A/N

So... I'm back?

I'm pretty out of practice when it comes to writing so sorry about the state of this chapter. I'll try to improve again.

As for where I've been that's kinda personal so I'd prefer to not stuff it in here. I'll offer an explaination if anyone is actually curious.
Just keep in mind it's drama/mental health stuff.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything...

Ok well enjoy.

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Have you ever woken up and felt like way more time passed than what actually did? Like you'd been asleep for years when it only felt like a few measly hours? That's how Naruto felt as he woke up in his usual fashion. Covered in a cold sweat and mid-panic attack.

'Man, and here I thought that was stopping.' Thought the young Magus solemnly as he calmed his racing heart. Well at least we would get the chance to get some fresh air today. Heinkel, Alexis and Yumie had all decided they needed to go take a better look around the island and Kakashi was taking Sasuke to the bridge which left himself, Haku, Tsunami and Inari at the house.

So it was with some slight strain from his tense body that Naruto got up and dressed himself. It was a lot harder than one might think due to his bandage covered arm. The appendage itself being wrapped from the second knuckles of his fingers up to his shoulder and torso. A wince flashed across his face as he tried to lift the arm into the ruined sleeve of his coat before giving up and just leaving the mostly open coat as a makeshift sling. "Still tender." Naruto muttered when he glanced at the limb.

He'd seen the damage the attack had caused and while it was healing nicely there was no doubt about the ugly scar that was going to be left in it's place. But it was better than the open, festering wound it had been two days ago when Haku had changed the bandages.

With a one shoulder shrug, Naruto exited the room he was staying in and walked down the hall to the kitchen, dinning room area that served as the main room of the house. Inari was up in his room and Tsunami stood in the kitchen boiling some tea. "Ah Naruto. Is it ok for you to be up and about like this?" The woman asked with surprise than concern as she glanced at the limp hand hanging from his open coat.

Naruto for his part just gave the worried woman a smile. "Yeah, it's still tender but it's healing up fine. Say, do you have any idea where Haku is?" He replied with his tone turning towards confusion after not noticing the ice user anywhere nearby. "Oh She said something about needing to restock some of the more delicate herbs she uses in her medicine." The daughter of the bridge builder replied.

Naruto simply gave a nod to that. "Well I'm just going to be outside for some fresh air. I'll make sure not to stray too far from the house." He said with a dismissive wave at her impending protest. It seemed to set her mind at ease somewhat and Naruto simply wandered out the door before inhaling deeply. "Haaah. That's nice. The air inside was going stale." He spoke to no one in particular.

It was then with a slight bit of effort that the once Blonde found his way up to the roof of the house. Settling into a nice position laying on it's slanted roof. He simply stared at the sky and the passing clouds for a while before removing his ever present copy of Loveless.

Naruto'd probably read it cover to cover more times that any person would really need to and when he got back to the Hellsing manor he'd need to find some new reading material but for now it'd serve his purpose and so for the next half hour or so he simply rested on the roof in the cool, salty air of Wave and read the same lines he'd read over and over. Occasionally willing his magic through his arm to see if there was any problem of that front. Thankfully not.

So it was almost an hour later that Naruto picked up on sounds coming from the opposite side of the house. Stashing his reading material and summoning Crimson Wing, the Young Magus crawled carefully over the tiles on the roof and peeked over to see what the sounds were.

"So what're we here for again Zori?" asked the taller of the two figures. A large burly man with an eye patch and a bared chest that just screamed 'Yakuza'. "I already told ya' Waraji! The boss wants the girl and her kid for leverage." Came the reply of when Naruto assumed was Zori. The man looked a lot younger and had a 'delinquent' appearance to him. However the only real thing they both shared that Naruto took note of were the katana strapped to both their waists.

That was all Naruto needed to know these two were trouble. So with more grace than one would expect, he leaped from the roof and landed in front of the two. "huh? Who the hell're you kid?" Asked Waraji. No response came from Naruto. "Wait, the arm. Isn't that the kid Zabuza crippled before he up and outted?" Zori pointed out.

It was then Waraji let out boisterous laughter. "They left a crippled kid to protect the builders daughter! Oh that's hilarious!" He roared before quickly unsheathing his blade to stop the sheathe that'd been launched at him. "Hey kid that's not funny! You could hur-" He was cut off by the flash of the sheathe being dispelled. "Damn it!" He shouted as he rubbed at his one eye.

Zori on the other hand had been far enough away and wary enough of the kid that he'd seen the sheathe and looked at the kid in the flash which had saved his life as he barely blocked the blood colored blade swinging for his neck. 'Kids tricky and fast.' He sneered before swinging back causing Naruto to have ot back up.

Waraji finally rubbed the spots out of his eyes and glared at Naruto menacingly. "I was gonna leave you alone kid but now I'm mad! Zori let's thrash the brat!" He shouted before rushing in with all the grace of a stampeding rhino. "Don't have to tell me twice." zori grinned maliciously before shadowing his larger in.

The two Rogue Samurai were surprisingly good when attacking in tandem. Waraji's style was wild, explosive and heavy while Zori was precise, controlled and quick. It seemed Waraji was supposed to distract the enemy while Zori took them down. So for Naruto who was a one handed swordsman there was no chance he could block Waraji's attacks. He ended up blocking the lighter but quicker hits of the beanie wearing Zori and dodging the Larger attacks of the Bare chested Waraji.

"Heh! Kids got some fight in him!" Came the gruff mans shout. He seemed to almost be enjoying this. "Come on, just hold him still already! We need to finish up here before the attack at the bridge starts!" Zori demanded of his partner.

That last part caught Naruto's attention. 'Attack on the bridge? Damn! I need to stop playing with these two.' He thought and with that his whole demeanor shifted. No longer did Naruto seem to be on the back foot. He shirked off his coat to let his Bandaged arm out and a sense of seriousness seemed to fall over the clearing. "I wish I could play around with you two more. But now I have a reason to kill you. So drop dead." His voice so cold it could freeze fire.

The two were surprised by the sudden change in attitude and were even more so when the brat appeared in front of Waraji low and inside his guard with a palm on his stomach. "Get blown away!" And with that shout a fireball quickly spawned in his hand and erupted outwards, sending the once Samurai now cadaver rag dolling across the clearing with a meaty hole in it's stomach.

Another second and Naruto's blade made contact with the beanie wearing thugs temple. Cleaving through his eyes and out the other side. "Haku!" Naruto called out into the forest having a feeling the older girl was watching and his hunch proved right as she appeared in a swirl of water. "Haku I'm heading to the bridge to help out. Take care of Tazuna's daughter and his Grandson!" He subconsciously ordered and without even needing to see the nod or hear the 'Yes Master.' he took off like a bat out of hell.

The sight Naruto came upon was of the bridge being swarmed from the far shore by bandits, thugs, vagabond and cut purse. Hired muscle of all shapes, sizes and colors. Wielding weapons even more diverse than their wielders.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem for a Ninja of Kakashi's level but with having to watch out for the builders and the Uchiha who looked worse for ware. Well you get the idea. It was with these observations that Naruto rushed along the bridge to help out.

"Naruto? What're you doing here?" Kakashi asked as he noticed the distinctive crimson of his oher pupil twirling and whipping about their enemies. Trying to take some of the stress off of Sasuke who had been having a hard time of it.

"A pair of goons showed at Tazuna's looking to make off with Tsunami. When they mentioned an attack on the bridge I left Haku to take care of the house and came as soon as possible!" The Genin shouted over the sounds of battle towards his teacher. That seemed to satisfy Kakashi as they went quiet again and focused on making sure none of the seemingly endless waves of thugs got through to the builders who behind them. Most of which seemed to have been injured in one way or another.

"where the hell are the three that normally hang off your tail, loser! At least they'd be able to actually DO something!" Sasuke snarled at his 'teammate'. Needless to say that comment wasn't well received.

"Drop dead Sasuke! They'll be here when they can!" Naruto roared back as he continued to slash and hack at the wall of bandits. These guys were literally trampling their fallen comrades. Gato must have thrown some serious money around to cause this kind of fervor.

Naruto quickly skipped back and ran a hand down the blade of Crimson Wing, igniting the runes along the flat of the blade and infusing it with his mana. Just as quickly as before he ran back in and continued the massacre, his magically infused blade now cleaving flesh and bone like butter.

KRA-BOOM!

The entire bridge shook as something seemed to impact against one of the bridges supports. A quick glance made it apparent. A large boat sat in the water a ways away from the bridge itself and a large cannon seemed to make up the frontal portion of the vessel and upon even closer inspection Naruto caught sight of a diminutive man standing in a pin strip suit wearing a self satisfied grin as he watched the crew scurry around to load the cannon.

Naruto knew who this was on instinct. The cause of the problem. His arm throbbed as he looked at this man and his vision flashed red. "Gato!" He howled as he lashed out at the nearest bandit. bisecting him from shoulder to hip.

"Kakashi, Gato's here! He's got a cannon on a ship in the water, he's trying to take out the supports!" Naruto relayed to Kakashi who was further from the edge being in the center of the bridge and taking the brunt of the bandits.

"Damn! We need to take that cannon out of this whole bridge is coming down! I can't use any of my more powerful Jutsu without putting the builders at risk!" kakashi replied. This situation was going from worse to shit.

"How the hell are we going to get someone over there? It'll have to be me or Sasuke." Naruto decided. Kakashi was too integral to the defense of the Builders.

"A way over you say? What d'ya reckon Heinkel? 300-400 meters?" Came the accented voice of Alexis who was cheery faced as usual. "543.21 meters." Replied the other blonde of Iscariot.

"Alright I can do it easy. Yumie take over for the master. Heinkel take over for the brat. He looks about ready to pass out. Master, C'mere. I got your ticket onto that boat!" She announced with cheer before hunching down and locking her hands together in a foot hold.

Naruto knew where this was going and grinned. "Alright! Here we go!" He shouted before getting a run up and leaping, landing both feet in Alexis hands before the tall ex-holy woman heaved her master with all of her considerable strength.

'This must be what it's like to be a bird.' Naruto though absently as he sailed through the air. That is until he reach the apex of his flight and started the rapid plummet. Idly he noticed that he would land almost directly in front of where Gato once stood and was now retreating from.

It was with a thunderous crack and the splintering of the admittedly sturdy deck that Naruto landed having pumped a considerable amount of Mana into his lower body to not smear himself on the deck.

The impact itself managed to rock the boat enough to cause some of the crew to stumble before finding their legs again and charging the boarding party with weapon drawn.

One thing Naruto immediately took advantage of was the fact that on the bridge he couldn't really use his destructive fireballs for fear of damaging the bridge. On the boat that wasn't a problem.

So it was in a wicked dance of blade and bomb that Naruto all but danced about the deck. killing the crew and blowing up anything that looked useful. It felt like an eternity to the ecsatic red head but in reality was mere minutes before the crew had been reduced to Gato and two of his thugs.

Now Naruto stood. Only two people between him and the little bastard. "Well here we are. The final confrontation. Is there were you reveal your secret weapon?" naruto asked as his grin grew. He was having too much fun.

"K-kill this brat! Kill him and I'll make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!" The vertically challenged Tyrant shouted at the two flunkies who remained. The promise of riches like that seemed to take their sensibility out of the action as they charged the crimson man before them. It was two simple sword swipes that saw them join the rest of their brethren on the floor.

It was at this point that Gato fell back and started crawling backwards. He was clearly afraid. "Is this really it?" Naruto asked as he looked down upon this supposed monster. "You're nothing. No strength of your own." He answer himself as he stalked towards the cowering man. "I don't even know if I could play a game with you. You're already so afraid." With that Naruto looked around the deck.

"Haaah. Ah well nothing I can do I guess." He muttered before dispelling Crimson wing and wandering off in the direction he was looking. "Y-you're gonna let me live? Just like that?" Gato asked with hope in his voice.

Naruto for his part looked back at the man once he'd gotten where he wanted. "What the hell're you talking about?" He said as he reached down and grabbed the coil of rope on the deck. "I'm just making sure the captain goes down with the ship." He purred maliciously while he pulled a section of rope taught and cackled in glee as Gato seemed to go through all new kinds of fear.

"Please! Don't do this! I'll give you money! Women! Power! Anything!" He screamed as Naruto dragged him by the collar of the tacky suit he wore. "I only wanted the bridge builder! I didn't mean for you to get involved!" Naruto was now tying him to the cannon that was mounted to the deck.

"I bet you didn't mean a lot of things you've said or done. I bet you don't even mean what you're saying now." He was enjoying this waaay too much. "But in the end words can only mean so much." Naruto gave the man a mocking smack on the shoulder. " It's your actions that really define who you are." He said with a salute before walking up to the edge of the boat and throwing a fireball in the general direction of a pile of gunpowder barrels on the deck. "Toodle-loo!" He finished with a mocking wave and fell backwards over the deck to the waters below.

With the assistance of Heinkel, Yumie and Alexis. The bandits were a lot easier to fight. Heinkel using her dual trench knives to slash throats and cut arteries. It was like a terrifying dance. One that twisted and turned as the lit cigarette in her mouth left a luminescent trail. Yumie would simply swipe her own blade and easily cleave through two, sometimes three different people. Often cutting the same targets multiple times to leave them as mere chunks on the floor. Alexis was constantly swapping between throwing entire fist fulls of bayonets at a time and dual wielding the unorthodox blades to cut a swathe of carnage through the mob. uncaring of any damage inflicted on her as the tendrils that made up her musculature would come to life as thorny vines and shred people to ribbons before reforming and healing. Eventually Kakashi thought it would be better for him to simply step back. He needed to keep an eye on Sasuke who was downed anyway.

So it was this dance of death and gore that ended the seemingly endless legion of bandits that was now barely a trickle. The last few making a futile attempt to run. Only to receive a bayonet to the back of the skull for their effort.

Moments passed between the final bandit falling and the boat that sat out in the water's rear going up in a great fire ball. The builders stood transfixed by the flames that danced on the boat as the ship slowly sunk into the admittedly deep channel the bridge spanned. None were sure how long they stood there but it was the sound of wet foot falls that alerted all of them to the approach of a thoroughly drenched Naruto.

Even Naruto was hypnotized by the sinking vessel as he too wouldn't take his eyes off the sight while he walked along the cobbles of the bridge. When the red head was finally in range of the group he let out a satisfied sound. "Haaah, That was really cathartic. I needed tha-aachooo!" The statement being ended with a rather loud sneeze. "So maybe jumping off the boat wasn't my best idea?" He said with a sheepish rub of the back of his head.

Alexis finally let out the laughter she'd been holding in, Heinkel could only shake her head and grin at her Master showing his age and Yumie quickly hurried over to himacting more like Yumiko did and tried to warm the boy as he shivered in the cold air. Kakashi could only smile as the son of his teacher was doted upon by the nun as he laughed along with Alexis and now even a slightly chuckling Heinkel. Sasuke was out cold on the bridge. He'd dropped moment after Naruto was launched due to exhaustion.

"Well, I think we should all head back for today. Let the wounded heal and all that!" Tazuna declared. So it was with the orders of a bridge builder that the group assisted the injured builders back to the town proper. that night there was celebration in Wave. Gato's Estate was quickly raided by the people for all it was worth and was left a husk though some did note that objects seemed to be missing already they assumed that it must have been remnants of Gato's thugs taking what they could.

It would be two days later that the bridge was completed and the group consisting of Team 7 minus 1 and Iscariot plus 1 left the wave with promises to visit again and started on the journey back to Konoha. Back to Hellsing. Back to home.

END!