On the Wings of Revenge

By: Zeida and Maria (Maria)

Warnings: Insanity, crack, violence, blood gore, plotholes, randomness, lack of plot to begin with, language etc. etc.

Disclaimer: I don't own it.

Summary: Poor Naruto, I keep letting him be kidnapped. Zabuza finds Naruto after Haku, and takes him away. This is half crack nuttiness. Vengeful!Naruto. It's starting to look like a foursome to me but it's not. Just brother love? Gaara, Haku, Naruto and Sasuke...nuttiness. Shikamaru shows a lot too! Have I proved myself nuts yet?

ChApTeR OnE: Escapades

He kept running and running but they wouldn't stop. They wanted to hurt him, to make him mad, sad, but he didn't know why! They always did this; they'd never stop. They all hated him. He didn't even know what he had done.

And then they would ignore him. He wouldn't exist. Just like that. One moment, he was scared that they would accidentally kill him. Not that it would have been an accident. But then they would just stop. He would try and get food, just to find that the person at the shop didn't see him.

Couldn't see him.

Wouldn't see him.

In a way, that was worse. It made him want to do something to make him see him. Make them prove that he wasn't just a figment of his own imagination. That he was really there, that someone knew he was there. That someone cared.

But they didn't.

He was reminded of that every time he got their attention again. Well, maybe his methods weren't exactly endearing, but everything else he tried didn't work. He had tried being loud, faking hurt and screaming. They looked over briefly before laughing nastily and going back about their business.

He had tried doing really good in everything at school. He was at the top of the class, with that black haired Uchiha-boy, but they had muttered something about luck, and again went about their ways. Then it didn't matter if he did well, so he let the grades drop. He didn't really care. If he remembered the stuff, that's all that mattered to him.

So he tried breaking things. He destroyed their stuff, painted it, and stole it. Paraded around, bragging about it. That had gotten their attention.

And that's what he had wanted. Right? Right...

But then they went too far. Or maybe he had gone far. He had snuck into someone's huge estate. It had been a little too easy. His nose told him when ever there was someone coming and his skills and instincts did the rest. He found a lovely, huge and shiny thing right at the center of the huge house. It was a beautiful crystal, inscribed and branded with kanji and seals.

He had taken it, and ran. After exiting the estate, he turned to the guard nearest and yelled, waving the pretty thing at them. The man stared for a second before bellowing and alerting the rest of the household. He had then chased after the young thief. More soon joined him. Even those who they had just passed, they seemed that it was all in the spirit of good fun.

But now there was a mob chasing him and he was only six. He had a lot of stamina for his age, but his legs didn't match. They were gaining. Just a couple more steps. He closed his eyes, knowing what was coming and that he would never get away. There was no way Naruto would escape this alive...

A scream of pure terror and pain echoed through Konoha, before it was cut off suddenly. A tall young man and a small boy looked up from the meal they were finishing off. This trip would be more interesting than expected.

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"I hate them, I HATE them!" a small child screamed to the empty air. He stumbled slightly on the rough rock, but continued his bloody ascent up the Hokage monument. He vehemently hoped that they could feel his feet walking all over their faces. Perhaps the blood now dripping down them.

"They deserve it!" he screeched to the night. "How could they protect this horrible place! How come-!" The blond boy sobbed. He slipped at the top of the monument and fell flat on his face.

"How come-?" he hiccup. "They never..." Naruto broke off, staring and the lights marking the village with hatred.

"How come they never protect me..." he whispered. Then howled again.

"YOU AWFUL NO GOOD EVIL PLACE! YOU HORRIBLE, NASTY PEOPLE! WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU?! WHAT?! WHAT? TELL ME! I SWEAR I WILL DO TEN THOUSAND TIMES WORSE!" his tiny voice rising to a peircing pitch.

Far below, a small boy looked up, noticing a tiny dot that wasn't supposed to be on top of a monument.

"Zabuza-sama?"

The tall man next to him looked down, not an emotion visible on his bandaged face. "Hn?"

"There's something up there..." Haku pointed at the dot. His companion looked up. Something like a grin creased the wrapping around his mouth as ghosts of threats reached his ears.

"So there is. Would you like to see who?"

The small brunet at his side looked up and smiled. "That would be nice, Zabuza-sama."

They quickly made their way up to the top of the Yondaime's monument. Near by, a ninja turn in confusion at the gust of wind on this breezeless night.

"They never- hic - never stop... - sob - It wasn't my fault... They would have killed me..." Haku and Zabuza looked at the small child with his knees draw up to his chest and arms clutched around them. It looked as though he was afraid he would disappear. His clothes were torn and shredded.

They were stained with blood. Somehow Zabuza knew it wasn't all his own.

"It was their fault... I didn't mean too... IT WAS THEIR STUPID FAULT!!" The child jumped to his feet and the pair could see a bloody kunai in his hand. The black-haired man raised an invisible eyebrow. What had the child done?

"THEY SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE IN THE FIRST PLACE! THEY DON'T DESERVE IT!!

"I didn't mean too..." The child started sobbing and Haku rushed forward and pulled him into a protective embrace. Zabuza looked on approvingly, although he wouldn't have minded some permission asking first. Haku would take care of this part, while he could leave quickly and find out just what the little kid could have done. He vanished.

Far below, a ninja rubbed his head. He could have sworn that the Yondaime's head had been smoking. Earlier he was sure he had heard it swearing to. Sighing, the man looked back down at his bottle. Damn, he had drunk a lot.

"It's okay... Don't worry..." Haku soothed the startled boy. Naruto looked up in confusion at this person. What was he doing? It felt nice.

There was a person touching him, and it didn't hurt...? How odd.

The strange boy just continued to pet him and whisper in that kind voice that seemed just for him. The blond child felt himself relax in the weird grip. Suddenly he stared sobbing and wailing, clutching Haku as though there was nothing solid left. The black haired child held him tighter and brought them down so they were seated on the monument. Rather, Naruto was seated and Haku was kneeing over, hugging him.

"Tell me what's wrong... I can try and fix it..." Haku coaxed after the little boy had calmed down.

The boy hiccuped and looked up at him with wide watery eyes. "W-what are you doing...?" he asked. He still clung to the other, but without the earlier risk of tearing clothing.

Haku looked at the blond with a slight, confused frown. "What do you mean?"

"With your arms around me. It doesn't hurt, what is it?"

The black-eyed boy felt sudden rage well up inside of him. He took deep calming breaths and refused to let it show on his face and scare the blond child. Blue eyes blinked up at in confusion over the silence.

"It's a hug. It never hurts and it's supposed to make you feel happy." How could anyone treat a child so bad that he didn't know what a hug was?! How could they?

Even he knew what a hug was...

The little blond looked up at Haku and smiled. The ice nin decided right there that he liked that smile and wanted to see it often. Now, how to do that?

"What's your name? I am Haku."

"I'm Naruto!" snuggled into his new... what was he...? Well he snuggled into his 'hug'. Hugs felt nice.

"Why were you so upset. No, don't be sad! You did nothing wrong!"

Naruto sniffled. "R-really?"

Haku nodded firmly, and settled on the ground. Zabuza-sama would be back soon and he wanted to have a good reason to bring the endearing little boy with them.

"I... um... They chased me and attacked me - they always attack me...- and all I wanted was them to look at me!" the black haired boy rubbed his back encouragingly when he paused.

"And they hurt real bad and I wanted it to stop... Is that wrong...?"

"Never." Not for you or Zabuza-sama. You can do what ever you want, as long as you're happy. And it won't bother Zabuza-sama.

Naruto smiled and rested his head on Haku's chest. The child nin found himself supporting both his own weight and that of the slightly old boy's. It wasn't all that uncomfortable.

"I wanted it to stop so I grabbed the kunai -that's this, it's a knife- and stabbed them... They started screaming and yelling even more. But they didn't stop hurting me!" the six year old looked at Haku pleadingly. Surely this nice person would understand his reasons. When they did that sort of thing, when the villagers and the ninja did that sort of thing, then everyone stopped bothering them. He figure that it should work for him too. "They kept attacking so I slashed them again and the red stuff that's in everyone came out and the person fell down and he didn't get up again!" Tears were in his eyes again but after Naruto yawned, Haku figured it was sleepiness. The little blond didn't look sad enough to be crying.

Good.

"They stopped attacking a bit, and stared at the person, then they yelled at me and slashed at me, but I don't like the red stuff coming from me, so I ran away and stabbed them 'gain." Haku nodded at his logic and he yawned again.

"Another person fell down after I stabbed them -If you get their neck or chest, they won't attack anymore! - So the people stopped again but they started again!" Naruto huffed and pouted disapprovingly. "So I made all of them stop attacking me. But then they weren't moving and I remember Sensei at school saying once that when we were ninja and older that if we got slashed and stopped moving, it was really bad... Am I bad? 'Cause I made them stop?"

His wonderful, nice black haired companion smiled at him. "I agree with you, they deserve it. You aren't bad."

Haku smiled and gently poked Nature's nose, like his mother used to... before... and his eyes went crossed! The child nin giggled and his blond companion smiled. He yawned again and snuggled even closer to Haku, if that was possible. His eyes flickered closed and his breathing steadied.

Zabuza appeared then, silently and unnoticed by any save the small black haired boy.

"Hello, Zabuza-sama. Did you find what you wanted to know?" The man nodded and stepped closer to the pair.

"Yes. Did he say anything?"

"I'm not sure. I think he killed a whole bunch of people who were trying to kill him."

The adult nin nodded. "Almost, and I took out the rest who were just injured. He was almost about as good as you."

Haku smiled sweetly at the older man. "Yes. Zabuza-sama? He can't stay here. They will kill him."

"I cleaned up his little mess."

"But they always treat him like this! He said that they always do!"

Zabuza smiled through the mask. "I never said I wouldn't take him."

Haku gave such a dazzling happy grin, as the missing nin was sure he had never seen. He would have to try and find out what got that kind of reaction out of his charge.

The tall nin leaned down and lifted the now sleeping blond into his arms. Haku quickly stands again as Zabuza woke Naruto.

"His name is Naruto." his apprentice informed.

"I wormed that out of his victims... one of the living ones."

Haku nodded happily.

The blond boy looked up in confusion at the new man holding him. "Who are you...?" he mumbled sleepily.

"Where do you live. Describe it. You're getting your belongings. I'm taking you with me."

Zabuza could see cogs turning as the child absorbed this.

"I- what?"

"Tell me where you live." the nuke-nin repeated, enunciating each syllable.

Naruto clambered in the inn's arms, climbing over his shoulder and pointing. "Over there, Oniisan!" (In the 'mister' fashion) His finger targeted a tall, half-collapsed apartment building, almost on the other side of the village.

Zabuza frowned at the state of the place, but resettled the child to perform the transportation jutsu.

"Wait, oniisan! You're taking me away...?"

The nin froze, the jutsu half finish. "You don't want to go?" he asked.

"I want to! I want to! It's just that I don't want nothing from here! I don't want my stuff..."

The man raised an invisible eyebrow. This was... interesting. "Fine by me. In fact I will get you fresh clothes and you may burn those." As well as teach you proper language skills.

The child, Naruto, looked up at him with a smile almost a beautiful as Haku's. My, how could he have missed something like this, especially when it seemed so easy to get? "Really, oniisan?!"

The black haired man nodded. "Don't call me 'oniisan' I'm Zabuza."

"Zabuza-sama." Haku insisted. Naruto beamed down at him.

"Zabuza-sama." He agreed.

The older nin just completed his jutsu and transported them to the gate. They left under another jutsu, disguising them from ANBU eyes.

It was for the ANBU's own good, really.

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EDITED

A/N: Another C/r/a/c/k story from your favorite nutcase! Yes I know I shouldn't be writing this when I have so many other things to do, but it's my funeral, not yours, isn't it!

REVIEWS ARE MY ANTI-DRUG!

Lurve you all,

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