The Wood Fox

Chapter 29

Walking through a demolished hideout was nothing unusual for Naruto, he had seen all of it before when he was younger on missions with Jiraya so he wasn't surprised to see some monsters that were a weird mixture beetwen human and animal. As he walked and found an opening to a wide chamber that had had its roof blown out,  with his leg falling off the edge of the crater he found a young man much like himself decked in crimson armour with black form fitting Spandex under it, he looked towards the person's face to see red eyes staring back at him a smirk decorating his face, although the men's hair was longer it was still shoulder length only now it had a bang that covered his right eye.

The wind picked up and both of the young men's hair swayed in the wind the tension of the situation growing thicker. Naruto smiled, it was exciting the prospect they would be fighting again.

"It's been a long time Sasuke."-the dark haired men smirk grew a tad.

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Kurotsuchi walked with a group of her academy peers, they had all been friends at one point but now they were barely acquaintances, she wondered how worse could her life get, after all, she was marrying into a different village meaning her dream of being Tsuchikage was over now. She had wanted to take over for her grandfather but now that dream had been shattered when her grandfather had decided to push this marriage onto her and the Namikaze heir.

She was a strange mix of sad, angry and afraid, after all she was leaving her family and her friends, she was angry at the higher ups for forcing this onto her, and she was afraid beacause she wasn't sure if she could keep her secret for long when she began living in Konoha.

As they walked through Tsuchi no Kuni, she wondered what her fiancé was like, she knew he was a ninja, most likely a Chunnin if he was any good, after all she was one of the most prodigious ninja Iwa had to offer, and she was just a Chunnin herself.

Her dark hair swayed in thewind and thoughts of how the Namikaze heir looked like, he most likely looked just like his father, that would be her bet, he probably wouldn't be that high on the pecking list after all, there were no news of a Namikaze heir until recently.

She wondered how his other wife would react to her presence, she hoped she wasn't aggressive towards her, she would at least like to be able to be civil with the two people she would spend the rest of her life with. With a sigh she resigned herself to try and make the best of the situation.

The sounds of explosions caught her groups attention and seeing the dark cloud of grey smoke coming not to far from them did not fill them with hopefulness, and that's when it appeared, like an angry god, a purple gigantic mass of chakra resembling a human it's face had a helmet that features a long tengu nose, two spikes over each eye, a slit stretching across its mouth, three gaps on each of its cheeks and one additional gap on its chin, it also had ornate armour and long wings that opened creating a strong wind that made all of the Iwa continent cover their faces from the fierce winds.

The structure flew upwards before turning in mid air and leaving, when it passed above them they all noted a figure inside the structure, however they couldn't make out any details.

Curiosity overriding their fear, they moved forward towards the dark grey clouds, arriving at what looked to once been an hideout a plain looking Shinobi issued an order.

"Kana head to Konoha with Kurotsuchi, we'll report back to Iwa."-with a nod they took off towards Hi no Kuni where she would soon start her new life.

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Arriving at the border of Hi no Kuni Naruto grimanced having barely flashed away from the two corpses that were filled with explosive notes, the Akatsuki robes they had been wearing covered them perfectly and he noticed almost too late.