The Orange Flash and the White Dog

Chapter X

Summary: Naruto is banished by the council after his failing to retrieve Sasuke and return him to the village. On leaving, things happen between him and the Kyuubi and he ends up meeting Taishio Yaone. A powerful Inuyoukai who is the daughter of Taishio Sesshoumaru, the ruler of the Western Lands of the Makai and the Shikon Miko, Kagome. Together they become the legendary Orange Flash and White Dog.

Warnings: This is a yaoi/slash fic. The eventual main pairing will be Shino/Naru with mentions of Shino/Kiba, Majeh/Naru, and Majeh/Naru/Samhuk
If you don’t like slash, don’t read, don’t flame.

Author’s Notes: This chapter is entirely new. I added it after NaNoWriMo as I realized how old Naruto was and there were important events about to happen that Naruto needed to address. This chapter was written to address them. Any grammatical errors that I may have missed please let me know by pm. Thanks, The Lady of Shadows.

Yaone sighed, “The time is almost up for your friend, Sasuke, Naruto. We need to retrieve him before the snake can switch bodies.”

Naruto nodded his head, a grim expression on his face. He knew that it was time for him to fulfill one of his promises. He looked at Yaone with a serious expression on his face and said, “Sasuke will just try to run again. I’m going to have to put a set of seals on him and tie it to Baa-chan so she can control him.”

Yaone nodded approvingly and the two separated to go and pack for their trip to Rice and Oto. Naruto sent Gamanichi and Deirdre to Jiraiya and Tsunade to let them know of his plans. An half and hour later he met up with Sandayu Jr. and Princess Koyuki and informed them of his and Yaone’s plans. “When do you think you two will be back?” Sandayu asked.

“A couple of months at the most,” Naruto replied.

“Then we’ll see you then, Naruto,” Princess Koyuki said quietly.

Naruto nodded his head before bowing slightly and leaving the two behind to meet Yaone at the front gate. They departed for the harbour and Yaone quickly found a ship heading to Wave.

From Wave they would go to Rice. Using the information that Jiraiya had given them, they would head to where Orochimaru had last been spotted. Naruto had his kage bunshin constantly doing chakra control exercises so he would not loose any of his hard won control while he and Yaone relaxed during the voyage. On arriving at Wave, they decided to stay the night at Tazuna’s before moving on in the morning. Everyone greeted the two of them joyfully. Naruto informed them on what had been happening for the pat couple of years and were they were headed next. “So you’re going to retrieve the Uchiha from the Snake Sannin,” Tazuna mused, “Well, good luck, Naruto!”

Naruto nodded and the talk turned to events in Wave before everyone retired for the night. The next morning they had breakfast and then said goodbye. Naruto and Yaone swiftly crossed The Great Naruto Bridge and headed to Rice. They traveled swiftly toward the place that Jiraiya had said that Sasuke and his master had been last spotted. Two days later, they arrived at their destination. Jiraiya, along with Kakashi and Yamato were waiting for them. Jiraiya looked at Naruto and said grimly, “They’re here.”

“Well, that’s good. We don’t have to search the entire country for them then,” Naruto replied.

“So, what’s the plan?” Kakashi asked.

Naruto’s golden brows furrowed in thought and then he said, “We need to at least draw Sasuke out of that bunker. Therefore, we need to create a large commotion. Ero-sennin and I will summon a bunch of toads and have them start destroying as much as the snake bastard’s lair as they can in order to draw Sasuke out. We will snipe off as many Oto nins as we can in order to force out Orochimaru, Kabuto and Sasuke. Once Sasuke shows his face our priority is to knock him out and retreat with his unconscious body until we reach a safe place for me to place the seals that I have designed for keeping Sasuke in line.”

The group nodded their head, the plan sounded good. “Okay, let’s do this then,” Naruto, stated quietly.

Naruto ad Jiraiya bit their thumbs and summoned a bunch of toads. Of course, Naruto made sure to summon is two favourite toads, Tim and Nikki. “Create as much havoc and destruction to that hideout as you can, guys.” Naruto commanded.

The group of toads nodded their large heads in unison and moved out to follow Naruto’s orders. A few minutes late explosions and the sounds of screaming and dying ninja’s were heard in the air. The five of them leapt silently forward, creeping up onto Orochimaru’s hideout. The Oto nins were not doing well against the toads and soon they caught sight of Orochimaru as he summoned some of his snakes to deal with Naruto and Jiraiya’s toads. “I’ll take care of my former team-mate,” Jiraiya muttered before moving forward to confront him.

Kakashi caught sight of Kabuto and nodded to them before moving to engage the silver haired med-nin. Yamato and Yaone also headed out into the battle to engage the more powerful individuals within the Oto hideout. Naruto patiently waited for Sasuke to emerge from the underground lair. Finally, his patience was rewarded and Sasuke came into view. Naruto kept his chakra repressed and moved silently toward his ex-team-mate. When Naruto deemed himself close enough he released his gravity and resistance seals, sped behind Sasuke, and pressed key pressure points along his neck rendering him unconscious. Sasuke never knew what hit him. Naruto threw the unconscious Uchiha over his shoulder and ran away from the hideout and the battle behind him. Yaone appeared at Jiraiya’s side and said, “Gather Kakashi and Yamato and follow Naruto away from here. I’ll create a distraction to keep Orochimaru and his ninja from following you.”

Jiraiya nodded his head and retreated, signalling Yamato and Kakashi to follow him. Yaone gathered her youki around her and it visibly pulsed around her slim form in a sickly green glow. The ninja around her stumbled back in fear as they felt her malicious youki fill the air. Orochimaru narrowed his gold slit eyes as he realized that he faced something not human and far more powerful than he. He signalled to Kabuto to retreat and fled the area just as Yaone released her youki and it spread around her as a poisoned mist instantly killing the ninja around her. Yaone smirked underneath her mask before turning and swiftly leaving the devastated hideout behind her.

The toad and snake summons had wisely left before she had released her youki so they survived her devastating technique. Yaone quickly rejoined her companions and followed them as they swiftly leapt through the trees. “Jiraiya, we need to find a place where I can place the seals on Sasuke without interruptions,” Naruto yelled.

Jiraiya nodded and replied, “I know just the place, follow me.”

Jiraiya changed direction and moved swiftly toward a Konoha safe house that was just across the border. They traveled swiftly and silently through the trees without stopping for the next three hours. Once they crossed the border Naruto created hundred’s of kage bunshin and had them henge into members of their little group before separating and going in different directions to mislead the Oto nins that Orochimaru was bound to send after them. They continued moving and after another hour, Jiraiya led them into a hidden valley with a large hut nestled in a copse of trees. Naruto entered the hut carrying a still comatose Uchiha. He laid his former teammate on the ground.

Naruto unsealed a mat and unrolled it before stripping Sasuke of everything but his underwear before laying him face down on the mat. Naruto then unsealed his sealing equipment. He pulled out a set of stencils that he had created just for this mission. He sterilized Sasuke’s back and placed the first stencil over the Heaven’s Curse Seal. The first thing he needed to do was seal it away. He silently blessed Kamuro for teaching him this seal. Kamuro and he were the only ones who know how to place and remove this seal. This seal completely cut off Sasuke’s access to the heaven’s curse seal’s corruptive power as well as blocking Orochimaru’s ability to manipulate its user from a distance.

Naruto added his blood to the ink mixture that he had prepared earlier. He filled he tattoo gun with the ink and began filling in the stencils. Twenty minutes later the Heaven’s Curse Seal was sealed permanently away. Naruto sighed and flexed his fingers. Sasuke began to stir beneath him and Naruto quickly jabbed the pressure point in Sasuke’s neck, knocking him unconscious once again. Naruto pulled out the next stencil. This set of seals would lock away Sasuke’s ability to use the Sharingan. Naruto knew that he had to seal Sasuke’s Sharingan away because Sasuke would try to escape Konoha again and the Sharingan would give him an advantage over those assigned to guard him. Thirty minutes later, Naruto finished the sealing array. Naruto then pulled out the next sealing array that was designed similar to the previous array except it sealed away Sasuke’s access to his chakra. An hour later he was done.

Naruto stood up and stretched. He only had one more seal array left to place. This set acted similar to a seat of beads that were around a certain white haired hanyrou’s neck. After Yaone had told him about the prayer beads her uncle Inuyasha wore, he had decided to design a seal array that would do something similar. The seal was able to imprint on someone’s chakra and then the person who was imprinted could with a simple ram seal would cause the seal array to pull Sasuke to the ground until the person who used it decided to release him. He would imprint Jiraiya and then Jiraiya could imprint Tsunade. The Godaime could then decide who else would have control over this seal.

Naruto sighed and grabbed the last stencil. He needed to place this seal on Sasuke’s legs. Naruto began inking the difficult seal array on Sasuke. An hour and half later he finally finished the last line of the seal array. He gestured Jiraiya over and said, “Okay, ero-sennin, you need to channel your chakra over the seals on Sasuke’s legs. This will cause the seals to imprint your chakra signature and allow you to use the seal. To use the seal perform the ram seal and say ‘sit.’ This will cause Sasuke to collapse to the ground unable to move until you or someone else who has been imprinted releases him.”

Jiraiya smirked and said, “That is one hell of a seal, brat.” Before doing as Naruto instructed. Once done he asked, “So what do the other seals do?”

“This one,” Naruto tapped the one around the curse seal.“Seals away the Heaven’s Curse Seal permanently. He’ll never be able to access its power again. This one,” he tapped the one on Sasuke’s upper left shoulder. “Seals away the Sharingan. His children will still be able to inherit the doujutsu but he will never be able to use it again as long as the seal remains in place. Finally,” he tapped the final seal he applied on Sasuke set in the middle of his back. “This one seals away his ability to use his chakra.”

The men in the hut nodded their heads in approval. They all knew that Sasuke would try to escape again and that these seals would effectively prevent that from happening. “Good work, Naruto,” Kakashi said.

Naruto smiled tiredly before unsealing his spare sleeping mat and sleeping bag. “I’m going to go to sleep for awhile,” he said.

Naruto was soon asleep and Yaone stood up and said, “Two of you should sleep while the other guards the Uchiha. I’ll go out and guard the entrance to the valley. We should get a good night’s sleep before moving out in the morning. Naruto and I will escort you till we find a Konoha patrol and then we’ll leave you and head back to Snow.”

Everyone nodded and Yaone headed out to guard the entrance. Jiraiya and Kakashi decided they would sleep while Yamato took the first shift then Kakashi would take the next shift and Jiraiya the final one. Yaone would wake Naruto up to take over guarding the entrance. The night passed uneventfully and when morning came, Sasuke awoke from his forced slumber. He immediately tried to activate his Sharingan and confusion spread across his face when it didn’t respond. Naruto just smirked at him and Sasuke growled, “What did you do to me, dobe?”

“Now what makes you think I did anything, teme?”

Sasuke glared angrily at him and gritted out between clenched teeth, “Dobe . . .”

“I sealed them away, along with your access to your chakra. I also placed a seal that will send you crashing to the ground by someone who has had their chakra signature imprinted onto the seal by using the proper activation code. Currently Jiraiya and I are the only ones who can do this but once Jiraiya, Kakashi and Yamato return you to Konoha, I’m sure baa-chan shall assign others the ability to use it. Finally, I sealed the Heaven’s Curse Seal away . . . permanently,” Naruto told him.

Sasuke growled and leapt toward Naruto. Naruto calmly performed the ram seal and said firmly, “sit.”

Sasuke tumbled to the ground and he growled impotently at Naruto. “Why,” he demanded.

“You betrayed Konoha, you betrayed me,” Naruto whispered. “Normally the punishment for a nuke-nin is death but I don’t want you dead. Tsunade agreed to let you live if I put these seals on you. She deemed them a suitable punishment for your betrayal. Maybe one day she will relent and have me remove them. Until then you will have to live as an ordinary civilian, Sasuke.”

Sasuke closed his eyes and ceased struggling. “Nice speech, brat, but it is time for us to go,” Jiraiya said.

Naruto nodded and grabbed Sasuke and threw the Uchiha over his shoulder. “Let’s go then.”

They swiftly moved through the forest heading toward Konoha. They traveled silently for the next hour. They relied on Yaone and Naruto’s enhanced senses to avoid the Oto nins searching for them. Naruto paused and looked at Yaone. She nodded, indicating that she had sensed them too. They waited for the group that Naruto and Yaone had sensed. “Who is it, brat?” Jiraiya asked.

Naruto smirked and said, “I feel the presence of a lot of bugs.”

“An Aburame then,” Kakashi stated.

“Shino,” Naruto stated simply.

“Ah,” Kakashi murmured.

Kurenai, Hinata, Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino leapt into the clearing. “Hey, guys,” Naruto greeted.

“Naruto, man, it’s good to see you,” Kiba yelled.

“Yep, here Kiba, tie him to the back of Akamaru. You guys get to return him to Konoha. Yaone and I need to head back to Snow,” Naruto said quietly.

Sasuke was handed off to Kiba who proceeded to tie him to his nin-dogs back. Shino stepped close to Naruto and they spoke quietly to each other. Shino stepped closer to Naruto just as Naruto turned to leave to return to Wave and then from there Snow, he grabbed Naruto by the collar of his duster and gave him a passionate kiss. Everyone’s eyes went wide in surprise. “What the fuck!” Kiba and Sasuke shouted in unison.

Shino released Naruto after thoroughly exploring Naruto’s mouth and smirked at him from behind the collar of his white overcoat before saying, “Stay safe.”

“You too, Shino,” Naruto replied, affection lacing his voice, before turning and leaving the clearing with Yaone right behind him.

After the two of them had left the clearing everyone turned on Shino demanding to know what was going on between the two of them. Shino just said, “Now I thought that that would be obvious.”

Shino refused to say another word and soon the group stopped pestering him for information. They swiftly returned to Konoha with their prize. Meanwhile, Naruto and Yaone were quickly moving toward Wave. Within a few days, they were on a ship bound for Snow. On arriving back in Snow, things soon returned to normal. Naruto resumed his training and doing missions for the princess. A month later, visiting dignitaries arranging a trade treaty arrived in Snow.

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Naruto and Yaone moved swiftly to the harbour. Princess Koyuki had sent them to greet and escort some muckity-mucks who were arriving to do some business with Snow. She didn’t inform them who it was or how many they were going to meet. He didn’t know why they were coming in the middle of winter when they could have waited until spring when it was warmer. The two of them stood on the wharf waiting for the dignitaries to arrive. A ship pulling into the harbour caught his eye or the flag of the ship, snapping sharply in the cold wind, caught his eye. A wide grin spread across his face as he studied the hourglass printed on the flag fly proudly on the wind. He moved to where the ship was being tied with a bounce in his step, Yaone following behind him. He leaped up onto the deck of the ship landing beside a stoic red haired figure. “Gaara,” Naruto greeted the Kazekage happily. “How are you?”

A slight smile drifted across the pale red head’s face. “I’m well and you?”

“I can’t complain,” Naruto responded. He gestured Yaone forward, “Yaone this is Sabaku no Gaara, Gaara this is Taishio Yaone.”

Yaone smiled and slightly bowed toward the quiet red head and said, “A pleasure to meet you, Gaara.”

Gaara nodded and said, “It’s nice to finally make your acquaintance. Tsunade has told me much about you as well as what you and Naruto have been up to.”

“So I take it you guys are here to hammer out a trade agreement between Suna and Snow?” Naruto asked.

Gaara simply nodded. Naruto grin got larger before he said, “Well, Yaone and I are your escorts to the capital.”

“I know.”

“You were always a man of few words, Gaara,” Naruto said, amusement lacing his voice.

Naruto looked around looking for Gaara’s entourage and saw a couple of familiar faces. Temari and Kankuro moved towards them and when they arrived Naruto said, “Hello, Temari, Kankuro.”

“Hello, Naruto,” responded Temari politely and Kankuro just nodded his head in acknowledgement.

“Yaone, these two are Temari and Kankuro, Gaara’s older brother and sister. Guys this is my partner, Taishio Yaone.”

“Nice to meet you,” the two siblings replied politely.

“And you as well,” Yaone replied.

“How many are in your entourage, Gaara?” Naruto asked.

“Four of my Anbu and that’s it.”

“Are you ready to go to the palace then?” Naruto asked.

“Our possessions are sealed into scrolls which are in my gourd,” Gaara replied softly.

“Alright, let’s go then,” Naruto, chirped before leaping off the deck of the ship and onto the wharf.

The other ninja followed him. First Gaara followed by Kankuro and Temari and Yaone guarded their back. Naruto was able to sense the four Sand Anbu spreading out behind them. The group swiftly moved toward the palace. Naruto was certain the Sand shinobi would like to get to their destination and sleep in an actual bed.

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For the next week, the Sand trio and Princess Koyuki and her advisors were involved in rigorous negotiations. The negotiations finally ended and a trade agreement was formed between Sand and Snow. The Sand delegation soon got ready to leave Snow. Two days after the negotiations were finished they were ready to leave. Once again, Naruto and Yaone were assigned to be their escorts.

The group was halfway to their destination when their journey was interrupted by two individuals wearing distinctive black cloaks with red clouds stepping out of the snow-covered trees and into their path. Naruto stopped and growled, “Akatsuki!”

“So these are two of the members collecting the Jinchuriki,” Gaara mused.

“So, you know of us, un?” the taller member said.

“Neither of you are Itachi or Kisame,” Naruto noted, a cold look coming to his eye. “Give us the pleasure of your names. After all, Gaara and I would like to know what names we should put on your graves.”

“A little confident there, aren’t you?” the shorter member said.

“Considering Yaone, there,” Naruto pointed at Yaone before continuing on, “and another one of my sensei’s sent Itachi and Kisame running for their lives a few years ago, I’d say that I am a little confident. Especially since all five of my sensei’s have decided that they have taught me everything that they could teach me.”

“You must be Uzumaki Naruto, un,” the taller nuke-nin said.

“No, I’m Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto,” Naruto corrected with an evil smirk.

“Namikaze?”

“As in, Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage and my father,” Naruto replied.

The Sand trio stared at Naruto in disbelief and Yaone just grinned. “What’s with all the Jinchuriki being related to Kage in someway, un?”

“That changes nothing,” the shorter man said.

“Names,” Naruto said.

“Very well, I am Akasuna no Sasori and this is my partner Deidara of Iwa,” Sasori stated.

Naruto’s eyes narrowed, he had recently convinced Tsunade to give him a bingo book. He recognized the two names and he analysed their skills before saying, “Gaara, Sasori is yours. Yaone and Kankuro will back you. I’ve got Deidara with Temari as back up.”

Naruto swiftly unsealed his scythe and held it slightly behind him. His blue eyes narrowed and he whispered, “Let’s get wild!” Before charging forward, heading swiftly for the taller figure. Deidara leapt back and a clay bird flew from him and towards Naruto. “Taste my art, un!”

Just as the bird reached Naruto, he used kawarmi and the bird slammed into a log and blew it to smithereens. Deidara wheeled around to face Naruto but dogged to his left as Temari sent a blast of cutting wind from her fan at him. Deidara quickly realized that he was at a disadvantage on the ground. He leapt away from the two nins attacking him, rapidly forming his clay into a giant flying bird. He jumped onto its back and it took to the air. There he proceeded to bombard the two ninja’s on the ground. Naruto dodged explosive bird after explosive bird using Kawarmi to its fullest. “Temari, distract him!” Naruto yelled out.

He pulled out one of his three-pronged kunai and when Temari sent a blast of supercharged wind up at Deidara he threw the kunai above the flying nin using his own wind affinity to give the thrown weapon extra power. Deidara did not see the kunai, as he was too busy dodging Temari’s attacks just as Naruto planned. “Hirashin no Jutsu,” he whispered and flashed to the falling kunai.

Deidara realized that one of his opponents was missing and searched for him. A sound above him caught his attention and he looked up. It was too late, though. Naruto, scythe held above him, descended down to the explosive expert. He brought the scythe down, charging his wind affinity through it to make it sharper. Deidara didn’t even have time to scream as the blade cut down through him. Blood spilled through the air and as Naruto cut through the large bird, he used the Hirashin again to move out of the blast sight. The force of the explosion pushed Naruto through the air and he tumbled through the air uncontrollably. To save himself he used his wind affinity to stabilize himself in the air. He looked down and saw that he was falling quickly to the ground and that Sasori was underneath him. In a glance, he saw that the puppet master was easily keeping his three opponents away from him with his puppets. Gaara’s sand was having problems trying to get through Sasori’s armour. Which was now obvious another puppet. Naruto drew his scythe back, charging wind into the blade and swung it down. Scythe shaped wind blasted down on the Sasori puppet armour and broke it apart.

Naruto frowned, he needed to slow his decent towards the ground and he flipped the scythe so the handle and its chains faced the rapidly approaching earth. He channelled chakra to the wind and water chains. The blast of wind pushed him up and slowed his decent and the water chain poured water down to slow his decent even further. Suddenly sand wrapped around him and gently pulled him to the ground. Once his feet were safely planted on the ground, he looked up at the red head that had walked up to him. “Thanks Gaara!”

“Anytime, Naruto,” the red head replied sombrely.

The group of nins looked at what was left of the two nukenins bodies. Naruto looked at Sasori’s now mangled and crushed body that was hanging out of the grotesque puppet that he’d been using as armour. “Sabaku Soso?”

“Yes.”

“Aa, well let me grab Deidara’s head. His bounty is quite large,” Naruto said happily.

“You will also receive half of the bounty on Sasori as well,” Gaara said. “You did after all help me kill him.”

Naruto just grinned and went and gathered Deidara’s rather charred but still recognizable head, and sealed it into a scroll. Yaone just looked at him and then said, “Two down, Naruto.”

“What do you mean by two down, Yaone-san?” Temari questioned curiously.

“I mean that his other senseis and I have given him a challenge. In order to prove that he truly has learned everything from us he is to kill all the members of the Akatsuki, either by himself or with allies. He is now responsible for the deaths of two members,” Yaone replied.

Naruto just smiled widely and said, “I do believe that we should continue our journey to the harbour and get you guys started on your journey back to Suna.”

Gaara nodded and they continued once Kankuro had finished sealing Sasori’s crushed body into a scroll. The rest of the journey was uneventful and soon the Suna contingent was on their ship and returning to Suna.

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A few days later Yaone handed him a present. “This is my gift to you on doing so well in your training,” she informed him.

Naruto had grown quite tall since leaving Wave. He was now a respectable six foot four and had grown his hair down to his shoulders. It was still a mass of yellow spikes but it was tamed somewhat by its length. Yaone had decided that the perfect gift for him would be something he had lost when he had grown taller. She had special ordered the outfit he had loved back in Wave that he had grown out of here in Snow. Naruto looked at her gift to him, he hugged her and went to immediately change into it. He stepped out of the bathroom wearing a sleeveless black tee-shirt with orange and yellow flames going up the front, a pair of loose black pants with an orange stripe going up the side of each leg. A pair of black leather, almost knee high boot with three silver buckles that buckled the boots up a burnished orange, ankle length duster that was closed by a series of buckles that went from throat to waist topped off the outit. The fabric of the duster split at the sides from the waist to the ankle giving him plenty of room to fight in.

He smiled happily and said, “God, I missed this outfit when I grew out of it.”

Yaone laughed and said, “It looks better on you now then it did when you were younger, hero.”

Naruto just smiled at her and looked out the window. He was proud of all that he had learned in the past couple of years. He had mastered many weapons and techniques but preferred tinkering with seals, using his elemental Scythe and chain weapon, the Rasengan which he had finished by adding the different elemental chakra’s to and the use of his father’s most famous jutsu the Hiraishin no Jutsu. “What is next, Yaone?” Naruto asked her.

“We go to the Makai and refine your abilities in battle. You did well against those two Akatsuki members but the ease of your win was due to catching them by surprise. The weakest part of the Hirashin is that if an S class enemy knows and sees the kunai they can anticipate where you will be. The Makai will make you a formable adversary. Not only that we need to go see Totosai jr. and complete our training with him,” she said quietly.

Naruto nodded his head and said, “I guess we should let everyone know that we are leaving soon.”

“Yes,” was all that Yaone said.

A week later, they were ready to leave. Everything they owned had once again been packed into storage seals and placed into their backpacks. Naruto had sent toads to everyone letting them know that he was leaving the Hidden Realms and going to the Makai. His message to Shino was more personal then his other letters. Shino sent him a butterfly encased in amber as a good luck gift and he put it on. Naruto went informed Princess Koyuki and Sandayu, Jr. of their eminent departure. Princess Koyuki smiled sadly and said, “I will miss your presence, Naruto-kun. Please take care of yourself and keep in contact with us please.”

Naruto nodded and turned left with a promise to keep in touch. After the two warriors had said their good-bye’s to Princess Koyuki and Sandayu, Jr. and the rest of the men and women they had gotten to know over the past year and half, it was finally time to go. Naruto stepped up beside Yaone as she concentrated on opening a doorway to the Makai. Once it opened, Yaone stepped through. Naruto took a deep breath and then followed her into the home of the youkai.