Yo! Here is the fourth in my challenge series, akatsuki Naruto!

Here is the challenge:

Summary: Naruto's sisters end up being used for the sealing. Alone on his sixth birthday he is found by an akatsuki member.

1. Naruto must be a guy and straight

2. Minato bashing, Kushina will slowly come around

3. darker naruto

4. Naruto must be trained by the person

5. must be a harem

That's the challenge, let me know if you are interested in taking it!

Okay, I am making Naruto be trained by Zetsu, just because I have not seen a lot of fics where he is trained by him.

Now on with the chapter!

Chapter 1

Naruto had just gotten bed on the morning of his sixth birthday. He went downstairs and raided the kitchen to get some cerial to eat. He was the only one in the house on his sixth birthday while the twins were being celebrated at the kyuubi festival.

Naruto really didn't care about that. He was used to being left alone on his birthdays, or any other day for that matter.

When Naruto left the house later, he walked bast a busy street. He did not care what the civilians said about him whether it was to his face or not. He knew that no matter what happened, he would always just be the pathetic brother of the Jinchuriki twins.

Naruto was okay with all of this. He was fine with the names, people trying to use him, and people ignoring him. He was too used to it to have any of it bother him enough to get worked up about. Little did he know, someone was watching him.

In the earth...

Zetsu had been sent out by the Akatsuki to check on the Jinchuriki twins and make sure they weren't made too strong. From what he saw, the twins wouldn't be a problem because of their arrogance, the brother, on the other hand, had limitless potential.

The brother could school his emotions, control his chakra output, and even make shadow clones by the dozen to train with at such a young age.

Zetsu hated working for the Akatsuki. They always treated him like dirt, but he couldn't just leave, due to the fact that the Akatsuki created him. He owed them a debt, or so he had thought before this mission. Before the mission, Pein and Tobi had been discussing ways to get rid of this Zetsu and bring in a new one, as this one seemed to be weaker than the rest of them.

What they didn't know, was that Zetsu had perfect chakra control, meaning that he could mask himself to even the rinnengan, get into a village's sensor system, transform into another person, or even stop his tenketsu from being closed by Byakugan users.

This gave Zetsu the edge he had needed to slip out of the Akatsuki base undetected, and leave for his next mission, the one place no one who thought that he had quit the Akatsuki would look.

It just so happened that there was another reason that he wanted to stay in Konoha, it was because he could hide anywhere. There were so many trees, wooden floors, and the stone monuments. These were all perfect hiding spots for Zetsu.

More important than the hiding spots, was the fact that in Konoha, Zetsu could see everything from the hot springs to the hokage's office. This had let him spy on the Namikaze boy and his family for the past two days. What he saw in the boy was pure, untapped potential in its truest most unused state.

Zetsu decided that today was the day that he would approach Naruto with an offer. He would train Naruto in all of his ways, and Naruto would help him stay hidden from the Akatsuki in return.

"Hello, Naruto Uzumaki," Zetsu said, "my name is Zetsu. I have come with an offer."

"What is the offer you are talking about?" Naruto asked while secretly fingering his kunai he had hidden in his pants (not that one, get your mind out of the gutter).

"I am offering to train you in all of my ways." Zetsu said.

"What do you get in return?" Naruto asked, while he slowly dropped the kunai back into its hiding spot.

"Simple," Zetsu started, "you hide me from my former employers, the akatsuki. You won't have to do much, just don't tell anyone that I am here, and I will be safe."

Naruto was still suspicious of the offer, but decided that he would probably die if he didn't take it. "I agree to your terms." Naruto finally said after a few moments of thinking over the pros and cons.

"Good, today we will start with an assessment on your abilities. You have to avoid getting hit by me for three hours." Zetsu stated.

Naruto immediately tensed and jumped back, knowing that Zetsu meant right then. Naruto immediately started thinking of ways to avoid him. Okay, I saw how he came out of the ground back there, so he probably can travel and see above the ground while he is there, so staying still isn't an option. I may be able to avoid him if I keep moving for the three hours, but I don't have that kind of stamina. What if I moved through the treebranches? Would having to move from the trees into the ground and back up slow him down? If so, I may be able to jump from tree to tree, and slow him down this way, only one way to find out.

Naruto jumped into the air immediately after finishing that train of thought, due to the fact that he would have gotten hit if he didn't. He spun around in midair, sure to land on a branch, and kicked off of it, using the branch and his chakra to boost his momentum.

Zetsu was immediately impressed as soon as he saw this, as he figured out why Naruto had done it. He figured out that it would take longer for me to move im trees than It would in the ground, and he is putting so much distance in each jump, so as to not waste his stamina. If it goes on this way, I may just lose this assessment.

Zetsu decided, about an hour and a half later, after Naruto had managed to stay out of his range so well, to see how Naurto dealt with sudden changes.

Zetsu found Naruto again and, instead of moving behind him like he would have before, jumped right in front of Naruto. Naruto quickly used a shadow clone and substitution to avoid being hit. He then kicked Zetsu to the ground and leapt off again.

Zetsu thought Clever brat, using me as a board to jump off of, and the kick disoriented enough to give him another headstart. I will have to find him again, but that will take a good while.

Naruto kept jumping through the air nonstop for about forty more minutes before Zetsu finally caught up to him. Zetsu was right behind him, but was having trouble hitting Naruto due to the blonde's evasionary tactics. Naruto used everything at his disposal: Shadow clones, kunai, substitution, bunshin, and even flashbangs. It was extremely hard to hit someone who kept disorienting him each time he got in close.

It was on two hours and fifty minutes by the time Zetsu caught Naruto using a wood clone and a substitution at the same time Naruto used the shadow clone substitution maneuver.

"Good work," Zetsu said, "I was going about chuunin level and I still couldn't hit you. You have some unorthodox methods, but the ninja world is a whatever works type of place. You also have impressive analytic abilities, to be able to figure out the speed and timing of the technique after only seeing it once. You also used the speed and timing to figure out a weakness to my ability, not many people have the ability to see the weaknesses of it. Some of your skills could use a lot of work, like improvising in the middle of battle, towards the end you became a one trick pony, and then you were easy to catch. But, I have a feeling this is going to be fun training with you."

This training continued for six years.

Done! I hope you like the chapter!

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