Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters involved with it. Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishomoto (Although I wish it wasn't).

Chapter One: Naruto?

Sakura thought that her day could not get any worse, first Tsunade-shishou dumped all her paperwork for the hospital on her, like I don't know that she is going gambling, and then two of her patients died while she was operating on them, and now after finally getting home and wanting to enjoy a little food she discovered that her fridge was practically empty, I guess this is one of the downside of moving out of my parent's home so here she was now in the supermarket down the street from her apartment getting food when she caught a glance of Ino in the aisle in front of her and made her way there.

"hey, Ino-pig what are you doing here this time of night?"

"Oh! Hi forehead, I'm just getting food, with all the work in the hospital I don't have anything in my house that's edible"

"Huh! Me too, all I had in my fridge was an expired disgusting cup-ramen and a jar of pickles"

"don't let Naruto hear that or you'll never here the end of his whining about you insulting the food of the gods"

"yeah! You're right about it but if it'll get him here faster then I'll insult his dream of becoming Hokage too"

Ino chuckles and says" you miss him that much huh?"

"yeah, no matter how annoying he is at times he is still my teammate and friend of course I'll miss him"

"then I have news for you Sakura!"

"What news?"

"I was delivering some papers to Tsunade-shishou when I overheard— "

"you mean eavesdropped?" Sakura said with a condescending tone.

Ino gave her an annoyed look and said "do you want to hear it or not?"

"yeah, yeah get on with it I'm hungry and running out of curiosity for your tale"

"Okay! I was saying I overheard Tsunade-shishou and Shizune talking about Naruto and that he'll most definitely be here tomorrow"

"really?! That's wonderful news I wonder if he has changed at all during these three years"

"Well, if nothing else he'll most definitely have gotten taller"

"Yeah, you are right but I can't really picture a tall blonde guy in an orange jumpsuit yelling I'll be the next Hokage Dattebayo!"

Ino with a smile on her face said "really? I can picture it quite alright but believing it is another matter"

"Well it was nice talking to you Ino but I better get going before I die of hunger"

"yeah! go, I'll see you tomorrow at the hospital, bye forehead"

"Bye Ino-pig"

It was late at night and Sakura was getting ready to go to bed when she started thinking about tomorrow and what it'll bring and as she was lying in bed she thought to herself no matter what tomorrow will definitely be a better day than today.

Konohamaru had a lot on his mind today, on top of trying to better improve his Oiroke no jutsu and helping Udon with his chakra control he really didn't have any time for himself today and while he was wallowing in how cruel the world is for taking away his freedom he saw an orange and black blur rush pass him and go on top of the electric poll in the middle of the street, so he squinted his eyes to see what or who it was, when he suddenly realized "It's N-"

"Get ready Konoha, UZUMAKI NARUTO IS BACK"

Tsunade was not having a good day and the amount of new paperwork that Shizune was dragging in and putting on top of the old ones were already giving her a headache.

"Shizune! What did I tell you? You don't bring in any new paperwork until I've finished the old ones, that was like the first rule I stablished as Hokage and you never seem to abide by it"

"Well! Tsunade-sama if I listen to all your rules then we'll never get any work done"

"But what about my-"she was about to go on more so at least she could get a break from looking at papers all day when someone burst in the room, alerting the anbu (who, she stopped with a raise of her hand) to not attack the intruder.

"Naruto! look how tall you've gotten"

Naruto started pouting and said "OH! Come on Baa-chan is that all you guys think about? Sakura-chan said the exact same thing when she saw me"

Now that Tsunade was looking more carefully she could see Sakura standing behind him with a smile on her face.

"Stop pouting Brat, it's not our fault you were such a squirt, so where is Jiraya?"

"Where do you think Baa-chan?"

Of course the bathhouse! Does that man child ever start acting his age? Now that she was looking more closely Naruto had changed a lot, on top of getting taller he was more broad shouldered, guess he got that from Kushina's side of the family! He was a lot leaner when he was a kid so I thought he'll grow to be like Minato but guess I was wrong, he has more black in his clothes too, I just hope that pervert hasn't neglected his training and he is ready for the dark future ahead of us which reminds me. "Naruto there is a test you'll have to take"

"What test Baa-cha?"

Tsunade and Shizune came out of the trees with Jiraya by their side clapping on the outside but on the inside Tsunade was boiling with rage, the test is over and what a test it was, Sakura performed exactly as I was expecting but Naruto's performance was lacking by a huge margin, she took a side glance to her perverted teammate and saw him smiling and chatting with Naruto and Kakashi about the brilliance of Naruto's plan and she recoiled in disgust, how can he think that was a good plan? The whole point of this test was to determine the level of strength Naruto possesses and he still hasn't mastered the reasengan, what has that idiot been doing with the Brat for three years? He is nowhere ready to face any of the A-

"WHAT THE FUCK?"

Naruto suddenly lunges toward Sakura and grabs her throat and tries to choke her lifting her of the ground with a vicious look on his face, Kakashi and Jiraya run towards them and kick Naruto away while Sakura drops to the ground grabbing for her throat, Naruto stands up with blood running from his eyes, nose and ears, with a look of pure hatred directed towards them, there is a loud POP and Naruto's left arm is destroyed in a shower of blood, he stumbles forward still semi upright and lifts his remaining arm towards the kneeling Sakura, blood gushing in foamy bobbles out of his mouth while he is trying to say something.

"I..f onl..y I had m..ore ti..me"

There are several more loud POPs and all that is left of Naruto is a patch of blood soaked grass.

It was night and Ino was walking down the street towards her apartment thinking how weird to day had been with shishou running all over the hospital with Jiraya-sama and Kakashi-sensei in tow and how evasive they've been when she asked what was going on? She was wondering about these things when she saw Sakura slumped on the front door of her apartment looking like she was on the death's door-step.

"Hey forehead! What are you doing here did Naruto not come back today like I said he would and now you're moping around?" nothing came out of Sakura but a snort and she remained seated completely still. So she knelt down too look her in eye and what she saw made her recoil in horror, Sakura's eyes were completely dead and it reminded her of the time Sasuke left and she only got out of her funk because Naruto was around, but now she didn't know what to do? So she did the only thing that came to her mind and opened the door, letting Sakura drop inside, but still Sakura didn't move and was just lying there so she picked up her friend, closed the door and put her on her couch, then she went to take a shower.

Sakura was just lying motionless on Ino's couch still in disbelief of what had been discovered today about someone she thought she knew, someone she thought was her friend but to discover that all this time he was nothing but a… but a… but a... but a…

Sakura was looking down with horror onto what used to be her friend, her teammate but now all that was left of him was a really dark patch of blood how could have this happened? Why did he attack me? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

"SAKURA SHUT THE FUCK UP" Tsunade yelled at her.

Was she talking out loud?

She looked to her left and saw Jiraya-sama and Kakashi-sensei talking among each other like someone they loved hadn't just died and they were discussing it like it was something to be discovered, what were they even saying?

"Jiraya what do you think?"

"Well! Hime there is no doubt that it is a blood-clone but none that I have ever seen before and to expire like that so suddenly…"

"Yeah, exactly what I think! For it to expire like that… and look at the discoloring of the blood but it's not possible for a blood-clone to last this long for the blood to turn this dark, Sakura take a sample of the blood to the labs for an estimate on its age, Sakura! SAKURA! Are you listening to me?"

"umm, yes shishou I will.…., what?"

"I said take a sample of the blood to the labs for an estimate on its age"

"right, I'll get on that right now" she slowly made her way to her bag where she kept some extra samples" to take a sample of the death Naruto's blood, NO! the blood-clones blood, Naruto's blood clone, just what is happening?

Jiraya was frowning at the clone's remains probably thinking, was the kid I watched grow up ever real? And that's another thing that worries me how can a blood-clone grow? It doesn't have any organs to grow, it needs a set instruction on how to grow, what is Kakashi doing rummaging in there for?

"Kakashi, what are you doing?"

"I thought I saw something before Naru.. I mean the blood-clone exploded and I think I saw it around here, Yes! Here it is." Kakashi was holding a blood soaked tag of some sort and her grandfather's necklace and bringing them over and then handed them to her,

"here you go Tsunade-sama" I put the necklace in my haoris pocket without a thought and then looked at the tag, most of it it was unreadable but I could see some sort of description here.

H-ght: 5.- B-d sh-ered b-l-e e-y-s and as she kept reading the horror unfolded right before her eyes.

"Jiraya! Come here and take a look at this, it's worse than I thought, the Naruto we knew and loved, the brat you saw grow up was nothing but a LIE.

Preview:

A single gigantic eye opened and a blood red pupil looked at the intruder with interest,

It is finally time for me to hold up my end of the bargain, Kyuubi.

Author's note: I finally got to writing this story and I'll appreciate any kind of criticism and as you can see the premise of it is a Naruto who isn't Naruto and I hope I can do this story justice and I'm only going to say this once: the picture on the story isn't mine and I found it on google, so if anyone know who it belongs to please do tell me and I 'll give credit in the summary section.

TNX for reading.

K.D Out**