Another long hiatus, I'm aware. But, time hasn't been well to me lately. But anyway, here's chapter 13 of SWHN.

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Naruto stood calmly in front of Niekirani. Naruto knew the child was a product of his former strength, so the battle wouldn't be as easy as he hoped. Nonetheless, Naruto knew that the power this child had couldn't hold up against his new strength. Naruto calmed his breath and opened his mouth.

"You're Niekirani, right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, I want to let you know, I can tell that you haven't even reached the level I was at before I lost my powers. You'd better let your dad fight this one." Naruto then pulled out a kunai and pointed it at Creo.

"Don't. You. Dare. Underestimate me! Niekirani lost control and dashed forward, using chakra on his feet to enhance his takeoff. The boy used his shape transformation to turn his wind chakra into a dagger and shoved it into Naruto's stomach before he could react.

Naruto looked down at Niekirani from a cliff right above the battleground below him. He also saw that Creo had retreated to a safe distance in the trees. The boy had found out that the Naruto he cut was just a log and was calmly trying to track Naruto.

"Che. He would have a wind affinity, huh? Well, let's see what level he's at as of now. I might have to kill him before he gets to powerful."

Naruto jumped from the cliff and tossed two shuriken at Niekirani, who in turn dodged them out of reflex and whirled around to see Naruto free-falling. He sucked in his breath and released a Wind Style: Great Breakthrough at Naruto. "You're not good enough yet! Naruto yelled as he pulled out a kunai, infused it with wind chakra and sliced through the attack and kept falling towards the boy.

"You aren't as weak as I'd expect, but- Niekirani propelled himself at Naruto and sliced him in half with a wind dagger. The body poofed into nothingness as Niekirani touched the ground again. Naruto ran towards Niekirani with enhanced speed, proven by the sage markings around his eyes. He created a Massive Rasengan and extended it towards Niekirani who took it head on- and ate the chakra. Naruto then followed up with a roundhouse kick which Niekirani ducked under. He didn't know about the properties of sage mode, however.

"Aaah! Niekirani was thrown across the ground and into the water where he pulled himself up to stand on the water and speak. "How did you hit me?"

Naruto looked at Niekirani blankly and explained how sage mode worked and told him that if he lives long enough, he might be able to become a sage as well.

"But kid, the level you're at now is that of the level when I fought Kakuzu. In other words, you won't live past today." Naruto then holds up his index finger and a miniature Rasenshuriken forms at the top if it. "This is it, kid. Catch you later."

"Do you really think I was using the extent of my powers? Let me show you how much more powerful I am! Futon: Kami Oroshi! Niekirani executed the hand seal necessary in less than a second and pushed forward, expelling a tornado of wind from the center of his hands more powerful than an air bullet made by the Shukaku.

Naruto waited to the last moment and used his enhanced reflexes to dodge the attack. He then used his signature move, and created thousands of clones of himself. Each one held a mini-Rasenshuriken in their hands.

"Foolish child! Did you forget I can eat chakra? Those won't even hurt me."

"Well let's put that theory to the test, why don't we?" and each Naruto flicked their index finger forward, shooting the wind shuriken at the child.

Niekirani opened his mouth, ready to absorb the chakra. But when it came into contact with him he instantly started being shredded in multiple places. The boy could do nothing but try to hide as the wind shuriken sliced him relentlessly. When it was over he dropped onto the surface of the water, half sunk.

Creo was watching the fight take place in the forest under some cover. He didn't care how badly the child was beaten, as long as he didn't die. But what he really couldn't comprehend was how Naruto had gotten all of his old strength back, and was even stronger than what he was. Who could've done it? And did he have a new enemy?

Meanwhile, Naruto was beating Niekirani repeatedly with his fists, who was layered in cuts of all sizes. The mini-Raseshuriken didn't cut the boy's body into separate pieces, but the boy was tough. Niekirani dropped to the ground, just barely conscious. He was wheezing and coughing up blood.

"How… how can you be this much more powerful than me? I….I know I was created form your power. If that's the case, *cough* why do you beat me?

Naruto looked at the boy, feeling nothing. He was a ninja, and his job was to protect, so he would kill him. Naruto went from sage mode to nine-tails' chakra mode. Then from there, he used his enhanced nine-tails' chakra mode. He held up his hand and made a Rasenshuriken. He was standing directly over Niekirani, at point blank range. "This…is the end of you!"

In that instant, Creo teleported in-between them and kicked Naruto's wrist, shooting the attack in the air. He grabbed Niekirani and jumped ten yards away from Naruto. "So it's your turn, huh Creo?"

Creo just looked and laughed at Naruto. "Me? Fight you? You're not even in league!" "Big talk for you. But let's see if you can keep up!" Creo didn't even have time to take a breath, blink, etc. before Naruto was right in front of him, smirking. Creo tried to attack him, but Naruto was now behind him, Rasengan in hand. Creo felt the chakra grinding into him and was shot forward until he hit a cliff, imprinting himself in it.

Naruto was now scaling the sheer size of the cliff with tremendous speed. Creo was struggling to comprehend Naruto's level of power, let alone move. Naruto jumped right to where Creo was and got to pummeling him. He then used a chakra arm to toss Creo into the air and then another followed after that with a Rasenshuriken in hand, crashing it into Creo's body.

Creo was sent flying to the ground while constantly being hit by the Rasenshuriken.

Naruto was waiting on the ground patiently when he felt a sinister prescence behind him. "Shit!" Without thinking, he activated Rotura. He turned around to see a chakra arm disintegrating. The chakra arm was like the ones he used to use when he used his nine-tail cloaks. He turned his head and saw Niekirani with his hand out, covered in a red bubbling chakra. Next to the boy was a tall lean man with a black suit on. He had an eye patch on one eye, a oily mustache and his black hair was slicked back. This man was looking at Naruto with a creepy smirk.

"Who the hell are you?" Naruto never got a reply because Niekirani shot at least one hundred chakra arms at Naruto, each with a rasengan in hand.

"No way! His body adapts and evolves to a situation this quickly? And on top of that, these arms have the exact same properties of Nine-Tails chakra, but he doesn't have any bijuu chakra in him." Naruto had no problem evading each attack, but he was just shicked of the boy's responsive system. The new guy had Creo in his arms and had knocked Niekirani unconscious. He then shot a look at Naruto

"This was just a test run on your new powers, but be warned: next time we meet, it'll be a war and we'll fight back. Don't think you're the strongest in the world, because the shadows are the best in the world. Remember who told you this, Caprico. Now farewell, young Namikaze.

A tick mark appeared in a comical fashion on Naruto's forhead. "Do you think I'll just watch you leave? I think not! RAAH!" Naruto used his bijuu transformation to transform into his version of Kurama. The replica produced a tailed beast bomb in less than a second and Naruto created a rasenshuriken. They fired at the same time, hoping to obliterate the Shadow operatives.

Caprico turned around, smiled wickedly and disappeared just as the attacks touched where he would've been. The ground was ripped apart all the way down the middle, effectively splitting the island in half. The giant fissure was being filled up with water at a very slow rate.

Naruto dropped his transformation and dropped to the ground. "It's no use, they got away. Now I need to get to the Leaf to check on everyone." Naruto brushed himself off and walked in the direction of The Land of Fire. On foot. By water.

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So that wraps up chapter 13 of this story. I wanted to give you guys a battle after such a long break from the story. But anyway, review and catch you next time.