Hey guys and gals! First of all, thanks for reviewing and favouriting this story! I'm glad that you people liked the start. :D

Now before we begin, I just wanted to warn you guys that at some points in this chapter, things will get a bit complex. And as stated in the first chapter, analytical input from your side. You'll understand what I'm talking about as you read this chapter. So DON'T skip anything or you wouldn't understand and this will become boring very quickly. -.-

Now let's start-

Chapter-2-Note's Influence

A file came flying through the open window at amazing speeds when Naruto caught it above his head, still sitting there.

'It's a good thing knowing the complete layout of the hospital considering I've arrived here so many times in the past,' he idly thought while gazing at the cover of the file-

Akeboshi Hitsugaki's Medical Report

Standing up, Naruto dusted his clothes before gazing through the window through which the file had zipped out.

"Sayonara...Mitsuru-chan," a smirk formed on his face as he stared at Mitsuru's motionless body on the floor before making a blurry dash towards his apartment.

'So it all went according to the plan,' Naruto thought with a smirk as he jumped through the roofs at amazing speeds for a boy his age. But it wasn't completely unexpected considering he had this habit of evading anbu or jounins, whether it be by using tricks, pre-planned strategies or his own stamina and speed.

Still under the transformation, he continued to blur towards his apartment with the file hidden inside his zipped orange jacket. Idly, he began to remember what he had written in the death note for that nurse Mitsuru.

"At 3:43 pm sharp, she will enter the Konoha General Hospital and would ask for Akeboshi Hitsugaki's room number at the reception under the excuse that she needs to check up on his condition. Walking at a normal pace, she will enter Akeboshi Hitsugaki's room and will grab his medical file. At exactly 3:50 pm, she will enter room number 26 with the medical file and throw it through the open window as hard as she can. At precisely 3:51 pm, she will die of a heart attack."

'Now here, there were several factors I had to consider based on my experiments earlier today. I never knew Akeboshi's room number but that nurse, who was being controlled by the death note probably did. However in a slight off chance that she didn't, I had to assure it by making her ask for his room on the reception or else she simply would've died of heart attack right there considering the victims of the death note can't do things that are impossible for them; such as going to someone's room whose location you don't know. Now I had her walk at a normal pace as I didn't know how she would move under the death note's influence, and it helped so that she wouldn't act strange or look suspicious to any present medic or shinobi there. As nurses usually know where the medical file is kept, so after taking the file she reached room number 26 at 3:50 exact. Between 3:43 and 3:50, she had a total of seven minutes, a comfortable time span to do those tasks. So I presume in case she wouldn't have been able to reach room number 26 at 3:50 exact, she again would have by default, died of a heart attack. After that, it was a pretty easy task of throwing the file through the window, and one minute after that; dying exactly at 3:51. Yep, it all went according to plan.

However there were still several possibilities that could've failed the plan. Now that I think about it, there's one main question that rises now.

How did she behave under the influence of death note?

Did she act normally like she would? Or did she act like a zombie under control? There are still many questions unanswered about the death note, but it's not like I don't have enough experimental candidates,' he thought with a smirk as the cool breeze soothed his form.

Several Minutes Later: Konoha: Naruto's Apartment

"Ah! It feels great! Once in my life, everything looks so achievable. Once in my life, I do not find myself cursed! This thing...," Naruto spoke with a smile, currently laying on his bed as he gazed at the death note in his right hand above his face.

"...is a gift to me. Death note is the first usable gift in my life, no offence to jiji though. The wrist watch came in pretty handy today...and I'm sure that it will be of great use in the future," he uttered before momentarily closing his eyes as a sigh escaped his lips.

'I feel just a little bit guilty of killing all those people and that nurse today, but they deserved it. I'm not just gonna sit here and let them do what they want! Besides, I'm also killing the criminals here, and what's a worse criminal than trying to kill an orphan boy in the most gruesome way possible since he was born. The hell with what jiji says, I'm not gonna forgive them and become the scapegoat of this village!' the blonde's thoughts began to turn darker as he clenched his fists in anger.

Sitting up, he began to take deep breaths to calm himself as the whiskered blonde clenched the death note tighter.

'Let's calm down here. Now what should be my next move. There's only so much I can do by using the newspaper. It will only be a source of daily petty and local criminals. What about the highly dangerous ones, the most vicious of high ranking criminals locked into the deepest reaches of Konoha's Special Ninja Felony Prison? Even the ones locked in Torture and Interrogation department cannot be ignored, I've heard they got some serious violent ones down there. So...,' his thoughts trailed as the blonde again laid back on his bed lazily, the sun now setting down as he stared at the ceiling blankly.

'So...the only one who has all this highly classified information would be jiji himself, or I should say the Hokage,' he thought with a grim expression. Naruto knew that this would not be easy, getting access to such information would normally be tough; but with the death note- he knew things weren't impossible.

'Atleast I know he keeps those files in his office somewhere. When he's not in his office, obviously anything classified would be under high security or hidden using only sealing I know is how to make a storage scroll and that's it. So the only time I have my chance is when jiji's in his office and is working. That's the time when most of the stuff is usually outside on his table, something he calls the cursed paperwork,' he further pondered before grabbing the medical file to open it-

Name- Akeboshi Hitsugaki

Sex- Male

Age: 36

Blood Group: B+

Status: Civilian

Occupation: Construction Worker

Details: Suffered Acute Myocardial Infarction- Cardiac Arrest on 21th October

Current Condition: Stable

Symptoms: Chest Pain, Palpitation, Sweating...

The blonde closed the file as the more he read, the more it was going beyond his scope of understanding.

'Okay, so in short. Even if the death note couldn't kill him, itatleast fucked him up real good,' he thought before turning his eyes towards the passport-sized photo of Akeboshi on the top right corner of the first sheet.

"Oh well, time to put the guy out of his misery and to be reunited with his family," Naruto muttered with a dark smirk as he opened the death note. Grabbing the brush from the dresser besides his bed, he wrote the name with the picture of Akeboshi crystal clear in his mind.

"Now with that bastard out of the picture, I have to plan on how to get access to the criminal files. More importantly, I can't steal them. So I have to write their names right there in jiji's office somehow. I'll need to prepare for this," a serious expression on his face.

Timeskip: Two Days Later: Hokage's Office: 11 AM

Currently we find the sandaime Hokage drowning himself in a suffocating evil of all dimensions and creations: paperwork.

"This is the time where I really miss you Minato," Sarutobi sighed as he worked through the papers, dark circles under his eyes while he took a puff off his pipe. The warm sun rays peeping through the large windows behind him though were a definite relief for the aged fire shadow.

Averting his gaze from the papers, he began to ponder on the recent events that had caught his attention.

'It really seems strange for so many criminals to just die a few days ago by heart attacks and at around the same time. And yesterday too, although less this time, there were a few more criminals who died of heart attacks. Is this all a coincidence?' Hiruzen thought while staring idly at his desk.

WHAM!

"Ohayou jiji!" a loud enthusiastic voice jerked him out of his musings as his lips curled upwards at noticing the energetic blonde figure.

"You should knock before coming in Naruto-kun," he spoke with a warm smile while the whiskered blonde continued to grin at him.

"Oh come on gramps! Stop being so stuck up, chill out a bit will ya! And what are you doing right now?" Naruto blurred through his words making the old Sarutobi sigh. He really liked Naruto and loved him like a grandfather. The blonde never let things get boring and often barged into his office, giving him necessary breaks from all the paper crap.

"Paperwork you know, I was just arranging these criminal files. Being a Hokage isn't all about being strong only you know?" he explained while Naruto's breathing hitched a bit in surprise, showing no outward signs of however.

'Oh the luck Kami-sama showers me with,' the blonde thought with a slight inward smirk as he nodded enthusiastically with the old kage.

"So Naruto-kun, I see you have again bunked the academy huh? What devious pranks are you pulling this time?" the sandaime asked with a hint of amusement in his voice as the blonde pouted.

"I'm hurt jiji. Why would you think I would do such things? I didn't go to academy today at all...just didn't feel like it," he spoke with a smile. Naruto really liked the Hokage, he knew that even though the old man couldn't prevent his childhood from getting shitty, he had tried his best.

Naruto had deduced that no matter how many laws, or how many guards Hiruzen may assign regarding his safety; people would always find a way to torture him. It was not a matter of creating a law with a Hokage's consent, it was a case of implementation of those laws by the people themselves.

"I see then, you're quite innocent. Then what is it this time? You want to go to Ichiraku's?" he asked with raised eyebrows making the blonde sigh.

"You have a one track mind jiji, all you think about is ramen," Naruto verbalized while shaking his head, as if in exasperation when he heard the sound of Hiruzen's pipe falling on the floor. Sarutobi's expression of a gaping fish was priceless as he stared at Naruto in shock, his eyebrows twitching while the blonde found himself about to burst in laughter when he cleared his throat.

"Oh, I also wanted to say thank you for the wrist watch you gave me on my birthday, forgot to say earlier you know!" he blabbered enthusiastically while showing off his wrist watch to the Hokage, a bright grin on his face when he momentarily glanced at the time on it.

'About ten more seconds,' the whiskered blonde pondered while on the outside, he was grinning like a goofball whereas the sandaime just chuckled at his grandson-like figure's antics.

"No need to say that Naruto-kun, you deserve much more than that," he replied with some sadness evident in his eyes.

"Say, I wanted to talk to you about something important jiji. You see-"

"Sorry for interrupting Hokage-sama, but Mitokado-sama and Utatane-sama are requesting your presence in the meeting chamber immediately. They say that it is an urgent matter," the blonde was interrupted when a middle-aged woman walked through the already open door.

Hiruzen sighed as he stood up somewhat lazily, a yawn escaping his lips.

"I'll be on my way then. You can resume your duties Akio-san," he said as his secretary Akio, bowed before leaving the room while Naruto outwardly was sporting a frown on his face.

'Should be easy from here on out,' he thought while smirking inwardly.

"I'm sorry Naruto-kun, but we can talk later ne? I've got an urgent matter to attend to," he uttered as the twelve year old boy scowled.

"But I wanted to talk to you! There's this really important matter I wanna discuss with you, and it has to be today! It's really urgent jiji!" he exclaimed with urgency while inwardly being impressed on his own acting skills at seeing the conflicted look in Sarutobi's eyes.

Smiling sadly at Naruto, the old kage ruffled his hair affectionately before speaking.

"I assure I would return as soon as possible. In the meanwhile, you can wait here for me okay? If anyone asks why you are here, just say I ordered you to come here," Naruto nodded in acceptance with a sigh as the sandaime stood up before leaving the office.

'Perfect! Now I have to do this as fast as I can, he shouldn't be back for about an hour,' the blonde thought with a serious expression as he calmly walked to sit on the couch.

'I also don't sense any Anbu here, means they are already following jiji, must be his bodyguards,' he thought before gazing at his watch.

"About five minutes more," he mumbled to himself as the blonde sat there with his elbows on his thighs; rubbing the whisker marks on his right cheek with the index and middle finger of his right hand- his usual thinking pose. Currently he was staring at the wall on the opposite side with a serious expression, completely opposite of what he was a few minutes ago in front of Hiruzen.

Deep in thought, he couldn't comprehend how five minutes flew by so quickly upon hearing the 'click' sound of the door being closed.

'Well done Akio-san,' Naruto thought with a smirk as he stood up before calmly walking towards the Hokage's desk.

Now standing besides Hiruzen's chair, he began to skim through the bulky file.

'Hmm...this seems to be some real forbidden stuff. It basically contains records of highly dangerous criminals caught by the Konoha's Military Police within a span of previous six years. The fuck? They haven't been sentenced to death yet? Six years and still the decision is pending? What the hell jiji has been doing anyway? He's way too lenient! Just look at this criminal, Mobashi Amuro, wanting to get rid of his own child for unknown reasons, murdered his wife just because she loved her baby and refused to go through abortion? Despicable assholes such as him don't deserve to live, not even in prison! Rapes, gang rapes, murders, slavery, killing for fun...all of them are the lowest of scums, the BASTARDS!' Naruto thought as he clenched his left fist very tightly, anger flooding throughout his system as a low growl escaped his lips.

His eyes were narrowed as he stared at the photos of these criminals with hatred in his cold oceanic blue eyes, some of whose faces he remembered- the ones who had beaten him in the past.

'And they call me a demon? These guys deserve nothing but a sudden death decision. I seriously doubt jiji's doing his work properly here,' the blonde thought as he calmed himself down before opening the first page of the folder.

Each attached/stapled page contained personal information regarding the criminal with several photos of him (from different angles) and some other administrative and official stuff which the blonde didn't have time to accustom himself to.

'Time to get to work, I have to write as much names as I can. I wouldn't able to get access to these files anytime I want, so I have to make the most of it right now,' he idly pondered before taking a white small-sized storage scroll from the inside pocket of his jacket.

Laying it on the chair as the table was already full with files and folders, he opened it before putting his hand on the circular seal in the scroll. Channeling chakra through his hand, he exclaimed quietly:

"Kai! (Release)," resulting in a puff of smoke which revealed several pages, pages torn from the death note to be exact which were stacked neatly on top of each other.

Picking the one on top, he gazed at the paper. It was divided into three columns, the first column being blank while the last two columns, Naruto had filled beforehand.

Each row of the second column was filled with 'Heart Attack', meaning this column was specifying the cause of death. The third column however, was specifying the time of death. In this, three consecutive rows held the same date with the time difference of one hour each. Then the following set of three consecutive rows (third column only) would contain the date for the next day, times of death being the same- and so on till the last row.

(Third column-

Row 1= 25th October- 2 pm

Row 2= 25th October- 3 pm

Row 3= 25th October- 4 pm

Row 4= 26th October- 2 pm

Row 5= 26th October- 3 pm

Row 6= 26th October- 4 pm

...and so on till the last row on the page)

Turning the page over, on its backside too was the same format. In fact, there were a few more pages on top of the stack which were filled with the same format.

'This will save my time. Now all I have to do is write their names in the first column. The result would be - starting as of 25th October, these bastards will begin to die of heart attacks; three in one day, each at 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm. This will throw off any possible investigators, they wouldn't know where to start atleast,' Naruto thought with a smirk as he gazed at the ink pot and the brush that Hiruzen was using.

"Well this ink is of high quality, and definitely a water-proof one. So I have to do this carefully," the blonde muttered to himself with a sweatdrop as he remembered the 'writing my own name on the death note' stunt he had pulled a few days ago.

"Okie-dokie, let's do this," he whispered to himself before putting the page of the death note on the table as he started to write the names (in the first column) while looking at the photos of the corresponding criminals. (Note that he's writing only one name in each row.)

Roughly One Hour Later: Just Outside the Hokage's Office

Walking up the stairs, Hiruzen entered the lobby with a yawn as he rubbed his eyes a bit, grumbling about his 'foolish old teammates' calling him for discussing trivial civilian matters.

'Well, not completely. They wanted to discuss about the these strange heart attacks, so it was alright. But then they started to blabber about civilian matters which we had already discussed before, it was as if they just came to chat with me. I guess those idiots really miss the old times,' he thought with a chuckle.

Reaching his office, he entered through the already opened door to smile at the sight. Here Naruto was sleeping on the couch, snoring loudly as he mumbled incoherent things with 'ramen' being the only understandable word.

Closing the door, he went towards his desk before sitting on his chair, a sigh escaping him.

'This job sometimes really takes a toll on me,' he mused before opening his eyes. Gazing at the paperwork he had left before, his eyes narrowed immediately.

'Someone touched these!' he thought in a bit of alarm as he scanned the room, now fully alerted.

'The windows were closed, the fan was off so there's no way these pages could have moved on their own. I know the exact way I had left them, someone has definitely touched this folder along with other papers. There's no way Naruto would even touch stuff like this, did someone sneaked in while he was sleeping? The door was already open when I came here after all. And Akio-san too wouldn't touch this, I have already ordered her not to before,' Hiruzen thought in growing suspicion as he opened the folder a bit frantically.

Currently gazing at the first page, his eyes started twitching when he checked the next few pages only for a tic mark to appear on his forehead.

"Narutoooo…." he growled lowly before closing the folder loudly and slamming it on the table making the currently sleeping blonde somewhat wake up from his sleep.

"Huh? Whazat?" he mumbled with sleepy eyes when Hiruzen walked to stand in front of him, the bulky folder in his hand.

"Explain," he spoke simply with a scrutinising glare after throwing the heavy folder on the blonde's lap making him grunt. Gazing at Sarutobi in confusion, he opened the folder before his mouth opened in an 'o' in realisation as a sheepish grin came across his face.

On the first few pages, the photos of the criminals were 'edited'. Edited in the sense that some of them now had beards, some had eye patches, some had black circles under their eyes making them look like insomniacs, some had piercings in their ears, and some even had 'ramen' written on their foreheads! All in all, the moral today Hiruzen got was that with an ink dripped brush, Naruto could be pretty crafty.

"Well….I was bored," blonde spoke with a nervous grin as Hiruzen's eyes again started twitching.

"Bored? Bored you say? If you get bored, you don't paint the faces of high ranking criminals of a village Naruto!" the professor almost yelled when the blonde jumped out of the couch comically.

"It's your fault in the first place! You said you would return as soon as possible! What was I supposed to do? Become the Hokage and smoke a cigar?" he yelled back while pointing an accusing finger at the sandaime making him sweatdrop at the 'cigar' comment.

"Still Naruto, do you know how important this stuff is? Normally, I would have heavily punished the one who did this," he spoke in a serious tone as Naruto's expression visible deflated while a small smile crept up on the old kage's face.

"But since this is you, I'll let it slide this time. Pranks are good once in a while Naruto, but do remember some of your pranks may cause serious trouble someday," he now spoke in a grandfatherly tone as the blonde nodded with a somewhat sad expression.

"Yeah, I'm sorry jiji. I thought they would look cool like that," Naruto spoke with a sigh making the Hokage again sweatdrop- like hell they looked cool! They now looked even more ferocious and intimidating than before.

'Time's running out, I have to leave now,' the blonde thought as he suddenly grinned on the outside.

"Ne jiji, I suddenly remembered something! I gotta go right now! Bye and see you later!" he exclaimed before rushing out of the open door making Hiruzen chuckle at the energetic blonde.

'He really is one of a kind,' he thought when he heard Naruto's yell echo through the corridor.

"And check your Icha-Icha crap in the secret compartment of your left bottom-most drawer!" Hiruzen's eyes widened in horror as he zipped to appear in front of the desk's mentioned drawer within a second.

'Oh shit! No shit! Please shit! Fuck shit!' he mentally chanted his 'shit' mantra while taking out the most prized literature in his possession. Sarutobi almost had a heart attack (not the death note lol) when he gazed at the ruined 'graphic illustrations' in the book, courtesy of a phenomenon-'Naruto with an ink brush'. The blonde hadn't even left the front cover!

"NARUTO YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" a scream was heard throughout Konoha and everyone right then knew what had happened- the prank master had struck yet again.

Meanwhile: Forests just behind the Hokage's Monument

Currently Naruto had just entered the forests as he dashed through the foliage as fast as he could.

'Per-fect, this one went absolutely perfect! I didn't know I could fool jiji so easily,' he thought while jumping through the trees at blurry speeds.

'Shinobi have extremely sharp observational skills, and jiji's no different. Underneath that warm smile and that grandfather face, he's a deadly one. I knew that jiji, being the Hokage and a kage level shinobi would easily notice the displaced papers and that they had been tampered with. So it was a pretty good plan of using my 'idiotic personality' here. Everyone knows of me being an idiot. Even jiji believes that when it comes to the brains side, I'm pretty weak.

So using that fact, I did what 'the knucklehead Naruto' would have done in his absence and painted those faces a bit- making him believe that the papers looked to be displaced because I had only ruined those faces with the ink due to me being bored, when instead I was using the death note to kill those criminals. Add to the fact that doing the same with Icha-Icha was an icing on the cake, now there's not even the slightest chance of him getting suspicious of me,' Naruto thought with a smirk as felt the sealing scroll in the pocket on the inside of his jumpsuit.

'Atleast I have completed the quota for thirty days, filling ninety entries in the first column. So starting tomorrow, 25th October, those bastards will begin to die via heart attacks,' he pondered as he continued to bolt away from the Hokage's office, deeper into the forest.

'Now I just have to reach that 2 mile mark I had marked yesterday in this forest, it's further ahead.'

Several Minutes Later: Forests Behind the Hokage's Monument: Unknown Location

"Here!" Naruto exclaimed as he skidded past a large tree, a large 'cross' sign carved on its trunk. Currently he was panting just a little bit, beads of sweat rolling down his face as the blonde walked to sit by the marked tree, his back resting against its trunk.

Opening the zipper of his jacket, he pulled out the white scroll, sealed in which were the blank pages of the death note, kept for emergency use when he was not in his apartment. He then took out another scroll from his jacket, which was blue in colour.

'Blue represents the scroll containing the death note pages which have already been used,' he reminded himself before opening the scroll. Unsealing it, the small puff of smoke cleared to reveal about ten pages of death note, all of them filled with Naruto's handwriting. Fishing through them, he took out a total of three pages.

He then began to gaze at the names written on those pages.

'Homura Mitokado…..Koharu Utatane….Akio Amamiya…..the names of the two guards who stand at the entrance of the Hokage's Office building, all of them played their parts perfectly,' Naruto mentally stated with a smirk while staring at the conditions of their death he had specified in the pages.

'But now that I'm about 2 miles away from the Hokage's office building with the pages of the death note with me here, it means that these guys are out of the 1.6 mile radius-circular area with these pages acting as the center. Thus they are out of the death note's range and even if I have written their names in the death note's page, they wouldn't die now,' he pondered with a serious expression while he began to dig up some loose soil with his hand.

Naruto, before coming to the Hokage's tower today, had already written Homura, Koharu, Akio and the names of the two guards in the death's note pages, which are currently in his hand. He had also deduced from experimenting yesterday, that people when under the influence of the death note, would behave normally. (Example- If the person is supposed to die after one year as written in the death note, he would continue to behave normally until his death instead of acting like a robot in control. Also, a person comes under the influence of death note forty seconds after his name has been written on the death note.)

For Homura and Koharu, as written in the death note, they would leave their homes and reach the Hokage's Office building exactly at 11:05 AM and would order Akio (who also was under the death note's influence) to ask 'Saru' to meet them in the meeting's hall, saying that it was an urgent matter. When the Hokage would come to meet them, then they would begin to talk about the recent strange deaths and other civilian matters for about one hour with Hiruzen. After that, they would excuse themselves, would return to their respective homes and would continue to behave normally. (Note that this is not what was written exactly in the death note, it's a rough explanation.)

For Akio, she would continue to work/behave normally until receiving orders from the two elders. Then she would, at exactly 11:07 AM, enter the Hokage's office to inform Hiruzen of the situation. At exactly 11:13 AM (as according to Naruto, six minutes was enough for Hiruzen to leave the office), she would lock the door from the outside. Precisely at 11:58 AM, she would open the door as a warning signal for Naruto to finish the job quickly and so that he had some time left for 'ruining' the faces of the criminals and Hiruzen's Icha-Icha. She would then return to her duties and continue to behave normally.

The two guards however, their only function was to let Naruto in without any of their usual shit as normally they would not permit the blonde to enter the building saying-'Hokage-sama is busy. Come back later brat!' and that was the answer he would get everytime. So letting him in, they too would continue to behave normally.

The time of deaths for these five people was specified to be 1st November in the death note's pages, about one week after writing their name. But since Naruto had taken the pages- on which the names of these victims were written, about two miles away from them; they were out of the death note's 1.6 mile radius range and hence now safe.

'And even if I take these pages back with me, making those guys come in death note's range again, they would remain unaffected now. It's a good thing I had experimented some more yesterday before coming to jiji's office today. Now let's leave these pages here, I have no use for them anymore,' he thought before crumpling up the three pages before putting them in the small pit he had dug with his hands right then. Filling the pit with the loose soil again, he patted it with his hand before dusting his hands off the dry sand.

The remaining seven pages (on which the names of the criminals he had just written in Hokage's office), he sealed them back in the blue scroll. Pocketing the blue and white scrolls back, he stood up before dusting his clothes.

'It's a relief that Konoha's Prison, in which these criminals currently are, is in the 1.6 miles radius range from my position here, meaning they currently are in the range of death note's pages on which their names have been written. Or else, their deaths would have been cancelled too and I would have had to write their names all over again,' he thought with a sigh before dashing in another direction, where Konoha Ninja's Felony Prison was located- in an isolated area outside of Konoha.

'I wouldn't need to go too near, I'll just bury the death note's pages near the large compound so that those criminals are in range at all times and would continue to die over the month,' he mused as he jumped through the forests for several minutes.

After reaching the proximity area of the prison, he again buried those pages like before.

'Now the show starts,' Naruto thought with a smirk as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.

One Week Later

"Hey, have you heard about all these nasty criminals dying of heart attacks?"

"Well, who hasn't? The whole of Konoha knows about this!"

"They all have been dying since a week now, all of them due to heart attacks."

"I've heard that the times of their deaths are identical too, three criminals die every day in the afternoon. I don't know about the exact timing though."

"Do you think all these deaths are pure coincidences? I mean, heart attack is a natural cause of death you know."

"Hell no! I'd say this is the work of some cool superhero who has decided to kill all those monsters!"

"Talking about monsters, do you think he will kill that boy too?"

"Well, I certainly hope he does. There would one less monster roaming free here."

"The Konoha Daily newspaper has even named him as 'Kira', now that's cool! A hero working in secrecy, doing something that our Hokage hadn't done until now."

"I'm kinda scared you know, what if he also decides the kill the innocents. He seems to have this godly power to kill anyone with heart attacks."

"Oh don't worry! I have a feeling Kira's a good guy…or a gal. For the whole week, he's been killing only the criminals."

"I think Kira can only kill three people in a single day, and only in the afternoon."

"Yeah! That must be the limits of his powers."

"No your wrong, haven't you heard of the local gangs and thugs also being killed by heart attacks every day? The prison isn't the only place where the criminals are dying."

"I wonder though, what kind of forbidden ninja art he may be using, I have never heard of such a strong technique which can kill your opponent with a heart attack in an instant."

These were the rumours and whispers that general public was exchanging with one another these days. Kira, it was a word that was now uttered about million times per day in Konoha, whether it be children, adult civilians or the shinobi- the word had quickly spread through the hidden leaf like a wild fire. A major portion of the civilians in the village were happy for the events that had taken place during the previous week.

However, there were some who were not so happy and were getting worried.

Torture & Interrogation Department: Head Office

"Ibiki, this has gone too far now. We can't allow this to happen anymore. At first, I had just pushed away these deaths as mere coincidences, but with each passing day- and more deaths on the horizon has utterly crushed that notion," Hiruzen spoke with a serious expression as he along with Ibiki Morino, head of the T&I Department, stood in the head office in front of a large table which was littered with files and other documents.

"I agree Hokage-sama. I had already told you that something was suspicious, but you decided to wait," Ibiki spoke somewhat accusingly making the Sarutobi sigh as he took a puff of his pipe.

"Leaving that, I want to find out who or what is causing this. All these victims…." the old professor spoke while indicating the documents on the table.

"….are dying just because of heart attacks. Some of them were shinobi, and a ninja dying of heart attack- that's something rarely heard of," he finished making the tokubetsu jounin nod.

"Yeah, I agree. Could this be the work of an enemy? However, I can't state anyone who could kill someone with heart attacks. That's something I've never heard of," Ibiki uttered with some frustration in his voice when the door to the office was opened as three males entered.

"Oh, I'm surprised you're on time Kakashi," the sandaime Hokage spoke in surprise as he gazed at copy ninja.

"This is something that can't afford any tardiness Hokage-sama. I've finished that S-rank mission and just returned an hour ago. I think we can begin the investigation now," the jounin spoke with a serious expression.

"Man what a drag, why'd you call me so early. Couldn't we have waited for atleast a few more hours?"

"Shut up Shikaku, this is a serious matter. Let's start Hokage-sama," Inoichi spoke with a grim expression, intervening the Nara who miraculously- for once in his life looked serious.

Sooooo, I really hope you liked it? I really do. I hope you understood everything. And in case something is confusing you or you think is a plot hole, please ask me so we can clear it up. :)

There's one thing I wanted to clear things about- some of you have advised me that Naruto should use death note and bingo book to kill the missing nins. Now that's not possible as according to the rules specified in chapter 1, if the victim is outside the circular area of 1.6 mile radius with the death note(or it's page on which the name has been written) being the center, then he/she will remain unaffected. So if Naruto plans to kill a missing nin, he should know their whereabouts and that missing should be within the range of the death note.

So in the end, please don't hesitate to review (takes a maximum of two minutes to type a decent one lol) and tell me how you liked it. If you are bored (which I'm expecting some of you may be...or most of you), then don't hesitate to tell me that you're...uh...bored actually, yeah.

For those who want this to be updated, it should be up in about ten days as I have other two fics to update too. Next chapter though, things will get more spicy as the investigation starts and with Ryuk entering the scene as a new shinigami whose death note had accidenly fell from his realm, and now wants it back! Let's see how our gray-blonde (lol) reacts.

So review, thanks for reading and take care! :P

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