Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, I'm just a fan writing a fiction!

Greetings to the fan fiction readers who so 'compassionately,' or not, depending on your point of view, decided to give my little fic here a chance; that's you! This is my first fic, so I'm not that good but I've got to start somewhere right? Please if anyone is interested enough to help me out; read through this and tell me my mistakes in a review, I'd really appreciate that… hope this is up to the standards of ! Review and tell an unconfident writer how his first fic went… coz I spent two months trying to plan this plot out… Damn I even wrote a draft of what I'm writing here before I start the story… yeah that's twisted I know.

Slightly AU (Alternate/Author's Universe) where Naruto's secret is kept under wraps, Sasuke was too small to have understood what the massacre of his clan meant (meaning he isn't corrupt with revenge) and Haku 'surprisingly' ended up in Leaf instead of Mist after killing his father.

Hope it's not that bad.

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(Legend)

"Blah, Blah" - Talking

'Blah, Blah' - Thinking

Thud! Slit! Boom! Scream! Growl! Groan! Ring! Etc – Sound Effects

(A/N: Blah, Blah) – Author's Notes

"'Blah, Blah'" – Stressed Words {While Talking}

''Blah, Blah'' – Stressed Words {While Thinking}

It was 'shouldn't' be that bad – {Key Words in writing = shouldn't}

Hopefully all of my chapters other than the prologue will be between 5,000-10,000 words each.

(BSI) Basic Summary Input (…Sounds Lame, Doesn't it…)

This is the story is slightly AU and it's about five boys and their sensei; the six people who gave a new meaning to the words power, unity, love, courage and secrecy; the very beings who will give true meaning to the phrase 'it's only us against the world.' Akatsuki will also have a slightly different goal from the original and there will be a slight catch with Naruto's 'containment' of the fox.' The story will start from after the Chunin exams arc, with minor alterations as follows:

1. The team formations will be as follows: team Kakashi will be Haku, Naruto, Kenshin (OC), Kaiza (OC) and Sasuke under Kakashi. Team eight (Kurenai) will be Hinata, Sakura and Ino under Kurenai. Team I-don't-recall-the-number (Asuma) will be Chouji, Kiba and Shino.

2. Also the third will be alive, having survived the fight with Orochimaru, simply because I see him as a far worthier Hokage then Tsunade: no offence to Tsunade fans but Kishimoto doesn't seem to be portraying Tsunade well; making her seem like the weakest of the Sannin, a Hokage that trouble and problems seemed to follow and added her with gambling problems, and fear of blood…

Rise of the Destroyer!

Prologue: Beginnings…

Once, before the time and era of the shinobi, there roamed a great human-dragon hybrid, who possessed power over all five elements. He was said to be the most powerful of all, able to send tremors through the whole earth just by concentrating his ungodly chakra. Every three years, he would choose a village to destroy, and add all the souls of its inhabitants to his own, increasing the quality and capacity of his own chakra. He was so powerful that he had unlocked five other energies found in the human body along with chakra; energies said to have been sealed by the gods ever since the beginning of life. His constant destructive actions, gave him the title; Destroyer.

However, because of the dragon's prowess and cruelty, there was a huge bounty on his head from every country in existence, and he was constantly hunted. It wasn't that he could not destroy those who dared to hunt him, but encounters were so regular that they began to understand how his power worked.

There was one survivor from one of the villages that the destroyer had destroyed, who constantly studied the dragon's powers until he came up with a way to defeat said powers. The man, named Kiumac, trained everyday nonstop, until he mastered all forms of energy and could rival the dragon's power. He was so consumed by his rage that he knew no reason and went to fight with the dragon.

Their battle waged for a whole week, before Kiumac killed the dragon, and made himself armor from the dragon's scales. He made various weapons from the dragon's teeth, using his mastery over human energy, and ate the dragon's meat and drank the dragon's blood.

It proved to be a wrong decision, the drinking of the dragon's blood, for the desires to kill came with the blood, and Kiumac went on a rampage, destroying everything on his path. He had gained the dragon's title; the destroyer. Kiumac brought the world to its knees and the Human race to the brink of extinction.

Upon the brink of extinction, six human warriors discovered a way within the dark book of the devil, to imprison Kiumac for all eternity within a stone tablet, where only his image could be seen, by sacrificing themselves to the devil. With their dying breaths, the brave warriors decided to give an order to hide the stone and never let it be found. They had used their own blood to seal him, and without the proper knowledge of human energy, he could not be set free…

But the times have changed since then, for now is the era of the shinobi. And 'everyone' has already discovered one of the energy types known as chakra… it would only be a matter of time before they discovered five more, and then the freeing of Kiumac would be inevitable. Such is the irony of humanity.

Such is the legend of the Destroyer.

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Itachi Uchiha's raven black hair wavered as the wind blew against his face, while he stared at the little infant of a brother of his, still only a month old and laying in the crib in front of him. The dead bodies of his parents and sister littered around the room, but he was unaffected by his current 'sickening' environment. He remembered the look on his mother's face, the look of confusion and pleading; the look that simply asked him 'why?' His father on the other hand was furious and even on the moment of his death seethed with hatred for the teenage boy. His sister… she was the hardest one to kill, not only because of her prowess, but because he was closer to her than he was to his parents. He had known that they would soon betray the order, but her? She hadn't even known of their betrayal and yet chose sides with them as soon as he had started attacking the entire clan. 'I suppose she did that to defend the other innocents, but… what must be done, must be done…' He broke his gaze from little Sasuke's crib and started walking away. Before he got to the opened slide exit from his little brother's room, he stopped and took one last glance at his brother.

"Sasuke, I hope you will understand when you are older… you will become one of the order's greatest weapons, and I know, dear brother, that with your genius, we'll finally win this war… this senseless bloodshed with our misguided brethren…"

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Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third and reinstated Hokage of the leaf took a puff on his pipe as he stared down the two individuals who stood in front of him. "And so, as Kushina's only living relative in Konoha, you are the only one he can turn to, Mikoto."

"I… I understand, Hokage-sama… where is little Naruto?" One of them, the lady with red hair asked.

"He is currently having his checkup at the hospital, you can go discharge him from there as his legal guardians; they have already been informed. I trust you both already know about his 'condition' and can keep it under wraps… can I trust you two to do that for me?"

"Yes sir…" the lady, Mikoto answered.

The Hokage turned to the man. "Seimaru…"

"You can trust us, my lord… you have my word! I'll protect the boy with my own life you have my blade on your side as long as Mikoto is."

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The silent breeze blew about as two ANBU members of the leaf stood at the top of a building, staring at each other. One wore the mask of a dragon, while the other had the mask of a swan, the latter being a lady with purple hair. The former had on full battle robes and he had a hood to cover his hair.

"So… I'll be spending the rest of my life with you…" the swan ANBU said.

"Excuse me, swan-san, but I do not know much about this mission we are on. Lord Hokage only told me that you would brief me." The dragon-masked ANBU replied.

The lady sighed again, before she unclasped her mask, revealing her perfect, angelic face and her resent-filled indigo eyes. "Look, our mission is to be Sasuke Uchiha's parents for the rest of his life. There will be no code names here, we're practically going to retire and live with this boy… there will be no acting, we're practically going to get married and live together with our adopted son, Sasuke Uchiha." She explained, with a growing headache. He didn't really give any visible reaction but she got the feeling that he was raising a single eyebrow. She wasn't happy. "And to make things worse, I have to do this with YOU: the only unemotional member of the black ops apart from the former captain, Raven. My name is Ayumi Kazu."

"I see…" he said as he took down his hood to show white hair. He unclasped his mask to reveal a wrinkled old face. "Well, my name is Sanosuke Rechikari. Am I to assume that you are in charge of this mission?"

In a flash, she was behind him with her kunai to his neck. She had a giant tick on her head, and steam was coming out of her nose. "Listen to me, you prick! I know about you. How you never say more than a few words a day, how you are an inconsiderate prick, but in this mission you are going to have to be on your best behavior, so drop the transformation because there's no way I am going to be stuck married to an old geezer. Just by doing that you get on my nerves"

"Oh, but Ayumi-san, this is no trick" he replied with an equally serious voice.

"Then you're not for this mission!"

A split-second later, she was pinned to the ground by his left foot as he held his katana to her throat. "Listen to me, very carefully little girl. I know for a fact that you have only a month's experience in the ANBU, and the only reason that you went as high up in the ranks as you have is because of your skill, not your experience. I have been in the ANBU for ten years and that is why I act as I do."

"S-so, you're… really that old?" Her voice was still angry, but now hinted with fear.

"No, this transformation was to test you. It was to test why you did this mission, and how you would do it, willingly or not." With this said, the air around him fizzled and his figure changed into a young brunette version on himself. Her eyes widened momentarily at his unique transformation. "Personally I wouldn't have cared less if you were an old witch rather than the angel that you are, because I am doing this mission for the village's best interest, and I have no interest of my own apart from this village's. You showing that you did not like me because I was a prick and an old geezer told me that you were not willing to do this mission to its full extent. You still had some self interest left. I have no intension of doing a mission as important as this with one who would do it half heartedly. I don't blame you either, I blame the Hokage for choosing you, you're fresh out of the social and happy life the normal ninjas have, but know this; black operatives aren't normal. I would have forced myself to become in love with you just to keep the façade up that we were really his parents, for the rest of my life, and I need someone who can do the same. Go tell this to the Hokage." With that said, he lifted his foot off her, and started walking away.

"Wait, h-how can you so disrespectfully address the Hokage so?" She asked as she got up and dusted herself, barely accepting the face that he was faster than her.

"I don't have time for incompetence or incompetent comrades for that matter, he knows that and yet he sends you?"

"Well, there is no way in hell I'm letting someone else do this mission, so you either do this mission with me or I'll do it on my own or with someone else." She barely finished that when she was gripped by the throat by him this time. She struggled to break free, but one look at his eyes broke her strength and paralyzed her body. "What… a-are… you…"

"Why… why do you wish to do this mission so much?" His question was granted only with a gurgled response which caused him to release his grip somewhat.

"I-I… it's none of your business, but I promised his sister that if anything was to happen to her, I'd be there for him, and I intend to keep that promise." She was let go and she fell to the floor again.

He turned back and cursed. "So, that's why that old geezer wanted you to be the one to do the mission… you're staking the future with this do you know? If we do not have Sasuke on our side in the near future, then all will be for naught." With that, he disappeared in a black wisp of smoke, Kakashi-style.

"Ugh, weirdo…"

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(A few years later, Land of Water)

Tears flowed freely down his face as he ran forward, stumbling as he did. He didn't really see the white snow path in front of him, feel the cold breeze blowing against his skin, or even feel the pain from his bruised and bleeding face. All he felt was the pain in his memory. He still saw his father stabbing his mother with that kitchen knife, he still remembered how she pleaded with him not to do 'this,' not to kill her or him. He was a smart boy and he was already six, so he knew why his father did that; the man did it just because they could play with water and snow. Why? He couldn't understand it, but he knew one thing for sure and that was the fact that he killed his father and others just after they killed his mother. How he did that he would never know, but something awoke inside of him that moment, when she died and he spat on her body, cursing her to hell.

'H-how could he—how could he!' Haku's mind kept on repeating that single mantra as he finally exhausted all of his energy and fell down on the cold snow. Tears started flowing down his eyes again, hate filled and yet sorrowful eyes. He knew that he could not live in his house anymore, as it was covered with ice spikes, not allowing anything or anyone inside. No… no one would see what his demonic father had done or how his angelic mother had died. Dizziness started to overcome him, but he refused to sleep. His mother wasn't here to sing songs for him or tell bedtime stories for him, there was no way he could sleep. He simply refused.

"M-mother… mom, please don't leave… come back, please…" He could barely hear his own words, or comprehend them as his mind swayed and everything went away except for the cold darkness that remained. "Mom…"

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A/N: First Chappie, please anyone RnR! Hope Like!