"This place is pathetic." An old man in a standard wizarding robe muttered to himself as he glanced at his surroundings. He was standing in a ruined throne room.

"Master?" A small grey goblin with one eye and a cane hobbled next to him.

"You all have turned pathetic over the years, Gnarl, and I have grown bored of you." Gnarl frowned, but said nothing. "I will go out for a year or two and take care of a few things. You go and take that weakling that fell down the tower and make him a new Overlord. Let him worry about cleaning up the mess." The old man disappeared.

"Gnarl? What are we to do now?" A blue gremlin walked next to the old one.

"I don't know Lucien." Gnarl put his hand on his chin, deep in thought. "But we have to do something. Any more of this and the balance will be destroyed. Ah, I got it." He grinned. "We'll find someone else to become the Overlord."

"But who?"

"There was a rumor of a powerful being sealed inside a child fifteen years ago in a faraway village. We'll send a couple of Browns and check out his potential. Prepare the Library." The blue goblin nodded and walked away.


"I'm what?" In the village of Konoha a couple of days later, Naruto was summoned to the office of Tsunade Senju, the Godaime Hokage, who was brought almost to tears at this point.

"I'm sorry Naruto-kun, but there was nothing I could do." She looked at the blond who was now sitting in the chair opposite of hers, with his hair cast over his eyes. "They got support from the daimyo, I still don't know how."

"And so they banished me? Right after I got their precious Last Uchiha back." He sighed. "You know, I figured something like this might happen, but still, to hear it point blank…" He shook his head and got up. "Give me some time to pack up and say goodbye to a few people and I'll leave." He walked out the door slowly, hands in his pockets.


Naruto walked out of his old apartment half an hour later with a single scroll in his hands carrying what little possessions he had. He came to a door and knocked.

"Ah, Naruto, come in." A woman in her mid-thirties opened the door.

"Thank you Yoshino-san." He smiled half-heartedly at her and entered the house. He saw his best friend from childhood, Shikamaru, and his father, Shikaku, sitting at the kitchen table. Yoshino made a pot of tea while Naruto sat next to them.

"Dad just finished telling us of the meeting. Troublesome." Shikamaru grunted.

"You said it." Naruto snorted in annoyance. "I always hoped they wouldn't actually do something stupid like this."

"Troublesome idiots. I don't know what they did to get the Daimyo to agree." Shikaku shook his head. "Just so you know, every one of us Clan Head tried to object."

"Yeah, I figured." Naruto smiled to himself, sipping the last of the tea before he stood up. "I just came to say goodbye. Thanks for everything you've done for me over the years." Naruto bowed to the three Nara clan members and left.

"Ugh. This whole situation is troublesome." Shikamaru stood up and headed for the stairs, but was stopped by his father throwing him a set of scrolls and his mother giving him a firm hug.

"Just be sure to take care of him honey." His mother said.

"Yeah, you know he can't do it himself." His father added.


Naruto stood in the street alone for a couple of minutes after leaving the Nara clan compound and, figuring he said all he needed to, walked over to the nearest village gate. When he got there he was surprised by Shizune, Tsunade, Kakashi and Jiraiya all waiting for him.

"You ready brat?" Jiraiya asked as he put a hand on his shoulder.

"As I'll ever be, I guess." The white-haired man grinned and gave Naruto two scrolls.

"Here, this is everything I could find on Fuinjutsu. Learn it. Kid, it'll be extremely useful."

"And the second one?"

"Seeing as how you're being banished." Jiraiya's eyes hardened. "And the Toads are exclusively a Konoha summon, Gamabunta is being forced to cut off the contract."

"I was afraid of that." Naruto wiped a lone tear. "Say bye to Bunta and Kichi, will you?" The older man nodded.

"Anyway, as I was saying, I got you this contract. I don't know what it's for, but I'd wait until I was in a safe location to try." Naruto nodded and surprised Jiraiya by giving him a hug.

"Thanks for everything you did Sensei."

"Yeah, sure, now you call me that." He was elbowed in the ribs by Tsunade.

"I got you this." She handed him a very big scroll. "It has everything from your parents' house."

"Everything."

"Well, no, not really, I stopped at the wallpaper." Naruto mirrored her grin. "But I was able to get everything you'd need before they could think of requesting your stuff. Then I set an explosive tag that'll go off when you leave the village." Jiraiya looked at her in wonder.

"Oh, that's so evil."

"I know." The two watched as a teary-eyed Shizune almost squeezed the life out of Naruto, followed by Kakashi who put his hands on his shoulders.

"Hey, maybe I'll see you guys some other time." Naruto turned his back to the village and left through the gate. As soon as he got both feet to the other side, a massive explosion was heard in the distance. Naruto grinned and waved to the others, without looking back.


An hour later, Naruto had reached the Valley of the End, the place where Fire Country gave way to Wind.

"To Suna?" A voice on his left asked. Naruto turned to see Shikamaru leaning on the very last tree in the forest.

"What are you doing here?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Going with you. What else?" Naruto tried to argue but gave up when Shikamaru shot him a look.

"So, deserting the village, are you?" Two Anbu units with blank masks appeared around them.

"Root. What does Danzo want this time?" Naruto asked the one in front of him.

"Danzo-sama has charged us with the task of terminating the Kyuubi." All of the Root members went through hand seals too fast and, before either Shikamaru or Naruto could react, they were hit with numerous Ninjutsu and sent tumbling down the canyon.


You know, this seemed like a good idea after playing Overlord for the tenth time. And it still does now. On the other hand, I'm working on all my other stories so that I can update them at once. But you should just expect an update for this one first.

And as I said before, until further notice the graduation age for all my fics is 15.