A/N: Okay, so…this story is gonna have a lot of sequals. I have so many ideas, but want to only do one story at a time so be expecting some sequals. Also, R&R!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, even if it would be cool to, I don't.

------------------------------------------Chapter 1: Life of a Ronin------------------------------------------

A pair of rugged blue eyes glistened with the reflection of the fire in front of him. The boy, barely older than 15, stared deep into the enchanting flames, letting a calm breeze slide across his face. He closed his eyes, trying to engrave this nice, relaxing feeling into his mind. He smiled upon hearing the familiar crackle of the flames and opened his cerulean eyes to the sight of ashes, floating calmly away with the wind.

This was the feeling of freedom: not being bound by anything, laws, rules, missions, or even the old lady. And this was the feeling he could never get used to, even after two years of it. Every night, it sent the same exciting chill down his back, like he could accomplish anything, especially on cloudless days where even the clouds couldn't stop him.

Yep, that was the wondrous life of a ronin, or in more politically correct terms a nukenin. But the boy preferred to refer to himself as a ronin, mainly because he still felt ties to his home village and because, someday, he would return. Of course, he wasn't planning on doing so any time soon, or at least, he wasn't ecstatic about it. And why should he be? The village hated him. He had been known as the Kyuubi no Kitsune to most villagers even though, technically, he wasn't.

But that wasn't why he ran away. It was because of freedom, just like the kind he felt right now. Like the kind that ran through his hair at that moment. The boy had always hated stupid, boring missions and never understood why he, out of all the other ninjas, always had to do them. He was tied down by the old lady who always assigned him shit for missions. Of course he grew tired of them, and decided to go search for Sasuke himself. Oh, wait…Sasuke.

Sasuke was now a side mission. As he enjoyed the freedom, Naruto told himself that he would stay alert for any news about him, but…

Naruto's feeling of great excitement was swept away as suddenly as the wind. He looked solemnly down at the dirt in front of him. It had two and half years since that bastard had run away. Naruto still remembered the fight, still remembered Sasuke's ignorance. He still remembered what he had told him, hoping it would sway Sasuke's decision. But no, he was stubborn as usual. His brother. When he woke up in the hospital with the news, that's what it had felt like, losing a brother.

"Teme," Naruto breathed.

Another breeze blew through.

Dobe, it seemed to whisper.

Naruto smiled sadly.

FLASHBACK

"I promise, I will get Sasuke back," Naruto smiled, showing a thumbs-up. "It's my way of the ninja."

END OF FLASHBACK

Naruto gripped his katana next to him tightly, lifting his head up to the glimmering crescent moon.

"I promise," he whispered, closing his eyes.

In a minute, he was asleep and breathing softly. Another breeze blew through. It tried to pull the fire with it and the flames responded by fluttering wildly. It caught the blond's last words, carrying them far in separate ways.

Sasuke just smirked, far away, as if he heard the message the wind carried.

Sakura smiled, comforted. "I know, Naruto."

BREAK

The sun's evil glare seemed to be concentrated persistently on Naruto. "Damn sun," Naruto mumbled as he admitted defeat to the undeniable ball of gases. He tried to open his eyes, but the strong glare snapped them back closed. He groaned and shielded his eyes from the sun's harmful rays. Slowly, his eyelids crept open until he had gotten used to the day's cloudless brightness. A second groan escaped his mouth as struggled to stand up.

Finally standing straight, Naruto began to groggily scan his surroundings. Everything had stayed where it was from the night before. The once blazing fire, now stood smoldered in front of him, starving for more wood. Naruto just ignored it as he left to a nearby creek with his pack and katana.

The creek didn't flow very fast and looked clean, almost transparent. Naruto dropped his stuff on the riverbank and dropped to his knees. The water felt cool and soothing as he splashed it onto his face. He paused, kneeled beside the creek.

He stared at his reflection. Now that he had become a ronin, he didn't pay much attention to his looks, changing his outfit and not bothering to comb or mess with his hair. It had grown long and now covered his forehead and some of his eyes, but its golden hue still remained. He wore a gray undershirt with a burnt orange jacket that was halfway zipped. His black pants drooped over the tops of his black boots.

A gray fish swam over and under Naruto's head's reflection. It waded there for a minute or so. Naruto smiled and licked his lips hungrily. He reached into his kunai pouch and snatched one out, readying it so he wasn't late with his throw. He froze, waiting patiently.

1 second…

…2 seconds…

…3 seconds…

On the fourth second, the fish jumped out and Naruto flung his sharpened knife with the deadly accuracy. The kunai sped through the air at a blinding rate, hitting a background tree in less then a second, the fish embedded in it. It wiggled a little, but gradually abated until it was absolutely still. Smiling at his handiwork, Naruto walked to the other side and took the fish to cook.

"Breakfast," he said, a smug look on his face.

BREAK

"We're supposed to kill this kid!" a man whispered, hidden behind the brush. "He doesn't look like much. I could probably do it myself."

"But did you see how he threw that kunai? It-"

"Even a Genin could throw a kunai straight," the first man interrupted. "This guy's a piece of cake; I can't even believe he was registered as a class-B nukenin!"

The second man groaned at the first's unwavering confidence. "Then go test your luck. But don't blame me if he kicks your ass."

"Hn," the first replied arrogantly as he readied four kunai.

BREAK

Naruto exhaled happily, patting his full stomach. "Wow, 3 fish can really do a lot!" He laughed a little.

"Well, now time for a bath." He rolled back and, using the momentum from the roll, began the other way onto his feet. Slowly, he waddled to the creek, making sure not to upset his full stomach. One by one, he began to undress. When he had pulled down his boxers, he dove into the creek.

After 5 minutes of random splashing, Naruto crawled out of the creek, water dripping off of his body. He fished a towel out from his pack and dried himself before redressing.

Suddenly, 4 kunai shot out from the bushes. Naruto looked up and stared in surprise as they hit him full force, knocking him back by the river again. His body went limp.

"That was too easy. He shouldn't have even been classified as a nukenin. I can't believe that idiot wanted us to kill him. He's not any kind of a threat," the man laughed.

"I don't know, man. Something smells fishy."

The unmoving body disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Shit!" the first man said. "We gave away out position!"

"Damn right!" a voice cried out from above them. "Stupid idiots. Its you two who shouldn't be shinobi. Falling for such a simple trick like that.

"U-Urusai!" the man said, a little embarrassed. He glared at the boy.

"You're a moron, Moketsu," the second man rolled his eyes.

His partner glared at him, but he just shrugged. "Let's just kill the boy and get out pay."

"Wait, wait, wait, Moketsu? You two wouldn't happen to be Moketsu and Ketsura would you?"

The two looked at each other before turning back towards him.

"And how would you know that?" one of them asked, narrowing his eyes.

"Well, the two of you are infamous. Its not that hard to hear these rumors." Naruto paused. "But I can't believe that the brothers I heard so much about, fell into such a Genin-level trap," Naruto said.

"Neither did we," Two voices appeared from behind him. Naruto whirled to face the two behind him.

"What?" he said in confusion, turning around to see the other two still standing there, smirking.

"You are easily fooled as well, but there is one difference between us," Moketsu said, smirk growing by the second.

"Oh?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"We have speed on our side," Another Moketsu whispered into his ear.

Naruto took out a kunai and in a flash, stabbed it behind him, but nothing was there. He looked around, only to see himself alone again. Naruto readied his kunai and peered around warily.

"You can't win when you can't see us," A ghost-like voice said, coming from all sides.

"The Kirigakure no jutsu, eh? But without the mist."

"Smart kid, for a mere teenager. But we have years and years of experience. There is no way you can beat one of us much less both of us." The air rang again.

"We'll see," Naruto mumbled.

"Hm. You don't stand a chance kid." Moketsu said, appearing beside him. Naruto jumped to the side as Moketsu slashed down with small daggers. Though he missed, Naruto felt great pain in his leg and looked down to see his skin tenderized. Naruto winced at the pain. It was like a hot searing sensation, pulsing through his body.

"Our attacks our fueled by lightning. Even if you dodge, electricity is unpredictable and can still bite you."

"Yeah, yeah," Naruto said, getting annoyed with always having to hear pointless explanations. He grabbed his katana that he had tied around his waist and slowly took it out of the sheath. The blade glowed bright red as Naruto fed it Kyuubi's chakra.

Two bolts of lightning shot down and the brothers appeared. "You won't be able to hit us with a sword, even if it is fueled by chakra, it won't even be able to touch us," Moketsu said.

"Our speed is unrivaled." Ketsura continued. Then the two disappeared again. Naruto only smirked, holding the blade firmly. All of a sudden, the red chakra shot out from the blade and flared at his side. Naruto turned and saw Ketsura there, immediately stopped by the youkai.

"What the hell?" Ketsura said, jumping away to keep his distance.

"What's wrong brother?" the air rang.

"This!" a voice came from the sword as the red chakra rushed out again. Forming a hand, it seemed to have grasped air, but one bolt of lightning and Moketsu appeared binded in the hand.

"What…the…fuck!" Moketsu said as the chakra began to burn his skin. He screamed as his skin was incinerated. The chakra retreated back to the sword and the lifeless body fell for meters until it hit the ground with a disgusting thump.

Ketsura just stared. "M-Moketsu?"

Naruto looked from him, down to his brother. "Uh…I think he's dead actually. Kyuubi does like to kill people. I let him do that occasionally."

"Kyuubi?"

"Kyuubi no Kitsune."

Ketsura wasn't scared though, his saddened face gradually turned into rage.

"I will kill you," Ketsura growled.

Naruto just shrugged. "So many people say that, yet I'm still standing here, breathing the air."

All of a sudden, Ketsura broke into hand seals. Without saying anything, he burst into electricity and shot at Naruto. Unable to stop the speed of light electricity, Naruto lifted his sword to stab the Ketsura as he came through, but the electricity split around the blade, touching Naruto as it swarmed past him. Naruto shook violently at the charge, but remained standing.

The charges pulsed through his body a second time, making the blow twice as painful.

"That was…good," Naruto trying to keep his ground. But the blow knocked him unconscious and he collapsed. Ketsura appeared again on a tree branch behind the fallen boy. Ketsura walked up to the boy and took out his dagger.

"This is for you Moketsu." He lifted it and brought it down upon the boy's heart.

SPLAT!

Blood flew everywhere.

A/N: Okay, I worked hard on this story. You guys need to review it…seriously. I need ideas. I only think up the main things before time, not these small details. I write them as I go. So if you want a fast update give me ideas on what to do next. Also, vote for pairings. NO GAY ONES! (literally).