Fuyona and his team made their way across the land of water heading towards a ferry that would cross the sea to the land of hot water. Once there they would meet with the hidden stone forces and enter the land of Frost on the border to the land of Lightning. Intel showed that the hidden cloud unit that had stolen the scroll had been tracked to a small stronghold in the land of Frost.

It was believed that the hidden cloud had been trying to steal secret jutsu from all of the other villages and now the Stone had made a deal with the Mist for an alliance.

Fu noticed that the others stayed quiet around him almost like they were a little wary of him. He had gotten used to it now and his age and reputation tended to do this sort of thing.

Suiren still smiled every time Fu looked at her and he made a mental note that he needed to stop. The other two paid him no notice unless it was about the mission but Fu decided to keep to himself rather than try to force a conversation.

Once they docked in the land of hot water Fu gave the order to follow in formation and they set off jumping through the tree at a good speed. The four of them jumped to the ground in a small clearing.

Fu took a good look around, "Stay alert, the cloud aren't far."

Suiren stepped forwards with a confident look in her eyes. "Not to worry, we will have help from the Stone from here on out."

"That may be so but still..." Ganryū said not fully convinced.

"If this mission is a success then it will show true solidarity between the Stone and Mist." She turned on her heels her hair blowing in the gentle breeze of the night. "And that way, we will get just a little closer to peace." She said with a smile.

Junsai smiled and crossed his arms while Ganryū nodded his head also smiling. Fu was impressed, to say the least. Come to think of it, he had never heard anyone speak of peace in such a way. Especially anyone from the blood mist.

She looked into Fuyonas eyes and smiled. "That's my wish. And I hope with all my heart that it will come true one day." Fu could feel the blood rushing to his cheeks and quickly pushed passed the others so he was at the front his back turned to them.

"All right then..." He said clearing his throat. "Let's rendezvous with the Stone." With that said he made a move and the others followed. As they approached the meeting location with the stone they were met by two hidden stone shinobi, they wore the standard red Iwagakure uniform complete with a red hidden stone headband, their uniform has only one sleeve underneath their brown flak jacket, they had red combat trousers on and standard footwear.

"Looks like you guys found us alright." One of them said with his arms crossed. "Follow us." The other said waving his hand. Fu nodded and looked at the others to follow him.

They followed the Iwa ninja and they led them to the rest of their group. "Captain the unit from the mist has arrived." One of them said jesting towards Fu and his team.

The captain of the Iwa ninja was a large man who also wore the standard Iwa uniform, however, he had two short sleeves one on each arm and a pair of fingerless brown gloves on. His hair was short and messy and he had a medium length scruffy beard.

"It's about time." He said looking to Fu and his team. "Which one of you is the leader?" He asked looking at Ganryū. Fu cleared his throat, "That would be me." He said looking up at the large Iwa ninja.

Fu had already scouted out the entire area and counted eleven Iwa shinobi all of which looked to be jounin level. Fu and Ganryū were the only jounin on his squad with the other two only being chunin.

"So you are the leader then eh?" The large man said looking at Fu for only a second before shrugging it off. "My name is Ubukata Shunko and I will be leading this operation, any problems with that?" He said trying to assert his authority right from the start.

Fu could tell Ganryū and the others were watching him to see how he reacted and Fu decided that a small show of force was in order.

"I will be leading my own unit Ubukata if you don't mind." He said letting his aura spread the air becoming colder around them. Ubukata staired into Fuyonas eyes and wasn't sure he liked what he saw. "Very well, it's your call." He said turning on his heels going to attend to other matters.

Fu smiled and let his chakra settle as he turned to his squad, "I won't let anything happen to you." He said with deadly confidence before smiling at them.

They were called over to hear the plan that Ubukata had come up with for the mission and so they gathered around while he explained. "Intel showed that a squad of ten cloud shinobi are camped out at these coordinates. They have been travelling non-stop and our scouts say that they have made camp for the night. Now is the perfect chance to strike. Fu." He said looking at his unit.

"You and your squad will take out the four guards who are on watch, once you have taken them I and my men will launch a silent assault taking the rest out and retrieving the scrolls." Fu nodded in agreement but didn't like the part about the stone getting the mists scroll. He wouldn't let that happen.

"Alright then men, time to move out." He said with a wave of his hand. Everyone stood up ready for the mission at hand and followed Ubukata to the mission start point.

They arrived hiding in the trees scoping the area out where they could see the hidden cloud forces camped out in an old stable with half of its roof missing.

Just like Ubukata had said there were four sentries keeping watch while the others rested inside the stable. Fu looked over to Ubukata and he gave him the signal to begin.

Fu looked to his team and pointed two of his fingers giving them the signal to move. They each nodded and headed for their intended target moving silently in the shadows.

Ganryū drew his large sword and jumped high into the air piercing the hidden cloud shinobi through his entire body killing him in an instant. Suiren was quicker than Fu expected and dashed behind her targets back slitting his throat leaving no trace anything had even happened.

Junsai took his target in a sleeper hold and broke their neck placing the body on the ground softly taking a crouching position behind the wall. The Iwa ninja was moving in now ready to sweep their remaining forces in one.

There was only one sentry left and out of nowhere, he had decided to turn around yawning of all things, to his sudden terror at seeing enemy forces moving out of the shadows upon him and his teammates like demons in the night he was about to let out a scream.

But nothing came out of his mouth, instead, he looked down and noticed blood flowing freely from his neck before he fell to the ground dead. Fu had slit his throat with excellent speed surprising everyone who witnessed it.

Now all that was left was to finish the other units off. "But first I have to find the scroll." Fu thought to himself as he peeked inside the window of the stable.

He could see six sleeping figures and made the hand signals to Ubukata letting him know. He nodded and gave the order his men quickly rushing in stabbing each of the cloud shinobi who were sleeping. It was a slaughter and none of them stood a chance at such a well-organized ambush. They were all dead and the Iwa ninja had already started searching them for the scrolls.

"Over here captain one of the Iwa ninja shouted and he pulled a scroll from one of the bodies. Fu noticed it wasn't the scroll for the mist and he started looking around himself before he noticed a bag hidden under some straw. He pulled the bag out and inside was the mist scroll along with other equipment. Fu slipped the scroll into his weapons holder around his hip and nodded to the others.

"I've recovered the scroll." He said with a small smile. Ubukata nodded and gave the word. "Mission complete men, return to camp." He led his men back to where they had made camp and where Fu and his team had first met them. It was on a large cliff face overlooking a river and hidden by a good tree line.

Once everyone arrived back Ubukata gathered everyone around and gave praise at how smoothly the mission had gone. He walked over to Fuyona and extended his hand to shake it. "Here is to the alliance between the Stone and the Mist." He said a smile on his face.

Fu looked to his teammates and then back to Ubukata. "To our alliance." He said taking his hand and shaking it. To Suirens horror Ubukata suddenly lashed out slashing Fuyona across the throat with a kunai. Suiren screamed and Ganryū and Junsai suddenly jumped back on the defensive.

Fuyonas body fell to the ground but to Ubukata's and his men's surprise, his body turned to ice. "A clone?!" Ubukata shouted confused, "But when?"

Suiren was also surprised and was suddenly pulled to safety by Ganryū "Watch out its gonna blow!" He said as he grabbed her pulling her behind a large rock for cover.

The ice clone exploded sending razor-sharp icicles scattering in every direction taking out a small few who had not been expecting it. Ubukata had managed to avoid the counter-attack and signalled for his men to attack the mist shinobi.

The Iwa ninja charged in ready to use their numbers to overwhelm Fu's squad. Ganryū drew his sword and charged in ready for battle, "Stay back Suiren!" He shouted as he clashed with one of the Iwa ninjas. Junsai also charged in exchanging in a taijutsu match with one of the Iwa men but he was quickly pressed back as he was attacked from both sides. He blocked the punch and slipped another but a roundhouse landed to his leg from the left and then another hit him to the body from the right sending him crashing to the ground hard.

One of the Iwa was about to finish him and the other two charged at Suiren drawing kunai ready for the kill. She pulled her own out but things weren't looking good.

Suddenly the two men that were charging

towards Suirne were riddled by holes and they fell to the floor dead. Fu appeared blocking the finishing blow that was intended for Junsai with his hand. The Iwa ninja was taken back but tried to counter-attack with his free hand, Fu swiped his arm so fast that the Iwa ninja didn't even see the attack and instead dropped to the floor dead.

Ganryū noticed what had happened and pushed his opponent away quickly retreating back to Fu's side. "Nice of you to join us captain." He said. Fu smiled, "I had a bad feeling about these guys from the start." Ubukata was outraged at the loss of five of his men in an instant and extended his arm to Fu.

"Give us the scroll and I will let your teammates live." He said clearly enraged. Fu spat on the ground, "Just one question. Why betray us?" It was silent for a moment before Ubukata spoke.

"Orders from above, you know the drill." He said bluntly.

"I thought the stone wanted an alliance with the mist?!" Suiren shouted clearly upset. "This was our chance at creating peace between our nations, why would you do this?"

"The stone cant be trusted Suirne!" Ganryū shouted as he tightened his grip around his swords handle. Suiren shuck her head. "No... I know that one day we will achieve peace."

"Be quiet little girl!" Ubukata shouted as he made his hand signs extremely quickly. "Earth style landslide jutsu!" He shouted as he slammed his hands onto the ground.

The edge of the cliff that Suiren was stood on started shaking and suddenly collapsed as the earth beneath it gave way. "Suiren!" Ganryū shouted reaching a hand for her but to no avail.

Suiren screamed as she started falling knowing that she wouldn't survive the fall. Fu quickly darted through the air catching her. "Hold on!" He shouted as he made a few quick hand signs as he grabbed her around her waist free falling.

An ice mirror formed in the air where they were falling and the next thing Suiren knew they were back on the cliff she had just fallen from as they slipped out of a second mirror.

"What in the... Attack men!" Ubukata shouted pissed that his plan had failed. Fu placed Suiren down and turned to face the enemy. "take care of Junsai!" He said as he moved so fast it looked like he disappeared.

Ganryū exchanged blows with two of the Iwa ninja and sliced one of them down the chest landing a massive blow. The other one was able to land a punch to his face stunning him and went for the killing blow slashing at his throat.

Ganryū managed to dodge the attack at the last moment and the two of them clashed in a flurry of blades. Fu charged at three of the Iwa forces that stood between him and Ubukata, each of them had their kunai drawn and two of them tried to flank Fu on either side.

"I don't have time for this!" Fu shouted as he extended his arms, bones springing out of his body impaling two of the Iwa ninja killing them on the spot.

The last one was so scared of how Fu looked that he almost fell to the ground from his legs shaking so much. Fu had allowed his bones to grow all over and sprouted two horns on his head for effect. His chakra turned the air around him cold and his form became demonic.

"I-I...It's him!" The Iwa ninja shouted. He quickly scrambled and started to run away but before he could even reach the tree line Ubukata smashed him into the ground killing him in one blow.

He stood slowly and look at Fuyona, "So you are the Ice devil of the blood mist... I'm surprised I didn't recognize you earlier. After all your picture is in the bingo book." He said cracking his knuckles. "And to think your just a brat. If I take you down my name will become famous!"

Fu looked over to Ganryū who had just finished off the last Iwa ninja leaving just Ubukata. Fu turned his head slightly to look at Suiren and the look on her face was what he expected.

"Time to finish the lot of you!" Ubukata shouted as he hit the ground with both of his hands. "Earth style, massive shockwave jutsu!" He shouted as the earth all around them crumbled as if it had just been hit by a massive earthquake.

Suiren was nocked flying along with Junsai but there was nothing Fu could do to help them as huge chunks of rocks were flying at him from all over and it took all his focus to dodge them.

Ganryū appeared behind Ubukata his sword raised for an attack, Ubukata was able to avoid it and stepped on the back of Ganryū's blade snapping it in two, quickly he spun around slamming a spinning back kick into Ganryū but he was able to block it at the last second.

Ubukata sidestepped and smashed his fist into Ganryū's liver knocking the wind out of him bringing his guard down. "Eat this!" He shouted as he jumped back making hand signs, the rocks around Ganryū suddenly smashing into his body from all side doing heavy damage.

Fu had recovered and quickly pressed the attack to Ubukata spinning and flipping using his body as a weapon. Ubukata jumped backwards trying to use the same jutsu that he had just used on Ganryū but Fu was to fast.

Quickly using wind style enhanced chakra on his feet he was able to increase his speed darting out of the way. Forming hand signs he let lose a water style hitting Ubukata and slamming him against a rock leaving him a winded.

"Why you whelp!" He shouted. Fu swiped his hand firing his bone fingertips into the ground, he had enhanced them with lightning style chakra and when they hit the water Ubukata was electrocuted letting out a scream of pain before he fell to his knees smoke rasing off his body.

Fu walked over to him and cupped his chin in his hands. "You will take this message back to your superiors for me. Tell them that the mist rejects the stones alliance." He let go of his chin dropping him to the floor and took the other scroll from his pocket placing it in his own.

Fu knocked Ubukata out with a quick chop to the neck and allowed his bones to retract into his skin. He walked over to Ganryū who was pretty badly hurt and helped him up carrying him over to the others who were also in bad shape.

"Are you alright Suiren? Fu asked as he put Ganryū down next to Junsai who was also unconscious. She nodded rather quickly and then looked at the floor feeling a little awkward. Fu was used to it as his abilities often received this effect.

"You saved me... You saved us." She said softly looking back up at Fuyona, He looked into her eyes and smiled. "I don't ever want to see my comrades die again. And I will do anything to protect them."

Suiren stared at him mesmerized by his words. Fu stood up and looked at the damaged terrain. "We should get out of here as soon as we can, more enemies could show up at any time." He said checking the area out.

Suiren snapped out of her trance and nodded, "Y-Yes captain your right." After a little while, Jansai woke up and he along with Fu was able to carry Ganryū back to the dock where their ship was. As they sailed across the misty sea Junsai asked Suiren what had happened after he had been knocked out.

Suiren told him the details of how Fuyona saved them and killed the enemy Iwa shinobi. Junsai was impressed, to say the least. "Well I guess now I know why they call him that."

Once they arrived back to the land of water Ganryū had woken up but still needed help, Fu and Junsai got him to the hospital once arriving back at the village and Fu and the others reported to the Mizukages office.

Once inside Fu handed over the scroll and reported the details of the mission. Yagura was clearly angry at the betrayal of the hidden stone but then waved it off as Fu's team had suffered no loses.

"i knew I could count on you Fuyona." He said placing his hands on his desk. "Leave this matter to me, I'm sure the Tsuchikage won't be pleased that his men were wiped out so easily. That old fool." He said with a sigh.

"You are dismissed. Fu, you are to report to me tomorrow, As for you two you are dismissed, report to your unit commander." They all bowed and left the Mizukages office together.

Once outside Fu decided it was time to bid the others farewell. Suiren stepped up to him grabbing his hand in hers. "Please captain Yuki, I want you to have this." She said as she placed her green bangle around his wrist. "Please accept this gift for saving our lives." She said as she kissed him on the cheek.

This time Fu's cheeks went red for sure and he looked very surprised. Suiren walked away with a smile on her face and waved goodbye, Junsai bowed his head in respect and also bid him farewell following after her.

Fu placed his hand on his cheek and then watched as the two of them walked off into the village disappearing into the ever-present mist for which it was named.

Fu suddenly felt a heavy presence from behind him and turned to face who was giving it off. It was Zabuza, Fu couldn't remember the last time he had seen him and he looked very similar to how he looked in the anime just younger.

"Well, well if it isn't the ice devil of the mist," Zabuza said almost like he was teasing him. Fu gave a small laugh.

"It's been a while Zabuza, the demon of the mist," Fu said looking into his eyes. "I heard you had a scuffle with the leaf Zabuza, apparently that's what everyone is calling you now." Zabuza scoffed and barged past him his hands in his pockets, "Don't go getting soft on me Yuki." He said as he too vanished into the mist leaving Fuyona alone.

Fu pulled out the scroll he had taken off of Ubukata's body after he knocked him out, opening it up and reading it Fu could see that it was a scroll containing information on sealing jutsu also known as Fūinjutsu.

"Well, this could certainly come in handy." He said as he resealed the scroll and made his way back home."