Master! Master!

The Departure


Naruto Uzumaki had done it. Naruto Uzumaki had managed to keep his promise with Sakura by stopping Sasuke from escaping the Fire Nation. It had been a long and hard battle, but Naruto had managed to pull it off, even after taking a Chidori to the chest, even after Sasuke had declared that he needed to kill his best friend to gain more power, Naruto had still managed to defeat him, by managing to surprise Sasuke with his demonic Rasengan.

"Naruto!" Kakashi arrived at the scene to find Naruto barely able to stay on his feet, but standing victorious above Sasuke, Naruto turned to his jonin-sensei.

"Kakashi-sensei, I did it, I beat Sasuke! I stopped him from leaving the village!" Naruto declared, tears barely being held back as he dropped to his knees, Kakashi was quick enough to stop the boy from falling completely onto his chest, holding the blond in his arms.

"You did a good job Naruto. Words cannot describe how proud I am of you right now." Kakashi told the boy, who smiled at his sensei, barely conscious enough to register the praise. "Come on, let's get you home." Kakashi told the boy, before he picked up the blond and carried him with care, doing the same when it came to Sasuke, only with a slightly tenser grip.


Sakura Haruno was waiting at the village gates feeling desperate, she wanted to know if her two teammates were going to be back together or just one of them on their own with Kakashi or not, it was at this moment after Sasuke had knocked her out to defect to the Sound village that Sakura realized that she may have to change her views on being a ninja, and that she would have to get her hands dirty and train. Normally she wouldn't want to do that, but after seeing Sasuke attempting to defect and Naruto promising her to bring him back with such determination, she couldn't help but feel like she was really badly dragging the time down, and badly.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted as she spotted her sensei, coming back with not one, but both of her teammates over his shoulders, but not going to fast to cause the boys any permanent damage if he could help it. "They're both back, Naruto succeeded." Sakura couldn't help it as tears started to escape from her eyes. "Thank god, he did it! Naruto really did it!"

"I know, and I'm proud of him because of it." Kakashi told his only conscious member of his squad left. "But you know that this means that you will have to do more training than before because of this, don't you? Sasuke left because he felt he was being held back, add to the fact that he was also getting jealous that Naruto was getting stronger as well." Kakashi trailed off. "Never mind, let's get both of your teammates to the hospital."

"Yes!" Sakura didn't know how much happily she could get before now, both Naruto and Sasuke were alright and there was nothing that could ruin this moment now.

How wrong she was.


Despite everything good that had happened with Naruto succeeded in defeating Sasuke and Team 7 being reunited once more, even if Sasuke was completely against it, something had happened during the return of Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. One of the many civilians had seen what Sasuke had ended up as and how badly injured he had been at the end of the fight, and was horrified. Unfortunately due to the fact that most of them didn't know how dire the situation had been, they didn't know that Naruto had been left with no choice but to put Sasuke in that condition just to get him back. This however, didn't stop the civilians from speaking ill about Naruto Uzumaki.

"He should finally get what's coming to him! He's been left alone for far too long, and now look at what's happened! He's nearly killed the Uchiha!"

"The fact that there was only one member of his team that managed to make it back on his own two feet makes it seem more obvious that the fox just attacked them to make sure that he got all of the glory. What is this world coming to, letting people like that run around freely?"

"He should have been killed when we the chance to kill him! Should never been allowed to learn how to use chakra and how to become a ninja, he's just a terrorist in disguise, waiting for the perfect moment to strike us down!"

"Keep your voices down. We don't want to be heard and executed for treason."


"What do you mean they failed!?" A man screeched before he launched several kunai at Kabuto in pure anger. Kabuto managed to dodge the kunai with ease, not even looking the slightest concerned.

"They were all killed in action, Orochimaru-sama, even Kimimaro was killed in the end, and there was nothing that could be done to prevent it when Sasuke himself was beaten by Naruto Uzumaki." Kabuto explained, causing the Snake Sannin to snarl in anger.

"The Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails? I knew that I should have killed him that day in the Forest of Death, consequences be damned!" Orochimaru snapped angrily, holding his head in his hands in pure frustration. "Is there anything else I should know?

"The security of Konoha has tightened ever since Sound 4 managed to sneak in and persuade Sasuke to join us, obviously they don't want to make the same mistake again." Kabuto reported.

"..." Orochimaru didn't say anything at first, but he did seem to be thinking about something instead.

"Orochimaru-sama, is something wrong?" Kabuto asked the Snake Sannin.

"I need some time to think, to plan our next strategy." Orochimaru admitted calmly. "Leave me. I want to be alone."

"Of course, Orochimaru-sama." Kabuto nodded before he left the room, while Orochimaru continued to plan ahead for the next stage to counter the mistake that had allowed Sasuke to slip through his grasp.


Naruto had only just left the hospital recently and he was already seething, all he had done was bring Sasuke back to the village, like Tsunade had told him to do when she gave the mission. Yes his team had been injured, but all he had been doing was following orders that Shikamaru had set into place, no reason for this sort of reaction from the villagers.

"That damn boy! Why did he bring the Uchiha half-dead?" One of the villagers snapped to his friend, not even bothering to keep quiet about his hatred for the boy, due to what he had done.

"Naruto, don't let the villagers get to you." A comforting voice came from above, causing Naruto to look up.

"It's hard Kakashi-sensei, it's really hard." Naruto admitted, sounding almost a little depressed by that announcement.

"But that makes it that more satisfying when you achieve it, does it not?" Kakashi asked the blond, who looked at his teacher in surprise. "Trust me Naruto, I know how you feel, my father was branded a traitor and a disgrace for saving his teammates over completing an important mission, but I never stopped trying to prove myself to everyone."

"..." Naruto stayed quiet. "Thanks Kakashi-sensei, I needed that."

"That's what I'm here for Naruto, to help you and to teach you." Kakashi gave an eye-smile.

"Yeah, I know."

Little did either of them know that this would be the last pleasant conversation that they would ever have inside of Konoha's walls.


Naruto had been doing a lot of thinking lately, more than he thought that he would ever do about anything, but there was something that seemed to make him think about his future, about whether or not he should even be here anymore, why he had bothered to stay here. However, when that thought came up, his friends, his precious people came up, it may not be too much, but they were still there, they still supported him for most part, especially after he had either helped them out, or proven himself to be stronger than before. This made his decision even harder than he wanted it to be. However, he then decided it.

He would leave the village tonight.

There was nothing that would stop him from doing it. He wouldn't back down from it either. There was nothing that could make him change his mind about leaving now, he simply just had enough of the villagers and would tell them all that they should rot in hell for all he cared. Still he could have had an emotional goodbye, only the thing was that he wasn't meant to let anyone know that he was going to leave, so that was out of the question.

So this was what led Naruto to his situation now, slowly making his way towards the village gates, aiming to use the secret exit that he had made between the exams and now, which he had made sure already works, carrying a rucksack and making sure that he would ran as far away as possible, for he wanted nothing to do with this village anymore.

"Naruto, where are you going? Why have you packed your things?" Naruto froze when he heard Sakura's voice calling out the question to him, and proceeded to turn to find that Sakura was indeed on the path to freedom, what were the chances of this happening? "What could possibly be your reason to ..." Sakura's eyes widen in realization, as a horrified look reach her features. "No! No! No! No! No! No! No! Please! Don't tell me you're leaving!" The sheer desperation on her face made Naruto's chest drip tightly. This wasn't supposed to happen, not like this, he couldn't possibly deal with the guilt of leaving her like this.

"I'm sorry Sakura, but this is the way that it's meant to be." Naruto finally spoke for the first time, looking away to the bench that Sakura had been found on when Sasuke had left. How ironic this was for the girl, twice in the same spot she had found teammates just as they were planning on leaving the village for good.

"No! You can't! I won't let you leave Naruto!" Sakura cried, tears flowing down her cheeks freely. "Please! It wouldn't be Team 7 without you! It wouldn't be Konoha without you! I'm begging you don't leave us like Sasuke did! Don't leave me!" Sakura cried. "I'm sorry for everything that I did! I'll try to make it up to you! Just please don't leave!"

"Sakura ... it's not because of you that I'm leaving." Naruto admitted slowly, after trying to find the right words. The pink haired girl froze and looked up at the blond with an astonished look on her face, she truly believed that he was leaving because of her after all the times that she had hit him for pissing her off. "I'm leaving because of the villagers. They act like I was just something from the sewer that needed to be squashed! Like I'm nothing more than a disease that should be destroyed forever because of something I'm not, because they're too blind to see me for what I am!" Naruto snapped at the girl's face, her tears not stopping, if anything getting worse. "All because of what happened to me on the day I was born, all because of what happened on the 10th of October 12 years ago! All because the 4th Hokage sealed the fucking Kyuubi inside of my stomach and ..." Naruto froze, after he realized just what he had blurted out, the very reason that most of the villagers hated his very being.

"They sealed a monster inside of you?" Sakura couldn't help but be shocked, who could blame her? That was the last thing that she had expected to find out about her teammate. "But ... that wouldn't make you the demon! That would only make you the prison that keeps it from killing us all!" Sakura told Naruto with conviction that what she was saying was correct.

"..." Naruto stared at the girl in disbelief... why had see been able to see past the fact that he had a demon sealed inside of him so easily? T-this wasn't supposed to happen! Not like this, why were things going horribly wrong?

"Naruto... I don't care if you have a monster inside your body or not, you're still my friend!" Sakura declared to her teammate, before she hugged him, hoping that he would stay. "Please don't go." She sobbed into his shoulder.

The boy in question had stiffened when his crush had hugged him, even more when she had desperately pleaded that he stayed in Konoha, with her, with Kakashi, with everyone.

"Sakura, thank you for everything, I mean it." Naruto uttered softly. "But I'm sorry things had to end up like this. Goodbye Sakura." Naruto proceeded to knock her out, and gently laid her down on the bench. Her emotional attempt to get him to stay had shaken him in a way that he didn't think that it would, for years he had been trying to get her attention, but now as he was leaving Konoha she tried to convince him to stay, not even caring about the fact that he was the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed fox, it was only making things harder for him.


It had been only a single hour before Sakura was found on the bench by none other than Kakashi Hatake, their sensei. He found it really odd that she would be sleeping on the same bench as the one she had been found on when Sasuke had tried to defect to Orochimaru and had knocked her out. That brought a chill down his spine... what if... what if Naruto was trying to run away? There was hints that he might had been planning it, but that was why he had comforted him, there was also the fact that he had grown fond of the boy, being the son of his sensei had helped obviously, but something about Naruto grew on you.

"Sakura, wake up." Kakashi shook her awake and was treated to the sight of his only female student looking desperately at him.

"Kakashi-sensei! N-Naruto's run away from Konoha! He said something about the villagers not wanting him here and..." Sakura blurted out suddenly, but Kakashi caught all of her words and they shook him to the core.

"Damn! Sakura, go to the Hokage's office and tell her I'm going after Naruto! Now!" Kakashi ordered, causing the girl to stop blurting out words, but not before saying she knew about the Kyuubi, the silver haired man grimaced at those words, knowing that there would be a lot to say later.

"Yes sensei! Please bring Naruto back!" Sakura pleaded with the jonin.

"I can't guarantee anything Sakura." Kakashi admitted, before he disappeared, leaving the genin to run to the Hokage's office to explain what had happened.


Naruto ran as fast as his ninja abilities allowed him to, there was something about the way that Sakura had pleaded to him to stay in Konoha that made him wonder about whether or not he was doing the right thing by leaving his home village, before he shook it out of his mind, there was no time to regret his decision now, not when he had so little time to worry about and so many things that could still catch him out, like the Akatsuki, Orochimaru and other things that he hadn't considered yet, like bandits for one thing.

"Still trying to forget about me, aren't you boy?" There was the Kyuubi as well, which had just made its presence known. "I'm almost hurt, after all that I've done for you, you simply try to erase me like I'm the greatest scum in the existence of mankind, not even worth you attention. But I hold the key to more power, more delicious power that could make you the greatest being in the world, the most feared, the most powerful and the most loved man in the world. All you need to do is throw away your morals, like justice, your love for saving the innocents."

"I'm not listening to you, so don't even bother trying to talk your way into getting what you want." Naruto told the fox bluntly.

"What do I want Naruto? Tell me, what do I, the most powerful creature in the world, want with a little child like you?" Kyuubi demanded.

"A symbol of your power, a sign to show the world that you're still alive, that you're not yet dead." Naruto answered, leaving the fox in silence.

"Very good, I was almost amazed by your intelligence, but then I remembered that you didn't lack intelligence, you merely wanted a lot of attention and did whatever you could to avoid the lectures, the theory side of being a Shinobi." Kyuubi mused.

"So what? You have to admit that it was pointless to learn a lot of things." Naruto pointed out.

"It would be ... if you were a demonic creature that's been alive for thousands of years, but you're not one of those beings, while I am, you ignorant fool." Kyuubi snarled.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you giant fur ball, not like I cared much in the first place." Naruto pointed out.

"You best change your attitude soon boy, or you will piss off the wrong people, mark my words." Kyuubi snapped. "One more thing."

"What?" Naruto lazily looked at the fox.

"You're not alone." The fox sounded almost gleeful with it sound that, much to Naruto surprise, but that wasn't the main concern right now. He had been followed by someone, or at least caught up, but who was it? Who could have found out about his escape from Konoha apart from Sakura? Thinking about her forced the memories of the girl crying, pleading that he stayed in Konoha and not try and do what Sasuke had done before him, there was only so much that he could take, and was already past his breaking point.

"Naruto!" The boy in question paused realizing what the fox had meant before it left him, before turning to find his teacher standing before him. "Please Naruto, I know that I'm not the best teacher of all time, but I will make it up to you, I promise."

"Kakashi-sensei, I'm not leaving because of you." Naruto declared, taking a few steps back. "I'm leaving because of the damn villagers! They want me gone! Well they can have their goddamn wish!" Naruto took another step back, not knowing where he was. "As far as I'm concerned, they can all go to hell! I'm done with th-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Naruto suddenly found himself falling off of a cliff which seemed to have a bottomless hole.

"NARUTO!" Kakashi dived, trying as hard as he could to grab his student, but he missed, their fingers brushed just as Kakashi tried to grab hold of his student. Naruto's shocked look made it all that much worse for the man as he stared at where Naruto was falling, the cliff looked like a bottomless hole now. "No... Naruto... I'm sorry... sensei... I'm sorry I've failed you... and your son."


Down in the hole below, Netherworld

Gnarl sighed looked at the grave of the latest Overlord to have died, the Overlad, though it had been a couple of years ago since he had passed on.

"Such a shame, seeing him die after the death of his daughter, what a shame it was." Gnarl sighed, only to perk up suddenly when he heard some screaming followed by a loud crash. Gnarl made his way as quickly as his old body could to where a blond haired boy was laying in a pile of rubble. He inspected the boy with a curious expression, wondering why to make of the boy before him. An evil grin found its way across his face.

"Such evil energy! Oh I must simply take advantage of this opportunity!" Gnarl looked delighted. "After all, Evil always finds a way."


Hello.

I'm re-uploading the beginning of "Master! Master!" since I am already doing so with my other stories. No, I will not be re uploading the original "A Vampire's Lover", that sucked so much, I want to puke at the idea that I even wrote it in the first place.

Anyway, since I'm off to see my grandparents tomorrow, so I'm uploading this a day earlier than I had planned on doing.

I remember uploading this story before and seeing it being praised for NOT BASHING anyone. That is something I plan on sticking to. I hate stories that bash people for the sake of bashing. You know, the really rubbish stories.

The last time I did this story, I ended up feeling completely hopeless and neglecting when it came to updating this thing. Now, I've got a job and a YouTube channel which I am trying to juggle, along with occasionally making a few chapters every now and again when I find inspiration.

Trust me, finding inspiration is easy, but being able to make the inspiration into something worthwhile is a lot harder than you'd think. I write something and normally end up hating it, if it's longer than a poem.

All I'm concerned about doing is making sure that this story ends up being as good as possible and something that I'd first of all enjoy making.

I do hope that you end up enjoying the story when I end up updating it, be it a long time before it happens, or a short time.

I don't know when I'll update this story, that is something that I have to say.

Until next time, goodbye and goodnight.