Hey I have been swamped but I decided I had some more writing to do. Hope you like it.

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Naruto, Cib, Hana, and her triplets stood on a small rock outcropping overlooking the Rain army surrounding the Suna. At there feet lay a squad of dead Rain nin, the back guard had failed to impress them. Campfires dotted the desert in front of them. A giant war tent stood at the back to the North-East of the city walls. Already a few dozed corpses from both sides littered the bottom walls of the city. The Rain had obviously gauged the enemies strength earlier in the day and found that taking the city would be no easy task.

Hana turned to the young sage looking to see what he would do. He pulled the gourd off his back and turned it upside down. Sand began pouring out onto the dune below the rocks.

"What are you doing." Hana asked him as he threw the gourd back over his shoulder.

"That sand has been with me for almost 2 years. It has absorbed my chakra while we traveled and on top of that I poured chakra into whenever we had time to kill. It is so attuned to me that controlling it is almost no problem, and if you control one grain of sand, you control the whole desert. Now hold on." He wrapped his arm around her waist and did a series of handsigns.

By the time he ended the chain the sand below the rock was trashing and shuddering as if it were alive. What looked like a wolf rose and crash backed down. The rock tipped slightly to the side as the sand began to climb up the sides. Hana stumbled into Naruto and in one smooth move he scooped her up bridal style and jumped off the rock. He landed in a crouch and as his feet touched the sand it shot up 15 feet in the air. Hana looked into his eyes as they turned feral.

Urufu Saburearashi

From the top of Suna's walls Shikamaru stood observing the Rain forces that had set up shop below. He had gotten dragged into the defense planning earlier by his girlfriend. At first the Sand council had ignored his suggestions but after Gaara had splattered the loudest protester across most of council room they had started listening to him. Still the outlook was not what he would call ideal. There were to many unknowns. With Rain being closed off for so many years all they had to go by was rumors. His planning could center around year old knowledge or fairy tales. He would have given his right arm to know what was in that tent leading these soldiers.

He started to light his cigarette when all of the sudden from the West a cloud of dust began to rise from the top of a dune. Suddenly a howl broke the silence that lay over the city. He could almost swear the cloud looked like a wolf. The cloud began whipping around the top of the dune before shooting forward towards the city, and thus the Rain army. The cloud looked like it was being led by five giant wolves made of sand and this time he knew it was not a trick of the eye. All was dead silent as the wolves bore down on the Rain nin. The few that made it out of their tents in time turned to run when it hit the perimeter of their encampment.

As it struck the silence was again broken by what could only be the howling and snarling of a pack of wolves. Smaller wolves rose from the feet of the five wolves in the lead and crashed back into the sand around them sometimes taking tents and men with them. The sound was deafening and the cries of the men could barely be heard above the storm. The wolves kept coming, eventually crashing into the walls. That still was not the end of the storm as some of the wolves began bounding up the wall, followed by trails sand. Every few seconds one would crash into the wall before dispersing and falling back down into sand until just near the top only one was left. The only thing different about this one was that its eyes glowed red. It bounded up to the very edge of the wall and jumped up into the air before crashing face first in a cloud of sand on the top of the wall right next to Shikamaru.

Shikamaru stood stock still. The only thing that could be seen in the cloud was two red eyes. Then an outline. Slowly it dispersed to reveal Naruto holding his mate. The last of the sand returned to Naruto's gourd and he put Hana back down. He then reached over and closed the top on Shikamaru's lighter. He went to say a smartass remark when suddenly he had to jump over a spear made of sand. It stuck in the wall next to him and Naruto put his hand on it and used it to spin diagonally to avoid a second spear. He landed back on his feet and spun on his feet to face his attacker.

"What the hell Gaara?" The young Wolf summoner asked

"I knew you would say something stupid Uzamaki. That is why I cut you off." He said before standing there quietly.

"Nuff said. Hey Naruto good timing." Temari said from behind him before stepping up and hugging Naruto. He hugged her back before turning to Shikamaru.

"Nara Shikamaru, we have been sent by the Hokage to escort you back to the land of fire." Temari and Shikamaru went to object while Gaara simply quirked an eyebrow."However as I feel it is unsafe to leave the city we have no choice but to stay and aid Suna in anyway we can."

"I knew you would be unable to stay out of a fight Uzamaki. I will have a room prepared for you in my house." Gaara said as he turned and left.

"What would you have me do to aid you defeat the Rain nin?" Naruto asked. Gaara just continued to walk away.

"He knows you be most helpful without any orders. Do what you do best, kick ass." Temari replied for her brother before leaving as well."Its good to see you learned something from your stay in Suna."

"You always did know how to make an entrance." Shikamaru said but before he could leave Naruto put his hand on his shoulder and slowed him down.

"You might want to take a shower." Naruto smirked as Hana walked by."You smell like desert flower."

He nodded his head towards Temari."But nice going man, bagging the Kazekage's sister. Just don't make him mad. I don't want to have to scrape whats left of one of my oldest friends off the ground with a spatula."

Shikamaru just continued to follow his girlfriend as Naruto ran to catch up with his own mate.

'Well maybe there is some hope of survival.'

"Hey... guys... A little help here." Cib said as he climbed over the wall and fell on his face." Soooo tiiiired. I need a summoning scroll like the triplets."

He then walked a couple feet and once again fell down.

"Ill be right there. Or maybe Ill sleep here. I don't know. Bunch of jerks"

Naruto stood on top tier of the wall overlooking the battlefield. He had spent the night preparing for the battle. He didn't know what would happen after this battle. This might be the beginning of the next great shinobi war. He didn't know why Orochimaru wanted him here. He didn't know what to do about any of it. What he did know was that he knew how to fight.

'just get through today. Then we take on tomorrow.'

'You were always a little slow on the thinking ahead. Just like your old man.' Fang cut in

'Fang I'm going to need you today. This might get ugly.'

'Of course your going to need me I'm amazing.'

'Conceited much.'

He looked over at Hana and watched her readjust her vest. Whatever was going through his mind was cut off as the enemy charged.

He had killed more ninja than he had ever seen at one place at one time and yet they still kept coming. Rain had taken the lower levels but their assaults on the upper levels had been unsuccessful. He was almost out of Kunai and was down to his last 6 shuriken. He loosed them into an oncoming nins chest before pulling his sword. He killed two more when he noticed that they were losing the level they were on as well. The Suna nin were falling back to the next level but they were open to attack by the oncoming Rain nin.

"COME ON. ANY RAIN NIN THAT WANTS SOME OF THE WOLF SANNIN" He yelled. This caught the Rain nins attention as they turned to him and charged. He slashed wildly but every nin on the level wanted to get some of the action that was the future wolf sannin. He was about to be overwhelmed when suddenly a wave of sand knocked the nin surrounding him down the wall. Gaara slid down beside him and nodded. Naruto smiled as he remembered what Shikamaru had told him this morning. He grabbed his sword in both hands and pointed it at his feet.

BURNING FANG

He plunged the glowing sword into the wall as it changed. Suddenly a beam of condensed chakra cut the wall at their feet. The pieces in front of them split off and fell to the desert floor below. Gaara quickly slid his own sand down to support the wall. The nin on the lower levels were crushed and the Rain fell back to regroup. Gaara simply nodded at Naruto and took off for the other side to make sure it did not fall.

Naruto was standing on the edge of the wall as the Nin regrouped and suddenly a single man in a black robe with red clouds walked out and put his hand on the wall to their left. Naruto jumped towards the man when suddenly the wall imploded inwards and everything behind it for 50 yards was blown back.

Naruto was knocked back by the wind and landed in the midst of a cloud of sand. He felt another strong force and sand hit him harshly in the face.

'Akatski is here. Damn I should have known.' He was about to jump forward when he heard a noise that brought him to a screeching halt, the sound of Hana crying out in pain. He spun around and jumped through the dust towards her position killing the few straggling Rain nin that hadn't charged for the gap in the wall. He focused on his senses but the continued attacks from the Akatski member kept the dust in the air and made hearing near impossible. He only heard a whimper here and there but in the rubble and the dust, with the continuous concussive force assaulting his heightened senses he was disoriented. Then in the dust and blood he caught a hint of his mates scent and a slight cry of pain. With those two simultaneous sensory perceptions he changed directions and ran all out to his mate.

He jumped over a boulder and landed next to Hana. Standing over her was a Rain nin with the number five on his chest. He was holding a bloody kunai in each hand and was about to cut Hana when he found a sword in his chest. Naruto lifted the man up and threw him from the blade. He looked down and found his mate had several deep painful gashes across her body. Most of them seemed centered on her abdomen and inner thighs. His diagnosis was cut short as his hearing picked up a slight noise in the dust.

"Well you took the bait" He turned to find five men standing on the rubble around them one of them dropped two of the triplets, both unconscious on the ground. Another threw one tied up and badly bleeding into the heap. Naruto stood calmly with Fang on his shoulder. All five of the men felt powerful.

"We were given the personal order from our God to kill you and your mate." One of them said. On his shoulder was the number one.

"I don't know Kei. He killed Jur without even blinking. Maybe we should give up on this endeavor and instead find another way to help Pein." The one with a four on his forehead said.

"Nonsense. Jur was the weakest of the six and a mindless brute as well. We can handle him. The six hands of God are invincible." Number one said.

Number four obviously thought otherwise but before Naruto could try and sway him Number one attacked.

Naruto threw the last of his kunai at the charging man and stood ready. The nin ducked them and charged Naruto from the front. Naruto swung his sword diagonally from the hip with one hand. The Rain nin jumped back and was replaced by a nin with a two on her neck. The nin tried to drive his knife into Naruto's diaphragm but was uncucessful as the young wolf boy used the momentum of his swing to spin sideways just out of the way of the blade. In return he knocked the nins arm away with his free hand and drove his elbow into the womans nose, throwing her backwards through the dust.

A third nin, this time with a five on his stomach tried to stab Naruto in the back, only to be knocked away with the flat of Naruto's blade. He flew into a nearby boulder and the sound of his spine snapping could be heard all around the clearing. Naruto looked at the hesitant number four and stabbed his sword into the ground.

"You're the smart one in the group. Your only mistake was your company, and hurting my mate. The first ins easily fixed by you leaving. The second I cannot let go unpunished."

With that Naruto threw his right arm forwards and a battle chain slid from around his arm and stuck in the man's neck. The barbs snapped into place and Naruto tugged on it and pulled the nin to him. He then used the body to knock away an attack by the female nin. He pulled back on the chain and used the mans dead body to block kunai from number one. He threw the body away and grabbed the other end of the chain.

Naruto twirled the chain around and blocked a series of shuriken from the broken nose ninja. He stopped and pulled the chain taunt and used it to deflect a punch. He wrapped it around the girls wrist and spun around he twisted the chain around her neck and pulled tight. She scrabbled with her free hand to loosen the chain but after a few seconds of struggling she fell to her knees. A little bit more and her arm fell to her side. Naruto pushed her down on a rock and slid his hands into a better position. He put his knee in her back and pulled until he heard a satisfying snap as her neck twisted beyond its limit. He dropped the chain and stood behind his sword.

"That was not very nice. Just letting her die like that." He said as he ducked under some kunai.

"She deserved it. She ran right in when that had already proven useless." The voice of number one came from all around in the dust."She should have stayed hidden."

'Ha hide from a wolf. Not a chance.' He was startled from his revelry as he was forced to duck under some incoming kunai behind him. Then suddenly some more from his 9'o clock.

He continued to dodge, unable to pinpoint his enemies location. Finally he heard the slightest of sounds just in time for a stream of fire came at Naruto from out of the dust. He ducked down behind his sword. The fire was curling around the edges of the sword and singing his clothes. Hana looked at him through the haze of pain and he just winked at her. Naruto reached behind the small of his back. He pulled out a Demon Wind Shuriken in each hand and with a flick of his wrists opened them. Without warning streams of fire came from his sides and converged on him. His eyes opened wide before he was engulfed by flame. Hana whimpered as he was cooked. The jutsu from the front ended while the two at the sides continued.

Hana couldn't believe what she had just seen. Her mate had just been fried. She lay back against a rock and waited for the nin to finish her as well. Just as she felt a tear begin to leave her eye she saw a distortion a few feet behind the enemy nin. The flames stopped and the nin and two clones walked out of the mist. Without warning Naruto appeared behind the nin and threw both shuriken. The Rain nin saw that the space behind the sword was empty and jerked around to find his opponent when they hit. He never saw what cut him in thirds.

"Your very sneaky and your use of clones made it all the harder to pinpoint your location, however you can't play hide and seek with a wolf, you get eaten." He said before walking over and checking on Hana.

"I thought you were dead." she hissed while he inspected her wounds.

"You can't get rid of me that easily." Naruto smirked as he wrapped a bandage around her thigh.

A noise came from behind them and Naruto swung around with a kunai in each hand. Out of the dust stepped Cib and the injured triplet.

"Where were you mutt." Naruto asked going back to his wounded mate.

"Man you can't count very well. You missed one. I had to take care of him." Cib said walking over to the now conscious triplets.

"I knew you would handle him but was it really that hard."

"Yes and it would have been harder had Chou not gotten him by the balls." He replied while he licked their wounds.

Naurto was about to make a smartass remark when he was cut off by a Sand messenger.

"Naruto-sama. Gaara is in a fight with the Rain god Pein. He requires assistance."

Naruto jumped up and helped Hana to stand as well.

"Help her back to safety. I will help Gaara." and with that he jumped off into the dust.