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Looking up at the night sky, doing nothing but lying on the yellow-green grass, was quite annoying, especially when you're surrounded by hundreds of dead friends. Suddenly all of the dead sat up and looked at a dead oak tree. 'My first test, easy,' the man thought. He stood up and walked over to the tree while pulling out a kunai and some ninja wire.

He looked at the tree and found the two shuriken that were embedded in tree. He tied the kunai to the shuriken and threw the kunai away from the tree. The shuriken came out and activated a seal on the tree.

The tree burst into green flames and the dead men flinched away from the light. The man waited till the tree was nothing but ash and sifted through it until he found a pouch with scroll in it. He pulled the scroll and opened it.

Gennin if you are reading this then you passed your first test. Please return the scroll to the pouch and drop the pouch in the ash. After this done push a little chakra into the ash.

The man did what the scroll said and went to lay back down on the grass.

The dark-haired man sat up and gasped. "Damn Yamanaka. I thought he fixed that problem." He growled and shunshinned down into the street. "Best go to Sima's shop. My Kusarigama has probably arrived," he said. He walked to the armor and weapon shop. "Hey Sima, you there," he yelled into the back. "I'm right here," said a gruff older voice.

The man turned around slowly careful to not show his surprise. "You got my Kusarigamas?"

"Yeah their behind the counter, just remember to pay me." Sima handed him the weapons. Then took the ryo. "See you later, N"

The man walked to training ground twenty-nine and practiced with the familiar weapons. He turned a wooden pole to mush with a few hits of the iron weight. The man turned around to see sobbing and bleeding bush.

Slightly surprised the man reached into the bushes and pulled out a small, malnourished blonde boy. He knew the child; everyone did. He was Uzamaki Naruto. The man asked who did this and he made ANBU out through the sobs

"Hey guys I found the demon. This guy has h-h-him." The ninja stuttered out. A few moments of pure KI later and the man fainted. N stepped forward and disemboweled the Anbu.

A minute or two later the other anbu showed and saw the man up to his elbows in gore and guts, and wearing a half-mad grin. One of the anbu fainted and the man scoffed. "Rookie" and killed the one who fainted. His smile flickered as he spit out a bit of blood and turned around. The first anbu was standing up with his guts on the floor. Corpse Reanimation jutsu, he pushed the anbu down and he fell on his lungs, which were sown to his shoulder blades.

He killed the man who was using the jutsu and killed the captain with a chakra enforced neck chop. Leaving just one anbu left shocked out how an entire squad of anbu was killed in heartbeats. N just brought up his katana slicing him clean in half.

He picked up Naruto and shunshinned to the Hokage's office still smiling and covered in blood. "Hello Sandaime," said the man, "You just lost an entire squad of anbu who were supposed to protect Naruto but instead attacked him. Their bodies are at training ground twenty-nine." "I wish to adopt Uzamaki-san into my clan," said N, "I have the forms here all filled out and ready to go." N stretched and noticed movement in a shadowed corner. "I need to have your consent, to adopt him because the council would not agree to the boy being adopted," said N in a perfectly calm voice.

N sat down in a chair in front of the desk and slid the papers across. He bled out from his back onto the chair and got the anbu blood on it too. He reclined in the chair, and kept an eye on Naruto.

He slid a kunai down from his coat into his hand and picked his fingers with it.

He sighed and closed his eyes. A minute later the man popped a couple of pills and nursed his headache. "Boy… hey boy, don't go to sleep. You might not wake up," said N, "So how about letting me adopt the boy?" He looked right into the Hokage's astonished eyes.