DUAL FLAMES CHAPTER 8

When Captain Smith had told Naruto about his new quarters, he had said that he would have the room to himself, his own furniture, a great view of the city and comfortable lighting. As Naruto stared into his room, he checked off the Captain's promises. His room was a seven foot square room, with a Spartan bed, desk and stool, and he had a tiny window which he could barely look out of on his toes which let in barely any light at all. "This," Naruto commented, "is a jail cell."

"Nonsense!" Captain Smith said with a firm pat on Naruto's back, "the bathroom is down the hall and it even has stalls now, the barracks are sometimes two men to a bed, pitch black at noon, and nowhere to sit besides beds. This is heaven compared to that!"

Naruto nodded, but bemoaned his loss of the space in his room back at the fort. "Okay, there are perks, but I got this pet, and he needs a lot more space than this… is there any way I could get a bigger room?"

"Namikaze! You surprise me, of course there isn't a better room, they're all standard! But if you got a big pet, you could put him in the stables with the horses."

"My pet will eat horses…"

Captain Smith was alarmed and asked, "What kind of pet do you have?"

"A tiger," Naruto sighed.

Captain Smith sputtered something starting with a 'T'. and then gulped and said, "Namikaze… where is your pet?"

"He's outside the walls," (Captain Smith began breathing again) "He's hunting deer for meals, but one deer is half a meal and he eats three meals a day…"

"Is… he… tame?"

"Perfectly, for humans, anyway, and well, only if people other than me don't get too close, he's an angel."

"We'll… make arrangements, right now, you get your tiger and we'll… sort this out."

Naruto nodded and walked out of the tower and quickly found Peanut. He hopped on his back and they rode into town. Captain Smith's jaw dropped and he backed up. He then escorted them to the stables where Peanut got an entire side to himself. The tiger smugly arranged the straw and began to nap. Naruto was instructing the chefs on what to feed him when Temari came in. She asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Well," he responded, "This guy needs to know not to try to feed Peanut Turkey, cause we don't want a bloodbath, do we chef?"

The terrified fat man shook his head wildly. Naruto patted his shoulder and Temari sighed, "We have been summoned by the Captain. It's urgent."

Naruto nodded and motioned for her to lead the way. They leapt to the Captain's usual command post. He looked up and asked, "I trust… Peanut, was it? Has been taken care of?"

"Most excellently, Captain," Naruto said and saluted.

"Great, well, all the work of the day is just starting, so the mines, the hunters and all those people are requesting your labor again, so hop to that Naruto, but the real you stay here, you will have overseer duty today as well."

Naruto nodded, formed his clones and they were off to the races. Then Captain smith handed them both a boomerang. "This, is your tool as an overseer, you see someone being lazy, rebellious, or dazed, you hit 'em with this, hard. Knock some sense into their heads till they get back to work. You will be on constant patrol from dawn till dusk. Subaku and the clones that were my body guards yesterday will be in charge of this, okay?"

Naruto made nine more clones and they each picked up a boomerang and started patrol. Temari left too, leaving the real Naruto and Captain Smith. "Namikaze," the Captain said, "The Overlord wants you to personally handle a different problem today, a faction of thieves known as the thieves' guild is robbing all our transports of any kind, taking goods, money and anything else. You need to send a message, kill twenty of them, and then recover five crates of out stolen goods, got it?"

"Where do I start looking?"

"They tend to wear dark blue colors, and they always have a cheaply made brass necklace with an amulet of a bow and arrow around their necks. They move in groups of four and are quite good at running from roof top to roof top. We have a big shipment of iron over there across the street for you to watch over, they'll show up, show no mercy. And if you get the chance kill the leader, he always has a long bow and is named Hawkeye."

Naruto nodded and dashed to the shipment. A man was counting things and hitching up horses. Naruto walked up to him and said, "Hey! I'm Overseer Namikaze, I'll be watching out for those thieves on top of the roofs, waiting, when they attack, I'll take care of them, but I want you to stop moving, so I don't lose you in the confusion, okay?"

The stunned driver nodded and Naruto leapt onto the roof of the nearest building. The cart set off and Naruto followed careful to stay out of sight. Eventually, about half way to the appointed destination, eight men stood, blocking the gate, they were wearing all blue and Naruto noticed another eight on the surrounding buildings. He snuck up on them and knocked them out and tied them up before the cart encountered the other men. He threw them in a pile so he could take them to questioning later. As the cart came to a stop, one man started toward the driver and four jumped onto the cart. Naruto drew two kunai and jumped in with them, he slashed two of the men open before they had even noticed him, the other two were too shocked to do anything other than stare, so Naruto threw the kunai in their stomachs. Naruto sent off three balls of flame at the three standing at the gate and Naruto lunged at the last, but he ran away. He climbed up on the roof and started running full tilt. Naruto played along, hoping to get lead to the enemy base. Eventually the last man jumped into an alley and started screaming about being followed. Thieves came out of the cracks. Naruto formed some clones and dove in to their hide out.

Say one thing about Naruto Uzumaki, say that he's subtle. Naruto went to town, these men were nothing compared to him, then two clones got taken out by something. A man with a long bow was on the top of a building, picking off clones. Naruto jumped up to him, and shot fireballs at him, but he dodged. Naruto threw ten kunai, but they were dodged or deflected. Naruto charged him with a fully formed Rasengan and upon contact, he turned into smoke. Naruto looked down, only air, and a long fall. He landed in a stack of hay and jumped back up. This Hawkeye was a ninja, no doubt about it. He wore purple clothes with a billowing purple cloak. Naruto swung at him and landed a punch. "Who trained you?" Naruto demanded.

"Who trained you?" Hawkeye demanded.

"I'm asking the questions here!"

"Fine, I'll answer, but you're next at the answering side of twenty questions, got it?"

"Talk!"

"I'm an Uzumaki! My father trained me, how did you learn those moves, you're faster than anyone I've ever fought…"

Naruto looked down at him and said, "shit… you need to get out of here, you know that big oak tree outside the southern gate?"

Hawkeye nodded, "What of it?"

"You and me need to have words, meet me there after dusk. Now run!"

Hawkeye said, "hell no, not until you tell me who trained you!"

"A couple people most recently, Jiraiya the Pervy Sage and Rikku Uzumaki, my aunt."

Hawkeyes eyes widened but he nodded, got up and ran. Naruto jumped into the alley, took the medallions of the thieves and then had his clones disguise them as hay and take them out of the city.

Naruto sprinted off to the Captain's spot. He was winded, but ecstatic. He dropped the medallions on the desk and said, "The bodies are taken care of. I found some crates in their hideout. Hawkeye might have been there, but he ran and before I could give chase, I was set upon by a great number of his followers. I apologize, sir."

The Captain waved him off and said, "I asked for twenty dead and five crates and you gave me at least forty dead and most likely their hideout. I'll have some peons clean it up. Let's see, your next duty is in the military sector…"

While Naruto was given another mission, Temari was smacking peons left and right. They all got distracted by the female overseer, but were quickly put back in their place, working harder than she left. After she had hit one entire major section, she grabbed a cup of water at a nearby convenience store and sat down. As she stared into the water, her reflection swirled and then Ezio's reflection remained. He mouthed, "Can you see me?"

She nodded.

He smirked and then said, "okay, so here's the deal, Nefer and Ashai are coming around swell, so don't worry about them, and I have been watching you two from any reflective surface I can latch onto, but Rikku wants to step the operation up. In the nearby well, there is a bucket at the bottom. Pull it up and there should be a green plastic tube. Dip your kunai in the substance inside this tube and use that to spread it over your boomerang. Let it dry and make sure you cover every inch, got it?"

She nodded again, with a bit more subtly that time.

Ezio then said, "Okay, so after that, make sure not to touch it with your hand, so get gloves or whatever you need to and use the boomerang, upon contact with skin, that paste will cause flu-like symptoms for two weeks, we will use this boomerang one a month to get the populace afraid of it, and then we will release it into the very air when we decide to strike, it will cause riots as a cover, okay?"

Temari downed the water, found the well and did as instructed. She used her poisoned weapon with care and extreme accuracy, delivering blows to anybody who was slacking off. When dusk finally rolled around, she met up with Naruto, who was nearly bouncing with a rare energy, something was up, and he couldn't wait to get things started. Captain Smith paid them, and dismissed them. Naruto went to the stables and jumped on Peanut. They nearly flew out of the city to the southern gate. Over the nearest hill was a gigantic oak tree. A man with a longbow was standing there. Naruto leapt off Peanut and shook the man's hand. He was eyeing Temari suspiciously, after all, Naruto hadn't said anything about a chick. "Who's this?" Hawkeye asked.

Naruto blinked and then said, "Oh, yeah! Temari, this is Hawkeye, Hawkeye, this is Temari."

Temari waved and Hawkeye nodded. Then he said, "Okay, prove it. Prove that you've been training under Rikku Uzumaki."

Temari's jaw dropped, Naruto had spilled the beans already? As he turned around, Naruto said, "He's an Uzumaki, I've seen him fight."

Temari's jaw dropped farther. Then Naruto held out his hand and shouted, "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE: DAO JIN!"

Naruto appeared in full armor, so Temari followed suit. As they stood there, Hawkeye shook his head in amazement and then said, "My name is Clint. My dad and his sister dodged the persecution of the clan through some covert means and the fact that my aunt married the First Lord, so her children live in the palace and I was forced into the streets by the palace elders, where did they find you guys?"

Naruto gulped and said, "I am the son of Kushina Uzumaki and Temari is my… I-don't-know-what-to-call-it-right-now, I guess friend. She got an armor somehow too, so we're training together, and looking for any remnants of the Uzumaki. We knew that some Uzumakis were in the castle somewhere, but we didn't know where. It's great that we found you."

Then a great wind started to blow. It blew all the leaves off the Oak tree and then wrapped around Clint. When it went away, he was covered in the powered down version of the Armor of Strata. He looked around and then at himself. He jumped and then started to move around and then said, "This is amazing… how did this happen?"

"I haven't the slightest, but it's been happening a lot lately though," Temari said.

"We need to get you away from here…" Naruto said, "We'll send you to the fort to train… don't look at me like that, Peanut doesn't bite and he knows the way, hop on him."

Clint nodded and carefully climbed onto the gigantic cat. Peanut bounded off and then Naruto said, "He had a band of thieves which I will send there too, but over time, we can't have them causing trouble now, can we?"

Temari shook her head and they headed back into the city.

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Rikku stood at the front gate of the fort, watching another cart of Clint's 'merry men' pile into the fort. The upside was that the fort was much better off, number wise, but the bad news was that they were much more noticeable too. The thieves were easily trained to fighting capability and they had a certain fire in them, but they were also loud. She shrugged, it was something she'd have to worry about later.

Clint had taken to the training she had for him quite well, he was shaping up nicely under her tutelage alone, it helped that they had the same chakra nature. Nefer and Ashai were making leaps and bounds under Kakashi and Iruka. Ashai was almost ready for missions, as well as Clint, Nefer was a good fighter, but she needed a primary move which wasn't also her sure-kill, so once Iruka was done with that, the Sand insisted that Nefer be taught by an approved Sand Shinobi. One everyone was in the fort, Rikku sealed the door.

Ezio was waiting for her. He asked, "Can you answer some questions I have about the armors? And may I be blunt in asking them?"

Rikku found them a quiet spot and said, "Ask away."

"Okay, so, why are all the armors choosing people so fast all of the sudden? How did Temari, a non Uzumaki get an armor? What is your plan for me?"

"I'll start with the last one and lead you through them all, okay? So, there are nine armors, but there have always been ten people seated on the Uzumaki council, the nine warriors and The Ancient. The Ancient is the guardian of the armors. It is that person's duty to push the armors to make decisions that are good for the clan. The armors always like to have a bearer, so they pick pretty fast, and there aren't many candidates left, so, yes, they are moving fast. I don't know why or how the armor of Loyalty picked Temari, but I do know that it did. What I plan for you… I am the current Ancient, and you will be the next. If you want to know why, well, honestly, I have a gut feeling and I'm going with it."

Ezio nodded and then sat for a minute, in deep thought and then said, "So, what do I have to learn to do?"

"You already are, you're directing Naruto and Temari through their infiltration of Vok City and relaying the info to me. You're doing great, so don't worry about it, the bulk of the knowledge about the armors will be passed to you in my death, so just do what I say now and it will all make sense later, okay?"

"That was ominous. You planning on dying soon?"

Rikku laughed and stood up, Ezio right behind her. Training was about to start.

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Naruto was snoring in his new quarters. In light of his service to Vok City, he had been awarded another promotion. He and Temari were Captains of the special forces. The special forces consisted of him and her, so it worked out great. They worked directly for their Overlord and got all the grunt, and overseer work they had had to do before while this all went down. Temari sighed as she couldn't sleep. She snuck out her window and over the outside of the walls to Naruto's window. She slid in and dropped into his chair. She patted him and got nothing, he was out. She tapped his head and still nothing. So she punched him and still he slept. He was kinda cute, in her opinion, when he was asleep. Then he began to stir, and Temari realized how creepy she would look if he woke up so she scrambled to her room and finally sleep took her.

In the morning, they received summons from the First Lord's firstborn. They readied themselves for the day and went into the meeting. As they walked there, Temari recapped Clint's knowledge of the First Lord's house. "The First lord had had five wives, each of them bearing two children. He was about to tell us more before Rikku caught him communicating with us, so we'll just have to test them somehow, do you think we should do something basic, like a disguise?"

Naruto hummed in thought and said, "Well, I'm not exactly suited for that kind of thing, I'll let you handle it."

Temari rolled her eyes and sighed. It was the truth though, despite the harsh reality of it. Once they were at the appointed place, they noticed the guards that had begun to steer them to a garden. It was beautifully green and covered in soft, bright green grass. The son was standing there, his silver eyes dancing and he glanced over to a nearby stone bench where who must have been his sister was reading a book. The girl looked up from her book and sized us up, and returned to her book, titled :HERBS. She casually flicked through the pages. "My name is Donald, and this is my sister Jessica. The royal family is mandated to learn a bit of ninjutsu, but we were wondering if you could teach us a bit more. Do you have time?" the Prince asked.

Naruto looked to Temari who shrugged so Naruto nodded. Donald clapped his hands together and said, "Capital, then, shall we start with sparring?"

Naruto stepped forward and Jessica shouted, "Begin!"

Naruto charged up to the prince and punched the guy in the gut. Donald rolled under Naruto and kicked up into his balls. Naruto went down while Donald attempted to retrieve his breath. As soon as Donald was breathing normally he punched Naruto. Naruto poofed, and suddenly appeared behind Donald, where a descisive blow was given, resulting in Naruto's win. Donald stood up and said, "You're so fast… how'd you to that?"

Naruto smiled and said, "A ninja never reveals his secrets!"

Naruto heard clapping and turned to see the First Lord standing there. He was smiling and laughing, and he gasped out, "Need… moment… *giggle* alone with… ninja."

Naruto and Temari simultaneously gulped. The First lord stood up and said, "Well… two little Uzumaki-children fall right into my lap. Perfectly timed, as always, by the way, exquisitely performed, I must say. My name is Gaius Vok Septimus. My family was the chief employer of the Uzumaki clan all the way up to the 'purge', as some of my fellow rulers call it, and a chief refuge for any who came to me during and after. My children, Donald and Jessica have very strong Uzumaki blood in their veins. They want to restore the clan to its former glory. In their eyes, that means gaining the right to wear the legendary armors you two probably guard. You, of course know of the armors, don't you?"

"You could say that," Temari replied.

Gaius' eyes widened and he asked, "oh, dear lord don't tell me you two are armor bearers?"

Naruto showed the man his hand and the tattooed swords seemed to glow. Donald and Jessica were both shocked and then appeared very anxious to ask questions. "This makes everything much more simple," said Gaius, "I was going to ask you to introduce me to the armor bearers, but this is just as good. I want to make a deal with you, you get freedom from any and all law other than mine in Vok city, in exchange for training these two here. They do not want to rule Vok City, so they will stay prince and princess here, they want to revive their family, just like you two do."

"I want proof," Naruto demanded, "I want to know that they're Uzumaki. I didn't come all the way out to the West just to find that I am surrounded by broken remnants and imposters. Prove to me that they have the Uzumaki blood in them."

"I believe I can do that," a new voice entered the conversation.

Naruto turned and identified the speaker to be a woman in very elaborate dress, using her chakra to stick to the side of a nearby stone wall. "Who are you?" Temari demanded.

"I, Naruto, am your aunt," she said, "You look like that bastard father of yours but you act like your mother, I picked you out of a the crowd on your first day here."

Naruto drew a kunai and said, "My mother was banished from the clan, you're not allowed to speak of her, or speak to me!"

"What clan?" she asked bluntly, "You, those people training at that fort and my children are all that's left, and WildFire chose you. You are the clan, the Uzumaki of my day is dead, dead with The Purge."

Temari made Naruto lower his knife and said, "She's sticking to the wall, Naruto, she's legit."

Naruto nodded and said, "We will get them to the fort to be trained by Rikku. We don't have time for anything else. We'll go, if we're the clan, like you said, then as soon as my training is over here, then we leave this horrible place for the Elemental Nations."

"All the better that I don't have to convince you to go, I was going to force you. So, Rikku survived after all then? No wonder you seem so confident, no doubt you can summon the armor, activate it, incorporate jutsu with it and use its surekill?"

Temari nodded, and relaxed. Naruto noticed this and relaxed as well. "That's about right," Naruto said.

The woman nodded and said, "well, that's good and all, but not quite perfect, I have some scrolls for you to read and understand, which Rikku couldn't save from the battle of Carrion Hill. Read them and then deliver them to her, do you accept?"

Naruto nodded and the woman breathed out hard, as in relief. She pulled out nine scrolls from her sleeve and tossed them to Temari and Naruto. Naruto stored them in his pouch and pockets. Then he turned to Donald and Jessica. He said, "Okay, so, there aren't many of this, so what's been happening is an armor will choose you through whatever element or skill it represents, so if that happens, you'll faint, everybody does and I'll make sure you get out okay? Other than that, pack up, and get ready for some hard core training. Temari, can you take care of them, I want to talk to my aunt and uncle in law."

Temari nodded and ushered the new additions. Naruto turned to Gaius and said, "We owe you, and I expect you to want something for it, so, when you need us, call, okay?"

He nodded enthusiastically. Naruto went to his chambers and pulled out his scroll. It was a number of techniques that the armor was specially designed to do. It wasn't ninjutsu so much as certain weapons that Naruto hadn't been aware of. For instance, when he snapped his fingers, the air around his hand would ignite. Directing this was a simple idea, but hard in practice, his right hand was precise in aim, a lance of flame, but his left was akin to a bazooka. Naruto crashed onto his bed and slept for what could not have been longer than three minutes.

Explosions woke him up. He looked out his slit of a window to see some of the city on fire and a considerable fighting force outside the walls. Naruto scrambled out of his room and directly to the First Lord. Gaius was looking over a map with his generals and Temari when Naruto leapt in. Temari rolled her eyes and Naruto winced. Gaius looked up and said, "a neighbor of mine has decided to declare war on me, snuck up on us using magic and are fighting to take the city as we speak, so here is the plan so far for a counter attack…"

A messanger burst in and shouted, "My Lord, it's your children, Donald and Jessica have gone to the front lines! They're fighting like demons out there!"

Naruto looked at Temari and shouted, "I got Donald," then to the messanger, "Where is he?"

"Donald is on the east side, defending the city from the invaders from the cliffs!"

Naruto took off, and ran as fast as he could. Temari looked at the messanger and he blurted, "Jessica is on the southern wall, sending volley after volley of arrows with her special poison."

Temari ran off to the south. The gate was almost in ruins. The homes inside of it were severely damaged, and after a quick survey of the area, Temari found three breaches. She jumped into the fray and activated her armor. The entire battle seemed to pause and then Temari started her attack. She pushed the invaders back through brute force and chain. Once they were pushed back, the archers began to shoot into the crowd. Jessica was standing on the wall, shouting her head off in triumph. Then she swung her hand over her head and something flew up from behind the wall, it was a glass ball filled with green sludge. Temari jumped behind the wall just in time to avoid the poison. She switched on her mask just in time and realized what had happened.

Jessica had made a poison bomb, and horribly miscalculated it's range. Both sides of the conflict were dying horrible, screaming deaths. Jessica was coughing terribly and looked unbelievingly on her work as the toxic cloud reached her. She buckled and then fell. She coughed and then she seemed to bathe in green light. She stood up, in full warlord armor and sucked all the poison away from her defenders and they all eventually stood up, completely fine, while the enemy had been destroyed.

Temari rushed to her new comrade and held her up when she collapsed. She propped the other girl up on her shoulder and carried her back to the palace. Peanut was waiting, Jessica was tied haphazardly to the gigantic animal, and Peanut bounded off.

Naruto was in hell. Fiery boulders fell down from the cliffside, dropped by the enemy. Naruto and Donald were both running up the cliff face, dodging debris. They got to the top and Naruto held out his hand and shouted, "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE: DAO JIN!"

The red armor formed on him and he snapped his fingers and flame destroyed the catapults. The men manning them began to run around screaming and Naruto went after them. Donald was fighting off three at once, tearing them up, until the wizard became involved in the fray. A man in a purple robe with a pointed purple hat with star and moon prints split the earth under Donald, creating a fissure.

Naruto killed the wizard seconds after the fissure closed. He looked despairingly at the closed rock. Then, the rock pulsed and shook and split open anew. From it jumped Donald, fully armored, in the armor of HardRock. Donald stared at the back of his hands and fainted. Naruto hurled him over his own shoulder and jumped back to the center of the city. Temari was waiting there, "Hardrock!" Naruto shouted and Temari cursed.

"Peanut just took off, what are we going to do?"

Naruto flashed through some hand signs and summoned a large toad. "Could you please take this guy to the fort for me?" Naruto asked, and the toad nodded, swallowed Donald and then poofed away. Temari gave him a thumbs up and they turned to Gaius and asked simultaneously, "Where is the resistance the highest?"

"Our sources say that the entire force is regrouping at the southern gate, could you assist the guards there?"

Naruto nodded, closed his facemask and took off, Temari right behind him. Halfway there, Naruto's toad returned and it spat out Nefer, Ashai and Clint in full armor. The frog poofed away and Clint explained, "We're your back-up!"

Naruto nodded and sped up. They arrived at the southern gate to find a massive fighting force gathering. The guards on the walls were all covered in their own or their enemies blood, and terrified. Naruto leapt into the air and shot down a rain of fireballs. Temari began to analyze the way the army was forming up, identified leaders, pointed them out to Nefer, and they used smoke bombs and their daggers to take out the leadership. The army had been ordered and disciplined, but in seconds had turned into a rabble. Ashai charged into the fight head on, chidori in hand and took out twenty in a minute, and then began to hack and slash and raise general havoc. Clint stood on the ramparts and just started picking people off using arrows of wind chakra, making people appear to just get a random hole in their armor and then collapse in a pool of their own blood. After Naruto's initial attack, he targeted the wooden catapults and other weaponry, lighting them and their crews aflame.

Then the remnants of the army turned and ran, screaming in the horror and suddenness of it all. Naruto turned to see that Gaius as well as most of the noblemen of the city were watching in awe from the ramparts. Gaius began clapping and suddenly the applause was roaring across the ramparts. When the main gate was opened, the warriors were surprised to find women spreading flowers beneath their feet. Children ran up and touched their armored hands and ran back into the crowd as men shouted their approval. So by the time they had reached the Military quarter, Naruto had a very big head. As Temari was thinking of a way to bring him back down to earth, someone tapped their shoulders. It was Shikamaru and Gaara. Naruto took off his helmet and grabbed both of them into a hug. Shikamaru began to whine half-heartedly and Gaara winced but tapped Naruto's back. When Naruto let them go Gaara explained, "The Sand and the Leaf want to start an alliance with Vok City. We are the first emissaries from our respective villages… good to see you two by the way."

Naruto beamed and Shikamaru sighed and rubbed his shoulder. Temari rolled her eyes, he was such a good-for-nothing. Naruto guided the group to the nearest eatery. The Warriors let their armor dissipate and were immediately seated. A round of Root Beer was ordered which Gaara liked and Shikamaru showed disinterest in it at first, but once he was used to the carbonation was very pleased. As they caught up and introductions were explained, little did they know that the last two armors were choosing their bearers.

In the lands far to the South of Vok city and the Fort, the desert city called Carthac was hosting a meeting of the Illuminati. The two remaining Uzumakis that had been captured during The Purge were being discussed when they began to glow, and then suddenly appeared in armor. The Armor of Torrent and the Armor of Illusion. The men sitting at the table gaped and stared, and then, one and all, began to smile.

PREVIEW OF THE NEXT CHAPTER

The Illuminati is a group that was born in shadows, and it exists in the shadows. It has many resources and it has finally gotten its hands on two of the Ronin Armors. Using the black magic at their control, they trick Naruto and Temari into running head first into a trap set by ninja for ninja. Can Naruto and Temari save the last two Uzumakis, or will the armors be captured by the Illuminati, read next chapter to find out!

AUTHOR'S NOTES

Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, sorry for the long wait, AP tests and all that, so I've been busy, please review!