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"This is an important mission, team." Yamato only sweat-dropped when the others simply idled around on the ship, bored but careful to stay out of the way of the movie crew.

"Mission?" Sasuke asked with a raised brow. His team never really considered escort duties missions unless they were at least A-rank.

"Yes, this is an important A-rank mission." Sasuke's eyes widened a little at that, looking to his first one-eyed sensei and seeing that he hadn't looked away from his book.

"I don't see how guarding one actress is going to be that difficult." Sai stated with that creepy smile.

"That's not true, Sai." Kakashi finally looked up from his book to look at Sai. "Famous people are often targeted. Furthermore, it's difficult to know who the enemy is. So be extremely careful," he drawled before returning his gaze to his book. Naruto tried to contain his laughter, his face revealing nothing, as he was again constantly amused by the fact that Sasuke, Hinata, and Sai had no idea who they were really guarding.

"Er, Naruto. I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but...shouldn't you be in Konoha...I don't know, doing hokage things?" Hinata asked timidly. Naruto just scoffed.

"Please, A blood clone fixed that easy. All I really do is paperwork and clones can take care of that. If Konoha really needs me then one of the clones was instructed to throw a hiraishin kunai. It'd take quite a large amount of chakra to transport me, but besides having a lot of that, I'm quick to recover. Besides, there was no way that I was going to contend myself with not going on missions anymore. I live for action!" Sasuke scoffed.

"More like you wanted to keep avoiding your public inauguration." Naruto twitched at that and laughed nervously.

"That may have been part of the reason, but hey I kind of needed to get away from Konoha for a little while anyways. A lot has happened in such a short time and I need something not related to what I'm doing to get away for a little bit."

"So you're going on an A-rank mission to relieve stress?" Yamato asked incredulously. Naruto simply shrugged.

"I guess." Sasuke gave his aniue a strange look.

"Most ninja don't go on high ranking missions to 'relieve stress'." Sasuke stated blandly. Naruto shrugged again.

"I never said I was most ninja." The team became distracted when they saw Koyuki begin to act.

"She's an amazing actress..." Hinata murmured in awe at the compelling scene. of course the moment was ruined when she called for them to stop in order to use eye drops so she could cry.

"I would say she is like me, but she has emotions...they are simply all bitter." Team 7 looked at Sai and sweat-dropped.

"What is this?" The director muttered out as he stared at the huge obstacle in their way.

"When I woke up this morning, our path was blocked!" The screenwriter cried out. "What'll we do?" The director only gave a sharp glare at the obstacle.

"This is it! This movie is gonna change everything!"

"Huh?" The screenwriter was obviously lost. The director turned to him sharply, raising a fist.

"Fool! Look at this perfect location!" He motioned to the glacier. "How can we not shoot here?!" He exclaimed.

"Huh? HUH?!"

"When things like this happen, we say 'the Movie God has descended!'" He explained passionately. He pointed grandly at his crew. "Everyone, prepare to disembark!"

"Movies have their own god?" Naruto staged whispered to Sasuke who only gave a noncommittal shrug.

Team 7 immediately leapt into action when an unplanned explosion went off during filming. Kakashi went to stand protectively in front of the client, the director yelling at him.

"What are you doing?!" The director yelled.

"All of you get back!" He barked, ignoring the director.

"Welcome to the Land of Snow." Naruto squinted at the strangely dressed ninja that had popped out of the snow, throwing off a sheet. They wore strange light blue jumpsuits with varying pieces of grey armor, but they all wore the same village headband. Kakashi's eyes widened slightly in recognition.

"You are-" his head jerked to a nearby peak, meeting with the lone figure of a pink haired woman with a strange cap on her head.

"Welcome, Princess Koyuki." Her tone was confident and condescending. "You did bring the Hex Crystal, didn't you?" Kakashi's eyes sharpened at the mention of the crystal. Yamato turned sharply on his heel in time to see a huskier man with dull purple hair come out of the snow, chuckling.

"I've gotta hand it to you, Kakashi Hatake... We couldn't get any closer than this." Naruto scoffed.

"Yeah because he's the one that set up the traps and sensed you first," he muttered.

"Sasuke, Sai, Sakura, get ready to fight. Tenzo, Naruto, protect Yukie." Naruto frowned. "Everyone get back to the ship!" He told the crew.

"I told you to call me Yamato!" Yamato shouted, glaring at his senpai.

"Really? Guard the client? As if one of us wasn't enough?" He complained. Yamato just spared him a short glance.

"Well, you are the hokage...Hokage-sama. We need to protect you as much as we need to protect her." The whiskered blond only rolled his eyes.

"Because I'm the one that needs protecting." Yamato could say nothing more as the enemies continued speaking.

"Fubuki, Mizore...get Princess Koyuki," the one with the high lavender ponytail demanded. Kakashi was quick to engage the apparent leader of the trio. "It's been a while, Kakashi. Not running away? Like last time?" The jonin just glared at the man.

"Nadare Roga." As if that was a signal, the two leapt at each other, going straight into a taijutsu battle. Naruto turned his attention to the husky man as he took out a flat metal object and dropped it, using it to glide quickly towards his waiting opponent who was only smirking in anticipation.

"Does battle excite you, Uchiha?" Sai questioned, standing next to him. "Tell me, in bed are you a sadist or a masochist?" Sasuke flushed in anger at Sai's antagonizing and leapt away to dodge, glaring harshly at his new teammate.

"Unless you want to die with our enemy I suggest you shut the hell up you emotionless prick!" The two again dodged the man as he glided by again, getting a little angered that he was being ignored.

"Is that the best you can come up with dickless?" Was Sai's only reply. Sasuke only growled in anger and frustration throwing a round of kunai at the enemy, only for it to bounce off of some invisible barrier harmlessly. Sai took out a large shuriken and tossed it expertly to follow up, but the weapon shattered on contact with the man's armor.

"Ice style: Tsubame Blizzard!" Naruto's head snapped to the woman Hinata was facing, eyes wide as he saw a move he thought only Haku could do. 'She can't possibly be from the Yuki clan could she? I thought Haku was the last...' Hinata skillfully dodged the flying ice bird projectiles, her byakugan activated as she turned to the returning weapons.

"Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm!" She shouted, a wave of chakra shooting from her palms and destroying the oncoming projectiles. This was followed by an attack from Sasuke on their other opponent.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" His attack seemed to again bounce off some barrier they couldn't see.

"Great job, dickless. Looks like you may have singed his hair a little," Sai patronized with that eerie smile of his. Sasuke practically hissed at him. Naruto turned back to the crew when he heard a gasp of shock.

"Everyone head back to the ship already!" The started and all began running back...except for Koyuki.

"Yukie-san!" Yamato shouted, trying to snap her out of her daze.

"Princess!" Her manager came running back to her. Koyuki turned to him slowly, still looking out of it.

"Sandayu...you...?" She was interrupted when the Hinata's opponent attacked again.

"Ice Prison Jutsu!" Hinata leapt back continuously as mounds of ice erupted from the ground, trying to hit their target.

"Gentle Step: Lion Fist!" Hinata shouted, a single chakra made lion forming around her fist as she lunged at the opponent, only for her to raise a wall of ice effectively blocking the attack...but not completely. Hinata's move proved more powerful than the opponent had thought and had shattered the ice, but by then the lion had dissipated.

"Ninja art: Super Beasts Scroll," Sai intoned as he quickly and skillfully drew a small group of lions on a scroll, sending them off the page to attack their opponent...not that it did much good seeing as the barrier came into effect. Sasuke smirked condescendingly at his teammate.

"Good going, Sai. I think maybe you got some ink on his clothes." Sai just sniffed at the Uchiha.

"Not like you could do any better, dickless." Sasuke's hackles rose and he shot a jet of orange flames at the enemy, using no hand signs and not calling out the name, though it did him little good as it was blocked again by that damned shield protecting him. It was then that Koyuki fell to her knees, making Sandayu fluster about her.

"Princess!" Momentarily distracted by the state of the client, Sai was taken off guard by the opponent who had jumped off his board to attack. Sai dodged the first three strikes but was punched harshly in the gut, grunting in pain as he was tossed back by the stronger-than-it-should-have-been punch, crying out in pain when he was forcefully plowed through hard ice.

"Sai!" The Uchiha shouted, slightly worried about his new teammate...though he'd never admit it. He turned angrily towards the opponent, flashing through hand signs. "Water release: Water Dragon!" Sasuke scowled as he felt the chakra the move depleted from him, scowling further when he remembered how much of a pain it was to learn since the element did not mesh well with his prominent fire affinity, but he smirked in satisfaction when he saw his hard work pay off and blow away the opponent.

Naruto turned to the escaping movie workers, absolutely amazed to see them still filming. He could hear the director barking out an insane order. "Sacrifice your lives and keep on shooting!"

How do they work for this man? Naruto thought.

Sai recovered himself and returned to Sasuke, back to back as they now didn't know where their opponent was. "I wonder if your attack did anything with that strange armor of his."

"That's chakra armor invented specially for the ninja from the Land of Snow." Kakashi explained as he joined them.

"Chakra armor? And what happened to your opponent?" Sasuke questioned his sensei.

"it's far more effective than before," was Kakashi's only response.

"So you remember?" Roga entered their conversation. "This armor increases the chakra within one's own body and strengthens various jutsu. A chakra barrier is created around one's body and deflects your chakra... creating an anti-chakra. Ninjutsu or genjutsu...they're all useless!" Team 7 glared at the smug man. Roga flashed through signals and attacked. "Ice Style: Piercing Dragon, Fierce Tiger!" Kakashi didn't even use hand signs as he called a retaliating move immediately.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Missile!" Kakashi, Sai, and Sasuke had to jump away to dodge the ice tiger when the water dragon was quickly destroyed. The bulky enemy started to slide down to Naruto and the frozen Koyuki, stretching out his arm as if preparing to attack and vaguely reminding Naruto of Zoku's arms from the Chunin exams. Of course instead of sound waves, a bunch of rope shot out like a spider's web to try and catch Koyuki, but of course Naruto was there to cut it before it even reached the princess.

"Get out of the way, you brat!" The bulky man shouted. Naruto was getting excited about the impending clash...only to be disappointed when Yamato got in the way, tackling the man aside and engaging the enemy himself.

"Oh come on! Can't I get in a little fighting?!" Naruto complained aloud as Yamato got to look all cool by stopping the guy's punches casually with his hands, the enemy clearly struggling to even make him budge.

Sasuke was now dodging ice attacks, his ankle finally caught until he was consumed in the ice. The woman smirked, thinking she'd gotten victory, only for her to scowl when Sasuke's image faded into a heater with an explosion tag on it. Two kunai with wires attacked wires flew out from the smoke to wrap around the woman and the iceberg she'd created in front of her. She was flattened face first into the cold block and the fire travelling quickly along the wires promised a painful demise, but she escaped by activating some strange wing-like contraption that was strapped to her back, breaking the wire holding her and allowing her to glide to safety. Sasuke frowned at the figure in the sky, giving her a cold glare.

"Why are you glaring? It's not like she can see you," Sai commented unnecessarily, making Sasuke turn a much fiercer glare at him.

Naruto having had enough of protecting the potato, turned to her. "Yukie-san. Please hurry to the ship. You're an easy target out in the open." He frowned when he noticed her shivering, her eyes showing she was obviously elsewhere. Don't tell me she has some kind of phobia like Baa-san used to...

"Princess!" Sandayuu shouted at her. Naruto knew that getting angry wouldn't help anything, but it did make him feel a little better. He glared at the woman.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and go!" His team was fighting this enemy to protect her and she was making little to no effort to make things easier for her.

"Princess, let's hurry back to the ship." Sandayuu urged her.

"No."

"We must hurry, or your life will be-" Sandayuu attempted again, only to be interrupted.

"I don't care if I die!" She shouted, her eyes wide and wild looking. "I'm not going!" She grabbed her head with both hands, shutting her eyes tightly. "I'm not going to Snow Country!" I growled at her.

"Quit being so selfish!" Naruto shouted at her, walking over to prepare to take her back by force when she suddenly fainted.

"Princess!" Sandayuu shouted in concern. Kakashi noticed and ran over, forgetting his fight.

"I told you that you are my opponent!" Roga yelled. "Ice style: One horned White Whale!" He flashed through hand signs and the ice beneath Kakashi began to crack and shift, a giant horned whale of ice erupting from the ground and breaking off a large chunk of the iceberg they were all on. Kakashi landed safely, much to no one's surprise.

"I see, that's quite a powerful jutsu." Naruto's eyes widened slightly when he noticed Kakashi's sharingan was exposed.

"Well that's not good," he muttered under his breath. "Sasuke, Sai, Hinata, Yamato! Gather everyone and run!" He shouted, knowing what Kakashi was planning. They all nodded and made their way back to the ship while Naruto grabbed the princess and Sandayuu and Kakashi perfectly mimicked Roga's last attack.

"Ice style: One horned White Whale!"

"As usual, you copied it," was Roga's reply. "You can't beat me with the same jutsu." He again produced the same jutsu, not needing to call out the name.

"Beat you?" Kakashi asked casually. "I'm sorry, but I won't meet your expectations." Roga's eyes widened in shock when Kakashi's jutsu shoved his own into the iceberg between the two, causing the entire thing to break and fall apart. Naruto watched from the relative safety of the ship, the waves wild as the sea was disturbed by the large scale battle.

"Cut!" The director somehow shouted over the storm of waves and sound happening at the moment, thrusting his red cone forward in emphasis.

"Wow, we just filmed a great movie..." the script writer murmured to himself, kneeling next to the director and looking between the wooden railing.

Team 7 settled comfortably in a room after they finally reached the harbor, Sandayuu, the director, and the scriptwriter with them.

"Sandayuu-san, you knew about this, right?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes."

"You must have known how she would react if she were to return here."

"This was the only way that I could bring the princess back to this country." Sandayuu told Kakashi solemnly. Sasuke crossed his arms as he leaned back in the chair.

"Sandayuu, why are you speaking as if Yukie is a real princess?" He asked though Naruto was the one who replied.

"She is a real princess." Hinata's eyes widened at that and Sasuke's frown grew more prominent.

"Fujikaze Yukie is a fake name," Kakashi started. "She is really Kazahana Koyuki, the heiress of the Snow Country." Hinata gasped in surprise while Sasuke only scowled.

"The last time I was with her, she was very young." Sandayuu said. "It's not surprising that she does not remember me."

"So you're also from Snow Country?" Hinata asked softly.

"Yes, that's right. I used to serve at the side of this country's previous king, Kazahana Sousetsu-sama. The Snow Country was a small, but peaceful country. Sousetsu-sama loved the princess very much and they lived a very peaceful life."

I don't like where this is going... Naruto thought with a frown. It's always the worst scenarios that start out so peacefully...

"But ten years ago, that incident... Sousetsu-sama's younger brother Dotou hired some ninja, revolted, and took over this country. He burnt the beautiful Kazahana Castle, and we thought that we'd lost the princess." It was then kakashi stepped in to tell them about his mission to save her.

"I couldn't win against them at that time. I had to run away. I had no choice but to run away..."

"I found the princess when she was on stage. I was overjoyed...at how she...how she managed to survive." He started to cry with that joy only for his crying to be interrupted.

"It would have been better if I died." Everyone turned to see Koyuki leaning against the open door. Naruto glared at her while Sandayuu kept crying.

"Please don't say that. To us, the fact that you are still alive is our hope!"

"Even if I am still alive, my heart is already dead." She replied coolly.

What is this pathetic meatbag yammering about. if her heart was dead she wouldn't be standing there! How stupid can your species be sometimes?! Naruto almost fell off his chair at Kurama's sudden commentary.

Er...I think you're missing the point.

"Ever since that incident, my tears have dried up." She finished.

What point? That's she's an angsty, pathetic selfish bitch who's letting hr country fall to ruin because she still hasn't gotten over her daddy's death? At least Sasuke had a drive, to get revenge on the one who killed his family. This bitch has nothing but her own selfishness and self-pity. She's almost worse than that busty fleshbag Tsunade!Kurama ranted, leaving Naruto speechless...in thought.

Sandayuu dried his tears with a cloth. "After the incident, I somehow managed to become Fujikaze Yukie's manager and I waited until I finally got the chance to bring the princess back to this country."

"Eh? So all this time, you were using us?" The scriptwriter shouted.

"No. Well...I apologize for fooling all of you, but this is for the Snow Country." Sandayuu said meekly to them before standing and moving towards Koyuki.

Wow, they should be shocked that a man put his country before showbiz. I mean who in their right mind would want to see their village return to peace?

Sandayuu bowed at Koyuki's feet. "Princess Koyuki! You must overthrow Dotou and be our new queen!" He lowered his head to the floor. "I, Sandayuu, will protect you with my life! So please fight with us!" He pleaded. Naruto's glare intensified at Koyuki's unfazed and apathetic stare, looking down at him as if he were insignificant.

"No." It was an absolute refusal.

Sandayuu looked up in shock. "Huh?"

"Don't joke with me," she said harshly.

"But the people of Snow Country..." She turned her face away from him, her eyes closed.

"That's none of my business. I refuse," she said bluntly.

"Princess..." Sandayuu looked up at her desperately, sadly. Koyuki turned back to glare at him.

"Give it up already! Are you stupid? No matter how hard you try, there is no way you can defeat Dotou!"Naruto had had enough of the crap spouting from this woman's mouth, his hand slamming against the table as he stood.

"Don't say the words 'give up' that easily," the blond hokage said intensely, not needing to shout for his words to be heard, to make an impact. "That old man is risking his life to bring peace back to Snow Country. If you dare mock him, I'll never forgive you." The words were as cold and sharp as steel and deeply worried the rest of his team. The whole point of this mission was to protect Koyuki, if their hokage decided she was unworthy, he had the authority to leave her to rot and as much as they were starting to warm to the idea because of this woman's attitude, she was the only hope Snow Country had. Sasuke was worried too though he knew Naruto wouldn't destroy Snow Country's only hope of peace, he was just worried that Naruto would do more damage to the princess than the enemies would by the end of the mission.

"Naruto-dono..." Sandayuu muttered gratefully. Koyuki only scowled and glared at the whiskered blond.

"Because you wouldn't give up, you'll be able to see a dream." Everyone's attention turned to the director, the tension in the room breaking. "Because you're able to see a dream, the future will come. This is nice. What a perfect theme for the final chapter of The Unlucky Princess."

"D-director...don't tell me that you are going to continue filming..." the screen writer said in disbelief. The director only smiled at the young man.

"I told you that this movie is changing..."

"No way!" The screen writer shouted.

"Think about it. Using a real princess and making it a movie. It's something that happens once in a lifetime."

"Oh, I see. it's going to be a great success and we can film the movie and earn big bucks. if we do this, it's going to be a real hit!" Naruto and the other's sweat-dropped at the interchange of conversation between the director and screen writer.

"Wait a second!" Koyuki tried to interrupt, but the director ignored her, obviously good at it.

"Unfortunately, there is only one option left." Kakashi said, getting in on the conversation. "There isn't a place where you can hide now that Dotou has discovered you. To fight is the only way for you to live."

"Kakashi-sensei," Hinata said softly with respect.

"Then that means the mission will continue," Sai said casually staring at Naruto to see if he would agree. Naruto saw his team's stares and just smiled in defeat, raising his hands as he shrugged.

"I suppose it does. Princess Fuun will go on to Snow Country and defeat the evil commander! That sounds like movie material right?" Naruto said with a goofy grin.

"Don't kid around!" Koyuki shouted angrily. "Reality is different from the movies. There is no such thing as a happy ending anywhere in this world!"

"If you put in the effort, you will be able to pull through!" The director retaliated in a stern voice. Koyuki actually looked a little taken by surprise.

"For such a mission, we should return to the village and get more people." Sasuke frowned at the suggestion, Naruto not that happy with it either since it meant more ninja trying to protect him as much as Koyuki and keep him from fighting.

"That would be a waste of time. We're more than enough for this mission," Sasuke said, not even bothering to look at Kakashi, or even open his eyes.

"You all..." Sandayuu managed to choke out.

"So it's decided." The director said. "The filming will continue!' He said resolutely.

"Let's make it a movie with a happy ending!" The screen writer added enthusiastically.

"Yeah." Naruto agreed, his mood improved, some of his more hyperactive self resurfacing...just a smidgen.

Naruto, Yamato, Kakashi stood with Sandayuu, staring at the mouth of a large, dark cavern entrance, their transportation stopped for a short while.

"At the other side of this large cave, there is a village where our comrades are gathered. After we finish filming here, we are planning to make a formal visit. Everyone is waiting for the princess' arrival, more than you can possibly know."

"Won't they be disappointed then..." Naruto whispered to himself, thinking of how Koyuki would act.

The blond frowned in his seat as he looked outside the window, having a bad feeling about this tunnel. "You can't see the exit," he commented softly.

"Long ago, this place used to be a railway." Naruto tilted his head in confusion at the word, Hinata voicing out his own question.

"Railway?"

"Right now, it's covered by ice, but really the tracks are underneath. They stopped again and exit their transport as soon as they reached the outside.

"Alright! We'll start the filming!" The director shouted, holding his trusty red shouting cone. The screen writer burst out of a different vehicle.

"D-director! Big problem!" He shouted as he ran over the the older man.

"What's the problem this time?" He asked with a frown.

"Yukie ran away again!"

"What?!" The director exclaimed.

"We'll split up to search for her. If you find her, make contact by radio!" Kakashi ordered.

"Understood," the rest of team seven said in unison. splitting up quickly and disappearing in different directions.

Naruto frowned when he found her slightly beaten up and unconscious on the forest floor. "Honestly, how many times do you have to run away before you're satisfied?" He asked her, seeing that she was waking up. She picked herself up slowly. "Everyone is waiting."

The blond hokage was walking through the tunnels with the princess on his back. The trip was silent thus far, but Koyuki quickly changed that.

"Why is it always you who finds me?" She asked softly.

"Because it's my mission," Naruto replied simply. "Even if you don't like it, I will chase you wherever you go. I just know...by your smell." Koyuki was silent at that answer.

Whoa, look at you go Casanova. I thought you weren't interested in relationships right now.Naruto's brow twitched in irritation.

I'm not! And even if I were, I wouldn't exactly be going for a selfish, bitter, suicidal princess!

No need to get your panties in a bunch,Kurama snickered.

I swear to Kami, Kurama- Koyuki interrupted his thoughts.

"Go back. I will just act in front of the camera. I'm not going to do anything else." Naruto didn't pause, only giving a single humorless chuckle. The sound of a whistle erupted in the silence of the cave, completely drowning out his soft footsteps. Naruto stiffened and turned around, not knowing where the source of the sound was coming from. His eyes widened as he looked at the ground and saw iron tracks appearing on the ground, wooden planks coming next. Blue eyes sharpened on the material.

"Chakra..." he muttered to himself. "The small amount of chakra flowing through the rail is melting the ice." When Naruto turned back to where they had come from and saw an oncoming light rounding the bend, he knew nothing good would come of it.

"T-train." Koyuki said. Naruto's brows furrowed.

"Train? What's a train?" Though Naruto was afraid his question would be answered soon. The whiskered blond's eyes narrowed at the giant metal contraption that was moving towards them at fatal speed if he stood still. "Ah...okay, that thing!" He turned around and started to literally run for his life...and Koyuki's.

"We'll be run over!" Koyuki shouted. Way to stay positive.

"We will not!" Naruto shouted firmly back.

"It's impossible!" Naruto growled at that, absolutely loathing those words.

"I will not give up!"

"it's definitely impossible!" She insisted angrily. Naruto turned to glare at her with red eyes, his whiskers slightly thicker and his tone more feral.

"Shut up and be quiet!" He yelled.

"Even if you do this, it's pointless! It's over!" The blond wasn't even surprised when she didn't listen.

"I will not let it end! I will never give up! If you say that you're going to give up, I'll try harder and never give up!" Naruto grit his teeth and growled, channeling chakra carefully into his calves and feet, being careful not to go at a speed too fast for the woman, leaving the train behind and reaching the light at the end of the tunnel in what must have seemed a flash to the princess.

Naruto gave a cocky grin and laughed at Koyuki's expression when he dropped her in the snow, the train rocketing past on the tracks only to quickly screech to a halt. Naruto's laughter stopped abruptly when a voice boomed over from the train.

"It's been a while, Koyuki." Her eyes widened slightly, her brows knit together in worry.

"Kazahana Dotou." Naruto looked to the train to see a man in fancy robes with a device in his hands looking in their direction, the snow ninja Roga at his side.

"So it's been ten years? Now, let me see your face." Naruto frowned at the creepy words and stepped between the two, blocking the man's sight of her. The man's frown deepened at that before both were distracted by the sound and sight of logs crashing into the side of one part of the train. Naruto and Koyuki turned up to see men in armor holding spears standing along the edges of the steep cliff, Sandayuu in the center of them.

"Everyone! Our princess Koyuki is watching!Victory will be ours!"

"Yeah!" They all shouted, their fists raised in the air. Naruto looked at the makeshift little army in worry.

"What?"

"Sandayuu?" Koyuki questioned. Sandayuu unsheathed his blade and held it in the air.

"Kazahana Dotou! Do you know how long we have waited for this day? I am Asabasan Sandayuu, a representative of the 50th Brigade. Now, we will avenge the death Of Kazahana Sousetsu-sama from a decade ago and we will take it out on you!" The other men cheered in agreement, but Dotou seemed entirely unfazed.

"Humph, there are still people like that around?" He questioned lazily.

"My deepest apologies. I will go now and deal with them." Dotou only smiled.

"No. They need to experience something that is absolutely hopeless." The men at the top of the cliff charged, descending from their high perch to attack the train. Koyuki watching in horror as the different train segments opened up to reveal brow after row of endless automatic kunai launchers and slaughtered the army of men that continued to charge, the snow becoming crimson red with their blood and littered with bodies and weapons.

Dotou's only response to the slaughter was a cruel smile.

AN: I'm sorry for not writing in a very long time. The internet box at my house officially died just a few days after my last post and since my family was in the process of looking for a new house to move into, we decided to wait until we moved to get a better internet plan. Of course even after we found a house, my father's reluctance to move has made it so that we haven't moved until my mother put her foot down and said we were going to move in officially tomorrow. Everything's packed and moved over there, all that's left is the beds and stuff. The internet should be set up on either Wednesday or Thursday and it'll take a few days to unpack, but otherwise after that I should be able to write a little more frequently as long as life doesn't get in the way too much. I hope the chapter wasn't too horrible. It's just a lot of canon with barely any differences, but there should be a few changes happening in the next chapter...probably...yeah. As always, please feel free to r&r, they're always appreciated and definitely help motivate me to keep writing. Sorry again for the long unexpected break though. I'll try to update more often...(TT^TT)