Tenkūgakure no Sato (天空隠れの里, "Village Hidden in the Heavens")
Under the cover of the darkness of night, hidden even by the clouds blocking the stars of the black sky, barely a breeze would emerge as figures moved at inhuman speeds. As a matter of fact, they barely even touched the very tip of the tree lines themselves. The small group consisted of three kunoichi and one shinobi. They were following a second shinobi who apparently was their team leader.
The clothes he wore were certainly strange, and also the uniform part of his attire gave off that militaristic flair. The uniform would be dark purple in color, with a white undershirt. The uniform jacket was a buttoned up attire, with white trim and what looks like a gold chain hooked to the left end of the collar button down across the chest to a right lower pocket. The cuffs are double-folded, and fastened with a triple button set, gold in color. He also wears other attire such as a long black overcoat which is fastened by the collar to a short silver chain, and his hands are clad in white formal-wear gloves. Included with the uniform is a side skirt wrap (dark purple like the jacket, with white trims) like a coattail, which is fastened by a black silver bolt-studded belt, and dark blue pants with expanded pant legs from the knees down. The boots he wore is also dark in color fastened by a triple buckle clasp, with plated metal shielding the ankles and the toes plated bronze gold at a sharpened point.
Worn around his forehead was his hitai-ate with the plate etched with the kanji for Heaven. The plate was stamped to a long length of purple cloth. He is armed with a long blade-styled cutlass with a smaller hooked back edge. The pommel was oval-shaped, gold and silver in color, and the handle was designed for a two-handed wielder, the base wrapped in dark leather taping, with a squared bronze cap on the bottom end. The blade itself is somehow mysteriously clipped to the back of his coat, the handle sticking over the right shoulder. And over the right breast of the coat was a pocket pouch that can seal four scrolls in one.
"Daisuke-taichō, how far until we reach their border?"
"Not long, Neru-san," Daisuke responded.
Neru was one of the three kunoichi on the team, with sun-kissed yellow hair. She had a style of pulling most of her long hair off to the left side of her head, held fastened by a metal ringed scrunchy complete with two medium-sized dark red beads. The rest of her hair was at a wind-swept style going right, a few cowlicks draping the right side of her face, and partially covering her right eye (her eyes were a brilliant shade of yellow). The clothes she wore were deemed sexy by many, especially to Daisuke, and she had a fetish for fishnet clothes; her t-shirt, her pants, the stocking on her arms, all made of breathable almost skin-tight fishnet material. She wore a long battle fuku, dark yellow with sided metal gray plates, and her boots went to her knees, which have attached oval guards with cleats on the soles of the boots. She wore a small black with yellow-trim vest that only covered her breasts but left her slim stomach exposed. Strapped to her thighs were her ninja pouches containing a sealed equipment of kunai, shuriken, and hooked to her hitai-ate belt on her right hip is a retracted fuuma shuriken.
"Don't forget why we are heading to Konoha, everyone," Daisuke reminded his team.
The second kunoichi, whose name was Koori Yumika, also wore the same vest and battle skirt; however she wore cargo shorts, and men's boots with steel toe caps. Her hands are covered with fingerless bracers, arms up to the elbows are wrapped in tape, and she had medium-cut ahoge-styled teal hair, and cerulean eyes. The short was short-sleeved on the right, but elbow-length on the left, camouflage gray colors. The third kunoichi, Mazaki Yugi, wore cargo pants and a utility belt with three ninja pouches attached, and a longer thicker vest, no battle skirt. She wore open-toed black sandals, had her hitai-ate plate stamped to the right shoulder pad attached to her vest, and had the same symbol displayed on the back of her vest. She was completely shirtless underneath the vest. Her eyes were dark, as was her hair tied to a mid-length ponytail. She however had red-tinted fringes framing the sides of her face like sharp hooks.
"We are to infiltrate, and make leave with Uzumaki-sama's grandchild," was the response of Daisuke's best friend, Ryuu Tsukasa.
Tsukasa had snow-white hair, long in length, with parting fringes that show off his chocolate brown eyes. He wore a similar jacket that Daisuke wore; only his was dark blue instead of purple, and had no sleeves, revealing the fishnet sleeves of his undershirt. The pants he wore were black, and unlike Daisuke, he did not wear the short skirt wrap. The boots remained the same however. The glove she wore had gray plates sewn to them, each showing the symbol of heaven on them. His hitai-ate was worn as a belt, only styled into that of a ninja's utility belt.
In half an hour of travel entering the borders of Hi no Kuni, and a thirty minute break, they stopped when they reached the outskirts of Konoha, but outside their defenses.
"Tsukasa, do you have the scroll with the head of the Konoha Nukenin we killed?"
The white-haired teen pulled out the scroll from his left pouch.
"Check."
He smiles towards his friend, and gazes at the girls. "Yugi, Yumika, Neru, remember your roles."
"Hai," they reply with nods.
With a firm nod in return, he gets up. After the team seals fake plates over their hitai-ates (thus allying them with the Hidden Moon Village) they walk off, ready to start their covert black-ops mission.
The two Konoha-nin at the front gates looked up.
"Halt. Present your passports and I.D."
Daisuke and the others do so, taking out their passports and I.D. created just for this mission.
"We're here because we ran into a Nuke-nin from your village. Listed in the Bingo Book at page 13," Daisuke told the ninja, "my friend, Tsukasa-kun, has his head sealed in a scroll."
The second ninja meanwhile was looking into his Bingo Book, as ANBU hidden in the shadows watched intently.
"Ah, I see. Thank Kami. This man was a child molester... and he molested and raped the Fire Daimyo's daughter one time. The Daimyo would also be pleased to know the man's death is confirmed."
"Your Passports and I.D.s are confirmed. One of our ANBU escorts shall take you to the office for the payment of the bounty."
"Arigato, Konoha-nin. Is there also a place where we can rest for a moment before we leave tomorrow to return home?"
"We'll have someone take you to one of the hotels in the village. Make sure you do not attempt to sneak into any areas deemed off-limits, and enjoy your stay at Konoha. Tonight we are having a celebration marking the death of the Kyuubi that had attacked our village six years ago, and the heroic sacrifice of our Yondaime Hokage."
Signaling the gates to open, the group walks in, as a ninja wearing a cat mask appeared, and tells them to follow her. The group looks at one another, following the woman via the roof-tops to avoid the heavy civilian traffic littering the streets. They were now inside the village... but now the real mission starts: locating the heir of the Uzumaki Clan.
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After exchange, and the collection of the bounty, the group were, after a short escort, were wandering the streets of Konoha, walking by the civilians tending to their children, or ninja clans with their children or other members playing games, sharing drinks, enjoying food, and the like. They however stayed away from bonfires that were held at areas of the village festival. They were led to a hotel where they would be allowed to rest, while Tsukasa headed off to collect the bounty for the Nukenin they killed. The girls snuck away through the shadows, heading off towards the abandoned Namikaze Manor.
Daisuke wandered through the village, while his associates were doing their tasks. He sighed to himself, as he left behind a bill for the apple he snagged and began eating it.
The village is very big, Daisuke thought, he could be anywhere here.
"The demon's down! Let's go and watch him as it dies," one of the drunk patrons nearby shouted, enticing a mob of civilians to run off.
Daisuke narrows his eyes and roof-hops over to the commotion, following the sounds of an angry mob, and the few people that were flocking towards the sounds of blood-thirsty cries. When he arrived, his heart skipped. There was the target, battered, bloodied, surrounded by a blood-thirsty mob of civilians armed with whatever they could grab, and he saw some ninjas in the ground. Most of them looked to be elder Genin, and some looked to be either Chūnin or even Jōnin. He wasn't too sure, however he knew he had to save the target no matter what.
"Tsukasa, converge to my signal quick. I found Naruto."
"Already on your path, Daisuke; save him now!"
He reaches into his pockets of his coat, and withdrew two custom-made .45 magnums, and pulls the trigger. The two gunshots ring out, scaring the mob as the two ninjas who were about to stab Naruto, now collapsed with their brains blown out the sides of their skulls. He drops down like a rock, forcing the mob to back away by the stranger who had dropped from the sky.
"We found him," Daisuke says into a hidden COM on his collar, as he held the injured boy close to him. His COM not only was connected to a hidden frequency, but his comrades will also hear his message.
"Roger that. En-route to your location for extraction," responded one of Daisuke's comrades, on board the Highwind, which was flying towards Konoha, "Get out of the village immediately. Defend against the enemy if they attack."
Before the crowd could attack again, the sounds of gunfire rang out, as Daisuke took to the air, evading the spray of bullets from Tsukasa's Gatling gun. The entire mob was mowed down in less than ten seconds. Daisuke landed, as the girls converged with Tsukasa.
"We raided the Namikaze Manor, and left behind time-delay explosives to incinerate it," Yumika reported.
"That'd got the hornet's nest stirring. We're leaving the village now! Kill anybody that gets in our way," Daisuke yells, as their hitai-ates flash, and their fake plates fall to the ground as ANBU emerged.
However Tsukasa's Gatling fires again and three of the five ANBU were killed.
"Move it!"
They rush, as one of the girls held the now frightened but still-injured Naruto to her, while Daisuke arms himself with his sword. One ANBU tried to intercept, but Daisuke slashed down, slicing a deep cut that spilt a heavy amount of blood no human could survive without. He retrieves his guns after hooking the blade to his back again, and fires out a round of bullets at the chasing Konoha ninja. One of them, a freak wearing green spandex, got a bullet lodged in his kneecap and he fell with a pained cry. One of the ninja quickened his pace, a white-haired young man, throwing kunai. Daisuke fires again, amazingly deflecting the kunai away with his bullets.
By the time they got to the gates, an army of ANBU was waiting, jutsu ready to use, until a loud boom is heard as the mountain is blown up by a powerful shot from the sky. The village was now in a chaotic panic as a high-tech airship flown down, which had disabled its cloaking shields. The ANBU were blown by another shot, allowing the ninja to escape with their rescued target. The airship continues to fire its arsenal of guns, deterring the Konoha-nins back as they board the airship via dropped zip lines.
"Package is secured! Get out of here now!" yelled Daisuke.
The airship captain Cid yells at his men to take the ship higher and to fly away back to base. Outside, Sarutobi could not believe what had just happened. Half his ninja ranks were hurt by weapons never seen in the Elemental Nations. He was many who thought it was the Sora-nins getting revenge, but if it was true they should have destroyed the village, not infiltrate just to kidnap Naruto.
Why? Why DID they kidnap Naruto for? Sarutobi felt ashamed... he had lost Naruto to unknown people with technology that now is apparent is more advanced than the defunct Hidden Village of the Sky.
On-board the med bay, Naruto was brought into the ER, and soon he was out of it hours later and still resting. Neru, Yumika, Yugi, Tsukasa, Daisuke, and two others were in the room watching Naruto rest.
"What's the status?"
"Give him two or three years and he'll be fully healed of everything inflicted on him," spoke Rin, the Head Healer, and part of the team with her twin brother Sekai.
"Also, we detected a demon sealed in his body. The Nine Tails."
The others frowned. Lord Genryusai would not enjoy hearing his great grandson was used as a catalyst.
"What now?"
"For now, make sure he does not freak out, and prepare the sealing runes if he unconsciously taps into the demon's power. The less he's exposed to it, the more innocence is retained from the fox's taint."
"And Konoha?" Neru questions.
"If we go to war with them, we go to war. If they try anything against us or try to reclaim Naruto under anything remotely hinting towards a lost human weapon, we go to war," Sekai explains.
Yugi scoffed.
"As if those bastards can fly past the heavens to reach us."
They WERE after all descendants of an old village once destroyed by the Leaf. Only now they had evolved and moved on with greater technology in the west while Konoha remains in the past. One day, Konoha would pay for what they did to Naruto...