Chapter 17: A future without a Cage

Kaito smirked as he watched Naruto emerge from the space hole, "it's been a long time sensei,"

Naruto firmly looked at his student, "You have fallen to an all-time low Kaito. This is all unnecessary. It is not my fault kurama rejected you. If it was up to me all of you would have been able to inherit my powers."

"Yeah but it wasn't up to you was it sensei?" Ryuga spoke as he walked to the blond, "Instead of talking with Kurama, you decided to abandon us in our time of need to cope with the rejection. No, you walked away from us five.
We gave you sweat, blood, and tears to make you proud."

"I am proud of you guys, or should I say was? You have killed two of my friends in cold blood and you still demand acceptance?" shouted Naruto, "Didn't I tell you guys about Pain and Obito?"

"Pain and Obito are different from us sensei," spoke Serena coldly.

"How so Serena?" demanded Naruto. He steadily watched them circle him, Where is Ignis?"

The young girl answered him, "Pain was accepted by Jiraiya-sama and Obito was accepted by Rin. You never did acknowledge us! You rescued us but left us when we were broken."

"Ignis is taking care of the Dragons; don't worry they are under my genjutsu," answered Kaito, "Now sensei where is Sasuke? He was right behind you wasn't he so quit stalling!"

"You know Kaito, I considered all of you my children at some point but after all you've done to my people, friends and village, you have to be stopped!" Naruto threw kunais to each of them.

All of them dodged them easily paying no mind and only taunted Naruto, with smirks, "Sensei we studied you for a very long time we know all of you tricks." Spoke Ryuga.

One of the Kunais disappeared, only to have Sasuke in its place. With lightning speed he drew his katana and with one jabbing motion, struck his target. Naruto disappeared in a flash.

Naruto's students looked at each other before looking to who was pierced. Blood trickled down the face of Tenshi as a sword divided his eye vision. Sasuke stabbed him behind the head with the sword penetrating in between Tenshi's eyes before drawing it back and swinging the blood away.

"One down, four to go," spoke Sasuke coldly with his Sharingan and Rinnegan blazing back at the group, "The difference between Naruto and me is that I don't hold back."

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With Tenshi, gone all the ice traps disappeared from everyone's necks. Everyone began to flee the arena as quickly as possible. In the mist of the confusion, Naruto jumped in front of Ino startling her, "Hey, it's been a long time since I last saw you,"

"It's only been a day, she replied back hugging him. He picked up her chin and gave her a kiss before placing her in a genjustu. She fell asleep immediately dropping to his arms. He began rushing her to Kakashi.

"Naruto Wait!" yelled Tsunade he jumped next to him, "I'll take her to Kakashi to hide her. Shes going to need someone when the baby arrives."

"Wait you know about my plan?" wondered Naruto before giving Ino to her arms.

"I am the fifth Hokage Naruto. I am also a Sannin. Don't be little me because I am old," she gave him a friendly smile before kicking him in the shin forcing him to kneel.

"Oi! What was that for?" exclaimed Naruto before being shut with a peck in his forehead.

She pulled back and rubbed his hair, "You have grown so tall Naruto, it's almost impossible for me to do it like before and the kick was for placing Ino in a genjutsu without her consent. Goodluck Naruto."

She waved goodbye before taking Ino and herself through the portal and disappearing.

Something was off but was brought back to reality when Kakashi walked in front of him.

"So we are going through with the plan." Questioned kakashi.

"Yes sensei, we need to protect you to give Ino time for all of the time recover." Spoke Naruto. As he was about to take off, Obito landed next to them.

"Naruto, I want to help," Demanded the Uchiha, "I want to protect my village and Anko. I can't do that without your help. Please unseal my sharingan."

Naruto smirked, "It's about time you asked for it."

Obito smiled, "I found my light once again and this time I am protecting it with my friends."

Naruto's placed his hand on Obito's forehead and unsealed his dojutsu .

"Protect Kakashi for me Obito, he is getting old you know," he smirked before taking off to help Sasuke.

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Naruto landed next to Sasuke, "took you long enough, so far our plan has worked, but they separated the moment Serena used the mist jutsu. Why don't you go to your first fox sage to find them? So we can start planning our offense and defense."

The Rest of the rookies joined them. With Sakura hugging Sasuke with deathlike grip before sobbing.

"It was horrible! I heard it. I heard lee being beat down to death with a bat!"

Naruto frowned another one of his friends died, he picked up his head immediately and searched for the remaining member of Team Guy before approaching her, "Tenten I…"

"Don't!" she stopped him, "Not right now, Naruto, I will not let both of their memories go to waste we have to stop them. Only then can I honor them."

Naruto nodded before placing a hand on her shoulder, "We will, I promise."

Naruto entered stage one before pinpointing each one of his students, "Kaito is on top of the Hokage mansion, Ryuga is in the arena, and Serena is in training ground seven. Ignis is far away from here with the two dragons.

Shikamaru assessed the situation and began explaining the game plan, "Kiba you have to sit this one out since you are still hurt and can barely walk. With Akamaru, go help anyone who stayed behind. Chouji help Kiba in case the dragons appear and attack them use your expansion jutsu to defend them with size."

Both of them nodded. Kiba got on top of Akamaru, "Alright buddy go sniff out anyone who stayed behind to get them out of here!" They took off running with Chouji behind them.

"Hinata, Sakura, and Tenten you will go up against Serena. Hinata should be able to defend you with from the ice shard with her rotation and Byakugan. Sakura with your strength and healing powers should be able to defeat her. Tenten with your weapons you should be able to blow away any mist and break any ice mirrors she produces. We're counting on you." The three of them nodded.

"Sai, you go up in the sky to give us Intel to what is happening around the village. If you spot the dragons send us all an ink message." He immediately drew a bird and went up in the sky.

"Kakashi-sensei, Obito, and Konohamaru are with me. We are going to try to figure out Ryuga's jutsu. Konohamaru, we are going to need your shadowclones as distractions. Obito's sharingan should let us know where he is when he is traveling without a body. Kakashi's experience should let us decipher the enemy's abilities like when he did with Pain. My shadows should also keep him at bay. That leaves Naruto and Sasuke with Kaito."

"He is on another level than most of us so I'll leave him up to you."

All of the rookies nodded, "One more thing guys, Sasuke just killed one of their comrade, they are going to be really pissed and are not going to hold back so be careful."

"Don't worry, we won't hold back Shikamaru," spoke firmly Hinata, "This time we will protect the village together and help Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun defeat them. We will defeat the dragons and avenge our fallen brothers. This village is our home. I want my children to grow up here with all of your children. The next generation should grow up without fears of being beaten to death. Our enemy has shed first blood the moment they killed Shino-kun years ago. Now Lee-kun is gone as well. Neji-niisan entrusted each and every one of us with a future without a cage. Where we are able to wonder as a free bird. They are trying to take control of us. They say they want acceptance from Naruto-kun but in reality they want to put fears in our mind. I won't let our friends be caged once again. We will fight as one once again."

Hinata…, thought Naruto before walking next to her and placing a hand on her shoulder and smiled, "You are right Hinata-chan, we need a future without fears once again. We will stop them because our future is in our hands."

She smiled back at him and looked up to the sky to see a smiling Neji, Shino and Rock Lee with shining teeth looking at everyone.

Chapter end!

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