Wow, I've got some good reception, and a few 'meh' reviews. That's good! Thank you all for this.

Now to get some things out of the way: I rushed through the first chapter was because I wanted to get the basic things about Naruto and some other key people out into the light before I could go on. I didn't want the chapter to be drawn out or lengthened obnoxiously just because I was explaining Naruto's childhood; his childhood was happy period. I just made sure you all were aware of the major parts of his life, no fillers.

The other thing I wanted to lay out was that I wrote (or I hope I wrote) this story in such a way so that we all know that he is really, really good when it came to being a doctor (he has to earn his title, right?) and at the same time he is also going to be a strong jounin (worth his title) so in a way I made most of Naruto's abilities easy to mould from near nothing. You remember that the Sandaime outright ranked him S in the bingo books, not only because he needed to be S rank to join the Akatsuki but he took in account that the boys taijutsu, ninjutsu and summons ability was a thing to behold. Add in his knowledge of the human body and his byakugan and he can be referred to as the perfect ninja. If Mari ever wanted to be a ninja she would probably be competing with Tsunade and Kushina for strongest konouchi. Not that Naruto is going to be way over his head and say he is as strong as the three Sannin. He isn't, not yet but with his work and ethic he would surely reach there.

And it's not like Naruto doesn't know about the other aspects of being a ninja (kenjutsu, fuinjutsu, genjutsu, shurikenjutsu, etc.) but those aren't the things he is renowned for. He is known for his taijutsu, ninjutsu, medical ninjutsu and in a way his summons ability (not his summons. You'll see what I mean in this chapter), but his summons would soon be added into the list of things he would be a force to be reckoned with soon. So quite frankly he fully deserves his rank.

In this chapter I'm going to show one different ability his byakugan has. Not going to give spoilers.

Before I forget, shout out to 'Ezeakel' he helped give me ideas for this chapter. Thank you bud. :D

Don't forget to drop a review about what you think about this story, I want to know if I'm still doing good y'know.

Oh! I forgot to mention this in the first chapter but,

I DO NOT OWN Naruto!

Enjoy,

CHAPTER 2

News of Naruto's defection spread much quicker than the Sandaime had anticipated, but that necessarily wasn't a bad thing. If Naruto's infamy of bypassing the Fire guardians to get to the royal family reached anyone's ears he would be revered as a rare survivor of a painful, untimely death.

Iwagakure was the first major village to capitalize on the fact that the Yondaime's bastard son was a missing ninja; in the Iwa bingo book Naruto was already classified as an A rank ninja that was to be brought back dead, but now he was an S rank ninja that was to be approached with caution seeing as the blonde Hyuuga had first been put into the bingo book when he was thirteen years old and still a chunin. The Tsuchikage summarised that if Konoha, Naruto's birth home, could rank him as an S rank missing ninja then it would be perfectly logical for Iwa to do so as well; who knows how strong the boy had gotten in two years. They weren't aware of Naruto's summons, his ability to use the human body against his opponent and a lot more secrets, most revolving around his eyes and his chakra control. His bounty was 65,000,000 ryu, not the highest bounty in Iwa's bingo book but among the top ten highest.

Kumo had ranked Naruto an S rank ninja right off the bat that was to be approached with caution and retrieved alive because they were aware of his mastery of his kekkai genkai, the byakugan, and they wanted his eyes, cage bird seal or not they would find a way to break the seal. Plus with Naruto's heritage as the 'Yellow flash's' child his blood and his sperm were also in high demand. Since Kumo was considered a very rich hidden village from all their secret investments and the trade going on within and outside its borders the bounty for Naruto was understandably the highest one out there; 20,000,000,000 ryu.

Kumo was, surprisingly, the first hidden village that had sent out hunter ninja for Naruto. A standard hunter ninja squad consisted of four members that worked in sync with each other to achieve a goal. Even though Kiriagakure hunter ninja were said to be the most powerful and the most effective Kumo couldn't be listed out just yet. Especially since the hunter ninja squad was led by the seventeen year old semi-experienced jinchuriki of the two tailed cat who had just become a jounin.

Naruto was walking through the crowded streets of Ash town where the annual festival to celebrate the new-year was beginning. It had been two months since Naruto's forced defection and he had to go through a total of three major fights a week just to stay out of capture from upstart missing ninja and some bandits. He had killed all of them and impaled their heads on seven feet long porcupine spikes in the same location they had been executed. He had to harden his heart and convince himself that all he was doing was for the good of Konoha, he also had to fully put on the 'Hyuuga façade' as outsiders called it, to hide the slow death he was suffering from depression after ending so many lives. (He isn't really dying and he's not sick, he just hates killing)

The fifteen year old S rank nuke nin wore his usual black ninja pants but the ends had frayed so he wrapped his legs in white bandages, he had on a black torn sleeved shirt with the kanji for porcupine on the back as well as a black wide brimmed hat that perfectly covered his hair and his eyes, leaving his mouth for all to see. He still had bandages wrapped around his torso from all the Hyuuga training he went through in Konoha as well as the training he went through outside. On his back was a black back pack he carried with him everywhere. Covering his body was a tattered grey shawl that ensured that most wouldn't take a second glance at him, so they would think he was a homeless man. This worked for a time until he was shoulder checked by a man and his hat slipped off a little too much before he could pull it back, exposing his blonde hair. He swiftly pulled the hat back on his head before it could fully fall off and kept on walking, idly noticing that another blonde was signing for others around her to follow him.

He kept his cool as he trudged through the crowd, ignoring the children that ran around him and the couple that were asking him to help them take a picture. He slipped into a wide alley and kept on walking,

"Hey!" Naruto stopped and turned his head to the side fractionally so the speaker knew they had his attention, "Hyuuga Naruto, you are to come with us back to Kumo,"

"Not interested," was his simple reply as he continued his trek, without activating his byakugan he bent away like a snake from a hand grab to his shoulder and kicked the culprit under his chin, lifting him off the ground and into the safety of Yugito's arms. He did this so quickly, so calmly Yugito actually began to second think just why she had accepted the mission; the boy was two years her junior and he had been classified as an S rank ninja while she was an A rank, she shook her head and leaned the injured hunter ninja by the wall, and order the medic there to tend to him, she pelted down the alley to the offending blonde boy who had still not stopped walking,

"Get back here!" she yelled and drew her kunai, ready to do some damage but Naruto still didn't answer her; he side stepped her accurate swing and poked her wrist with his right pointer finger, numbing it and forcing her to drop her kunai. She grit her teeth in frustration, distracting her from seeing Naruto axe kick to the centre of her head, turning her whole body into a spasming goo on the ground, she strained with all her might to move her arms but they remained unresponsive, she didn't even want to know what the Hyuuga medic had done to her,

"You need my chakra, he's too strong!" the Nibi yelled within her as she pumped chakra through her hosts body to open up the major tenketsu on her neck that Naruto had closed with his last attack,

'Hurry!' Naruto looked down at her and his light blue byakugan sparked with a barely perceived interest,

'A jinchuriki and since she's from Kumo she is the two tails holder. I best take this fight seriously,' he threw off his grey shawl, revealing his ninja uniform and the neat bandages around his arms and his neck, traveling down to his torso as well as his black back pack. He looked at the other hunter ninja in the girls squad with his byakugan flaring on sealessly and began formulating plans on how to deal with them, their motions slowed down as his mind went through everything. He could see their posture, their hidden weapons, their hand signs, everything. Then his mind clicked and he had his plan. He slipped behind Yugito and jammed his finger through her neck, and reaching the major tenketsu there, he pumped a bit of his own chakra in and watched with mild amusement as the girl screamed in frustration; the flaming blue beast chakra that was building around her body flickered out of life, 'that ought to hold her for a while,'

The blonde Hyuuga ducked under a neck chop and performed a clean donkey kick to the attacker, pushing him to the Kumo ninja behind him; he grabbed four shuriken from a pouch on his left thigh and threw them at the ninja that were still tangled up, striking them in the side of their chests and head. He slide sideways away from a sword slice from the last surviving, but injured, Kumo ninja as well as the rest of the harsh and co-ordinated strikes. He saw a small opening in the man's tight stance and slid his finger past the sword as it jabbed him, forcing the blonde to lean away and jam his finger at the attacker's heart. Blood spurted out of his mouth and he fell back like a tree. Naruto's eyes were special even among the Hyuuga notwithstanding the fact that they had a light blue tint but the fact that they performed much more than looking 360 degree around him, seeing far distances and seeing tenketsu. His eyes allowed him to analyse every detail of his opponent and allows his brain to process ways on taking them down. This was one of the major things he could do and one would think that every ninja could do this but Naruto was able to do this since the moment he became a genin.

The boy lightly kicked away the dead Kumo ninjas sword and turned to Yugito, who was standing and bubbling with fiery blue beast chakra, 'almost forgot about her,'

"Fire release: Mouse Hair ball!" she yelled as she began spitting out heat seeking blue fire balls from her mouth, the semi-experienced jinchuriki didn't comprehend the fact that she was losing control of her thoughts to her beast, who was worryingly trying to give control back but her chakra was too potent for the girls lesser chakra to dominate again,

Naruto ran up the wall away from the small molten blue balls of fire and flipped off, using his byakugan to observe the curious fire jutsu. He refrained from touching them as he narrowly bent away from one that zipped to his arms, he whipped out two kunai and threw them at the fire balls, and on contact they blew up. He nodded and was about to blow up the rest of the fire balls but his byakugan warned him of an enraged Yugito bearing down on him with elongated claws, he rolled away and jumped over her, grabbing her head and bringing her to the ground painfully (for her). He winced and looked at his hands, frowning slightly at the blisters there, 'note to self: don't touch a jinchuriki when they are channelling beast chakra,' he healed his hands as he dodged a claw strike coming down to his head, and when he was done tending to his hands he flipped through five hand seals, "Yellow spines,"

From his bandaged forearms four five foot yellow porcupine quills shot out and he crossed them over his chest to catch two claw strikes, the quills held strong and he mentally sighed in relief before he pushed the girl back and shot a yellow spine a her. She caught the quill in her mouth and dropped it before she menacingly began to walk up to him. Naruto held up the ram hand seal and his smooth hair stood on end before lethal porcupine quills shot out around him and peppered Yugito. The attack dazed her long enough for Naruto to pelt to her and jam all four of his right forearm quills into her stomach, the quills were laced with an anti-coagulant solution that stopped blood from clotting. He blankly looked into her wide, horrified eyes as he slowly lowered her to the ground and lay her down, allowing his yellow quills to slide back into his arms,

Yugito coughed and gulped as Naruto raised a single finger and was about to poke her forehead, her eyes began to slowly droop,

"Yugito!" Nibi began bashing her shoulders against the iron cage that kept her in the seal as she kept on yelling at her holder, "don't close your eyes!"

'But…but I'm so tired…' she idly noted the amount of blood pumping out of the four quill wounds in her stomach, pouring out as if it couldn't be stopped, she clenched her eyes shut, "p-please…" her saving grace though came from a child at the end of the alley,

"What're you doin' mister?" Naruto looked up casually as he spied a short girl, maybe six, with black hair and pale features hugging a large teddy bear to her chest and looking at the scene before her with wide eyes,

"It's nothing that concerns you. Go back to your parents, kid," Naruto waved her away and patiently waited for the girl to leave before he could blow up Yugito's brain but the girl stayed in her place,

The girl's bottom lip trembled and she whimpered, "I can't find my mommy…" Naruto sighed and closed his eyes, his byakugan still blazing. He couldn't bear to traumatize a child by what he was about to do to the two tails jinchuriki and she seemed like she wouldn't budge if he didn't help her. His byakugan told him that the only living things in the alley were him, the girl and Yugito, whose wounds were healing painfully slowly though she still couldn't get her body to move, "please help me find my mommy,"

Naruto refrained but scowling harshly but he did look down at the only living member of the Kumo hunter ninja squad and glare at her with fire in his eyes and venom in his voice, "you're lucky, next time you won't," he poked her forehead but that strike was only to knock her out until he was far away from her. The only road block in his ambition of being a 'ruthless killer' was that he couldn't kill in front of young children, silently or not, but he was sure if he kept going down the path he was going he would soon. He stood up and dusted down his pants before he wrapped the grey shawl he had around his shoulders to cover the kanji for porcupine on his back, he set his wide brimmed hat firmly on his head and took the girls hand gently, leading her out of the alley that stank of recent death.

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Uzumaki Mito, part jinchuriki of the nine tailed fox, grit her teeth when her mother had told her what had happened to Naruto, 'I knew he was bad,' she clenched her fists and stormed to the front door of her house, 'no one is that perfect. No one!'

"Where are you going Mito-chan?" Kushina asked his red haired daughter with a worried frown set on her face; she had not expected this sort of reaction from the girl. Observing all of her daughters association with her step brother told her that the girl absolutely loved the boy. Kushina at least expected the girl to yell out she didn't believe her, that Naruto couldn't kill anyone without a firm reason. She grabbed the girls shoulder and her hands were immediately shaken off, though Mito did halt in her walk to the door, "what's wrong?"

"I knew he was bad," she said it lowly and whirled around to her mother, "I knew he was evil!"

"Mito!" the older red haired exclaimed, horrified at her own daughter for what she had said, "Naruto isn't evil!"

"No one is that perfect kaa-san! He hasn't ever failed in anything, he is bloody…gorgeous," she shook the full faced blush off her face, "he has perfect scores in the academy. He has to be evil!" she pointed at her mother, "and you are just too blind to see it,"

Slap!

Mito looked at her mother with wide, teary eyes as she held her red cheek, courtesy of a slap from Kushina. The older Uzumaki glared down at her daughter as tears began flowing down her daughters cheeks, she crumbled a second later; she knelt down and used her white cooking apron to wipe the nine year old girls tears, "Naruto isn't evil, Mito-chan," she hugged the girl tightly and stroked her hair, not seeing the girls harsh glare into space or when she clenched her fingers tightly again,

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"I hear the Yondaime's bastard son is an S rank ninja now," Tobi murmured to Pein as he entered the empty throne room sans the 'god of Ameagakure' and the 'angel of Ameagakure'. Tobi walked briskly to the massive window and watched idly as rain hit the glass, flowing down the building to the ground, "Zetsu reported that the Sandaime himself has admitted he is equal to Kakashi and growing," the swirl masked man looked over at the quiet rinnegan bearer and asked his next question, "should we recruit him?"

"Not yet, I propose we watch him until he has proved his rank," Pein said with his earth trembling voice,

"Or better yet we send A rank ninjas in the lower rungs of Akatsuki after him, if he survives then he has proved his rank," Konan chimed in blandly as she idly looked at Nagato,

"That is also a good idea, we'll do that one and I have the perfect ninja to send," Tobi said ominously,

"Who, Madara Uchiha," Nagato asked and furrowed his eyebrows slightly,

"Have you ever heard of…" Tobi trailed off, "you know what? I'll just summon them here for you to see for yourself," and he disappeared in a swirling vortex that spun out of his Mangekyo sharingan,

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Four months later

Living as a missing ninja wasn't as easy as anyone would have anticipated especially when three major villages were out for your head (Konoha or Iwa) or your sperm (Kumo). Naruto had to constantly be on the move from one place to the other, not able to stay in one place for longer than a week before he had to pack up camp and relocate. The boy could say that his travels around had taught him a lot of things; that the little things he had learnt as a Konoha ninja and as a missing ninja were all vital to his survival. Like the fact that he had been learning to be able to use four to six foot long porcupine quills to be able to fight in kenjutsu, besting another squad of Kumo hunter ninja with his skills, that his eyes basically negated any form of genjutsu and allowed him see through any sort of mist sans chakra mist, and his ninjutsu library was ever increasing with all the ninja he had to fight on a daily basis.

Basically speaking, fighting all that came after him was excellent practice and great learning experiences to expand his already wide skill repertoire.

His problem lay in fuinjutsu; he had always had a problem with learning seals. He could make a fully operational storage seal, an effective chakra restraint seal and a durable barrier seal but that was all. Maybe he could treat his seal work like he had done to his taijutsu; he could make his art his own. He would have to find a stable environment before he could find out. At the moment he had a B rank taijutsu specialist from Iwa he had to handle.

Naruto slapped away a fist to his chest and wrapped his arm around the offending limb, lifting the ninja over his head and smashing him down behind him into the ground. The attacker spun to his feet and snap kicked Naruto but the boy raised his forearm to hold against the attack and jabbed the man's stomach twice without using any chakra. He swept his feet from under him and just as he was about to hit the ground he axe kicked his chest, cracking the ground and the man's hopes for surviving.

The Hyuuga missing ninja looked down at the bloody B rank ninja and shook his head in disappointment; he was by far the weakest opponent he had gone up against and he had fought a lot of people. Without hesitating he poked the man's head and immediately blood exploded out of his nose, eyes, ears and mouth. Naruto idly summoned a yellow porcupine quill from his elbow and sliced off the man's head, jamming it onto the impromptu pike after that. He stood back to admire what he had done before he picked up his back pack and continued walking down the path he was passing, altering his initial destination to a town adjacent to where he was heading to.

His byakugan instinctively flared to life and he spun around, intercepting a downward sword hack with two five foot yellow quills. He channelled chakra into the sword and used his control to change the chakra into a cutting weapon. He pushed away the katana sword that had initially attacked him and threw a quill at the owner, making the man easily deflect it. The space allowed Naruto to look at who he was now up against, his barely kept his eyes from widening in shock; the person stood at the same height as him with baggy grey pants and a black and white trench coat; he was shirtless besides for the bandages wrapped around his abdomen, probably from previous injuries that hadn't healed over. The man was completely bald and he had a light brown tan on his body. He wielded a katana made out of pure gold.

"Nifune, brother to Mifune, ronin samurai, double A rank rouge samurai from Iron country," Naruto said lowly to himself, out of the man's earshot,

"Hyuuga Naruto, bastard son of Namikaze Minato, S rank nuke nin from Konohagakure no Sato," Nifune too said to himself as he took off his trench coat and threw it into the tree line on his left,

"You want my head or you want to take me to Kumo, Nifune-san?" Naruto said loudly and too got into the basic stance for the porcupine kenjutsu style, it looked like a fencing stance but with the cutting chakra coated on the sword length quill he could be used like a real sword,

"I wish to die, Naruto-san," Nifune replied, his coal black eyes fixed on his opponent,

"There are others more worthy than me," Naruto's blue byakugan took the chance to fully analyse the man's posture; he noticed the rock solid stance, his strong metallic-like feet, the smooth flow of chakra into his sword and how his fingers clenched and unclenched his katana from time to time. But at the same he noticed how he was struggling to keep his eyes open even though they never flickered closed, he noticed how his back slouched forward slightly and he noticed how his stomach wound pulsed painfully but at the same time it didn't bleed. Naruto really felt sorry for the man; he wouldn't die from his wounds, but he would die from the flesh eating virus that was consuming his stomach painfully slowly. The man wanted an honourable death at the hands of a worthy opponent.

Naruto felt honoured, a feeling no ninja should ever feel.

Nifune, not even showing the signs that he was in pain answered, "My death at your hands would boost your reputation. Is that not your goal?" the man suppressed the pain to a barely felt prickle in his stomach,

"It is. I hope I reach your expectations, Nifune-san," deep within him he really hoped he didn't die most of all,

"For your sake, I hope so as well,"

All was silent and still, it was as if the life in the forest knew of the fight that was about to take place since the little noise halted. The standoff was solemn but at the same time determined before Naruto took the initiative and sped forward with his porcupine quill leading the strike, Nifune blocked across his chest, knowing that not only the point of the strange weapon was lethal but the whole quill. Nifune and Naruto grit their teeth as they stared up close, Naruto stepped away from a knee to his stomach and Nifune used his bare forearm to block a right hook to his face. Both pushed away and ran at each other again. The strike trade off could be felt for miles around; the ground broke apart under them and the sword clashes got faster and faster. Naruto had to expend most of his focus on defending the more experienced kenjutsu user and at the same time force his eyes and his brain to find ways to counter. He couldn't keep fighting a samurai in his comfort zone so the Hyuuga elongated the lethal quill so it by passed a block and barely scrapped the other man's face. Nifune glared at the offending limb and removed a hand from his gold katana, smashing it against Naruto's hand and freeing the quill from his grasp.

The younger boy leaped away and flipped through some hand seals, "Earth release: Drilling earth porcupines!" the ground around him rippled like water and began spitting out squealing earth porcupine that began whirring, transforming them into frilling drills that honed onto Nifune. The man deflected two porcupine drills and sliced through another one before he was forced to flip away, without his hands, as the drills impacted around him. He stuck his sword through a drill and yelled out his own jutsu,

"Screaming swan: First dance!" the man put his left hand behind his back and took three steps forward, the drills missing him, and he spun on the balls of his feet. A single gold wave came at Naruto, forcing him to cancel his jutsu and flipping over the attack. Another came at him five seconds later,

'I need to get that sword out of his hands. The problem is how you get a samurai to let go of his sword,' it was a near impossible task and since this was the first samurai he was going up against he was going in on instinct. He crossed his forearms, yellow quills shooting out, to defend against a golden katana stroke from Nifune. The quills held strong and Naruto focused his flaring byakugan on the man, noting that the man kept looking over his shoulder with quick flashes; but his byakugan told him that there was no one there,

Nifune snap kicked his side with such ferocity that he felt a rib crack under the pressure. A small blast of air escaped his nose as he lightly wheezed from the pain. He stomped the ground and a brown porcupine quill erupted out of the ground and nailed the man's right leg. Nifune merely grunted and moved his leg, breaking the earth quill but this gave Naruto enough time to send a knee to the mans injured stomach, he ducked a sword swing and sent blindingly fast stomach jabs to the wound, making blood bubble out of Nifune's mouth. A final chakra powered punch and the samurai was flung a few feet away, but his sword was still annoyingly still in his grasp. The man slowly got to his feet and growled at his blonde opponent with blood painted teeth before he got a grip on his composure and closed his mouth. He blurred forward and brought his sword down on Naruto but the boy rolled backwards and spun on his hand in dexterous spinning kicks with quills sticking out of his toes for added damage. Nifune clanged his weapon against the long porcupine nails as they came at him and sent a kick to Naruto's chest, ending the spinning attacks.

Naruto spat out some blood in his mouth and looked at his opponent again; despite body crippling pain Nifune was currently in he was still able to enhance his body with chakra, making seemingly light attacks as hard as sledge hammers. He held up the ram hand seal and allowed his perfect chakra control to wash healing chakra through his body, healing all his internal wounds (broken ribs and a lightly cracked chest) but this ability couldn't help with external wounds, leaving his cut up arms, the purple bruises on his left cheek and the red bruises on his fists from punching so much and so fast. The man wasn't up to him in medical jutsu but he was still able to suppress the pain in his body. This ability was only effective on wounds that weren't life threatening; the more severe the injury the slower the effectiveness.

The blonde Hyuuga clenched his fists and got into the advanced stance for the gentle fist, beckoning Nifune to come at him. The man flickered to him and hacked down at his arm but Naruto slipped away like a snake and jabbed the attaching shoulder with a pointer finger laced with purple cutting chakra, the result was a finger sized hole opening up on contact and unstoppable bleeding began. He leaned back from a stroke, not fast enough for the sword to leave a small cut over his nose but fast enough for it not to cut it off completely. He wrapped his right arm around the attacking arm and drove his knee into the stomach wound multiple times, not lessening in the fury one bit. He pushed Nifune away when he slumped on him slightly and gave the woozy man a heel kick to the cheek, shattering his cheek bone and driving him into the ground. The man still slowly staggered to his feet but he looked worse for wear,

"Screaming swan: Fifth dance!" Nifune yelled and put his left hand behind his back and spun on his heels. Waves of gold shot out of the tornado that engulfed the man. The blonde Hyuugas byakugan blazed in his concentration as time slowed down to a small crawl, he saw the thick bands of gold-blue chakra that made up the tornado and the gold waves, the attacks, in reality, were moving at high jounin speed but the boys hyper focused senses told him they were moving at low chunin, he jumped onto a sharp gold wave and ran over it, hopping from gold band to gold band and skidding to a stop before he ran straight to the tornado, using the gold attacks as a sort of stepping stones to reach Nifune. In the tornado Nifune was unaware since his eyes were closed. Naruto pulled his palm back and thrust it at the outer shell of the tornado,

"Wind release: Wind palm!" the sound that came when his jutsu met the Nifune tornado was like kami had personally used a mallet to smash a lead wall, it didn't thrum or vibrate but it hummed and forced both fighters apart. Naruto scanned his body, lying on the ground, and found out that he had broken both of his arms, nothing he couldn't heal from but he would have to find time to do so. He got up to his feet and ran into the smoke that had come after his attack met Nifune's; he was relying on his byakugan to lead him to the downed samurai. He got to Nifune and stepped on the man's sword arm, breaking the bone and finally making him let go of his sword. Naruto kicked the golden weapon away and forced a porcupine quill to grow out of his big toe, pointing it at Nifune's neck, "forfeit," the man closed his eyes and nodded slowly. Naruto's shoulder slumped and he knelt down beside the man, going through the painful process of snapping his broken arms back into place and sealing the cracks over with healing chakra.

Ten minutes later and the boy flexed his arms and popped his shoulders; he would have been able to fix them in a much shorter but he wanted to do the job carefully, if he rushed it he would be permanently deformed. He went through the hand seals for his medical chakra but Nifune violently hacked up some blood from his mouth, his broken cheek bleeding profusely. He tore the bandages off his stomach and watched with wide horrified eyes as the flesh eating virus he had gotten after stubbornly treating his wounds himself fully ate his stomach and moved up to the liver,

"I can only imagine how painful that is," Naruto mumbled and cancelled his healing jutsu, "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do. If you had met me a month ago I would have salvaged your stomach-"

"It's fine, at least I died against a worthy adversary," Nifune cut in, "take my sword back to iron country…my body as well. They would brand you with an S rank for killing me…I never loved my brother, Mifune, but he loved me…he would know I died honourably in battle but he would still seek to keep face by putting you in the bingo books…" Naruto nodded and sealed the sword, "you've fought admirably, Naruto-san. Now…end it…" Naruto nodded and cleanly sliced off the man's head with a stroke of his purple cutting chakra. Naruto blankly looked down at the dead rogue samurai before he stood up and dusted himself down, healing his external wounds so he looked like he had just come out of a bath besides the dust and the blood on his clothes. He reached back into his back pack and brought out a fairly large sealing scroll, sealing the gold katana into it and the dead man's body. He put the scroll back in and checked the other scrolls in his bag to see if he had the necessary things like food, water and clothes. After looking over his supply he took his grey shawl and wrapped himself in it, placing his wide brimmed black hat over his blonde hair, looking as homeless as he hoped. Naruto then began his slow trek to iron country, wanting to recover his energy from the last fight as well as the fights he would have to go through on his way.

Naruto didn't notice the pair of yellow eyes that looked out from a trees trunk, passing it off as a rabbit, sink back in and rush back to Hidden Rain to report the news.

Hyuuga Naruto, The Yellow Porcupine, The Bloody Medic, The Rogue Doctor, after many months of garnering attention all over the elemental nations was finally going to be recruited into the Akatsuki…

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Mari still couldn't bring herself to go back to the hospital. The purple haired woman blankly stared at her reflection in the mirror. She had lost weight, that's for sure. The clothes that usually fit her snuggly now sagged. There were heavy bags under her eyes and her already pale skin had turned pasty. She tiredly shuffled to the kitchen, wrapped in a blue blanket and shakily poured a cup of coffee for herself. She hesitantly sipped the brew and set the mug onto the kitchen counter. The woman tried to smile at the Hyuuga ANBU with an owl mask on but it came off as an awkward wince,

"Good morning ANBU-san," the first thing the Sandaime had done for Naruto to keep his mother safe was to assign a personal guard that would trail her in public as well two more that followed her if she ever chose to go to the hospital or to the vet. If her son was putting himself in the way of danger for a mission he could easily pull out of he should at least keep her safe so Naruto would have more of a reason to continue the mission. Heaven forbid anything should happen to her. Owl nodded politely and remained at full attention, "what would you like for breakfast?"

"I'm fine, thank you Mari-sama," was the curt answer, the woman asked this question every day and this was the usual response. Mari nodded slowly and shuffled to the living room to stare out of her window, though her house was confined in the branch family side of the clan she still had a good enough view of the wide expanse of land that was the Hyuuga training grounds. Her mind, of course, went back to all the times her son, Naruto, would train there sometimes from dawn till dusk, and other times she would practice his medical ninjutsu with her. She sighed mournfully; the Sandaime had informed her that her son was still very much alive but she had only gotten one letter from him and that was four months ago. Her eyes perked up when she heard a quiet knock on the door,

Owl marched to the door and hid a kunai behind her back before she activated her byakugan, sliding her weapon back when she saw who it was. She opened the door and bowed to Kakashi, "Kakashi-senpai,"

Kakashi, with a hand behind his back, used his free hand to scratch the back of his head, chuckling nervously, "I thought I told you to stop calling me that, I'm not working now,"

"You are still my captain, mask or not, senpai," she emphasized the title and the silver haired copy ninja's head drooped in defeat, "did you want something?"

"Oh yes, I came here to see Mari-sama, if you don't mind," he looked in and waved at the blanket wrapped woman, "Ohayo Mari-sama,"

"Ohayo Kakashi-san," was her response, "to what do I owe this visit?"

"I was just walking round and I saw your house and I said 'hey! Why not say hi?' and here I am," he slipped in and deftly prevented the older woman from seeing what he had behind his back, "so hi,"

Mari stifled her quiet laugh, "you know I have a doujutsu, right Kakashi?"

The man chuckled nervously, "I forgot," the two females could practically see the outlines of the cheesy grin the man wore on his face, "I wanted to drop him off," he gently brought out his hidden hand and Mari's eyes melted as she saw the white puppy in his hand, it could barely keep his eyes open, "he's a wolf-dog hybrid that was literally born yesterday. I picked him up from the Inuzuka dog pound for dogs that won't find their partner," he walked forward and gently put the puppy into her awaiting hands,

"And they just let you have him?" Mari asked as she put a dainty finger on his nose and cooed when he sneezed,

"All the members of the shinobi council know…what really happened, and Tsume was more than happy to give him to you," Kakashi unsealed a dog bed, treats, a toy and a few other necessary things the puppy would most definitely need, "she says 'nothing cures depression better than a puppy!'" he kept on mindlessly jabbering on about how he was allied to the dog clan and how he knew dogs better than most people but Mari silenced him with a soft look,

"Thank you Kakashi,"

The man smiled at her and waved, "it was no problem, Mari-sama," he watched as the woman placed the puppy onto the kitchen counter and began looking over all the assorted dog food the dog summoner had brought with him, which quite frankly was a lot and he still had more sealed in the scroll. Mari wasn't unfamiliar with treating animals, dogs included, but it was a whole different thing raising a dog, she looked at Kakashi apologetically and the man knew what she was saying non-verbally,

"It's best to start off with something…softer, I recommend this one," he picked up a can of dog food; the label said it was chopped up liver and beef. The woman took the can from the man and looked down at the ingredients critically, snorting quietly when she saw that it also recommended itself for younger dogs and old, senile dogs, "his teeth isn't strong enough to take the harder stuff," the silver haired man began separating the 'harder' dog food from the 'softer' dog food, Mari watched with interest as he explained things about dog food even she wasn't aware of, "the harder stuff stunts their teeth's growth and their shit would be…soggy," he shuddered from a memory that hit him. Mari was slowly rubbing her hands through the puppy's head, making the baby dog nuzzle into her hand, "do you have a name for him?"

Mari looked at the dog, who looked back, and smiled brightly, "I'll call him Emi,"

"What does the name mean?"

"That's what I wanted to name Naruto when he was born," Kakashi nodded, "do…do I bath him now?"

"If you want," the woman wrung her hands together and looked at him nervously, the copy ninja chuckled, "you want me to show you how,"

"Please," and both went to the kitchen and dropped the puppy in the sink.

Authors note

Jutsu list

Screaming swan: First dance: This is an A rank jutsu that only the bearer of Iron country's Golden katana can perform. This is the strongest 'screaming swan' attack because the gold attacks would be dangerous and fast; if Naruto walked on top of the gold wave he would have lost his legs. The chakra required to perform this jutsu is A rank. The downside of this attack is because Nifune had to keep his eyes closed to negate the dizzying effect of spinning so fast and that the gold waves only come out at a five second interval. The other 'Screaming swan' attacks have shorter intervals and more waves that come out but with lesser dangerous chakra, that was why Naruto was able to use the gold attack waves as a sort of stepping stones when Nifune used the 'Screaming swan: Fifth dance'.

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