Naruto: In Darkness Lies Power

The Return and Reveal

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Tailed Beast, Transformed Jinjuriki, or Summoning Talking"

'Tailed Beast or Summoning Thinking'

{Time Skip & Location Change}

(Author's Announcement)

{Last Time}

The two jinjuriki reappeared on another part of the bridge, where Zabuza was. The two stared each other down, before Fu charged at Naruto in a blind rage, preparing to strike with her claws. Naruto saw this and started running at her, with the intent of stopping her. They both disappeared from Zabuza's sight, before he saw blurs of red clashing against each other again and again. After a few minutes, Naruto and Fu both reappeared, and seemed to be struggling to push one another back. What they didn't notice was Kakashi attempting to sneak up on them and place the seal that Orochimaru gave to him and the rest of the jounin in case Naruto or Fu lost control to their tailed beasts, only for Fu to look at where he was, and let her chakra tail wrap itself around his hand, and toss him back.

Naruto took advantage of Fu's split focus and shoved his knee into her stomach, before rushing to where the seal was, disappearing in another flash to Fu, and slapping the seal on the back of her head. The seal started to take effect almost immediately, before Naruto heard clapping, and looked to see the source was coming from a pudgy short man with one of his arms in a casket, and an army of thugs. 

The man started talking about, while Naruto tuned him out and took out a small bag and reached into it to grab four small beans, and ate one, which replenished his chakra reserves instantly. He tossed one to both Zabuza and Kakashi, who had been ignoring the man's speech as well, "Eat it, it'll replenish your chakra and heal any of your wounds.". Zabuza started to chew off the bandages, and ate the bean, and instantly felt that his arms healed, before grabbing his zanbato, and started doing a few practice swings, before grinning, "I'm starting to like you kid.". Naruto, Kakashi, and Zabuza started rushing at the army. What followed next was a straight up blood bath, and a one sided mini war. After it was done, only Gato was left, as Naruto stopped him from running and tossed him the villagers that just showed up, "Do what you want with him. Not like any one will care."

{Chapter Start}

After Naruto left Gato to mercy of the Land of Waves' residences, or lack there of, the entire Land of Waves celebrated while Naruto and Team 7 continued their mission to guard Tazuna, with Zabuza and Haku staying at Tazuna's house and recovered from the fight. Kakashi informed the mist rouge that Kushimaru was dead since he killed him, but Zabuza didn't seem to care much. Sauske had seemed to have gotten an ego boost, seeing that he was constantly challenging Naruto when he wasn't on guard duty, after Sasuke got off the probation that Kakashi put him on for putting Aumi's life at risk to save his own. 

The Nine Tails container started to think that the last "loyal" Uchiha had unlocked his visual justu. Aumi had been recovering from the injuries she received from her fight with Haku, and she had been sulking for a while, thinking Naruto would be disappointed in her for not being able to handle herself in the field, forgetting this was her first real mission. Fu had been depressed as well, chastising herself that she had lost control, but Naruto snapped her out of it, saying she saw that her teammate was n danger and tried to help, her losing her anger just showed how much further she had to go, and showing her that she was still human.  After a few days, the bridge had been finished, with Team 7, Naruto, Zabuza, and Haku were ready to leave for the Leaf and Mist respectively, after saying their goodbyes to everyone in the Land of Waves and each other.

{Hidden Leaf Village; Training Ground 9}

Naruko and Kushina were clashing with each other, focusing on fixing the flaws in Naruko's stance. It had been a few days since they and Minato had returned to the Leaf village, and they were settling in rather well. While the Civilians welcomed them with open arms, the Ninjas seemed to keep as far away from Naruko as possible, seeing her as another Naruto. Minato had taken over as Hokage, and was keeping himself busy cleaning up the village, and looking over his son's profile. He had seen that Kakashi had taken up a team and made multiple requests to take on Naruto as a student, and was turned down by Sarutobi, saying Naruto wouldn't work well with teammates.