of his comrades saw what happened...everything was a blur and in the next moment the enemy's entire bombing squadron was blown to pieces along with the birds that were carrying them and Naruto passed right between the flying flesh of his enemies like a fast wind.

"What was that? I didn't see him fire the kunai..." said Eagle in a confused tone,

"He did move...but something is really mysterious about this boy. He is not an ordinary kid, prepare for landing," said Owl firmly, and the others nodded.

Naruto saw the trees approaching quickly, and the ground was now nearing at astonishing rate...

"Maintain the balance...keep a calm mind and maintain the amount of gas to be released...and fire the hooks within 5 seconds as soon as you're nearing your target" said Naruto to himself,

This was what Han had taught him, and only he knew how hard it was to master this exercise...and it took him 3 years to master it.

He fired the cables of his 3D gear and it connected with the trunk of a large 50 feet tree...and he immediately used a little gas in order to propel himself to move forward.

This was the secret of the 3D gear, as soon as the hooks connected the user had to use the gas in the equipment in order to propel himself forward...as a result he would be able to match the speed with which the connected hook would swing him in the air...more amount of gas would unbalance his speed causing him to crash...while less gas would make his speed slow in comparison to the force with which the hooks connected to the tree would swing him as a result breaking his back and that would lead to his death instantly.

Some of the cadets had died during this training of 3D Gear, so he had to be very careful.

But his timing was perfect and he channeled some amount of chakra to his feet and quickly released the hook that had swinged him in the air...another tree slowly came in front of him and he fired his hook again and it connected with the center of the tree.

He pulled his body upward and did a 180 degree rotation and quickly released his hook...and his feet connected with the bark of the tree...and in a flash he started running down towards the ground with the chakra in his feet allowing him to run properly...and in a few seconds he did a backflip and landed gracefully on the ground.

A perfect landing.

"I'm glad I was able to quickly run towards the ground..." thought a relieved Naruto,

This was the tricky part, if he had not used his speed to divert himself towards the ground then the force with which he had connected to the tree, would have crushed his legs...but he balanced himself and with the help of his chakra had diluted the pain that came...and had landed quickly.

Mikasa was flawless in this type of landings, as she would not even feel a little bit of pain in her legs which he was feeling right now.

The 3D gear was widely used for these types of jumps, and when the blacklight were fighting in areas where moving on foot was very difficult and Shanxi hill was one such place.

He heard four noises and when he looked around his squad had landed beside him...he had to admit these guys were the best from what he had seen so far.

His blonde team leader came forward and bent a little so she could look him straight in the eyes.

"What did you do up there?" asked Owl seriously, and for a moment she saw the confused look in his eyes.

"Didn't you see I used the Kage Kunai No Jutsu (Shadow Kuna technique) and multiplied that one exploding tag into 12...and fired them at the Iwa squadron...don't tell me you didn't see that?" asked Naruto skeptically,

"That was just pure speed?" thought all the male Anbu in wonder, everything was a blur to them...they couldn't even see him performing the hand signs!

"Are you related to the Namikaze or the Uchiha clans...because only those two clans are known for so much speed besides the Nidaime Hokage?" asked the owl masked Anbu quickly, as she analyzed the entire scenario and quickly connected the dots.

"You're quite quick Owl-san...you got me. I'm Namikaze Naruto, heir of the Namikaze clan and son of the fourth Hokage" said Naruto honestly and he saw the shock evident in his comrades eyes.

"You're the son of Hokage-sama?" asked the leader in shock...she had known the Hokage's son was in blacklight, but to find out he was the one was quite surprising and shocking as well.

"Well...at least that's what my mother used to tell me," said Naruto jokingly, and the tension that had arised quickly settled down.

"Glad to have you here...that explains why you are so fast, your father's practically the fastest shinobi in this world...and you are the nephew of Shisui the teleporter and have the Uchiha blood in your veins too...one last question, do you have the sharingan?" asked Owl quickly, and the next moment she was staring at a dark red two tomoe sharingan.

"Well, well...we've got a powerful comrade here...we'll be able to destroy more enemies with your strength" said Bird firmly, and Naruto nodded confidently,

The next moment eagle took out a small map and laid it on the ground and the squad gathered around it.

"Alright we are here...and our trench line is 10 clicks up from here, there are three ways for Iwa's forces to climb this hill. Eagle, you go to the south side and destroy the entire path so that no forces can move from that point, Bird and Hawk take the east side and block the path from there...it will at least buy us a few hours and let's just hope we get reinforcements by then. Phoenix and I will go towards the north side since the south is covered by mountains and valleys they can't enter from there" explained Owl quickly,

"What's on the north side?" asked Naruto a.k.a "Phoenix" seriously, and Owl pointed her finger on the open fields.

"It's an open field so we will be fighting the enemy here...first you and I will set up traps, and the rest of the squad will join us, and we will hold the enemy forces by fighting from the cover of the trees...our mission is not to annihilate the enemy but to find out their current strength and battle tactics as well as weapons...as soon as we find that we are to retreat instantly or we'll be dead. Understood?" asked Owl sternly, and the other members nodded.

"Hai" yelled all of them in unison,

"We'll meet at the north side in 30 minutes, GO!"

Naruto and his squad leader were currently inspecting the open field on the north side in order to find proper places to set the traps...he was quite impressed by this woman, she could be friendly and cheerful and be fucking dangerous at the same time.

She kind of reminded him of Rangiku...he knew over these years, they had become good friends...but still he was spending more time with Mikasa...and sometimes he would see some strange thing in Rangiku as well as Mikasa's eyes...but he just couldn't understand what was it.

They were just friends right?

"Girlfriend problems?" asked Owl naughtily, and when she heard an "huh" from Naruto...she realized this guy was really oblivious.

"I don't have any girlfriends...well, I do have some girl- friends but- Hey you are teasing me!" said Naruto accusingly and pointed his finger sharply at his leader earning a small giggle from her.

"Well...do you care about them?" asked Owl seriously, and handed Naruto an exploding kunai which he hid carefully in the ground and put some grass over it.

"Yeah...Mikasa and Rangiku are my precious friends, and they are strong too...but sometimes they just look at me so weirdly as if I've some trophy to be won...I don't understand" said Naruto frustratingly,

Owl heard the boy's dilemma as she set up a trip wire...that would blow an entire squad to pieces if someone stepped on it, she was from the Yamanaka clan and was the sister of Inoichi Yamanaka, and she had heard quite a lot of things about Naruto from her brother.

She was not like the rest of the Yamanaka and was deadly fighter and didn't rely on her clan's techniques much...but she did possess the brain that the Yamanaka's were famous for.

"You'll understand someday...just make sure don't break their hearts, and do what your hearts tell you to do. In time, it will show you the right way," said Owl a.k.a Hisana in a sisterly way and Naruto gave her a thankful nod.

"Captain, if it's not too much trouble...can you tell me your name?" asked Naruto kindly,

"Hisana Yamanaka, sister of Inoichi Yamanaka and Captain of 1st squad" said Hisana with a smile, and Naruto gave her a thankful nod.

"Nice to meet you, Hisana-san" said Naruto with a smile, and set up a few trip wires of his own and attached lots of kunai and shuriken in another trap in order to destroy his enemies.

"Now for the final trick...Naruto, you said you were good at genjutsu right?" asked Hisana quickly as she realized it was almost time.

They had set up all the traps they had...and this was going to be a big one that would surely kill lots of enemies.

"Hai...I can cast some good genjutsu, but against sensors they can barely last for a few seconds as like me they can notice the slightest deflection in chakra," stated Naruto clearly and Hisana nodded affirmatively and performed a few hand seals quickly.

"Doton: Yomi Numa (Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld)"

Naruto had instantly activated his sharingan and had copied the jutsu...everything was fair in war, and he was just trying to learn from his captain and to his amazement she created an enormous swamp of sticky mud...and by the looks of it if anyone fell into it, then they would surely die. It was fairly large too, so a lot of Iwa shinobi were going to get caught...he just had to do the proper genjutsu.

Instantly his hands moved to form hand seals quickly, and Hisana watched in fascination as the young boy performed his genjutsu.

"Magen: Niju Kokoni Arazu no Jutsu (Demonic Illusion: Double False Surroundings Technique)"

Hisana was surprised further when the entire swamp took form of the field it was before, and it looked so real that for a moment she thought it was surely real.

"How was it?" asked Naruto sheepishly and scratched the back of his head, and Hisana just ruffled his hair affectionately,

"Fucking awesome!"

The entire recon squad was hiding in the trees, with their fingers etched closely on the trigger of their kunai launchers...there was a lot of tension in the air, and a small bead of sweat rolled down Naruto's face.

Naruto was stationed on the left flank along with Hawk, while Hisana and the others were covering the right flank.

He suddenly sensed a monstrous number of chakra signatures and his eyes widened as he realized the nature of their chakra.

"They are coming," whispered Naruto quietly and the other nodded preparing themselves for battle.

The young Namikaze's eyes widened in shock when he saw the size of the enemy army...if anyone said Iwa had a small army, he would instantly hit them hard on the head.

"Looks like this is the first wave...we've got approximately 100-120 shinobi on the right flank. They are being cautious, it would be better if we hide our chakra signatures entirely," advised eagle and everyone nodded and with great stealth reduced their chakra signatures.

"Naruto, Hawk...how many are there on the left flank?" asked Hisana quickly, and Hawk pointed Naruto towards the large section of Iwa's army that was slowly approaching them and was just about 80-90 feet away.

"Shit...there are more than 300 shinobi approximately, they almost sent an entire battalion of 500 soldiers to show us their power...damn those cave men!" said Hawk irritatingly,

"Shut it...it can't be helped now, they are keeping close knit formations hoping we would attack them from all sides...and they seem to have large number of weapons on them...but I don't see too many swordsmen, Naruto can you feel the presence of any sensor ninja?" asked Hisana tactically,

Naruto tried to locate a sensor among the enemy army...searching among these many shinobi was a troublesome task...but somewhere on the right flank he felt two strange chakra signatures.

"Captain...there seem to be no sensors in their group, but there are two really weird chakra signatures on their flank...it's as if they are suppresing their chakra...something is not right," said Naruto suspiciously, and his eyes shifted towards the two shinobi on the far right.

Something was very wrong, and he could just feel it in the air.

"I have a real bad feeling about this," thought Naruto worriedly,

"Naruto...relay the entire information to Commander Fox, and ask for further orders...they are nearing the swamp, once they are past that point...the shit will hit the fan" said Bird quickly and Naruto nodded.

"Commander Fox, this is Recon Squad...the enemy has started moving and it seems their first wave has approximately 500 shinobi...I can also sense many hundred signatures behind this wave...they plan to attack us with a much more stronger wave after this..also there are two really weird chakra signatures in the first wave...Orders?" asked Naruto quickly,

"Good work...cause as much damage as you can to the first wave and then fall back immediately. Staying out there any longer will be suicide!" said Han flatly,

Naruto relayed the orders to Hisana through hand signals as the enemy had reached within their perimeter...and she gave him her orders through silent hand signs.

"Let them come closer...and as soon as they start falling in the swamp, I'll blast away all the traps...Hawk, Naruto...you two will hold the advance forces while the rest of us will fall back to higher ground...and then we'll cover you and we will retreat back to the trenches. Clear?" asked Hisana quickly, as she saw one Iwa shinobi just ready to fall in her swamp.

"CLEAR!"

They stopped breathing and their fingers were pressed firmly against the trigger, tension rose...heartbeats rose...

And it happened...

"GUAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

The recon squad watched as almost 100 Iwa shinobi fell directly into the mud swamp...and all hell broke loose.

"WHAT IS THIS!"

"AMBUSH!"

"GET US OUT OF HERE!"

Terrifying screams started spreading in the entire field...and Naruto was a little baffled when he saw so many people die in front of him...as the shinobi drowned in the mud swamp...as the mud sucked their chakra rending them powerless resulting in their deaths.

This was REAL war...and he now understood why people hated war. It was madness everywhere, and his ears were being filled with these horrified screams...even if they were enemies, there were humans getting killed down there.

This had to be done...but it was horrible.

Hisana activated all the exploding tags...and if what he had seen before was horrible, then what he was seeing right now was inhuman.

"GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

"FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK"

"HELP ME!"

Hundreds of exploding tags blasted in mere seconds...and if that was not enough waves upon waves of kunai and shuriken were launched upon the helpless Iwa shinobi...and they were caught right in the center of it.

It was so quick that they didn't even have time to react...and fountains of blood started spilling everywhere and flesh flew freely in the air...combined with the painful screams of the dead and the dying.

"What is this...!" thought Naruto in horror, as currently in front of him there were lying dead bodies of approximately 300 Iwa shinobi...pieces of flesh, rivers of blood, broken weapons...internal organs, blasted eyes...and destroyed reproductive organs.

In one quick motion they had destroyed most of the first wave and he prepared himself as his time for stepping in this madness had finally came.

"NOW!"

Hisana's murderous voice echoes in the entire field and the next instant Hawk and Naruto jumped straight in the open field.

As he was falling towards the ground, something in Naruto changed when he looked at the faces of his comrades...he remembered they were good people and he had to protect them at all costs.

"Naruto: Take right flank!" yelled Hawk loudly, and the Iwa shinobi were shocked when these two blacklight jumped in front of them.

"FIRE!"

The next thing Naruto remembered was his finger pressing the trigger of his kunai launcher firmly...and numerous kunai started flying straight at the Iwa shinobi.

One in the eye, one in the neck, one in the head...one in the chest, one in the heart, one in the lungs, one in the groin, one in the mouth.

He lost count of how many people he was killing, but his sharingan was recording all of this as a horrible memory that he would live everyday...each time he pressed his finger a person died...the kunai were flying very fast for a human eye to see them...only someone with a sharingan or byakugan could see them.

And unfortunately the Iwa shinobi had neither of those two dojutsu...and that only meant one thing.

PURE SLAUGHTER!

Bodies upon bodies started falling and it continued until Naruto's kunai launcher ran out...and he was brought out of his daze, and when he looked ahead he saw 50 bodies lying a few feet away from his feet.

50 MEN THAT HE KILLED IN A FLASH AND HE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT!

They were dead..plain and simple, there was no movement...just gone.

"Change sides...load the last magazine right now!" said Hawk loudly, and Naruto regained his composer!

However the rest of the 100 Iwa shinobi charged right at them...and the looks on their faces was murderous, they were out for their blood!

"KILL THEM!"

"Hawk they are making a Banzai charge...fire your weapon now!" yelled Naruto in panic as the shinobi were just a few feet away.

But Hawk was having some trouble with his weapon as a small blade had got stuck between...and in doing so, he was left wide open and three Iwa shinobi jumped at him.

"HAWK!"

Naruto saw the danger his comrade was in and his weapon moved quickly and in a flash he fired it at Iwa shinobi that had jumped on Hawk!

CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!

The thunderous sound of kunai blades dropping on the floor was heard...as the enemy near Hawk were decimated by Naruto's attack, he slaughtered all of them and Hawk quickly got up.

But it was too late.

"Gah!" screamed Naruto in pain, as someone sliced his back from behind with a sharp weapon.

He fell down flat on the ground and despite his pain he quickly turned around and saw Iwa shinobi ready to attack him with their kunai's and weapons...and he tried to fire his launcher but to his horror the worst happened.

It had ran out!

"Shit!" thought Naruto angrily, but quite opposite happened as numerous kunai hit the Iwa shinobi around him and they started falling flat on the ground.

"GET OUT OF THERE FUCKING IDIOTS!" yelled Hisana furiously, and fired another round of kunai at the incoming enemy forces.

A sudden wave of adrenaline rushed through Naruto's entire body and he slowly got back up on his knees and performed a set of hand seals...

"Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu(Water Release: Water Bullet Technique)"

Naruto used a large amount of his chakra and in the next moment he unleashed hundreds of water bullets on his enemies which pierced straight across their bodies...and they started falling down.

He panted roughly...and tried to get back up, but a cold shiver ran down his spine when he heard that voice!

"CHARGE!"

His sharingan eyes couldn't believe what they were saying...an entire wave of 1000 Iwa shinobi was charging straight towards at his location. Their second wave had already started as they had devastated Iwa's first wave of 500 soldiers.

He was suddenly grabbed roughly and lifted up in the air...and he saw it was none other than Hawk, and he was carrying him back to the rest of the squad.

"We are getting out of here now!" said Hawk firmly, and fired the hooks of his 3D gear but before they could connect Naruto suddenly felt strange amounts of chakra in the air

He looked up and was shocked to see many exploding tags falling from the ground.

"INCOMING!" yelled Naruto loudly, and performed a quick set of hand seals.

"Doton Doryuuheki (Earth Release: Mud Wall Jutsu)"

"BOOM!"

A small earth wall was formed right around Naruto and Hawk just as an exploding tag bursted right a few feet above them.

It was so silent...everything had just stopped when the bright rays of the sun fell directly on his mask, and he could groggily see the Owl masked team leader getting him out of a few debris.

There was a constant ringing noise in his ears...and he could barely see Bird and Eagle in front of him firing jutsus at the approaching enemy forces. He could not see properly, it was as if someone had hit him hard on the head.

"Where am I?" thought Naruto hazily, but Owl tapped hardly on the side of his mask.

"Naruto...get back in the fight, they are on us, we have to go back now" said Hisana urgently, and Naruto regained all his energy and quickly got back up.

He saw Hawk picking up his weapon...and was just about to help Eagle and Bird in falling back when suddenly chains erupted from the ground and enwrapped around him, Hisana and Hawk.

"Gah" screamed all of them in pain, as the chains were draining all of their chakra...it was draining their life out of them.

A thud was heard a few feet ahead and they saw there was an exploding kunai there...and it glowed brightly, but before it could blast something terrible happened.

BIRD Jumped right on top of the exploding tag...and the next second a spray of blood and flesh was splattered across Naruto's entire body, and what he saw terrified his soul.

"BIRD!"

"Slow down shithead...or you'll have an orgasm!"

"Welcome to the vanguard brother...let's fuck some Iwa bastards"

Flashes of those memories came flooding in his mind...as he stared at the flesh and gore of blood on the ground. Bird was ripped to pieces in trying to save his squad ...he was dead.

This shock had not just wore off when a slicing sound was heard...and the next instant a head came rolling down towards them.

It was EAGLE!

A part of his soul died when he saw two of his comrades dying in a flash...they were gone, and he couldn't do anything. Their blood was all over his body and he just freezed...he hazily saw two people emerging from the shadows, but he didn't care, he just wanted this hell to be over.

"It's over..." thought Naruto sadly, and his shoulder slumped in defeat.

However Hisana was in shock right now...as she recognized the two people that emerged from the dust and smoke.

"YOU!"

"We are sorry, young kids" said a deeply apologetic voice, and Naruto's eyes snapped in shock as he recognized who had captured them.

"Sakumo Hatake..." said Hawk in terror,

"Mito Uzumaki..." said Hisana in fear, and she tried to break away from the chains but to no avail.

The two legendary shinobi were standing in front of the enormous Iwa army...and Hisana didn't know what was going on, but she couldn't let such vital information escape from her superiors.

She looked at Naruto...he was a goner, the young kid had just seen hell and two of his comrades had died horribly in front of him...there was only one choice.

Hawk seemed to be struggling...but he was fit to run.

"I won't let anymore of my comrades die here..." thought Hisana firmly and with great struggle she lifted both of her hands and formed a quick hand seal.

The next second Hawk was shocked when the chains around him and Naruto dropped on the ground...and he found Hisana controlling both the legendary shinobi with the help of her clan jutsu...but it looked like she could not hold for more than a few seconds.

"Get out of here...I'll hold them off, get this information to Commander Fox now!" said Hisana painfully, as she felt Mito breaking out of her jutsu slowly...Hisana knew she was no match for the Shodai Hokage's wife, and she could only hold her long enough for her comrades to escape...combine that with Sakumo was making her use all her chakra.

Naruto's eyes widened in shock when he heard Hisana's words...and a sudden anger formed in his heart.

"We won't leave you behind!" said Naruto adamantly, and Hisana smiled a little on seeing the affection in the boy's heart...he was far too young, but someday he would understand why she was doing this.

"Hawk..." said Hisana weakly, and the Anbu nodded and picked up Naruto quickly despite the constant struggle the boy was making.

"It was an honor to fight beside you, Captain" said Hawk firmly, and fired off with his 3D gear quickly with Naruto in his hands.

"Oi...HAWK WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" screamed Naruto in fear, but the Anbu didn't listen to him and instead just kept running away and away.

Naruto looked at his captain and he saw her saying him a few words just before the Iwa shinobi brutally started stabbing her over and over...but a small kunai dropped out of Hisana's hands and the next second there was a loud explosion and blood flew everywhere.

Tears flowed like a river from his eyes...his squad was gone, and he heard the angry voices of Iwa shinobi a few hundred feet behind him.

Hawk was quite surprised when Naruto stopped shaking...and the next moment a murderous KI washed over the entire area, and he realized it was coming from Naruto.

Murderous red eyes glared at the hundreds of Iwa shinobi...and more specifically at the two legendary shinobi whose bodies were still recovering.

"I'll Kill you...I'll wipe every last one of you from the face of this EARTH!" yelled Naruto murderously,

That day an AVENGER was born!

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