Burn All My Enemies To Ash- Sekinetsu Habanero

Ch.1- The Awakening

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The village of Konoha, while normally a busy place, had been abnormally packed the last few weeks. This is because the chunin exams were in full swing, and this year, the Leaf Village had been selected as the host. But while the streets were crowded with foreign and local vendors hoping to sell their wares, as well as civilians shopping for goods, the ninja taking part in the exams were spending most of their free time training.

….Well, most ninja were training.

"What do you mean you can't train me Kakashi-sensei!?"

"It's exactly as I just said, I don't have time to train you because I'll be busy."

A pair of ocean-blue eyes glared up into a single onyx-black one. Inside the Konoha hospital, at the front desk, stood two people having an argument; a young boy and an older male.

The young boy, about thirteen years old, was of short stature. He had bright, blonde hair that spiked out in random directions, tanned skin, and blue eyes. His attire consisted of something you wouldn't find on any normal ninja: a bright-orange tracksuit with a poofy, white collar. And while all these things were characteristics of the boy, his most known feature were the six whiskers he had on his face; three on each cheek.

This was Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto was currently arguing with his Jounin sensei; Kakashi Hatake. Kakashi was a man that stood at a height of 5'11. He had silver hair that spiked straight up, and then leaned to the side. He had one black eye, the other being covered by his ninja head-band, and his entire lower face was covered by a dark-blue face mask. His attire was made up of the common Jounin uniform: a navy-blue body suit, regulation ninja sandals, and an olive-green flak jacket that signified him as above genin rank.

Naruto had come to the hospital in search of his sensei, hoping to receive training for his upcoming match against former rookie of the year Neji Hyuga. The blonde had promised to defeat his fellow Leaf ninja after the Hyuga boy nearly killed his own cousin; Hinata Hyuga, a former classmate of Naruto's. However, when he arrived at the hospital, and finally asked his teacher, the man had said "no".

Which has lead to now.

"Naruto I can' spend time training you because I'm going to be spending most of my time with Sasuke. His opponent is very dangerous, and he'll need all the help he can get if he even hopes to survive, let alone win." Kakashi said.

"But what about me?! My opponent's dangerous too, or did you forget he was the Rookie of the Year beforeSasuke? That guy's good sensei, probably better than Sasuke, and I need help if I'm gonna keep my promise to Hinata and beat him." What had started out as a whining complaint had settled into a low-toned plea for help. But as he looked into his sensei's eye, Naruto could see the man wasn't moved.

"I'm sorry Naruto, but I just can't help you. Your opponent's not aiming to kill you, and, this will be a good lesson for you; don't make promises you're not sure you can keep." With this, the man dropped his head back to read his smutty novel and began to walk away, in the direction of Sasuke's room.

Naruto looked on as his only real hope of beating Neji walked farther and farther away, each step echoing in the blonde's ears, resonating the word "loser" over and over again. Dejected, Naruto hung his head, but before he could leave the hospital a voice called out to him. "Excuse me, did I just hear that man call you 'Naruto'?"

The blonde turned his head and saw a nurse walking towards him. She was an average-looking woman, with shoulder-length brown hair and plain features. She was garbed in standard hospital attire, a white blouse and skirt, with blue ninja sandals. Confused about what she'd want with him, Naruto replied, "Yeah, I'm Naruto, why?"

"Well, when that Hyuga girl was carried in here by our staff I was one of the nurses called to help stabilize her condition. As I was preparing to put the breathing mask over her face, she whispered "Naruto-kun". I was actually just going to the Hokage's office to ask for your whereabouts; I figure you must be important to that girl if you were on her mind in such a trying time."

Everything around Naruto seemed to haze out, becoming nothing but a blur of colors, as his mind contemplated the story this nurse just told him. Could he really be that important to Hinata?

'I-It's probably nothing like that. I-I was the last person she saw before she passed out, so of course I'd be on her mind while she's unconscious, s-she doesn't care about me like that.' But before he could wallow any deeper in self-pity, Naruto was shaken out of his mind by the nurse.

"Excuse me but, you are the Naruto I'm looking for right? If you are, can you please come with me, I'd be more than happy to show you to Miss Hinata's room."

Naruto looked up at the woman in front of him and nodded slowly. This made the nurse smile, and take hold of the blonde genin's hand. As she began to walk Naruto's feet dragged underneath him, his mind a whirlwind of anger and confusion; anger at his sensei and confusion about what the nurse had told him.

It wasn't long before the two of them arrived at a light, cream-colored door with a small, rectangular window. The nurse looked inside and grimaced a little.

"Oh, it looks like her team is in there with her right now, would you be uncomfortable going in there to see your girlfriend while they're here? I could ask them to step out for a moment."

Naruto's cheeks exploded in color as he stammered a response, "Uh, y-yeah, sure. B-But don't mention me, just say you have to...run some tests or something."

The nurse looked at Naruto in confusion, "But, how will you get in?"

"I'll just henge to look like I'm part of the wall, then, when they go back to the waiting room, I'll come inside." Getting a slow nod from the woman, Naruto proceeded with his plan and in an instant, it looked as if he were never there.

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he nurse just shrugged, figuring it was a ninja thing she wasn't really meant to understand, and proceeded inside.

Kurenai had followed after the medics as they carried Hinata out of the arena. After being assured that her student was going to survive, the ruby-eyed Jounin made her way to the room that held her other injured genin.

Upon arriving, Kurenai was informed that Kiba had only suffered a broken nose and a mild concussion from his face impacting with the arena's tile floor. After collecting Kiba the two made their way back towards Hinata's room, where they saw Shino waiting outside the door.

The trio had been watching the young Hyuga rest for the remainder of the preliminary rounds. None of them had heard Naruto's blood oath, and were unaware of the blondes presence outside the door; their emotional state clouding their senses. So they each jumped when a nurse entered the room.

"Excuse me, but, I'm going to have to ask you all to go back into the waiting room for a few minutes; I need to check a few things off about Miss Hyuga's condition. I'll come get you when I'm finished." The team, not seeing anything wrong with the woman's explanation, nodded in agreement and made their way out the door.

As they turned and walked down the hallway, Kurenai's red eyes made a quick turn in the direction of the wall before setting back to looking straight ahead; it took all she had not to let her smile show.

After the trio turned the corner Naruto dropped his camouflage and walked into the room they'd just been occupying. "Thanks for this, I just thought it'd be embarrassing to talk to her with those guys still in here ya know?" The blonde reached his hand back and scratched his head nervously.

The nurse looked over to the orange-clad blonde and smiled, "-giggle- Think nothing of it, I'm more than happy to lend a hand to those young and in love."

Naruto felt his cheeks flame in embarrassment at the "L-word" as he replied, "U-Uh, yeah, I-I...um, t-thanks lady." The normally chatty blonde was thrown completely off his game from the nurses teasing.

Seeing that she'd made the young boy uncomfortable, the nurse just sent the blonde another smile before seeing her way out. As she reached the door she turned and said, "You've got about five minutes, so I hope you make them count."

After he heard the door close, and waited until he could no longer hear the older woman's steps in the hall, Naruto shuffled over to the downed Hyuga's bedside.

Naruto let his eyes travel the length of the hospital bed, taking in the sight of the broken girl that lay in it. Hinata currently had a breathing mask over her face, due to to Neji's attack on her lungs, and her body, what he could see of it, was covered in bruises. The young girl's normally gentle, lavender eyes were shut due to the sedatives the doctor had no doubt given her to help Hinata sleep though her procedure. Naruto's eyes stopped when they reached the girl's shoulders, because that's where his sight was blocked by a sheet.

Ocean-blue eyes glistened with un-shed tears as Naruto spoke, "Hinata...I'm so sorry. I-I shouldn't have told you to keep fighting, not when you were already in such bad shape. I just...I wanted you to prove that jerk wrong, prove that you were every bit as strong as he was, and that you did it without being some...natural born genius. I-I let my own jealousy towards Sasuke, and Neji, and other geniuses get the best of me and I tried to have you be the one to show the world that hard work can beat natural talent...but all I did was almost get you killed. And I...I wont blame you if you never forgive me, just, please, know that I'm truly sorry for what's happened to you."

As he spoke Naruto allowed his hand to come up and brush through Hinata's soft hair, while he knelt down to get a better look at the girl who'd given everything she had to beat her "superior" in battle and defy fate.

Looking over to the clock on the wall, Naruto noticed he was almost out of time, so, as he stood up, the blonde leaned down and gently pressed his lips to Hinata's forehead before whispering,

"I don't know how, but, I will beat Neji in the finals; and when I do, I hope you're there in the crowd to see it."

With his piece said, the blonde decided that leaving through the front door was too risky, and he made his way out the window. He never saw the girl's eyelids flutter open.

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After leaping from the window Naruto found himself wandering aimlessly through the village of Konoha. While he had reaffirmed his promise to Hinata, he still had no way of making sure he could keep it. Any noteworthy teacher was either training one of their students for the exam, too busy to help him, or didn't like him because of the Nine-Tails.

"Man, what am I going to do? If I don't come up with something quick, I won't be able to keep my promise," Naruto dropped his head as he came to a horrible possibility, "What if...what if Kakashi-sensei was right, and, this is a lesson so I never make promises I can't keep? What if Neji was right, and I am supposed to lose...that also means, I probably won't become the- ouch!"

In his state of self-destruction Naruto failed to watch where he was going, and had run into the side of a building. Lifting is head, Naruto allowed his eyes to take in the sight of the building he'd ran into...and he wasn't impressed.

The building looked as if it'd been abandoned. It was only a single story, but the windows had been boarded up and the door was closed off through use of two-by-fours. Naruto could see that the place had once been a white building, but years of no maintenance has seen that cloud into a grimy, sickly yellowish-gray color. The roof was flat and square, but the gutters were covered in rust, and some were even hanging down broken. The building was nothing impressive, but looking around, Naruto shouldn't have expected it to be; he was in the slums of Konoha.

However, what caught Naruto's attention, was the fact that the Leaf village wasn't known for having abandon buildings; everything was used and recycled. If a business went under or someone actually left Konoha, their building or residence was turned over to the Council, and they decided what was to be done with it. For this building to just be let sitting here, something had to have happened inside.

'I wonder, what could have been so bad, that the Council didn't re-purpose this building?'

That was the main thought in the blondes head as he stepped closer to the structure, and placed his hand on one of the boards blocking the doorway. Wanting to see inside the young Uzumaki began to pull on the hunk of wood...only for it not to budge. Narrowing his eyes in determination, this time Naruto planted his foot on the door, and pulled with both hands.

Still nothing.

Letting go of the piece of wood, Naruto looked at his reddened hands, and frowned. How was he gonna hope to beat a former Rookie of the Year if he couldn't even pry a stupid piece of wood off a door?!

Then the blonde genin remembered something, if one of him couldn't do it, what about three? Placing his hands in his favorite hand-sign, Naruto used his signature jutsu and soon had two identical copies of himself standing on either side of him.

Looking between the two clones Naruto said, "Alright guys, our mission is to pull those pieces of wood," he pointed at the sealed door, "off that door and get ourselves inside."

The clone on the left arched an eyebrow and asked, "Uh, boss, why are we gonna do that? It just looks like a beat up old building to me."

"Because," the original replied, "the village wouldn't just leave a building sitting around unless there was something dangerous or wrong with it, and we're gonna find out what that something is."

This time it was the clone on the right that spoke up, "But boss, that makes no sense! Why do we wanna go looking for trouble with something even the Council doesn't wanna play with?"

"And what if that something could help us beat Neji? Look, if you guys wanna be wimps about it, then just dispel yourselves after we get this door open and I'll go in by myself."

The two clones looked at each other, then to the door, and then back at one another before replying in unison, "Works for us."

So the three orange-clad blondes moved towards the barred entrance, they each took hold of the first piece of wood and pulled. It took a moment, and almost looked like it wasn't going to work, before the combined strength of the three Naruto's managed to pry off the wooden beam.

The original huffed as he said, "Alright guys, now for the next one," and they once again moved forward. It took them a little longer because they were sore, but eventually, the two clones and their creator managed to pull away the last barrier between them and the entrance to the abandon building.

"Well, guys, it looks like we're-" Naruto was cut-off by the sound of his clones popping, and leaving him alone. "Ingrates", he muttered as the blonde moved forward. Once he reached the door Naruto noticed just how durable the entrance really was.

With the wooden beams removed his blue eyes noticed a key-pad in the center of the door; there was no nob or handle. The material of the door wasn't wood, but some type of metal, one that had yet to be effected by rust...like it was new.

'But, that doesn't make any sense...unless' Naruto thought as he looked behind himself at the wooden beams; they too were fairly new. Looking back at the key-pad the Uzumaki had a stroke of luck, there was dust built up on the keys, showing him what buttons were pressed to open the door. Smirking in satisfaction, Naruto punched in a code...and was answered by a loud buzzing noise.

"What?! But I...oh, wait, it might be a different combination of these keys." And so there he stood, for over an hour, punching in combinations until finally...a sheet of metal slid down over the key-pad.

Naruto gripped his head in frustration, how could opening a door be so complicated?! However, this only strengthened the blondes belief that something valuable was inside, and that made him even more determined to find out what it was.

Deciding to try another angle, Naruto began to walk around the building. He didn't bother with the windows, because if the door was so well fortified, the windows were probably impossible. He circled his way to the back of the building, and face-palmed when he noticed a back door that was standing open. "You have got to be kidding me!"

Naruto walked inside, but jumped when the door closed behind him, and the 'hiss' of gas being jetted from the air-vents alerted him to the knowledge that it was a trap. At first the blonde placed his nose and mouth into his elbow, but then, he remembered that the Nine-Tails kept him from being effected by dangerous gasses. Knowing that he'd be fine, Naruto lowered his arm and went back to exploring the building.

He didn't go very far. The young genin found that the building was made up of a large, empty space with a giant, rectangular, metal box in the middle. It had a seem down the middle and a pad with a singe button on the side. Naruto noticed that the button had a downward triangle in the center.

Naruto's curiosity got the better of him and he moved towards the box. He pressed the button, but was agitated when nothing happened. Folding his arms in front of his chest, the blonde Uzumaki pouted for a moment...until a soft 'ding' echoed through the building and the box opened up. Again, Naruto followed his curiosity and entered the box.

Once inside he noticed that the walls were lined with stained wood, and there were metal railings lining three of the four walls; the fourth being the entrance. Looking up he noticed that the ceiling was covered in large, white pieces of plaster-like tile. A strange noise drew Naruto's attention to the entrance, which was now closing! A few seconds after the box closed, the blonde felt his stomach flop as the strange contraption seemed to move.

A minute of listening to a strange whirling sound, and then the box opened up again; this time to a long hallway. Afraid of what might happen if he stayed in the strange device, Naruto shot out of the metal box and into the hallway. He looked ahead and noticed a single door against the wall, this one seemed to be a regular lock-and-key style.

The blonde walked through the dimly-lit space until he reached the door, he looked back and noticed that the metal box had closed again. Seeing the same button as before, only this one with an upward arrow, Naruto let is mind relax. Turning back to the door Naruto decided that his best bet was just to kick it down...so he did.

At first, Naruto thought he heard a high-pitched 'yelp' when he kicked down the door, but he let that thought slip from his mind when he noticed what he'd found.

The room he discovered was, like the hallway, dimly-lit. But there was also an ethereal, blue glow coming from several screens that he recognized as computer monitors. There were rows of them on several tables. Naruto also noticed that there were shelves with numerous jars; each containing an organ he remembered seeing in his textbook back when he was an academy student.

The blonde let his ocean-blue eyes sweep across the rest of the room before he noticed two more doors; one had glass on the upper half with a name across it, while the other was a plain, brown, wooden door like the one he'd just kicked down.

Deciding to check the glass door first, the blonde moved over and read the name. "Mayuri Kurotsuchi," Naruto whispered to himself. He'd never heard the name before, but it sounded like someone who could have been a citizen of Konoha before the Nine-Tailes attack; the man was probably one of the many casualties. Figuring that a dead man wouldn't care about what happened to his lab, which Naruto figured was what he was standing in, the blonde brought his elbow up and smashed it through the glass.

This time Naruto was sure he heard a strange noise, but chose to ignore it since whatever it was seemed to be leaving him alone for the time being. With the glass shattered, the orange-clad blonde reached his arm in and unlocked the door. After pushing the door open Naruto made his way inside and looked around.

The office had a large, wooden desk in the center of it that had a table lap, and was covered in stacks of papers; papers that were tinged with yellow, showing their age. Along the brown walls were various charts about the human body, most of which were very in-depth and detailed, while others were like something you;d see in a science class.

Naruto also noticed that there were awards along the walls as well; all related to this Kurotsuchi's contributions to biological science. Looking down at the floor the blonde saw that it was covered in black carpeting, and that several sheets of paper were scattered around the room.

Turning his head to the right Naruto noticed another desk, this one with a personal computer setting on to of it. Deciding that it was worth looking through, the blonde Uzumaki walked over and sat down at the desk.

Moving the mouse around the pad Naruto's eyes were assaulted by the blinding glow of the computer monitor, it took the young genin a moment to blink away the spots in his vision but once he did, they widened in shock. There, as the background for the desktop, was a picture of two people.

A young woman...and a young Orochimaru!

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A/N: Okay, so, this is the long over-due 1st chapter to a request I was given by jacke44. It's a Naruto/Bleach crossover and it will be a harem.

The Naruto in this story will be Dark, but not evil...kind of like a gray area type of thing, and the harem will consist of: Hinata, Nemu, Anko, Ino, Soifon, Nanao,Momo, Rangiku. by Young Napoleon22