I Do Not, in any way, shape or Form, own any of the characters. Except the one's I make up. Masashi Kishimoto

Story: Naruto: Kakuzu's Apprentice

Written by- Narutofan90000

Enjoy.

Kakuzu stood in his hiding spot, watching the Konoha ninja give their all to hold back the giant demon fox, Kyuubi.

"Hold it until Lord Hokage is ready!!" One of the ninja shouted, throwing fuma shurikens at the beast. The monster batted the Kunai aside, as if they were nothing more than insignificant flies. Snarling, the Kyuubi decimated the forces in front of him before more took their dead comrade's places.

"Lord Hokage has arrived!" One of the messengers shouted, informing the troops to fall back.

Kakuzu, not really caring about the danger, stayed put, watching in awe as a man astride a giant toad fought the Kyuubi on par, before managing to seal it in the body of a small child in his hands.

The large toad dispelled, leaving the dying man to fall to the ground from fifty stories, child in hand.

Kakuzu, having gained respect for the man who managed to take out such a demon, caught him as he fell.

The dying Minato looked up and saw his savior's headband. Seeing that the man had no affiliation to the leaf, and may give Naruto a chance to live, was all the motivation Minato needed.

He handed Kakuzu his son. "Please, take care of him." Minato pleaded, as he coughed up blood.

Kakuzu was torn. Still pissed about his failed attempt to assassinate the first, and the possibility of taking on an apprentice, one who could eventually learn to control the demon inside of him, coupled with Kakuzu's skills, would make the boy invincible.

Kakuzu sighed heavily, before taking the frail infant from his dying father's arms. Searching the fallen Hokage's pockets, he found a letter. Opening it, he skimmed the letter quickly before nodding and putting it back in the envelope.

Walking away, Kakuzu turned and took one last look at the village, whose previous leader had caused his imprisonment. Cursing his luck, Kakuzu walked away to meet up with his partner, Hidan.

'One day Konoha, My student will crush you.' He vowed as he shunsined the child and himself away.

Hidan sat, waiting for a confirmation on the Kyuubi's whereabouts from Kakuzu.

Kakuzu suddenly appeared in front of Hidan, looking at him briefly before heading into the hotel.

Hidan followed after him. "So, is the Kyuubi there?" He asked, impatient as always.

"Yes." Kakuzu said gruffly.

Hidan prodded a bit more. "Is it still there?" He asked, wanting to know if they could snag the beast while it was weakened.

"No." Kakuzu said, wishing Hidan would drop the subject.

Unfortunately, Hidan didn't grant wishes. "What happened to it?" He asked, having no time for Kakuzu's evasive actions.

"Dead." Kakuzu said, walking away.

Hidan followed after him. "What's in your arms?" He asked curiously, finally noticing the small bundle in Kakuzu's arms.

Kakuzu looked at him. "My new student." He said, dropping the subject.

"What?" Hidan asked, thoroughly confused. "Can I train him too?" He asked hopefully, wishing to spread the will of Jashin.

"No you religious nutcase." Kakuzu shouted from behind the door, causing the baby in his arms to cry. Sighing, Kakuzu opened the door to his room and shoved the baby into Hidan's arms. "If you can make him stop, you can train him to." He relented.

Shutting the door in Hidan's face, he went to sleep.

Hidan stood outside of the room. 'I can do this.' He thought confidently.

He picked the baby up, looking him in the eyes. "Listen here little one, if you keep crying, I'll have to sacrifice you to lord Jashin." Hidan said in a baby voice.

The young baby stopped sobbing and looked at Hidan, something relative to horror in his facial expression, before he started crying again. Hidan sighed, giving up. He brought the child to his room and took out a book on Jashin, reading it to the small baby.

"Then Lord Jashin took the infidels and gutted them, covering himself in their blood before descending back into his domain." Hidan said, closing the book and looking at the baby who was sleeping peacefully. Hidan smiled. 'It's nice to see one so young finding religion.' He thought as he went to sleep. In the morning, Kakuzu woke. Getting up, he went to collect his apprentice and partner. Knocking on the door, Kakuzu waited until a half asleep Hidan opened the door. "We're leaving." He said plainly, before walking into the room, looking for his new apprentice. Seeing nothing, he turned to Hidan. "Where I my apprentice?" He asked dangerously.

Hidan looked at him sharply. "He's our apprentice and he's right there." He said, pointing to a makeshift crib, which was empty. Hidan looked at it in shock. "Where the hell did he go?" He asked, astounded that the child had gotten away from him. Kakuzu ran out of the room, not wishing to lose his protégée.

'Damn Hidan.' He thought angrily, before entering the back area of the hotel. Seeing Naruto, he communicated with Hidan through their Akatsuki rings.

'Found him.' Kakuzu's voice rang in Hidan's head. Hidan rushed to the area where he sensed his partner's chakra. When he got there, he saw a scene that brought tears to his eyes.

'I'm so proud of this one.' He thought happily as he saw the baby with a small crayon, making pentagrams on the ground. Kakuzu rounded on him.

"What the hell have you been teaching him?" He asked angrily, resolving to come up with a name for the child soon. Hidan stood there, his arms in front of him defensively.

"I only read to him about the great lord Jashin." Hidan said defensively. Kakuzu sighed.

"Fine." He said, relenting. "But if he starts sacrificing things at three years old, I'm having you turn down the training." He said sternly.

Hidan was ecstatic. "He'd be a prodigy; Lord Jashin would give him a seat on his underworld council!" He gushed, dreams of his new student achieving levels of worship unseen on this plane of existence. Kakuzu sighed before taking the child and walking away, Hidan following while still caught up in his own little world.

Kakuzu planned on teaching the boy his heart stealer jutsu the minute he was old enough.

After Twelve years of training with Kakuzu and Hidan.

The boy, christened Naruto Uzumaki, walked up to his masters, Hidan and Kakuzu. Bowing to his sensei, he waited for them to speak.

"Naruto, you have completed you training under us and have taken your first enemy heart." Kakuzu said; a small amount of pride in his voice. "We have one last mission before you go on your way." Kakuzu stated; his voice void of emotion once again.

"What is my mission sir?" Naruto asked cautiously, worried about Kakuzu's wrath.

"I wish for you to go to Konoha and enroll in their academy. Once you've gotten stronger than you've ever been before, I want you to call for me and Hidan. Then we shall crush their village!" Kakuzu said, standing up quickly and sending his chair flying back with his quick movements due to his passion at wanting to see the village burn.

Hidan interrupted his monologue. "You may need assistance for this assault; we'll be here, using Kakuzu's cash to build up an army." He said, both of them having left the Akatsuki after killing off Sasori and Deidara, who had managed to stumble upon their apprentice and know what he was. "You should probably gain some allies to join you from outside the village." He said, showing his rarely used intelligence.

Naruto nodded at his master's words, having grown up knowing who he was, he had an extreme hatred for the village and his so called father, who had the nerve to shove a demon in him and make him the target of groups like the Akatsuki. Naruto, upon being dismissed, went to his room to pack, remembering his sensei's last bit of advice.

Flashback

"Remember that deception is a ninja's greatest tool is deception; keep them in the dark of your skills and knowledge." Kakuzu warned his protégée before dismissing him. Naruto gave a curt nod and left, leaving his masters to plan their future invasion.

Flashback end

Naruto sighed, packing his belongings. Once he cleaned his room from top to bottom, taking with him only the essentials, he grabbed the scythe Hidan had made for him on his ninth birthday. Naruto sealed his favorite weapon in his arm seal before finally heading out. Taking one last look back, Naruto smiled, sad to be leaving his home but knowing that in doing so, he would make his masters proud of him.

Heading out, Naruto reached the Outskirts of Konoha where he saw a young boy, being beaten down by two bandits. The young boy was crying and it was easy for Naruto to see from his clothes that the boy came from the Village Hidden in the Mist. The boy was lying on the ground while the two bandits kicked him.

"Maybe if you'd been a good little kid and died with your parents we wouldn't have to do this." Said one of the bandits, pulling out a short sword. Just as he was about to ram the sword through the young boy, a scythe slashed through him. His partner cried in shock as blood sprayed from his partner and hit him in the face, filling his mouth with the taste of blood. Spitting and retching, the second bandit jumped back, falling over the boy. He wiped the blood out of his eyes and saw another young boy, black tentacles pouring out of his arms and into his fellow bandit's body.

"What the hell!" He screeched, backpedaling as he saw a lump traveling through the tentacles before reaching the host. Jumping up, he ran at the boy and shoved his sword in his stomach. Naruto looked at the bandit coolly.

"That hurts you son of a bitch." He said calmly as another pair of tentacles shot into the man, lifting him off the ground. The bandit cried in pain.

"What are you doing to me?" He whimpered, as pain shot through his chest.

Naruto smirked, looking at the man. "I'm taking your heart in order to use it as a failsafe, just in case someone manages to defeat my immortal form given to me by Jashin." Naruto said; smiling as the man screamed in pain as his heart was removed from his body, feeling every agonizing second of it. Suddenly, the tentacles dropped him, leaving his body to shoot blood into the air for another ten seconds as his brain shut down.

Naruto stretched. "Well, that makes four hearts." He said to no one in particular before turning his attention to the young boy.

"What's your name?" He asked as gently as possible, helping the boy into a sitting position, then fixing his ribs with a medical jutsu.

The boy sniffed and wiped his eyes before answering. "Shinwai." He said, still sobbing.

"Please help my mommy and Daddy, they told me to run and I had to leave them over there." The boy said, pointing to an area through the trees. Naruto nodded and, standing up, went through the trees towards where the boy had pointed. The sight Naruto saw was disgusting. The boy's father was nailed to the tree, a sword through his stomach, and the young boy's mother's body was on the ground, half naked with her throat slashed.

'Lord Jashin has no tolerance for rapists.' He thought disgustedly as he spotted a small group of bandits going through the family's caravan. He walked up to the group boldly, killing five with his scythe before the others ever noticed his presence.

The leader jumped up, pulling his sword out of its scabbard.

"Who the hell are you?!" He yelled, demanding an answer.

Naruto smiled before breaking out in full-blown laughter.

"I asked you a question, dammit!" Yelled the leader of the group, a bit wary of a boy who could take down five of his men, then laugh when he was surrounded.

Naruto stopped smirking, suddenly turning serious. "I am the man who shall send your souls to Jashin-Sama for judgment." He said coldly, before shooting his scythe at the group of men, beheading five more before he yanked the rope on his scythe, bringing it back to him. The leader fell behind his three remaining men.

"Take him down!" He shouted at his men.

Roaring, the three men charged forward, only to meet the same fate.

Naruto started walking towards the bandit leader, who was backing away, his sword shaking in his hand as he swung it back and forth rapidly, trying to keep the monster in front of him away.

Naruto walked steadily towards his opponent, throwing his scythe and nicking the man's stomach. Naruto caught his scythe and licked the small amount of blood off before stabbing himself in the foot and creating a pentagram on the ground, using his blood. The bandit leader, scared out of his mind, turned and ran. Naruto smirked as he finished his ritual, and pulled out a spear and shoved it through his kneecap. The bandit leader screamed in pain as his knee was suddenly crushed. He fell to the ground and tried to drag himself away. Naruto laughed as he felt his enemy's pain, which was pure ecstasy to him.

"Where do you think you are going fool?" He asked harshly. "No one escapes Jashin-Sama's wrath, especially after crimes as heinous as what you have done." Naruto said coldly as he yanked the spear out of hi knee, causing his enemy to scream in pain.

"Please, let me live." The bandit leader begged, hoping to escape with his life.

"For the love of Kami, let me live!"

Naruto suddenly exploded. "You dare use the name of that filth in the presence of a warrior of the great Jashin?!" He asked, outraged as he shoved the spear through his chest. "Where is your false god now HEATHEN?!" He shouted at the dying bandit leader. "Pay for your ignorance, you fool." Naruto said coldly as he pulled the spear out and shoved it through his heart, killing the bandit instantly. Naruto lay in his pentagram, praying to his Lord as he finished the ritual, letting Lord Jashin and the Kyuubi heal his wounds. (Thanks to the Kyuubi and Jashin-Sama, He's never had to use one of his four collected hearts; he keeps them as a back up plan.) Naruto's skin turned back to normal as he stood up and went towards what the bandits had taken from the Caravan. Taking the scrolls and all of the boy's things, along with a few mementos for the boy, he buried Shinwai's parents, praying for their recently departed souls before walking back towards the Shinwai, which he presented with a scroll which he had sealed the boy's family things in.

The boy had stopped sobbing; already knowing what had happened to his parents, but determined not to make them ashamed of him.

Naruto turned to the now quite boy. "So Shinwai, why were you and your parents traveling this way?" He asked, trying to keep the boy's mind off of his recent tragedy and failing miserably.

"We were chased out of Mist because of our bloodline." The boy said bitterly.

Naruto's face took on a surprised look. "Really, what bloodline?" Naruto asked, curious of Shinwai's family bloodline.

"We have the ability to form our bodies into diamond." Shinwai said, proud of his family history. He was only seven and he had been considered a prodigy among his clan.

Naruto smiled at the young boy, offering him a hand. "Why don't you come to Konoha with me?" He asked Shinwai. Shinwai looked up at his savior and accepted his hand gladly. Naruto helped the boy up then, led the two towards Konoha's Gates

Well that was my first chapter for my second story, sorry about the length. Wanted to make it longer, but where's the fun in not using cliffhangers? I'll probably update this story once every other week, as I am still working on the other story,

The Kyuubi's Jailer. See ya next update!

A/N Added a few things to this chapter to make a something clearer.