Saving The World In Nine Days


Nami


A day went by and Naruto was still stuck doing all the D-rank missions by himself. Anko and Orochimaru would always be missing during this time and Naruto wondered what they were doing exactly. Not so much wonder what they were doing in general- he knew about the experiments- but what kind of experiments had they started.

Tenzou was trapped in some kind of laboratory somewhere in Konoha at this time, only afterward would the Hokage discover him. Naruto tried to find the lab but came up short. Naruto never snitched on the two and didn't tell the Third where they were going. It was for this reason that the Snake sannin made a trip near Water country with the two of them.

He wanted to test out Naruto's loyalty, and Naruto could not be happier. "By the way, if we are going to this island where you want to show me something, do you mind if we stop near Wave?"

His sensei looked more than a bit amused and allowed it. His teacher was even more amused when Uzumaki Naruto came back from the ports of Wave with the severed head of a corrupt man named Gatou in one hand, and a pretty raven-haired girl named Tazuna Tsunami on the other hand.

"He saved me from this man's mercenaries! They were going to molest me, but he just came out of nowhere and blasted them. Then he swept me up and said everything was going to be okay. I was so afraid, but he told me that I would live a long life, and he was going to get me out of there."

She wore a simple white t-shirt, but it showed off some impressive developing bosoms. Anko thought her short shorts were way too short.

"Gatou came in with more men, and Naruto beat them in seconds. Then my hero got even more angry and started destroying even more of Gatou's property. He also handed me this packet of money that Gatou has been siphoning off our country." She jumped up and down, making her perky bundles bounce. Anko's eyes followed those breasts with jealousy, she wanted those some day.

"We had a big party for him- that's why it's so late. You're all so lucky to have such a strong ninja like Naruto-san on your team." Tsunami turned to Anko and said, "I am so jealous of you." She kissed Naruto on the cheek and ran back to the harbor of Wave.

"Uzumaki, what was that about?" Anko asked coldly. She was already reaching for her shuriken.

"What can I say? Being a hero is in the blood, so let's go, sensei! Evil mayhem awaits. Not that I think you are up to no good, but if you are, I am not going to tell. No, not me! If anyone finds out that you are doing illegal experiments, then rest assured, the snitch is Anko… Anko please don't get any closer with that shuriken- no- nooo!"


Orochimaru's Base: Sea Country


The first thing Naruto did when Orochimaru took him to his base was to pledge absolute loyalty. He willingly put the girls he kidnapped into the prisons and left them to cry in the metallic cells. Anko did not show any expression while this was happening and had blank eyes. Naruto looked happy doing his job, and even willingly helped torture some of the men that Orochimaru captured.

Orochimaru was so impressed by the blond that he even allowed the boy to look after the prisoners, a test to see how competent he was. Naruto did his job with absolute perfection; it was done so well that Orochimaru allowed the boy to take a look at his further experiments. Naruto didn't show any fear or disgust at this, which caused Anko to get slightly angry and jealous.

Naruto suspected that Anko was not so desensitized to all of this, no matter what she was told. He should have expected as much- she was only thirteen, after all. Even if Naruto did not show how angry he was, that didn't mean that he wasn't furious. Everything Orochimaru made him do tore him up inside: it sliced and diced his calm interior, and created a hot fire that was going to rise to the surface.

Naruto knew full well that if need be, he could take Orochimaru, he had his trump card: both the sage chakra, and the kyuubi's chakra, which mixed together would create something far more terrifying than either of them by itself. Naruto had no doubt that he was a chakra monster, both theoretically, and perhaps factually.

Not surprisingly, the moment he betrayed Orochimaru was one of the most satisfying points in Naruto's life, in his opinion.

"You betrayed me! How could you betray me! After all of those fancy speeches about not believing in good or evil. All of those speeches about being a trusty worthy teammate. In the end, you are nothing but a liar, Uzumaki Naruto. I should never have let you be my apprentice. I should have known you would pull something like this."

"I told him everything, Uzumaki, what you said about me. He won't let you leave here alive," Anko said. She looked slightly guilty.

"Anko, let us leave him to be tortured by my servants, they will not let him get a wink of sleep. They will rip out the bones from your legs, pull the marrow out while you are awake, and violate you in ways that will make the Uchiha prison seem like a daycare centre. Do you see these creatures beside me, these creatures made of scales? This is my base, and this is where I develop my swamp monsters! They will devour you, boy, after turning your flesh into pus."

The tall man left but Anko stood there, hesitant. "You brought this on yourself, Orochimaru-sama is doing nothing wrong. He is doing this for the good of the village. I am not sure he will come back for you though, but he is a good man."

"He is an evil man. He has been keeping a child named Isarabi trapped in stasis for years."

Anko looked uncomfortable. "I don't know why you freed the subject called Isarabi, and honestly I don't care. I want you to know that I hate you. I want you to know that I despise you. You, Naruto, said that he would control me but I see now that it was you who is trying to do the controlling."

"Anko, don't do this." Naruto smile turned grim. He was chained to the wall, but was relaxed, even if he looked beaten up, badly. "Anko, you are better than this. This man is taking in innocent little girls and transforming, no, mutating them into insane beasts. "

"You're lying, Uzumaki," she said, fighting down her intense guilt. He wasn't lying and she knew it.

"He is trying to develop a curse seal that will eventually drive all its users mad. Don't you see that he will place one on you as well? Believe me when I say that I am trying to protect you. You may not know me, but I know you. I have only met you for a little while, but I can see that you are a good person."

Guilt was crawling up her skin like thousands of spiders. This boy said he cared for her, he said it with such conviction that she wanted to scream. She wanted to kill him, if only to stop those beautiful blue eyes from looking at her.

"I can see that you want to protect the village, I can see that you think that protecting the village means to follow Orochi-shitface, but that isn't the case. Please let me go, or if you won't let me go, run. Run as far as you can. "

Her body was shaking. Didn't he think she suspected as much? They had only met, they weren't even friends! Why did he care? It hurt her more that he cared, why couldn't he just be selfish? Why couldn't she hate him? It just wasn't fair. She wanted to despise him but the more he talked, the more tears fell down from her large snake-like eyes.

"Anko, if you help him, you are going to destroy lives!"

For a moment Naruto though he saw the girl almost wail, but she hugged herself. She looked to be in such profound misery that he felt bad for making the girl feel this way. "I will follow my master. He is everything to me. I don't even trust you. Sensei does not trust you, and you know what? That is enough for me. The more I talk to you, the more you are trying to poison my mind. I am leaving you, now."

Naruto panicked, this was going so wrong. "ANKO! Don't walk out that door, to him! He will curse you, if you don't watch your back, he will give you a fate worse than death."

She didn't turn back.

"Listen to me! I am not saying this because I am tied up in chains that I cannot break," he continued to shout, spit flying out of his mouth. He was starting to look like a fox-like beast. "I am saying this as a friend. You may not think we are friends, but I do, I do Anko, and I will not let my friend die. Remember what I said, I love my village, and I love the people in it! ANKO! Don't shut the door, Anko!"

She slammed the door behind her and didn't look back.

Anko was sealed two hours later, and the curse mark spread through her body, and she wailed. In her screams she constantly apologized to Naruto, the boy who tried to save her.


Orochimaru's Base: Cell


Mitarashi Anko wanted to die.

"I trusted you, sensei. I gave you everything I had and more. This is what I get for loving you; this is what I get for believing in you. Why do this to me? Why abandon me?" Her mind was even more of a mess: Why torture me, why don't you love me? Why? Why? Sensei!

"Anko, you were nothing to me. You never were. I have many such as you, and believe me when I say that I do not need another failed product."

"Failed product," the little girl wailed, "is that what I was?"

He smiled. "I can make and break many more of you and I could care less. I may be too harsh, but this is reality. Let me teach you this lesson, it is a good lesson. This will only make you stronger. Hate me, Anko. Your hatred will make you strong."

Anko's eyes lit with such fire, he thought it was going to burn out from her eye sockets.

"That is right Anko, show me that face. That face, I love it! Bare your fangs at me and let the curse seal devour you, that's good. Your blood is boiling, you want to kill me, you want to murder me, you want me to end! DO IT, LET IT TAKE YOU OVE-"

A giant boom interrupted this generic evil rant, spewing smoke and ash. From that concentrated ash came wandering the figure of the boy they had left to torture. He did not look happy. "Anko, I am disappointed in you. I thought things would be different, but I guess I still have to work on how to change people." He shook his mop of blond hair. "Maybe just killing him would have been for the best."

He turned to the stunned snake.

"Oh, you're probably wondering how I got out. Well, take a look at my arms. Here! I will hold them out to you!"

The Snake looked away, and Anko looked at them with horror.

"See, I couldn't break out of the chains, so I cut off my arms by chewing at them. Freaky, isn't it? Don't look so scared, Orochimaru-san, I have you to thank for it."

Blood poured down the boy's clothes. It ran down his legs straight through to his feet. The coppery smell filled the air. His eyes looked dangerous and his breath smelled like death. Every tooth in his maw was sharp, ready to tear, ready to kill. He grinned at the snake with the smile of a predator.

Anko was more afraid of the boy than her powerful teacher, she cried though, seeing the blood continue to drain out of the boy's severed arms. She could see the bone. How much pain he must be in, she had no idea.

"I loved how your beasts tortured me for the past few hours, I loved how they put things inside of my stomach and let the creatures move around, they took out so much of my blood. I am sure that I was left nothing but a rotting piece of skin."

He pointed to the hole in his stomach with a severed arm. To the serpent's amazement, it looked like his arms and the hole were starting to regenerate.

"Don't worry though, I got my blood back, in plenty, when I killed and ate them."


Border of Sea Country


Anko had no idea what happened back in the base. All she could remember was the head of a giant fox trapped in the locked room where Orochimaru stood, or at least, where he stood before the image of the red fox appeared in her flashback.

When she woke up, it was on the back of Uzumaki Naruto. She asked him where his teacher was, and he turned to her and smiled. "In a better place." She didn't like the way his tone sounded so cheerful, she didn't like how his clothes were covered in blood, and she especially didn't like how he was carrying a bag on his shoulder… the same bag he used to carry Gatou's head.

She didn't ask him what was inside of the bag, a part of her already knew, and another part of her was screaming for her to run away from the boy as fast as possible. He had taken everything away from her, everything she had worked so hard to achieve. All of those years hoping to become an apprentice to a powerful ninja, to be somebody! It was all gone, gone like dust in the wind.

She beat on his back, while he carried her back to Konoha. She cried and wept that this was all a terrible dream, but all he would say was it was real, and smile at himself, as if he had played the part of a hero, as if he hadn't crushed her heart.

When he took her back to her home, took her back to Konoha, to a hospital, she told him she wished he were dead.

His reply was simple. "Everybody wishes I were dead, Anko, including me. No wait, especially me! But I am just too stupid to listen!"


Konoha


On the roof the Konoha orphanage three girls were having a nice day. They were talking about the new kid who had moved into the orphanage, and how his contributions had helped them by leaps and bounds. Naruto was a mysterious character at best, and probably a spy at worst, but he was a friendly spy.

The girls had no illusions that they wouldn't have to report the boy's actions to the Hokage soon, considering all the times he would spend training in the forest with S rank Jutsu and sending off his clones outside of the walls of Konoha. Who knew what those clones were up to, and the report that Uchiha Obito gave about being saved by someone who matched the description of Naruto only made the boy a larger target of their suspicions.

Still, his clones were able to do the work of a hundred men and the way the broken down orphanage, well, more like former broken down piece of garbage, looked currently, she couldn't find it in herself to report him, not until he finished reading how to install the plumbing.

"Kurenai, the clones seem to be shrinking, it's like something is sucking the Chakra out of them," Shizune commented, eating her ice cream. The three girls were still sitting on the roof. Another purple-haired girl, Yagua, joined them, eating a sundae out of a cup. "You think something happened to Uzumaki-san?"

Kurenai shrugged. "Possibly, the clones have done more for this orphanage than the last three builders together. They replaced the toilets, fixed the holes in the roof, installed new walls plus doors, and..." she smiled, "they play with the kids."

"So why do you hate him?"

"I don't hate him, Shizune. I just don't trust him."

"Why?" Yagua asked curiously, wrapping her long tongue around a tasty, vanilla-covered banana.

"Anko doesn't trust him," she said finally and then sighed. "He cries in his sleep, he mumbles things that terrify the children and they practically run out of the room when he has nightmares. I wake up in the middle of the night trying to calm the kids down when the boy starts raving about saving the world and giant demons. There are times he talks about Shinobi gods! I am telling you, there is something terrifying and not quite right about him."


Konoha Shinobi Academy


The Jounins of Konoha were busy trying to close up all the information networks Orochimaru had created. Many of them led to a man named Danzo and even more lead to different sectors of other villages, especially Iwa. The fact that Naruto was the one who flushed out the spy's identity did not go unnoticed by the higher council. However, the war kept them from rewarding him with a position he so rightly deserved.

Naruto was patting Tsume's stomach. He felt a baby kick a few times, and giggled every time Tsume noticed. Tsume may not have known Naruto for very long, but his interest in her child was heart-warming, he would always ask about his, or her, health. Not even her dead-beat husband asked her that. She was so glad he was gone, but who would replace him now? If only Naruto-kun was a few years older.

"Shit, I can't believe what went down with the snake-man, looks like we'll have to give you a transfer," Tsume barked. "Okay, head to the Konoha orphanage. There are two new genin coming up, some genius named Itachi, and Kurenai. Her last team just died and they are going to cycle her into your team. Good luck kid, and sorry about the fuck-up with Orochi… God, I hated that bastard growing up."

She slammed her fist on her other hand. "Who didn't see that coming, I mean seriously, he is like the archetype of a classic evil villain. He wreaked evil! Shit, they actually let kids near that pedophile, honestly I don't get the old bastard of a Hokage sometimes for letting scum like that walk around here. Well, he is gone for now. If shit like him comes near my little Hana, I will tear that fucker up.

"How is your daughter, by the way?"

"Thank you for asking, kid, she's well, she's a mean bitch, that one, so her training is going along nicely. Gaki, I hope she makes friends with kids half as polite as you, 'cause her temper is through the roof, any normal guy would punch her for half the shit she says!" she kissed him on the cheek and gave him a feral smile. "Have to go. Don't get Anko get you down, she is just upset with the betrayal, the girl is going to have a hard life ahead of her, but I am guessing a young strong kid like yourself might help her out a little."

She paused, and then laughed. "Even if I have no idea what kind of person you are, but you sure as hell must be something if you can blow up the snake asshole's base. See ya around, kiddo." She teleported away from the field and let Naruto slump down against a tree.

About a minute later, his two teammates arrived. Kurenai came dressed in a white short styled kimono, and didn't seem to wear the makeup she would be wearing the future. She did have red lips, however, and had those striking red eyes that made her enemies tremble. Her dark wavy hair was much shorter, but just as beautiful. The curls fell bountifully down to her back, and she walked with her hips swaying from side to side.

Whether this was for seduction purposes, or just habit, or just the fact that she had big hips, Naruto wasn't sure. The only thing he was sure of was that her chest was starting to develop, unlike Anko, and she looked furious when she saw him. Kurenai must have heard about what happened with Anko, mostly like from the snake apprentice herself.

"Anko-chan is going to murder you." This was the first thing she said to him, not hello, or how he was doing with his healing arms. "I have no idea what happened in the last mission, but you have hurt my best friend. I am willing to let you explain yourself because apparently you are some kind of hero among the Jounin, but what you did to her, what you said to her, has changed her, forever. The word Orochimaru makes her cry now. She tore off all his letters from her wall and burned her supplies. The supplies she got from Orochimaru-sama!"

Naruto failed to see how that was a bad thing. Perhaps Yuhi Kurenai was a moron?

"Really, maybe Anko is just growing up; I doubt I had anything to do with this, and don't go around asking what happened at Oro's base either, Kurenai. Maybe this is just a phase, ever thought of that? Common fact that girls are way more mature than guys, and it's starting to show," Naruto replied, trying to think of a better explanation as Kurenai's blood-red eyes became darker.

"She is not like this, something is wrong with her. Anko isn't leaving her home, and she isn't visiting us at the orphanage. You are going to pay, I guarantee it. Uzumaki Naruto, this is my declaration as your team mate and enemy."

Naruto clicked his teeth and looked at his second team mate and a wide smile fell on his face. He ran down to little Itachi and gave him a large hug. The boy didn't even protest. "You are so cute! Kurenai isn't this the most adorable boy you have seen in your life? Feel his cheeks! I can just gobble him up, I can't believe how small he is! Can you believe he is a genin? Can you? I am going to protect you so much little guy, no one will harm you."

Kurenai continued to look annoyed despite how he tried to distract her. Naruto tried harder.

"No one! Kurenai, here, hold him, don't be shy, he isn't even protesting. Hey! Look at his cheeks, he is blushing, I think he likes this, he doesn't get hugs at home I am guessing so, oh, I can't believe Itachi is this cute. He has his mini-ninja uniform and everything. If I was half as cute as this brat when I was his age, I could get away with murder, not that I committed murder!."

"Put me down. Uzumaki-san," said the blushing boy. Naruto was about to do just that, when Itachi surprised him. "But you may hug me, a little longer."

Naruto hugged him until their last teammate arrived. Some strange boy named Maito Gai, followed by an even stranger feminine-looking sensei who called himself Yamanaka Inoichi.


Hokage Tower


Everything was looking up for the substitute Hokage Jiraiya, so far, no real damage had occurred in the village. He thought he was doing a fantastic job until two old farts had to ruin his day with a bit of realism, and show him how careless, how foolish, his idiocy was, and how he hadn't noticed a boy looked exactly like his student running around in his village destroying things in the forest of death with S rank Jutsus.

The ANBU tried to dismiss this problem. They confronted the rascal and he left with very much confusion. When asked to stop, the boy and his clones would just continue to destroy things, claiming that they were preparing to fight something in a few days, a being of infinite power and wisdom that would crush the citizens of Konoha like ants.

In the end, the team decided that the boy was just suffering from some kind of mania, and it showed. Plus, kids have big imaginations these days, and it was nice to see such work ethic in young people, especially when there was a war going on. That didn't mean that they could ignore Naruto however, as the Toad Sage was about to find out.

"Jiraiya, as the interim Hokage, you should take a look at this boy," Koharu said, handing the man a file on Uzumaki Naruto. "Our sources have no idea where this boy came from. At first we just assumed he was a war orphan, but that isn't the case, no orphan records were ever filled out. There was powerful electromagnetic-kinetic activity near the slum region. The locals claim that he just appeared out of Uzumaki Kushina's apartment and ran out screaming about shrinking."

It wasn't a big secret that Jiraiya despised the two old folks who tried to control his life. He had nothing against them personally but the way they carried their jobs out annoyed the tall man to no end. They always talked about rules and regulations, but were more than willing to break them if need be. Jiraiya and Sarutobi knew full well that many of the funds of Konoha were being siphoned away by these two members and into Danzo's gnarled hands. It gave the Toad Sage no small amount of pleasure to displease them, like right now.

"Well, we can't do anything about him now, or any time soon," Jiraiya said lazily, reading porn and trying to ignore the other two who couldn't stop shaking with anger. "I just gave his team a mission."


Konoha Gates


Anko wouldn't leave her room, not even to eat. Whatever happened back in Orochimaru's base had a deep affect on her. Fortunately she wouldn't be suffering a seal forever since Uzumaki had gotten her to Konoha hospital in time, but that didn't change the fact that it was Naruto who Anko would mumble about in her sleep.

Kurenai spent many nights sleeping in the same bed as the smaller girl, making sure she was all right. She allowed Yagua to take charge of the children. She didn't think it was a good idea, but there weren't many options. Anko was her best friend, the two were stuck together at the hip. Both proud and stubborn Kunoichi, both unrelenting in their desire to succeed, and both extraordinarily loyal to one another.

That was one of the reasons she couldn't stop glaring, detesting, and absolutely hating the boy Uzumaki Naruto, who, despite looking injured since both his arms were covered in bandages, didn't seem to be too affected by what happened to Anko.

"C'mon, hurry up team, we are heading off to Hidden Mist to escort this guy. Mr. Saizo, I am glad we can be of some help. You don't have to explain to us what you need to do in Mist- as long as you are there safe and sound, while paying us, we'll keep our mouths shut." Naruto had paid this drunk to hire himself for an escort mission to Hidden Mist: the same place where Mizukage lived. If he could find a way to kill that man while he was still a child, maybe, just maybe, he could make something out of this. Maybe he could save Haku?

"I still think we should ask him about our mission, I don't trust him. Haven't I seen you passed out on the street?" Kurenai questioned. "Why do you have to go to Hidden Mist? All you did was hire us to go there, you didn't explain your purpose. That is the point. Did someone pay you, that is it, isn't it? Sensei, I honestly think this is a trap." She turned to Inoichi. "Teacher, we should turn back, we have to go back as soon as possible. Anko needs me right now, and the way Naruto and Saizo keep looking at each other is suspicious."

"Now, now, we can't know that. This may be my first team, sure my promotion is questionable at best, and I should probably go back to working as the torturer and interrogator as soon as possible." He looked around for Naruto. "Have as much faith in this man as Uzumaki, he did sniff out that traitor Orochimaru."

"And left Anko crying in her room, never leaving, not even for food, and believe me I don't like him," Kurenai replied scathingly.


Hidden Mist Kage Tower


Momochi Zabuza, Terumi Mei, and Hoshigaki Kisame thought they had the worst jobs on the planet. Guarding the Mizukage was the most boring job in the world. For starters, they were pretty damn sure the man was near indestructible. Not only did he have a tailed beast sealed in his stomach, and was considered to be absolutely insane, but his adviser, some guy in an orange mask, seemed to always be one step ahead of any assassins that may try and harm him.

The adviser just appeared one day and took over much of the administration duties. At first no one had noticed him since there weren't any big changes being made to the running of the village, but when certain Blood-line Clans started to find their weapons, wages, and lands being slowly taken away through legal means, they started to revolt.

Mist wasn't involved in the three-way war between the Lands of Fire, Lighting, and Earth, they had their own problems to worry about. With the way administrations were taxing the bloodline clans, and ordering random assassinations of important members, things were probably going to go straight to hell before it got any better.

Momochi had a suspicion that things might go back to normal if someone were to assassinate the man who many of the swordsmen suspected was controlling their Kage, but knew that would not be a good idea, if given the option he would bide his time.

Kisame thought killing the Daimyo might solve their problem, since the new Daimyo would help choose the new Mizukage, and was already arming himself for the job, despite the fact that Zabuza told him it was a very bad idea. No one said the sharkman was a genius, and it showed when the head of the local Daimyo came floating down a river one day, and Kisame was starting to be watched by their ANBU.

So when a blond-haired assassin blew into their tower, made hundreds of Shadow Clones mixed with strange chakra, and went berserk on the Kage Floor, they weren't exactly so enthusiastic to aid their Leader.

"Kisame, shouldn't we, er, stop him?" asked Zabuza.

"Honestly, I am not even sure what we're supposed to do. There are literally thousands of him, and that weird toad like eye he has is probably a blood limit. Maybe we should see how this plays out."

Then the battle got stranger.

"Are you seeing what I am seeing, Hoshigaki?"

"Momichi, if you mean him transforming into a giant fox and going toe to toe with the Mizukage, yes, yes I am."


Outside Hidden Mist


Kurenai was furious. The boy had done it again!

"I don't believe this! No matter how you look at it this can't be real!"

"Bu-"

"You snuck into Hidden Mist and killed the Mizukage!" Kurenai shouted. Her eyes were on fire. Gai backed away from her. From Gai's memories, though most of these consisted of head traumas, Kurenai was calm growing up, so seeing her like this made him afraid. "You left us near the front gates and battered your way into the Kage Tower, where you blew yourself up into a thousand clones and assassinated the Mizukage!" Itachi almost peed his diapers at the sound of her scream, her red eyes burning.

Killing waves were coming off of her like the ocean. She said this part so quietly that they barely caught it. "Why is that red-haired girl hanging over you?"

"Sorry, this is Mei. Mei, say hello to my team," Naruto smiled. The girl was about the same height as Naruto, for once, but seemed to be around Kurenai's age. She had beautiful green eyes, and one side of her red hair was covering her eye, while the rest of her long rosy hair fell down to her knees.

She rubbed her developing breasts, which were destined to get even larger as time went on, like Kurenai's, on Naruto's shoulder, which got another glare from the brunette. Mei put her cheek on Naruto's head, while smiling up at the taller Yuhi. She didn't particularly like Naruto, but teasing Konoha girls was fun, they always thought highly of themselves. Bringing them down a peg or two would do them some good, or at least piss them off a bit.

"Believe me, when he first came in, me and the other apprentice swordsmen practically stabbed him to death. He wouldn't stop though, so we tried to ice him, and the ice users couldn't get him either. No matter what we did, he was unstoppable. He made some strange spinning sphere and broke through all the groups of Shinobi that came his way."

"So, why is Naruto alive if he did all that that?" Gai asked.

"It turns out later that most of those guys were under the control of the Sharingan! A sharingan user was taking control of our Kage, so, figuring that out, we attacked and it was Naruto-kun here who saved us all by turning his eyes into frog's eyes and bringing out more energy and literally blowing up the tower with some super-powered Jutsu. I can't believe that he prevented a genocide that was going to occur. He saved us! He saved my and my family's life, and believe me when I say that I would marry this boy if I could."

"Let's not get too hasty-"

"Come back here someday, Naruto-kun." She kissed Naruto full on the lips and left him in a daze.

The big breasted crimson-head left the group, with her large hips seductively swaying, making Gai and Inoichi look at Naruto suspiciously.

Especially when they got a Konoha carrier hawk ordering the immediate arrest of the imposter, Uzumaki Naruto


Konoha Prison


Anko left the hospital. She wasn't amused. The girl didn't know what to do, and that made her situation worse than anything. She tried to find that boy who saved her but she couldn't. He was apparently on trial for not following orders.

"Anko, I am glad you are out of your house, but I really think we should stay away from that Naruto person," Yagua commented.

"It's for your own good," Kurenai commented. "He's not what he seems. He may have saved you from Orochimaru, but he has his own agenda. I don't care what the higher ups say, the longer that boy is alive, the longer he is a threat to the village. You should be trying to get rest, not visiting him. Anko, are you listening to me?"

"I… don't know about that Kurenai, I think I might have been wrong. I talked to the psychologist today and he told me about the same thing Uzumaki did, I was wrapped around that bastard's fingers. I wasn't a person to him, Kurenai. If Naruto hadn't pulled me out of there before the curse seal became permanent, I don't know what I'd do…"

The three girls hung around outside of her room in silence. Kurenai eventually sighed. "Get back inside, I'll go see where he is. He's probably out causing trouble again. Yagua, take my shift. I have to find that brat for Anko's sake, and I have a few questions of my own."

Back in the Uchiha prison, things were a bit more interesting.

"How long will I be in this prison? I am not a traitor or spy or anything. I know it looks very suspicious, but you can trust me." The other occupants of the cell laughed, Naruto ignored them and touched his small belly. "Itachi, do you mind getting me a drink of whatever? No? I am going to take it that you shaking your head at me is a huge nuh-uh." He sat on the floor. "Hmm, guess I am stuck here drinking my own piss." Itachi looked like was going to vomit. "No, sorry, I am kidding."

"This isn't funny, Naruto-san, the Third is going to be here later this evening and he is going to question how you were able to sneak into Hidden Mist and outrun the Mizukage. Sensei tried to explain that you were some kind of hero, but they are going to interrogate you anyway. Please, get some rest. Later tonight, I will return and bring you back some food." He paused. "How is prison?"

"While I was sleeping, some guy tried to put stuff up my bum hole. What do you think?"


"Itachi, you let him escape! Why would you do that, sweety?" she rubbed her pregnant belly while bending down to look her son in his twin sharingan eyes. "You barely even knew him, yet you did so much for him? Please let me know why you thought allowing the boy who we were going to question escape was such a good idea."

Behind Mikoto was a very pregnant Nara Yoshino, along with Inoichi's wife, and Chouzou's wife. "Yoshino-san walked all the way here to hold him down. Itachi, you have caused us so much trouble. You really shouldn't have done this. What am I going to do with you?"

"We sent team Yagua after him. Tsume is at the hospital checking out her baby, and even with all this chaos she refused to help out."

"Why?"

"The kid, Uzumaki Naruto, said she had a cute little girl. I know, I know, Hana is one ugly girl. But that isn't the point." Mikoto turned back to Itachi. "We'll need your help, can you help us find him?"

"I don't think I have a choice, but mother, please stay in the village. I don't want the baby hurt."

"So sweet," Mrs. Akimichi cooed, hugging the boy to her pendulous boobs. Itachi fainted from lack of air about a minute later.


Unknown Location: Root


His earliest memories consisted of darkness. Wherever his caretakers kept him, there wasn't a hit of light. Sometimes he would see flashes of something in the distance, and hear vibrations, but aside from that, he could neither see nor feel anything. He wasn't sure how he learned how to talk, and didn't understand how he got to understand those who took care of him, but he knew one thing.

He wasn't normal, he was special. When he was old enough to crawl out of his dark cage, they ran experiments on him. He didn't know who they were at the time. All he could remember was an old man with a bandaged hand, his face covered with the same material. The man would sometimes ask about his progress, and then go away for a time. His caretakers continued to take blood samples from him and test him to see if he was okay.

He was all right, he knew that. They knew it too, and he began to suspect there was something they weren't telling him. As the boy grew up, he saw more people testing him, they did blood tests, and transfusions, although at the time didn't know what they were. He didn't know anything about DNA and knew nothing about the markers placed in his cells in an effort to track his survival.

He had no idea of the blood samples that continued to be pumped into the man with the bandaged face, but the boy was no fool. The boy knew he was food. The boy knew he was trapped, and he knew that to the people in the experimental base, he was nothing more, and nothing less than a lab rat. He had seen them before, seen how they were poked, prodded, and dissected.

Just like him.

He began to grow angry. Resentment and hatred festered in his soul and it built up. He wanted to be human, he wanted to feel alive. He wanted a name, and Tenzou they named him. Tenzou, the boy who had the power of the First Hokage, and he didn't even know it. The experiments become more difficult, more challenging, and more painful.

He cried the first time they pulled the marrow out of his bones to transplant it into the man with the bandaged face, he cried when they told him that if he didn't willingly cooperate, he wouldn't get any food,, and he cried when he realized that killing himself wasn't possible, because he was guarded in his dark room. Destined to become the most powerful man in Konoha, and yet only to feel like the weakest.

He was starting to feel his life wasn't worth living. Until today, when the bars of his cell slowly creaked open.

"Who-who are you?" little Tenzou asked. Small hands wrapped around the small boy's shoulders and pulled him out.

"Not important brat, god, what have they done to you? Quick, we have to get out."

"Can I leave this cage?" Tenzou asked.

"Yes you can, now-"

"I've been stuck here for so long, but people fed me before, now no one feeds me. Where is the master, is he angry?"

Naruto felt annoyed. "That's all well and good, kiddo, but seriously, we have to scra-"

"Am I in trouble?" Tenzou asked. "I didn't mean to cause any trouble, please do not hurt me. I am not mean or anything. I've been a good boy!"

"Kid, the only one in trouble is me." Naruto threw some clothes at the naked child and ran to open the door. "Do me a favor and don't tell anyone you saw me. Yeesh, who am I kidding? Just get to the Hokage and explain to him what Oro-san did to you, now scat!"

Yamato ran.

Naruto ran the other direction, down to the tunnels where Danzo was getting ready to leave to Ami to destroy some group of peacekeepers led by a terrorist named Yahiko. Danzo had no idea that one Uzumaki Naruto was tagging along.


"So we are in agreement, my troops and your troops will destroy Yahiko and his minions," Salamander Hanzo said. "We just need you, Danzo, to stay in the back and we'll use your soldiers if we need back-up." He glanced at the teams of men. "I'm shocked you brought this many men with you, I had no idea you had this many to spare, given how you had to move in secret."

Danzo didn't want to let the man know that he had an odd suspicion that not a single one of them were his men. At some point during the trip he had used the Sharingan to look at the men and what he saw had horrified him.


Hidden Rain


Naruto didn't wait till Nagato summoned the King of Hell. Instead he went on the offensive to literally corner Hanzo with hundreds upon hundreds of clones. It was raining in Hidden Rain and each of those orange blurs were out for blood. The clones all knew how to use wind manipulation and combined it with the weight of the rain to summon down Kaizi no Yaibas with a little bit of liquid ice.

Needless to say, the dense and extremely sharp blades were a dangerous technique that tore apart the limbs of most of Hanzo's men. That didn't mean that Naruto was able to get away from the battle scott-free. If anything, he was the one who suffered the most damage since Hanzo tried to hunt him down with his infamous long distance Shunsin, only for Nagot to appear before him and tear his head off and place it on a pike made of ice.

"Thank you so much! You saved Yahiko, what can we ever do to repay you? Anything you need, anything! Nagato, can you heal his arms? They look badly injured. Has he been sawing them off or something? There are parts growing back, what is that? Nagato, hurry!"

Nagato knelt down in the rain. He gently patted Naruto's head. "I do not believe I have ever seen someone such as yourself. You managed to smuggle Konon out of there. It was then just a matter of time to fight back against Danzo and his goons, though I am shocked that Danzo had no idea that his army was really just your Kage Bunshins. What is your name?"

"Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto. Now, if you will excuse me. There about a hundred Konoha hunter-nins who are out for blood. If you wouldn't mind explaining to them that I am some kind of hero, and that now that Hanzo is dead and you are the Amikage, I would greatly appreciate it."

He fell unconscious.

It was then that Yagua's team found Naruto, and arrested him. She had seen what he had done, and felt sad doing this to him. Nagato tried to stop this at once, but Naruto's hand touched his arm while he held onto him. His eyes slowly opened. "Don't hurt her, she's just doing her job."

Yagua felt a flush on her face, realizing that the boy was only thinking for her own safety, despite how dead tired he looked. She wanted to know more about this Naruto and realized that she would have to have a talk with Kurenai and Anko when they met up.


Konoha


"See, Itachi, this is why you shouldn't do good deeds. They just aren't worth it. You save a country from committing genocide, then help overthrow a dictator in Hidden Rain, and this is what you get. It's so depressing how we treat heroes now. Back in the ancient days, you slay a giant demon and suddenly everyone calls you God. What does a guy have to do around here to get an ounce of respect? Or fair treatment, yes, I like the latter one much better."

"Do not worry, Naruto, the Council will let you out in three days." Itachi handed him some food through the bars. "I believe they are assigning you to another team- Shizune's team, lead by her uncle Dan."

"Perfect, I think I got my next mission," Naruto said, smiling. "Hey, can you get your mother to bring me some of her cakes? Those are really nice. Also, how is the baby doing?"

"Very well, thank you," Itachi said, pleased that the boy always asked about his soon-to-be-born little brother.

"Naruto-niisan! Here is the box of ramen you wanted." Tenzou walked in carrying a crate of the stuff. It was twice his size, and three times as wide. "It was heavy so it took me some time, but I hope you like it. I don't know if I got the right flavor or not."

"Meh, ramen is ramen once it's in water. You want to stick around and eat?"

Tenzou generously nodded. The two genin, and one pre-genin sat down to have their meals. Itachi had to feed Naruto though, since he was wearing a straitjacket, and Tenzou had to wipe the slop that fell onto him while he chewed. Still, it beat hunger.


"Jiraiya, have you read the report on that Uzumaki Naruto?" he asked angrily."Why didn't anyone find it an important topic to tell me there was a genius child turning the world on its axis rotting in the Uchiha Military Jail? The fact that he looks like Minato and carries Kushina's last name is secondary, however, I would assume someone would have sent him to a psychologist after he cut his arms off to escape Orochimaru's lab."

The Third was going to kill his student. Jiraiya's irresponsibility had reached an all-time high. He had excused his student's perverted tendencies and laziness, but the younger man had gone too far.

Jiraiya decided to do the wise thing in his life for once.

He decided to shut up, and not make an assholish comment.


Outside Uchiha Military Prison


"There he is, girls! Get 'em!"

Three girls tackled the bandaged boy as soon as he left the Uchiha Military Prison, which was located right next to the town proper, allowing for a relatively decent crowd to watch the spectacle. Naruto growled something about Itachi setting him up, but allowed the girls aged fourteen to sixteen to tie him up. He could easily break through the chakra strings. That he had no doubt of, but figured he owed it to the girls to hear them out.

"You have much to pay for, mister! You're not going to escape until you explain to us what is going on," Kurenai said. The last Yuhi still hadn't forgiven Naruto for making her look like the villain after she shouted at him for going off to Mist and saving their village. Mist was supposed to be a neutral village, yet now they were Konoha's allies due to Naruto's interference.

The fact that the Mizukage was now revealed to be a Sharingan user had also been useful information. The even bigger point that the war was almost over with the addition of the Mist Swordsmen and women, including Mei, had resulted in Iwa being pushed back to their borders at a much faster rate, and all of this was the result of Uzumaki Naruto, who had absolutely no history of being a Ninja whatsoever!

"Are you some kind of hidden ANBU operative? There can't be any reasonable explanation how you keep saving the most important people. Shizune, stop hiding in the corner. We are going to have a talk with him to make sure he doesn't get fresh with you. Already, he has seduced the Daimyo of Wave's daughter and that red-headed bitch from the Mist… God, I hate her so much!"

If she was honest with herself, Anko wanted to be as bold and forward as the pretty red-head, and Naruto seemed to like red-heads judging by how his eyes would always go to their hair. Instead of saying how she really felt, Anko justified manhandling Naruto with the reasoning that she was doing this to protect one of her friends: Shizune.

"If you try anything on Shizune, you'll have us to deal with," Kurenai said.

"I don't plan to try anything. Keep in mind that Tsunami and Mei seem to be somewhat sweet on me. For one thing, they haven't tried to kill me yet like the rest of you," Naruto pointed out, enjoying how they became even angrier, but they refused to look him in the eye, probably out of guilt. He turned to the dark-haired girl, who he would come to love like a big sister in the future, noticing that she was about the same age as Anko.

"Shizune-san, don't let these girls tell you anything bad about me, or at least try and see that I am not a bad person. I am really not. I have been known to do bad things to achieve my goals, but I can safely say that I will defend you with my life." He bowed to her, and kissed her hand, which almost made her faint.

Tsume stepped out from the building. She was the one who filled out Naruto's bail papers and it was her job to get him home. "He is the enemy of all women, ladies. You can't trust him." Tsume-sensei said, stroking her swollen belly, but still grinned at them with those pointy white fangs. "So, is this why you wanted me here, so I can keep these brats from killing you? Smart move, kid. Smart move indeed."

Naruto ran to her side, still mostly tied up in ropes, and patted her belly by breaking the bindings on one of his hands, which got an angry scowl from Yagua. She had put a lot of effort into those. "Wow, have you thought of a name for the kid yet?"

"I was thinking San, sounds like a nice wolf-pack name."

"How about Kiba?"

"Hey, even better!"


End