SURPRISE EVERYONE! I said it was coming and now it's finally here. I present to you all the first in a trilogy of one-shots in my newest crossover series "Uzumaki ga Kill" (Japanese for: The Maelstrom Killer) which will see Naruto paired up with three of the sexiest, yet deadliest ladies from the hit series "Akame ga Kill".

And the first lady Naruto will be paired with will be the titular character of the series, Akame. This lemon is dedicated to the great lemon author Thayerblue1 who's amazing Naruto/Akame ga Kill crossover story Naruto: Trapped Under Ice was the main inspiration for me to do my own series. So, everybody sit back, and get ready because…once again…. IT'S SHOWTIME!

Summary: Naruto and Team 7, along with a few other shinobi friends join forces with the Revolutionary Army and Night Raid for an all-out assault on the Imperial Capital. Naruto teams up with Akame and the two attempt to save Akame's sister Kurome from a destructive road to ruin.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Akame ga Kill or any of the characters or songs used in this story.

Notes: There are many things in the actual canon storyline of Akame ga Kill that will be retconned in my story. The biggest thing is that in my stories, many of the main characters that died in canon like Sheele, Chelsea, Lubbock, Susanoo, and Leone will NOT be dead in my story.

This will be a common theme in ALL of my stories in this series, I'll explain more about this, along with the other things I have in mind in detail as we get deeper into the story. However, for the benefits of my stories, the ONLY character that died in canon that will remain dead in my stories will be Bulat. I'll explain more in detail on that at the end of the chapter.

Lastly, this story takes place two years after the 4th Shinobi World War and following Night Raid's battle with General Budo in canon. However, as previously stated, several things about that battle and the events leading up to it will be retconned for the purposes of my story that will be explained in detail as this story progresses.

And, as usual in my universe of stories, Naruto's height is 5'10", he possesses the Rinnegan, and he will be voiced by Crispin Freeman.

"Skyreach" by Sora Amamiya begins playing

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were disembarking from a large cruise liner at the Imperial Capital. After the three of them were checked over to a minimal degree by customs, they began to search for their client for their mission. They had been told the client would be a young woman disguised as a nun.

"Sasuke-kun, any sign of her yet?" Sakura asked the last Uchiha who was searching through the crowd with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan activated in his right eye.

"No, not yet. She must be trying to keep a low profile for some reason." Sasuke said.

"Well according to the intel on her, she's a part of a rebel group trying to overthrow this Empire, not exactly the type of person who needs to be going around advertising themselves if you ask me," Naruto said and both of his teammates nodded in agreement before a nun came marching up to them a few minutes later having spotted them.

"Welcome to the Capitol pilgrims from the East. How long was your trip?" The nun said to the group of shinobi, who sighed in relief at hearing the agreed code between the client and themselves.

"It took us three long days and three long nights to make it to the ship, but the trip was successful." Naruto confidently said and the nun smiled at hearing the correct code.

"Well after such a long trip you must be exhausted. Come with me my friends, I have a place for you to rest your heads." The nun said as she leads the group along after her and the three shinobi were led into a closed bookstore where she revealed a hidden passage behind a bookcase that revealed a hidden room that led to an underground hideout.

After being led inside, the nun secured the place before dropping her disguise and revealing her true self. The client was a young woman with pale skin, auburn hair and red eyes. She wore a butterfly headphone accessory on her head.

She wore a vocalist-like clothing consisting of a white long sleeve shirt with the collar tied with a red ribbon under a black vest a red checkered mini skirt, and black leather below-the-knee boots. She carried what looked like a cosmetics box at her side, and she had a lollipop in her mouth, she also appeared to have a prosthetic left hand.

"So, you're the famous Team 7. Gotta say you guys don't look like much." the girl, Chelsea bluntly said and Team 7 just looked at each other and smirked.

"Well, looks like we'll just have to let our actions speak for us like we always do," Naruto said and the redhead smiled at the blonde's confidence.

"He sure knows how to talk the talk, but it still remains to be seen if he can walk the walk." Chelsea thought to herself before they were joined in the underground hideout by a young man.

The young man had shoulder-length green hair, green eyes and red goggles on top of his head. He wore a long green jacket with a fur-trimmed hood over a white and red ringer shirt and blue jeans with brown shoes. He also wore gloves with metallic fingertips.

"Lubbock, there you are. Thanks for giving me the keys to let me get into your bookstore with no problems." Chelsea said to the now named Lubbock.

"No problem Chelsea. So, these guys are the ones we hired," Lubbock asked and the aforementioned redhead nodded.

"Yeah, I was just about to bring these three back to the hideout," Chelsea said and Lubbock nodded.

"Then let's not waste any time, Najenda is waiting to see them. Follow us, this way." Lubbock said and the three shinobi were lead out of the Capitol through an underground path, to Night Raid's hideout. After maneuvering their way around the traps (a task that was relatively easy for the three shinobi), the three soon arrived at the hideout and came face-to-face with the rest of Night Raid.

Standing front and center was a woman with short silver hair and purple eyes. She wore an eyepatch where her right eye used to be and a black suit that shows her cleavage. She also had a mechanical right arm. Naruto and his team correctly assumed this must be their leader Najenda.

Standing to Najenda's right was a tall man who looks in his late-20's with blue hair and eyes and distinctive, bull-like horns coming out of the sides of his head. He was also wearing a distinct white robe.

At Najenda's left was a young woman with short blonde hair with two long bangs that frame the sides of her head and golden eyes. She wears a revealing outfit with a black tube top that shows off plenty of her ample cleavage, pants, boots and a scarf around her neck.

To the blonde woman's left was a young girl with long black hair that reached down to her knees and red eyes. She wore a dark sleeveless mini dress with a white collar and a red tie along with a red belt that has a red side skirt cover.

She wore it with long black socks and black shoes. She also wore red gauntlets and black gloves along with a long dark coat. The girl also carried a katana and Naruto raised an eye at the overall attractive appearance of the young girl.

To the left of the girl was a young man of average height with mismatched green and red eyes and medium length brown hair with a cowlick that falls with its weight. He wore a traditional white assassin jacket over a slim purple hoodie and a black base layer shirt with black jeans. On his back, he carried a short sword with a chain link tassel at the hilt, in its sheath.

At the young man's left was a young girl of below average height. She has very long pink hair tied in twin-tails on the right and left sides of her head and big pink eyes. She wears a pink outfit, consisting of a tied shawl with a high collar, a pink long sleeve shirt, a gown and black stockings with pink shoes. The girl carried what looked to be a gun case on her back and she appeared to be wearing bandages on her right arm.

Rounding out the group to the pink-haired girl's left was a slender woman with long purple hair and purple eyes. She wore a revealing sleeveless lilac cheongsam with detached lilac arm sleeves and white boots. She carried what looked like a giant pair of scissors on her back. She wore glasses and had a scar on her right cheek.

"Boss, we made it back. These are the ones you hired for the job, the "famous Team 7." Chelsea said to her boss and Najenda nodded before she stepped forward and extended her mechanical hand to the leader of Team 7.

"Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, I would like to welcome you to Night Raid's headquarters. I am the leader of Night Raid General Najenda. I look forward to working with you on this mission." Najenda said and Naruto shook Najenda's prosthetic limb.

"Same here General Najenda. So, what do you have in store for us." Naruto asked before the members of Night Raid looked amongst themselves and the dark-haired, red-eyed girl he'd been admiring earlier stepped forward along with the blond-haired woman and the brown-haired young man.

"Before we tell you why we brought you here, first I think we should see if the stories about you and your team are valid. So why don't you three show us you are worthy of your title of "Shin Jidai no Densetsu no Sanin" (translation: "Legendary Shinobi of the New Era"). The red-eyed woman said with a cold look in her eyes as she drew her sword and the blond woman cracked her knuckles while the brunette young man drew his weapon as well.

"Always gotta be the hard way huh," Naruto said before closing his eyes and opening them again to reveal his Rinnegan eyes before activating his Six Paths Sage Mode and the members of Night Raid gasped as Naruto's power washed over them while the red-eyed woman didn't bat an eye.

Sakura slipped on her fighting gloves and activated her Strength of a Hundred Seal while Sasuke activated his Sharingan and charged his body with Lightning Release chakra. The blonde woman then began to transform as her hair became longer and she gained lion ears, tail and claws. The brunette male then took his short sword and jabbed it into the ground.

"INCURSIO!" the brunette screamed before a blinding flash of red light appeared and the next thing Team 7 knew, the young male was standing wearing a bulky, streamlined, aerodynamic, draconian armor sporting a helmet reminiscent of a dragon's head with clawed gauntlets and feet, and a set of wings on its back. He also carried a large spear in his hands.

"This should be interesting." The violet-haired woman, named Sheele said to her teammates.

"Yeah, no kidding. Akame, Leone, and Tatsumi all going at full-strength. Boy, you almost feel sorry for these three saps." The pink-haired girl, named Mine chimed in.

"Not to mention Akame's using Murasame without its sheath, meaning she has NO intentions of taking it easy, this one could get really ugly, really fast," Lubbock said.

"No kidding, I'll say this, blondie and his team better be as good as they say they are, or they may not make it back to their home. They may end up going straight to the morgue." Chelsea said.

"Well, let's hope it doesn't get that serious," Najenda said.

"Given how strong Tatsumi, Akame, and Leone are and the level of teamwork they have, this one shouldn't last long." The blue-haired Teigu Susanoo stated.

"Kinpaku" (Akame battle theme) from Akame ga Kill OST begins playing

"Naruto, anything we need to know about the three of them," Sakura asked her teammate who observed their three opponents with his Rinnegan carefully before speaking.

"The blonde has some sort of belt that conducts chakra, while the guy is cloaked in some kind of powerful chakra armor. As for the other one, she's got some type of blade with a chakra signature, so whatever you do, do NOT let that sword touch you." Naruto said and the rest of Night Raid was shocked by Naruto's analysis.

"What the hell, he just read each one of our Teigu's abilities with those eyes of his," Tatsumi said in disbelief while Leone growled as their strategy had been blown out of the water.

"There's no way that's a Teigu. The blonde must have some sort of psychic ability that allows him to read other's thoughts and see through items. Something similar to the Teigu Spectator, interesting." The perceptive Susanoo said as he looked on.

"That's it Akame, the blonde's gotta go first right now." Leone said and Akame coolly nodded in agreement.

"Understood," Akame said before setting her sights on the blonde and launching her attack with Leone and Tatsumi close behind her. Leone was quickly taken off track by Sakura while Tatsumi was easily intercepted by Sasuke, who was in full-on Susanoo mode.

"If you two want to get to Naruto, you'll have to go through us first." Sakura boldly said and Leone stared Sakura down while Tatsumi did the same to Sasuke.

"Have it your way then, let's go." Leone said and she pounced at Sakura, who ducked underneath a brutal swipe from Leone's claws and the next thing Leone knew, she ate a devastating punch to the ribs that knocked the wind out of her before Sakura blasted Leone on the jaw with a brutal uppercut that sent the feline lady flying a few feet before crashing to the ground.

"Get ready, because that was just a warm-up," Sakura said with a serious face and Leone stood up with blood dripping from her lips before smirking at Sakura.

"Heh, you're a bit tougher than I gave you credit for pinkie. Gotta say I'm impressed. But it'll take more than that to put me down." Leone said before going on the attack again.

~With Sasuke~

Sasuke was squaring off with Tatsumi using his Completed Body—Susanoo with Tatsumi matching him using his evolved Incursio armor. The blades of Sasuke's Susanoo were clashing against Tatsumi's Neuntote long spear.

Tatsumi aimed a devastating swipe at Sasuke's neck with Neuntote that was easily deflected by Susanoo's armor. Tatsumi, in disbelief, tried another attack and attempted to jab Neuntote into the heart of his opponent, only for the blow to be yet again deflected by Susanoo.

"What's going on, none of my attacks are penetrating through this armor of his. I'm not getting anywhere with this guy." Tatsumi said aloud.

"This is the power of the strongest technique of the Sharingan. The ultimate defense, Susanoo." Sasuke proudly explained.

"Wait, did that guy just say SUSANOO! I thought there was only ONE Teigu called Susanoo and that was OUR Susanoo! What the hell is going on!" Mine exclaimed in shock, a feeling shared by the rest of her comrades watching the fight, especially the normally reserved Teigu Susanoo.

"Allow me to show you, the true power of Susanoo," Sasuke said before Susanoo sprang to life under his command.

"Susanoo: Fist," Sasuke commanded before his completed Susanoo's fist lunged at Tatsumi too fast for him to react and buried itself into his abdomen, nearly knocking the wind out of him. Tatsumi, knowing he was in trouble, decided it was time to activate Incursio's "Trump Card".

"You can't hit what you can't see," Tatsumi said as he vanished into thin air and the rest of his comrades smirked confidently.

"He's got him now. Incursio's Trump Card is invisibility, looks like the tide of this battle just swung and its advantage Tatsumi." Lubbock said, only to notice the equally confident smirk on Sasuke's face.

"You think you have me at a disadvantage because I can't see you? The Sharingan sees all." Sasuke said before focusing his Sharingan and sweeping the battlefield with his eyes. He then slowly turned his head and smirked.

"Susanoo, turn and grab him," Sasuke commanded before his Susanoo turned around and reached out a gauntleted hand before (to the shock of those watching) grabbing an invisible Tatsumi out of thin air.

"Now, Susanoo: Crush!" Sasuke said and Susanoo began to crush Tatsumi, who despite having his armor on, felt like he was being crushed in a death vice and screamed in pain.

"TATSUMI!" Mine screamed and she immediately dropped her gun case and took out a large gun-type weapon and trained it on the last Uchiha. Just when she was about to charge her weapon and try to blow Sasuke sky high, he ordered Susanoo to release Tatsumi and his chakra avatar dropped the brunette before dispelling and Sasuke deactivated his Sharingan.

Mine quickly ran to check on Tatsumi, who's armor had deactivated as soon as he hit the ground and she checked him over to discover that outside of some bruising on his body, he was relatively fine.

"Tatsumi, you ok," Mine asked the brunette who grunted and sat up.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. Hey you, why'd you back off all of a sudden." Tatsumi asked the last Uchiha who only looked dismissive at the question.

"Because there was no point in continuing the battle at that point. You were already beaten, continuing would have only added insult to injury. Besides, this battle was pointless, to begin with. You hired us to do a job, not prove how strong we are for the sake of pride. Be thankful I decided to hold back or things could have been a lot worse." Sasuke aloofly said stunning both Mine and Tatsumi.

"He was holding back! If that was him holding back, just how strong is this guy, or the rest of his teammates for that matter." Mine and Tatsumi thought to themselves, their comrades sharing that same sentiment.

~With Sakura~

Sakura and Leone were both looking across from each other with both of them breathing heavily, Leone more so than Sakura. Both girls were getting pretty beat up and had landed some pretty stiff shots on each other with Sakura getting the better of it.

Leone was sure she had broken several ribs and that she had a broken jaw while Sakura sported several nasty cuts on her arms, legs, and torso along with a gash on her diamond-marked forehead that was dripping blood all over her face.

"Well, I'd say this fight isn't gonna last much longer. So, I'd say the next move decides it." Leone smirked at finally having a good challenge after a long time.

"Kinda looks that way," Sakura said with an equal smirk on her face and everything stopped for a second before Leone and Sakura charged forward.

Leone reared back and prepared to swing her claw in a decapitating strike, but Sakura literally beat her to the punch and caught Leone right in the face with a straight right cross that sent Leone flying backward and she landed at the feet of her comrades clearly unconscious.

"She knocked Leone out with one punch," Chelsea said in shock, almost dropping her lollipop from her lips.

"And I thought Leone's strength was scary, she just took her out with ease. What does that say." Lubbock said with a hint of fear in his voice as he looked at the triumphant grin on the rosette's face.

"The shocking part about it is, she was so at ease during the fight. Almost as if she was never in any doubt that she was in trouble." Sheele pointed out.

"Could it be that she was holding back just like her raven-haired teammate? And if so, just how strong are these three?" Najenda wondered with her subordinates asking themselves that same question.

~With Naruto~

"Yami o Kiru" from Akame ga Kill OST begins playing

Naruto and Akame were locked in a fierce showdown with Akame using Murasame and Naruto having drawn his mother's dark-bladed katana and charged it with Sage chakra causing the blade to glow an orange color with cross-like chakra extensions at the hilt.

Both the blonde sage and the red-eyed assassin showed no intentions of backing down as they matched each other move for move with Naruto having the clear-cut advantage in speed and power, while the smaller and more graceful Akame had the edge in maneuverability and precision with her blade.

"Come," Akame said before she and Naruto shot at each other, their respective blades clashing at speeds too fast for the untrained eye to follow as Sakura, Sasuke and the rest of Night Raid looked on.

They both separated for a moment and circled each other before Naruto soon found himself on the offensive as he attacked with a series of fast, yet powerful swings of his mother's sword: first with a downward swing, followed by a right cross ward swipe and immediately followed up with a cross-ward slash in the opposite direction.

Akame somehow, albeit difficultly managed to block each slash before Naruto extended his hand and used Shinra Tensei to send Akame flying backward. Naruto quickly sped after her looking to follow up on his attack. As Akame nimbly landed on her feet, she had to quickly block another onslaught of slashes from the blonde Sage.

Akame kicked Naruto back in an attempt to gain some separation before going on the attack, knowing she needed to end this now. She slashed at Naruto's neck before it was parried by Naruto's blade. Naruto followed up with a quick slash at Akame's legs that she dodged by leaping up and over and behind him.

"Eliminate," Akame said as she swung a decapitating slash at Naruto's head that, to her and her comrades' surprise was blocked by a second pronged blade.

"Too slow," Naruto said as he turned and swung his mother's blade at Akame's chest and the red-eyed assassin was forced to quickly jump back to avoid being cut in half. As she landed, however, she found two blades crossed in front of her neck and she looked back in shock to see the blonde standing behind her with both his blades at her neck.

"This fight is over, surrender now. I don't want to go any further, but I will if I must." Naruto calmly said and all of Night Raid was shocked at how easily Akame had just been beaten.

"Did I really, just see that? Did Akame just…lose?" Chelsea said in disbelief and this time, she really did drop her lollipop.

"She didn't just lose…she was dominated, handily," Susanoo said, equally as shocked as his redheaded teammate.

"She stood no chance against him from the beginning. It was clear that your friend was outmatched from the moment she raised her blade against him. The mere fact that Naruto was only going at about half-power means that this fight was decided well before the first attack." Sasuke said and the rest of Night Raid looked at him in disbelief.

"He was only going at half-power! Just how strong are these three monsters!" Everyone in Night Raid thought to themselves as Naruto and Akame rejoined them.

"I really hope we've proven our point General Najenda." Naruto impatiently said and the silver-haired General smiled in satisfaction and nodded.

"You certainly have Naruto, any group who can not only face but soundly defeat three of Night Raid's strongest effortlessly is definitely someone I wish to have on my side," Najenda said before extending her mechanical hand once more and Naruto hesitated for a few seconds before he shook it.

"Glad we've got that settled then, sorry we had to go so hard but we felt it was the best way to get our point across," Naruto said in a much more friendlier tone.

"I understand, I should be the one apologizing though. My team tends to be wary when it comes to allowing outsiders into our ranks, and they tend to go overboard a bit when seeing if they can truly be trusted." Najenda explained and Naruto nodded understandingly.

"It's fine, don't worry about it," Naruto said before turning to his rose-haired teammate.

"Sakura, fix them up will you," Naruto instructed and Sakura, who by now had healed herself up nodded before her hands began glowing with a green light and she walked over to the still unconscious Leone (who by now had returned to her normal form) and placed one hand over her ribs while placing another hand on her head.

All of Night Raid wondered what she was doing before a few minutes later she removed her hands and Leone's golden eyes opened and she sat up and breathed in and out and found, to her surprise that her ribs appeared to be mended. She gingerly reached up and checked her jaw and found that it had been fixed as well.

"This is awesome, it feels like I was never injured in the first place!" Leone said in amazement before turning to the rosette.

"How did you do that Sakura?" Leone asked and Sakura smiled proudly.

"I'm a combat medic of course. It's one of my signature techniques: Mystical Palm Technique. It allows me to speed up the body's natural healing process by sending healing chakra to an afflicted body part." Sakura explained amazing Leone and her teammates and this caught Akame's attention.

"If she can do that with Leone's injuries, that I wonder what else she can do." Akame pondered as her thoughts drifted to a certain someone.

"I can fix up your bruised sternum and back as well if you'd like," Sakura said as she turned her attention to Tatsumi.

"Sure, I wouldn't mind," Tatsumi said and Sakura's hands lit up again as she placed one on his chest and the other on his back. A few minutes later, his injuries had been healed as well and he thanked Sakura for her help.

"Good to see your back at full strength Tatsumi," Mine said before grabbing her head in pain.

"What's wrong?" Sakura asked her fellow pinkette who waved her off.

"Don't worry about me, it's nothing." Mine dismissively said while holding her head, seemingly in deep pain, while trying her best to keep her eyes closed. These signs told Sakura all she needed to know.

"You're suffering from migraines, aren't you?" Sakura simply said and Mine's eyes went wide at how Sakura had figured it out before remembering that she was an experienced medic and sighing in defeat.

"Guess there's no point in trying to hide it. I was involved in a life-threatening battle recently, and the mental fatigue I suffered from the battle has caused me to have constant migraines." Mine confessed.

"Is that why your right arm is bandaged up as well?" Sakura asked and Mine relented, knowing that she'd probably figure it out on her own anyway.

"No, that was an injury I suffered long before that. I got my arm crushed and took a bullet to the shoulder as well. The injuries caused me to have some permanent nerve damage to my arm that doctors told me may never heal." Mine explained and Sakura nodded.

"Hold still for a moment," Sakura said as her hands glowed green again.

She placed both her hands on Mine's right arm and held them there for a few minutes. She then removed her hands from over her arm and moved them to her head. After a few more minutes, Sakura removed her hands once more and took a deep breath.

"There, that should do it. Try removing your bandages and moving your arm around." Sakura said and Mine hesitantly took off her bandages and experimentally moved her arm around a bit to test it. She then prodded the sides of her head a bit before she smiled.

"This is unbelievable! I feel as good as new, almost like I was never injured at all! Thank you, Sakura!" Mine happily said to her fellow pinkette and Chelsea looked hopefully at Sakura.

"Hey, Sakura was it?" Chelsea asked the rosette and Sakura nodded before Chelsea held out her prosthetic hand.

"I was wondering if there were any limits to what that Mystical Palm Technique of yours could heal?" Chelsea asked the rosette and Sakura sadly smiled.

"Unfortunately, there are. The only injuries I can heal are internal or external injuries. My healing jutsu doesn't work on limbs that have already been severed." Sakura sadly said and Chelsea sadly hung her head.

"But, while I may not be able to regenerate severed limbs, my teammate Naruto can," Sakura said and Chelsea perked up at this and looked hopefully at Naruto.

"Well I'm not a healing expert like Sakura, but I'm sure your injury is nothing my Six Paths Sage Mode can't fix," Naruto said and he activated Six Path's Sage Mode for the second time today and Chelsea found herself enveloped in Naruto's power.

"Well, here goes," Naruto said as he placed his right hand over Chelsea's prosthetic left hand. An orange glow surrounded her arm before suddenly, to Chelsea's shock her prosthetic hand fell off and her normal hand restored itself before Naruto removed his hand.

"It's done." Naruto sighed before deactivating his Sage Mode as Chelsea tested out her restored hand before clenching her hand to form a fist and smiled brightly.

"This is awesome, thanks!" Chelsea gratefully said to the blonde who shook hands with the redhead.

"If you want, I can do the same for your arm and eye General Najenda," Naruto said and Najenda politely held up her real hand in decline.

"Thanks for the offer, but I'm alright. I've long since moved on from the experience of losing my arm and eye. But it would seem there's more to you and your team than we first believed." Najenda said.

"I'll say, especially you Naruto. Anyone that can stand up to Akame in a swordfight and win has to have something special to them. And Akame's NEVER lost a fight." Tatsumi said.

"That reminds me, how did you get behind me like that during our battle Naruto? I never even saw you move." Akame questioned and Naruto smiled before taking out the tri-pronged blade that Akame recognized as the blade he used to block her from behind.

"That's what this blade was for. It's called a Hiraishin Kunai and it was one of my father's signature tools. When I blocked your sword strike, I marked your blade with the mark on the handle and it allowed me to teleport in an instant to any location where my mark was." Naruto explained surprising Akame and her teammates at the aesthetics of the seemingly-simple weapon.

"What about how you were able to see the effects of Akame, Leone and Tatsumi's Teigu's and how Sasuke was able to see Tatsumi even with Incursio's invisibility Trump Card activated." Sheele curiously asked and Naruto and Sasuke both closed their eyes before they opened them to reveal the Sharingan in Sasuke's eyes and the Rinnegan in Naruto's eyes.

"This is called the Rinnegan, the technique you see in Sasuke's eyes is called the Sharingan. Both of these sets of eyes come with a slew of different techniques, one of which give us both the ability to see chakra: or any form of physical or spiritual energy." Naruto explained and Sasuke nodded.

"Akame's sword had a very strong chakra signature, so did your friend Tatsumi's armor. We also sensed a chakra signature from your friend Leone's belt." Sasuke said, once again stunning Night Raid.

"Alright then, how about that Susanoo technique your friend used during that battle with Tatsumi, how do you explain that one," Mine asked and Sasuke looked at the pinkette before his Sharingan flashed in his eyes once more.

"As Naruto stated before, the Sharingan gives me a number of advantages over my opponent. Being able to anticipate an opponent's moves and even copy other techniques chief among them."

"But the ultimate technique of the Sharingan is Susanoo. It creates a physical avatar that's not only a manifestation of my own will that fights on my behalf but also acts as the ultimate defense, being resistant to all physical attacks." Sasuke boasted leaving Night Raid speechless.

"Okay then, what about you Sakura, how were you able to go punch for punch with me so easily. I'm pretty sure you don't have fancy eyes and all, so what's your secret." Leone asked the rose-haired medic who grinned.

"Remember how I said I was a combat medic, well my skills have offensive capabilities as well. By refining my chakra control and focusing it, I can enhance my strength to devastating levels."

"By activating my Strength of a Hundred Seal, I can release large amounts of stored chakra which greatly amplifies the power of my techniques, allowing me to preform advanced medical ninjutsu with ease as well as enhancing my already impressive strength and healing capabilities."

"Not only that, but with just a single punch in my normal chakra enhanced state, I could decimate entire mountains or kill a human being with a single blow." Sakura proudly said and by this point, Night Raid was completely stupefied.

"And you didn't tell us all of this beforehand because…" Lubbock asked in disbelief only for the three shinobi to look at each other and smirk.

"Well, truth be told it's been a while since we've had a decent challenge and we were having too much fun. Also, we kinda knew from the beginning you were only testing us, so we decided to play along." Naruto confessed shocking Night Raid.

"You knew! But…but how did..." Najenda said equal parts upset and surprised.

"Well, thanks to my buddy Kurama it wasn't that hard to figure out. As soon as he told me that he wasn't sensing any negative emotions or any kind of true killing intent, it was kind of a dead giveaway." Naruto said and Night Raid just shook their heads at how easily they'd been figured out.

"It seems you three ninjas are just one surprise after another," Najenda said.

"I'll say, now I see why you three were so easily able to handle Akame, Leone, and Tatsumi. Hell, you three probably could have taken us all on and I'm still not sure we would've been able to stop you." Lubbock said.

"I'd have to agree with that statement, it's almost an unfair advantage that you guys can do so many things naturally that it would take people like us a Teigu to do," Chelsea whined.

"Wait, what's a Teigu?" Naruto said and Akame drew her blade again.

"I would have thought that was obvious by now. It's the weapons you saw us fighting with. Each one of us has a different Teigu. They're ancient weapons that were created by the First Emperor of the Thousand Year Empire years ago."

"Each Teigu grants the user different powers and some of them even come with hidden abilities, or 'Trump Cards'. This one is called One-Cut Killer: Murasame. It's a cursed katana that exudes a lethal poison. There is no antidote for it." Akame explained as she displayed her katana for Naruto, who was amazed at the swords ability.

"Well, my Teigu's called The King of Beasts Transformation: Lionel. This little number allows me to transform into a literal beast, enhancing my five senses along with my physical strength, speed, and regeneration." Leone boasted and Tatsumi nodded before taking out his sword.

"Well this is the key to my Teigu, and it's one that has a bit of sentimental value to me. It's called Demon Armor: Incursio. It's a full-body armor with an impenetrable defense that also greatly enhances my physical attributes as well as a sort of 'sixth sense' whenever danger's near."

"On top of that, the armor also has the ability to adapt and evolve as the result of battles against opponents I've faced, gaining new forms and abilities as time goes on," Tatsumi explained before Naruto found a razor-sharp wire at his throat.

"Uh-oh, looks like we've gone and revealed too much information about ourselves. So, unless you and your friends want to test out that earlier theory of mine and risk dying it looks like we're on the same side now." Lubbock said as he held the wire in front of Naruto's neck and Naruto lazily looked back at him.

"Is that supposed to scare me, because if so then it's not really working," Naruto nonchalantly said and Lubbock looked at him for a moment before smiling and withdrawing his wires into his gloves.

"I think I'm beginning to like you kid. You've actually got a set to stand up to a group of trained killers without worry of consequence." Lubbock said and Naruto smirked.

"Comes with the job description as shinobi. Hasn't been the first time, and sure as hell won't be the last. That's a nice little trick you've got there by the way, I'm guessing that's your Teigu?" Naruto asked and Lubbock nodded in affirmation.

"Sure is, this one's called Infinite Uses: Cross Tail. You noticed the wire threads coming out of the gloves, they're made from the body hair of a Super-Class dragon-like Danger Beast."

"They're razor sharp and tough as steel and can be used to attack, defend against, or immobilize opponents." Lubbock explained causing Naruto to whistle in amazement.

"That's a handy little gadget, no pun intended. It's no wonder you and your friends are such skilled assassins, with these Teigu giving you all of these abilities you're virtually unstoppable."

"Now on that note, General Najenda why don't you tell us why you brought us here." Naruto said and Najenda nodded before she began briefing him on the details of the mission.

"As your intel on us may have already told you, Night Raid is one of the covert divisions of the Revolutionary Army, determined to overthrow the corrupt Empire, and create a New Empire free of corruption."

"Night Raid main function is to handle reconnaissance and assassinations within the capital of the Empire. In addition, we are charged with recovering any Teigu discovered in order to boost the combat effectiveness of the Revolutionary Army."

"However, to oppose Night Raid, two groups were formed by the Empire in direct opposition to us: The Jaegers, led by General Esdeath; and Wild Hunt, led by the corrupt Prime Minister's son Syura."

"Both groups have caused many problems for Night Raid and we've had many near-death experiences at the hands of both groups. The Revolutionary Army is ready to launch a full-scale assault on the Capital soon and I decided if we're going into a battle of this magnitude, we need all the help we can get." Najenda explained and Naruto nodded in agreement.

"You mentioned near-death experiences, what exactly happened. What exactly are we dealing with here." Naruto asked and the members of Night Raid looked at each other before nodding.

"One of the Jaeger's members, a psychotic bitch named Seryu Ubiquitous that was once a member of the Imperial Police attacked myself and Sheele awhile back. All because she wanted to avenge the murder of her corrupt former captain, Ogre the Demon." Mine explained.

"I'm afraid that's mostly my fault. I was the one who killed Ogre in the first place, I should have been the one to deal with Seryu from the beginning." Tatsumi guiltily said before Sheele placed a hand on her shoulder.

"You did your job Tatsumi, no one blames you for what nearly happened to us. Besides, back then you were nowhere near the level you are now." Sheele kindly said.

"She's right, you would have only been more of a problem than you would have been any kind of solution. If you had tried to fight Seryu back then, she would have killed you easily." Akame flatly said and Tatsumi gratefully smiled at his two female friends.

"Thanks, Akame, Sheele I needed to hear that," Tatsumi said and Mine nodded before continuing her story.

"We fought against Seryu and her Teigu, Magical Beast Transformation: Hekatonkheires and we both had the upper hand early on. But then Seryu activated Hekatonkheires's Trump Card called Berserker which morphed it into its monster form and she used it to try to crush me to death."

"Then Sheele had to break off her attack on Seryu, who she was moments away from killing to save me by cutting off the beast's arms with her own Teigu." Mine explained before Sheele showed Team 7 the giant scissors on her back.

"Cutter of Creations: Extase. It allows me to cut through even the toughest of objects with ease, even other Teigu." Sheele said and Mine nodded before carrying on with her story.

"After she saved me, however, I somehow managed to see Seryu about to shoot Sheele from a distance with a hidden gun she had stored in her mouth. Despite being in pain, I managed to get up and pull Sheele down out of the way with my already injured arm and the bullet missed Sheele and hit me in the arm." Mine told them.

"And that's how you injured your arm." Sakura reasoned and Mine nodded before Sheele picked up the story where Mine left off.

"Once we were down, Hekatonkheires tried to finish us both off. But with the last of her strength, Mine used her Teigu and blasted the beast away from us before collapsing unconscious from fatigue." Sheele said before Mine displayed her gun-type Teigu.

"Roman Artillery: Pumpkin. It's a heavy artillery rifle that fires bursts of concentrated spirit energy. It's power and range increase depending on the level of danger I'm in." Mine shared.

"After Mine had collapsed and with the Imperial Police closing in, I knew it was time for us to get out of there, so I activated Extase's Trump Card, which released a blinding flash of light and after grabbing Mine and Pumpkin, we made our escape, much to Seryu's rage." Sheele finished.

"Not long after that, I had a bit of a near-death experience of my own. Night Raid and the Jaegers were locked into a fierce battle, but eventually, we got separated. Afterwards, I attempted to kill a couple of the Jaegers on my own. Looking back on it, that was a mistake and it almost cost me my life."

"The first one I came across was the one named Kurome. Oh, by the way, she also happens to be the younger sister of Akame." Chelsea said and Naruto raised an eye at this and looked to Akame.

"It's a long story, I'll explain later." Akame quickly said and Chelsea continued her story.

"Well, I used my Teigu, Phantasmagoria: Gaea Foundation to transform into another member of the Jaegers, a guy named Bols, and I prepared to try and kill Kurome. Problem is, before I could do it, we were interrupted by the real Bols which forced me to have to retreat."

"I attempted to reach for my Teigu to transform and escape, but before I could, I got my hand shot off by one of Kurome's undead puppets from her Teigu," Chelsea explained.

"March of the Dead: Yatsufusa. It's a katana blade that allows the user to reanimate and control up to eight corpses it has killed at a time." Akame chimed in making Naruto's eyes widen in amazement.

"Sounds almost exactly like the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation technique." Naruto thought to himself.

"I continued to run away, but soon I was cornered by another of her undead puppets Natala. But just when I was about to be cut down, Tatsumi showed up and saved me, crushing Natala and flying off with me." Chelsea said before Tatsumi nodded affirmatively.

"Remember when I said my Teigu Incursio had the ability to evolve and adapt and I gained new powers and abilities as time went on. Well by the time we'd gotten to the battle with the Jaegers, I'd developed a sixth sense of sorts that I could sense whenever someone close to me was in danger."

"As I rushed to try and find Chelsea, I basically pleaded with Incursio to give me the strength to keep another of my comrades from dying and Incursio began to evolve into the form you saw me fighting in and this allowed me to get to Chelsea in time."

"But, forcing Incursio to evolve the way I did came with a price. This Teigu is made from the flesh of a Super Class Danger Beast named Tyrant. Forcing it to evolve means that now the weapon has begun to fuse with me. After a few more uses, I'll be turned into the beast itself." Tatsumi sadly said before an idea clicked into Naruto head

"Tatsumi, toss me Incursio's key for a moment," Naruto said and Tatsumi looked surprised at his request.

"Well, I'm not sure that would be a good idea, I'm really the only one that can use Incursio," Tatsumi said.

"Tatsumi, trust me on this, I think I may have a solution to your problem with Incursio," Naruto assured him and the brunette male hesitated for a second and looked to Mine and she nodded in assurance before he unsheathed Incursio and tossed it to the blonde, who jabbed it into the ground.

Naruto then stepped back and took out a scroll along with a brush and some ink. Night Raid watched with interest as the blonde Sage began drawing intricate marks on the scroll. After he was done he began running through a fast pace of hand signs before stopping.

"Seal!" He shouted before placing his hand on Incursio and a blinding flash of light appeared causing Night Raid to cover their eyes. When they opened them, they saw the blonde standing with a smile on his face and Incursio with a mark similar to the ones he'd drawn on the scroll.

"There, that should do it," Naruto said before Tatsumi stepped forward and carefully picked up Incursio and looked at the strange markings on it.

"What'd you do to Incursio." Tatsumi curiously asked and the blonde grinned.

"It's one of my clan's signature techniques, Fūinjutsu, or the art of sealing. It allows me to seal anything like other objects, living beings, chakra, you name it into another object."

"I used my knowledge of sealing to place a Yin-Yang Release Seal on Incursio that leaves it in a permanent state of balance, meaning while you can still use it, Incursio can no longer be forcibly evolved, so now you no longer have to worry about Tyrant taking control of you." Naruto proudly explained and Tatsumi was stunned as was the rest of Night Raid.

"Naruto, is there anything you ninjas can't do? It's almost unfair how you guys can do so much more than we can." Mine pouted and Naruto chuckled at the pinkette.

"Believe me, you'd be surprised Mine. By the way, Tatsumi I can take care of your eye problem if you'd like." Naruto said as he motioned to Tatsumi's reddened eye and Tatsumi smiled at the observant blonde.

"So, you noticed that huh. Sure, if you can help out why not." Tatsumi said and Naruto activated his Rinnegan before placing a hand on Tatsumi's head. After a few moments, Tatsumi's red eye began to flash before it slowly began to morph back into its normal green color.

"Thanks, so dare I ask how'd you pull that one off?" Tatsumi quipped and Naruto grinned before explaining.

"Remember how I said my Rinnegan has a number of different techniques it grants me, well one of them is my Preta Path which gives me the ability to absorb any form of chakra through physical contact."

"I used it to draw out all of Tyrant's negative energy from your body and destroy it," Naruto explained and Tatsumi just shook his head at how just when it seemed like the three ninjas couldn't get any stronger, they continued to be full of surprises.

"Well Chelsea, and Mine, and Sheele have already told you their stories, so now I guess I'll tell you mine. After a battle with Wild Hunt, Lubbock and I did some scouting in the Imperial Capitol, when we were caught in a trap by Syura's Teigu." Tatsumi began before Lubbock chimed in while showing them an odd-looking pendant.

"Dimensional Formation: Shambhala. It's a teleportation Teigu that allows the user to teleport people and objects over large distances, using markers placed at the target of the teleportation." Lubbock stated.

"That sounds almost eerily similar to the effects of Kakashi-sensei's Kamui." Team 7 thought to themselves.

"So, how'd you get a hold of it?" Naruto asked and Lubbock smirked.

"Well that's the fun part, Syura teleported us into the Imperial Palace. What he didn't expect was for Tatsumi to be as strong as he was. Needless to say, the two of us together were able to wipe the floor with Wild Hunt. Although we didn't really kill them, we were only fighting to escape." Lubbock gloated before Tatsumi continued.

"After taking care of Wild Hunt, we took Syura's Teigu from him and thought it would be a good time to escape. Unfortunately, that's when General Esdeath and General Budo showed up."

"Now I knew we may have been able to handle one of them by ourselves, but TWO of the Empire's strongest General's, even I knew we didn't stand a chance in that situation. So, I basically told Lubbock to take the Teigu and get the hell out of there." Tatsumi said.

"Naturally I objected to leaving a comrade behind, but what happened next didn't really leave me with any other choice. The Jaegers all showed up and they and General Esdeath and General Budo tried to attack us, but Tatsumi took the bullet in his evolved Incursio armor and it allowed me to teleport out of the palace to safety." Lubbock said.

"How I managed to survive the attacks I'll never know, but even then, I was still screwed. I was sentenced to be executed and General Esdeath was handling the execution personally."

"Thankfully, my team showed up just in time to save me and after an intense showdown that left General Budo greatly crippled after Mine almost blew a hole in his chest, we were able to get away," Tatsumi said and Naruto turned to Mine.

"How'd you do that? I'm guessing it had something to do with your Teigu." Naruto assumed and Mine nodded.

"It's Pumpkin's Trump Card, it allows me to create a blasting beam so overwhelming that it acts like a giant blade, cutting anything in its path. This power is unleashed according to how passionate my emotions are, but it also overheats Pumpkin, rendering it unusable for a while." Mine explained and Naruto raised an eye in amazement.

"Now how the hell did that General Budo guy survive that?" Naruto asked in slight disbelief.

"Well, that's mostly thanks to his own Teigu, Thunder God's Rage: Adramelech. It's a pair of gauntlets that allow him to use lightning as a weapon in both offense and defense. He used Adramelech to form a defensive force field to cushion the blast."

"While it didn't protect him completely, it negated about half of the blasts lethal damage, destroying his armor and compromising his ribs and lungs, or so we've heard." Mine said and Naruto nodded in understanding

"Sounds like these guys you're up against are monsters. And if you're going to try to take the fight to them, you're going to need more than just the three of us to do it."

"So, I think I'll bring a few friends along," Naruto said before grabbing one of his Hiraishin Kunai and vanishing in a flash. Several minutes later, he was back, but he wasn't alone.

"Night Raid, I'm sure you've heard stories about my status as the Jinchuuriki of Kurama correct, well allow me to introduce to you, the rest of my jinchuuriki friends: Gaara, Yugito Nii, Yagura Karatachi, Roshi, Han, Utakata, Fu, and Killer B."

"Also, I'd like to take a moment to introduce three of my good friends from Konoha, Kiba Inuzuka, and his partner Akamaru, Choji Akimichi, and Shikamaru Nara," Naruto said, introducing Night Raid to his ninja companions who looked a bit intimidated at the powerful-looking group of shinobi.

"If these guys are anywhere near as strong as Naruto and his team, then we better not mess with them." Night Raid wisely thought to themselves.

"So, Naruto, these the rebels who sent for you guys," Kiba asked his buddy since childhood.

"Yeah, they're the ones. They're a gang of assassins named Night Raid. They're part of a rebel group called the Revolutionary Army looking to overthrow the corrupt Empire."

"Long story short, they're about to launch a full-on assault on the Capital and they need all the backup they can get since there are two groups within the Empire called the Jaegers and Wild Hunt that are just as powerful as them standing in their way. Naruto summed up and Shikamaru shook his head.

"Man, what a drag. We just get out of one war and now it looks like we're about to be pulled into another one." Shikamaru said.

"Yeah, but we can't just leave these guys to do this alone. We've at least gotta try to help them out." Choji said.

"Heh, that's fine by me, things were getting too quiet back home anyway. It was a bit boring really." Kiba said with a smirk.

"I'll second that notion, I needed some fun to make things interesting." The always energetic Fu said.

"You call aiding a rebellion in overthrowing a corrupt government fun?" The diplomatic Yagura said.

"Why not? Sounds easy enough, and it's nothing worse than what we've already been through." Roshi replied.

"He does make a fair point Yagura." Yugito chuckled.

"No doubtin' that cat, this'll be easy as pullin' rabbits out the hat." Killer B rhymed.

"So, on that note, what's the plan Naruto," Gaara asked his jinchuuriki brother.

"Okay, so from what we've learned each of the Jaegers and the members of Wild Hunt have powerful items called Teigu. They allow them to do things that we as ninjas can do naturally."

"If we take out each of them, we should be able to kill the Emperor, who is the head of the Empire easily," Naruto said.

"That's a well thought out plan Naruto, except there's just one thing. Remember what we said about the Prime Minister earlier, his name is Honest and he's the real mastermind behind the Empire, not the Emperor who's merely nothing more than a figurehead." Akame explained.

"So, if we take out this Prime Minister, the Empire will fall, sounds easy enough." The soft-spoken Utakata said and the equally reserved Han nodded in agreement.

"In that case, we should focus on eliminating the Jaegers and Wild Hunt first, and then set our sights on the real target," Han said.

"There's also the issue of taking out the two generals: General Esdeath and General Budo along with the Prime Minister's bodyguard Suzuka," Akame said.

"Suzuka was the lone survivor of a group of Honest's personal executioners that we eliminated: The Four Rakshasa Demons. She's so powerful that she's one of the only known people that can face off against a Teigu user without using one herself." Najenda explained and Naruto nodded.

"By the way, you never mentioned just how many of these guys are with Wild Hunt and the Jaegers or what kind of Teigu they use." Naruto pointed out and Najenda nodded.

"The Jaeger's consist of six members: The leader as I've said is General Esdeath who wields the elemental Teigu, Demon God Manifestation: Demon's Extract. It's the blood of a powerful danger beast that Esdeath drank that gives her manipulation over ice." Najenda said making Team 7 and the rest of the shinobi raise an eye in surprise.

"If that doesn't sound exactly like the Ice Release techniques the Yuki Clan was known for." They all thought to themselves.

"The other members are Seryu Ubiquitous, who as we told you wields the biological Teigu, Magical Beast Transformation: Hekatonkheires. A dog type Teigu that can grow to immense sizes and devour people."

"She also is equipped with ten special body modifications called 'Judgement of the Ten Heavenly Kings'. They're ten incredibly powerful weapons created by the deceased Jaeger, Dr. Stylish that are as powerful as Teigu that she can interchange during battle." Najenda said, interesting Kiba.

"So, hold on a minute, there are different types of these Teigu things?" Kiba asked and Najenda nodded.

"There are many different types of Teigu. Some are weapon based Teigu like Akame's Murasame or Mine's Pumpkin, then there are elemental-based Teigu like Esdeath's Demon Extract or General Budo's Adramelech that can control lighting."

"Then you have biological Teigu like Seryu's Hekatonkheires or our very own Susanoo. Biological Teigu are incredibly unique as they can regenerate themselves where other Teigu can't and can only be destroyed when their core is broken." Najenda said and Naruto looked at the blue-haired man.

"Hang on a minute, you're a Teigu?" Naruto said and Susanoo smiled and nodded in affirmative.

"I would have thought you'd have figured that out by now. The Speed of Lightning: Susanoo at your service. I'm also Najenda's Teigu partner." Susanoo introduced himself with a salute.

"Anyway, besides the two Jaegers I've mentioned, the others are Akame's sister Kurome, who wields the katana Teigu, March of the Dead: Yatsufusa which, as Akame stated allows the user to control the corpses of up to eight people she's killed," Najenda said making the reincarnated jinchuuriki wince at hearing that while having flashbacks to their time under Obito's control.

"As for the rest, there's Wave who wields the armor Teigu, Carnage Incarnate: Grand Chariot, which is basically an advanced version of Tatsumi's Incursio."

"Then there's Bols who wields the flamethrower Teigu, Purgatory's Invitation: Rubicante that produces flames that cannot be extinguished until the target is dead."

"Finally, there's Run, who wields the wing-type Teigu, Thousand-Mile Flight: Mastema. As the name suggests it allows its user to gain wings which give them the ability to fly for a limited amount of time."

"It also enables the user to shoot feathers or launch one of the wings towards enemies, both easily capable of piercing through flesh. But it's weak at close-range combat."

"What about Wild Hunt, how many of them are we dealing with," Naruto asked.

"Well, Wild Hunt also consists of six members, Syura, the leader, and son of Prime Minister Honest. He once wielded the Teigu Dimensional Formation: Shambhala until it was taken from him by Lubbock."

"The next member is Champ, who's known for his…'morally questionable' actions against children. He uses the Teigu, Ace Solution: Die Leaguer."

"It's is a six-orb-type Teigu. Each orb is imbued with an element that activates once thrown" Najenda said and the group of shinobi (particularly Sakura, Yugito, and Fu) felt their blood boil at hearing Najenda's description of Champ's despicable actions towards children.

"The next member is Enshin, a former pirate from the eastern seas. His Teigu is called Moonlight Sword Dance: Shamshir, which is capable of creating aerial blades. The Teigu is affected by the lunar cycle and is at its strongest during the full moon."

"The next member is an alchemist named Dorothea. She wields a fang-type Teigu called Blood Collection: Absordex that she uses to bite enemies in order to kill them, while also sucking out their blood. After absorbing blood from an enemy, Dorothea's strength and regenerative abilities become enhanced."

"Then there's Cosmina, a singer from the Western Country that was branded as a witch because of her voice that could manipulate people. She uses the microphone Teigu Great Tremor: Heavy Pressure. It can amplify the user's voice and turn it into ultrasonic waves capable of pulverizing the enemy by shattering their bones."

"The final member of Wild Hunt is Izou a master swordsman. Oddly enough, he's the only member of Wild Hunt who doesn't use a Teigu, but his swordsmanship is good enough where he seemingly doesn't need one." Najenda said and a plan formed in Naruto's head.

"Alright, I'm thinking each of the jinchuuriki will form teams of two with the members of Night Raid to counter the Jaegers along with the two generals. The rest of Team 7 along with Kiba, Choji, and Shikamaru can deal with Wild Hunt."

"I'll team with Akame and we'll go after Kurome. Yugito, I want you to go with Sheele and you two will deal with Seryu. Utakata, you and Lubbock will take care of Run." Naruto plotted.

"If you don't mind Naruto, let me have Bols. I've got a personal score to settle with him," Chelsea said with a serious look in her eyes and the blonde Sage looked at her and nodded.

"Alright, but I'm sending Fu along with you for backup. Mine, I want you and Yagura to cover Wave." As for Leone, Tatsumi, B, and Gaara, I want the four of you to deal with General Budo and General Esdeath."

"Han and Roshi, you're with General Najenda and Susanoo. I want the four of you to sweep the Imperial Palace and take out any guards of bodyguards you see. This should give the rest of the Revolutionary Army an uncontested path to infiltrate the palace."

"As far as Wild Hunt is concerned, I want Kiba to carve up Champ. Choji, I want you to obliterate Enshin. Shikamaru, you're the best option to take care of Izou. Sakura can handle Cosmina and Dorothea on her own. And Sasuke can finish off Syura." Naruto finished and everyone nodded at the well-thought-out plan.

"What about the Prime Minister's bodyguard Suzuka, what should we do about her Naruto?" Sakura asked her teammate who shook his head.

"My guess is that amidst the chaos of the ensuing battle, in fear of his own life the Prime Minister will probably want to keep Suzuka close by himself and the Emperor as both a human shield and the last line of defense should anyone get past the Jaegers, Wild Hunt, and the Imperial Forces."

"In that case, it's probably a safe bet that we won't actually see Suzuka out during the battle, which means we won't have to deal with her until it comes time to take out the Prime Minister. At which time it'll just be a matter of eliminating her, which would leave him completely defenseless." Naruto theorized and everyone nodded in agreement at the valid points the blonde sage made.

"Very well, the rest of the Revolutionary army will be here to meet us tomorrow, for now, we should spend this time to prepare and strategize our attack," Najenda suggested and everyone nodded before each of the shinobi went off with their respective teams to prepare for the invasion.

~Later That Night~

Tatsumi looked out over a clearing that was situated on a large lake. The brunette male had a lot on his mind as he thought about the impending battle against the Empire. His thoughts drifted to his late mentor Bulat and wondered what he would think of how far he'd come since losing him.

"Bro, I wish you were still here. What would you think of me now?" Tatsumi thought to himself with a smile on his face before taking out Incursio's key and looking at the seals Naruto had placed on it again.

The blonde shinobi had said that Incursio was in a permanent state of balance and could be used without further worry of evolving and having Tyrant take over his mind. Well, Tatsumi decided it was time to test that theory as he took a deep breath and jabbed Incursio's key into the ground.

"INCURSIO!" Tatsumi screamed and a flash of red light later he was standing in Incursio's armor. He looked down at his reflection in the waters of the lake and noticed Incursio had changed.

Incursio now looked similar to its original form, only the gauntlets and feet of the armor were clawed similar to Incursio's second evolved form. The helmet of Incursio looked incredibly similar to Tyrant as well and the wings from his second evolved form remained the same also.

"It's as if my armor's different forms have merged, pretty cool," Tatsumi said as he deactivated Incursio before hearing footsteps behind him and he turned to see Sasuke standing behind him.

"Hey Sasuke, come to enjoy the sights?" Tatsumi asked the raven-haired shinobi.

"You could say that. I actually came to ask you about that armor of yours," Sasuke said and Tatsumi looked at him in surprise.

"Incursio, yeah what about it?" Tatsumi asked and the last Uchiha simply stared at him before he spoke.

"It's a very…interesting Teigu you have. The aesthetics behind it are somewhat similar to the effects of my Sharingan's Susanoo. Its ability to adapt and evolve over time, as well as its impregnable defense has me intrigued."

"What I wanted to know, is how did you come to possess such a powerful weapon?" Sasuke asked and Tatsumi smiled before looking at the sky in remembrance.

"Back when I first joined Night Raid, I was already a capable fighter, but I was nowhere near the same level as the rest of my comrades in Night Raid. I was this country boy from a small, poor village, who was far too naïve to survive as an assassin."

"Eventually, one of the members of Night Raid, Hundred Killer Bulat took me under his wing as his protégé. His training was tough, but I showed early signs of promise. So much so, that Bro hinted many times that he wouldn't be surprised if I was able to surpass him one day. He was right about that by the way."

"But, the life of an assassin is dangerous, and despite showing all the promise in the world, I was still so far behind everyone else. On one particular mission together, he and I were assigned the task of protecting one of the Prime Minister's political enemies aboard a cruise ship from a group called the Three Beasts."

"During that battle, I tried to hold off one of the Three Beasts while Bro dealt with a man who turned out to be his former master from his past. Unfortunately, I wasn't strong enough to hold off the Beast, which stopped Bro from landing the killing blow on his former master to save me."

"That proved to be a fatal mistake for Bro. While he ended up killing his former master, he ended up fatally poisoned in the process. With his dying moments, he passed on Incursio's key to me, allowing me to defeat the remaining Beast. But the damage had been done, my mentor Bulat, was dead." Tatsumi choked out with tears in his eyes, but he quickly managed to compose himself.

"Ever since that day, I've guarded Incursio's key with my life. Taking all of the lessons, Bro taught me in order to grow stronger, and using them to live up to his vision of one day surpassing him." Tatsumi said and Sasuke looked at him before nodding and he began to walk away before stopping.

"You know, you and my teammate Naruto have a lot in common. You both were relative nobodies when you started out. And both of you have been through intense adversity in your lives, but you've both overcome that adversity to achieve greatness in your own way." Sasuke stated before walking off.

Tatsumi was shocked to hear about how similar he was to a man he considered more powerful then all of Night Raid combined. Motivated by this realization, Tatsumi made his way back to Night Raid's hideout with a renewed fire in his eyes.

~Elsewhere~

Akame sat on the front steps of Night Raid's hideout as she thought about the upcoming raid on the Capital. She knew this was the best chance the Revolutionary Army had of freeing the continent from the corruption of the Empire and with their shinobi allies by their side, the could finally achieve peace.

"Thinking about our battle tomorrow Akame." she heard someone say and turned her head to see Naruto standing behind her.

"Yeah, you could say I'm a bit restless," Akame confessed and Naruto walked over and sat down next to her.

"I've been meaning to ask you something. Earlier you mentioned your sister Kurome was a member of the Jaegers. If that's the case, how is she with the Empire and you're with the Revolutionary Army?" Naruto asked and Akame's red eyes looked at him before sighing.

"Before I joined Night Raid, I was an assassin for the Empire. My sister Kurome and I were sold to the empire at a young age and underwent a harsh training regimen to become stronger. I was able to withstand it, Kurome wasn't so lucky."

"The two of us were separated soon afterward and I was placed on a seven-man assassination team for the Empire. Kurome, on the other hand, was placed in another division and was subjected to cruel treatment as well as being forced to take body enhancing drugs to make her stronger." Akame explained and Naruto burned with rage at the idea of two sisters being treated like animals.

"Soon afterward, I began to see the corruption of the Empire, and when I was sent to kill the Boss, she invited me to join Night Raid, and I accepted. Unfortunately, Kurome doesn't have that luxury due to her constant reliance on those drugs."

"Even then, Kurome hates me for defecting. She sees me as a traitor and wants to kill me and add me to her Teigu's collection of undead puppets so, in her unstable mind, we can be together forever. I honestly don't know what to do anymore."

"I truly want to save my sister, but I'm afraid she may be too far gone at this point. "I worry that the only way I could save Kurome at this point is to kill her and it breaks my heart to think like that, but I just don't know what else to do," Akame said and she began to break down and cry before, to her surprise she was embraced by Naruto.

"Akame, I can only imagine what you're going through. I've honestly never had any real family or brothers and sisters of my own, so I don't know what it's like to deal with being at odds with a sibling."

"But I will say this, I know what it likes to care deeply about those precious to you. Even when those same precious people are the main source of our pain. That's why I swear, I'll do everything in my power to help you save Kurome." Naruto vowed and Akame looked at the blonde Sage with eyes filled with tears.

"But why, why would you help me when we barely know each other," Akame asked and Naruto smiled at her.

"That's easy because you're my friend. And I always go above and beyond to help out my friends. That's who I am." Naruto said with a grin and Akame smiled and hugged Naruto and the two embraced for a moment before separating and Akame wiped her remained tears.

"Thank you, Naruto. I think I'll go to bed now, I need to be in top form for tomorrow's raid." Akame said before going inside Night Raid's hideout and Naruto smiled at the red-eyed assassin before standing up.

"Hey Leone, you can come out now," Naruto called and said blonde woman stepped out from behind a nearby corner with a stunned look on her face.

"How'd you know I was there?" Leone said, surprised he'd sensed her so easily.

"I'm a sensor ninja Leone, it's part of my job to sense when people are eavesdropping on conversations." Naruto flatly said and Leone just shook her head.

"There really isn't anything you ninjas can't do is there. But in all seriousness, thank you. I overheard the whole thing between you and Akame, and I appreciate you consoling her and offering to help her." Leone said as she smiled at her fellow blonde.

"Hey, what kind of a man would I be if I didn't help a friend in need," Naruto said with his trademark smile and Leone smiled at the blonde's kindness and shook her head in amusement.

"You and Tatsumi are so much alike it's incredible. Anyway, we'd better get some rest, we've got a big day tomorrow." Leone said and Naruto nodded in agreement before both blondes turned in for the night.

"Konna Sekai, Shiritakunakatta" by Miku Sawai begins playing

That'll do it for Chapter 1 of this epic crossover. Boy, this was a long chapter, but I was glad how this one turned out and I hope you guys agree as well. There's actually a reason I chose to release the first chapter today because today marks the date of the very last release of the Akame ga Kill manga. So, what better way to commemorate the ending of a great series by releasing a crossover for the series on the same day,

I figured that with the way Night Raid was with outsiders, they'd probably be hesitant to trust Team 7 unless they proved themselves to them first. I figured the best way to accomplish this, is to have Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke take on (in my opinion) Night Raid's 3 strongest members in Akame, Leone, and Tatsumi and come out on top in convincing fashion.

I hope everyone enjoyed the battle scenes between Sakura and Leone, Sasuke and Tatsumi, and (my personal favorite of the three to write) Naruto and Akame. While the outcome of the battles should have never been in doubt (basically anyone who bet on Night Raid beating Team 7 or even hanging in a competitive battle with them, deserved to lose their money) it was still a nice change of pace to see Night Raid in the role of being the ones getting their asses handed to them. Especially Akame who, to my knowledge, is the only member of Night Raid to have never lost a single battle throughout the entire series. If you can find a battle in which Akame has lost, go nuts but I sure as hell couldn't.

BTW, for anyone who may have missed it, I threw in a few tributes to the Star Wars franchise during Naruto and Akame's fight as a nod to the release of the recent Star Wars film: Naruto's sword being infused with Sage Chakra to glow orange with cross-like chakra extensions at the hilt was a nod to Star Wars villain Kylo Ren. Also, Naruto using Shinra Tensei to send Akame flying back was a nod to the Force Push ability (or to narrow it down, Darth Maul's use of the force push during his duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi).

Now, concerning the near-death experiences of Night Raid, that was something I intended to do since before the beginning of this series, especially with most fans being so unhappy about so many fan favorites dying (myself included!) And in case you're wondering, yes this will be a common theme in my stories.

The decision to bring Sheele back was an easy one as I got SERIOUSLY pissed when that bitch Seryu killed her (believe me, she's DEFINITELY gonna pay for that in the WORST way in the next chapter!) But, as mad as I was at Seryu, I gotta say a part of me was equally as ticked off at Mine.

Now don't get me wrong, I love Mine to death. But is anyone other than me just a little bit bothered at how Mine, who let me remind everyone is supposed to be a "Genius Sniper" seemed blissfully unaware of her surroundings after being saved by Sheele from Koro, knowing there was a dangerous psychopathic killer about ten feet away from you.

Like seriously, how does someone who's supposed to be a trained killed make an amateurish mistake like that. I make the argument, and I stand by the argument that had Mine been paying attention like any trained assassin would have in that situation, that Mine could have probably saved Sheele from being shot by Seryu, which would have prevented her from being eaten and killed by Koro.

As for retconning Chelsea's death, that was an easy one to figure out. It was just a matter of having Chelsea go after Kurome first instead of Bols after the fight with the Jaegers and then fast-forwarding the evolution of Incursio to allow Tatsumi to get to her in time before she gets killed.

In reality, retconning Chelsea's death this way allows me to do two things. First of all, it allows me to keep Bols alive for a future confrontation with Chelsea in the next chapter in which I have something special planned. Won't say what it is, but I will say the plans I have for the two will be huge.

Secondly, by keeping Bols alive, it prevents a series of tragic events that happened in the canon storyline from happening. Think about it, had Bols not died, his wife and daughter would have never had a grave to visit meaning they would have never been brutally raped and killed by Wild Hunt.

Had THAT not happened, Run probably wouldn't have gotten so triggered by their deaths, that he wouldn't have gone after Champ alone like he did which ultimately led to Champ coming back and seeking vengeance causing Run to end up fatally wounded and turned into one of Kurome's puppets. So, by killing off Bols, Chelsea inadvertently caused the deaths of not one, not two, but three people. Thanks, Chelsea.

As far as retconning Lubbock's death, that one's pretty simple. Since Tatsumi's upgrade was sped up, just have him and Lubbock waste Wild Hunt and steal Syura's Teigu before having Lubbock escape with the Teigu as Tatsumi sacrifices himself to allow his friend to get away.

As for retconning Mine being in a coma after the battle with General Budo, and retconning General Budo's death, I need the General alive for the next part of my story to make the battle more interesting. And in lieu of Mine being in a coma, I decided to go a different, more creative route where the constant mental fatigue from using Pumpkin caused her to develop migraines.

This is actually a nod to my mother who suffers from actual migraines, so I know quite a bit about the subject. Oh, by the way, anyone wondering how Susanoo is still alive it's really simple. In my stories, Esdeath learning her time-freezing Trump Card prior to the final battle against the Revolutionary Army will be retconned to her learning the ability AFTER said time.

Now sadly, the only character from Night Raid I won't be bringing back in this series is Bulat. I know there are some people out there that really liked Bulat (myself included), but the reason I've decided to leave him dead is that, as much as I hate to admit it, his death is the ONLY death in the series that remotely made sense.

Because let's be honest, when Tatsumi first joined Night Raid, he was the weakest member of the team BAR NONE. And even though he was a skilled fighter, he was still a liability against stronger opponents. We first saw that in the battle against Zanku the Beheader. Had Akame not shown up when she did, Tatsumi would have been killed.

So, there were only two ways the writers of the series could make him stronger: They could either create a Teigu for him specifically, or they could kill off one of the main characters and transfer their Teigu to Tatsumi.

They chose the latter. And, to be fair while killing off a cool character like Bulat may have been a bit of a dick move, it actually worked out brilliantly. As not only did Tatsumi grow stronger to be on the same level as his comrades, but transferring Incursio to Tatsumi proved to be one of, if not the key factor in putting the Empire down for the count.

By the way, for anyone wondering about Incursio's new form after being sealed by Naruto, it's pretty much Incursio's original version with the gauntlets, feet, helmet, and wings of Incursio's second evolution.

With the armor being in a permanent state of balance, I felt the best way to symbolize the change was to combine the original and completed stages of the armor. I actually got the idea of putting Incursio in a state of balance from looking at the aesthetics of Wave's Teigu Grand Chariot (which, I might remind you is an advanced version of Incursio).

I apologize if the interaction between Akame and Naruto at the end of the story was short, but it served its purpose, to plant the seed for Akame and Naruto's eventual pairing, and to allow Naruto to endear himself to not only Akame but to her Night Raid teammates as well.

Also, notice how near the end of the chapter Sasuke remarked how similar Tatsumi was to Naruto and Leone herself even lampshades this very sentiment. This serves as a bit of foreshadowing for a major upcoming scene involving the two in the next chapter. Again, won't say what it is, but I will say this, you guys are in for an absolute treat because it's going to be EPIC!

On a final note, I hope everyone enjoyed my choice of songs for this chapter. In this chapter, I decided to focus on songs from the anime. But don't worry music lovers, I have an all-star lineup of hard rock and heavy metal songs picked out for chapter two when we get into the good stuff, the battle between the Revolutionary Alliance (as I'm calling them) and the Empire.

So, until next chapter, tell me what you thought about this story and don't forget to favorite, follow, and review. I'm DarkChild316, and I'll see you next time.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

P.S., For those of you who want a little taste of what's in store for Chapter 2, if I get at least 10 reviews and 25 favorites on this story, I'll post a preview of Seryu's death scene on my DeviantArt page as a journal entry.

Update: Nice job everyone, you guys not only reached the stated goal, you shattered it! So, as promised, the sneak peek of Seryu's Death Scene is up on my DeviantArt page now as a journal entry. My username on DeviantArt is the same as it is here.