Villain's Handbook
Benefactor
"Shino-kun! I need more of compound eight!" Naruto scrambled across his instrument panel, turning knobs and rapidly pushing buttons.
"My apologies Naruto-sama, I neglected to have my hive synthesize excess quantities of the compound." Shino stood calmly, a clipboard in his hand, taking notes dutifully. As Naruto's only present disciple, the menial task of keeping ordered notes for later reference fell to him. He didn't mind really, but he did take some measure of pleasure from watching his slightly deranged mentor squirm as his experiment went horribly wrong.
"Make more! Quickly! It's destabilizing!" Naruto wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, and rapidly pushed buttons with his free hand.
"My apologies Naruto-sama. I will be unable to synthesize the needed quantity before the subject reaches critical failure."
Naruto tugged at his disheveled pony-tail, which was the closest Shino had ever seen the peculiar boy closer to blind and rampant fury than when he tugged on his long, disheveled pony-tail. "GAAAAHG!"
There was a high pitched whine, the sound of glass cracking, and the sound of a viscous fluid spewing from a pressurized space.
"Naruto-sama, are you ok?"
Naruto simply sighed, and ran a hand though his hair, a motion he regretted, shaking it to dislodge some of the slime.
"Shino-kun. I'm covered in protoplasm. Do I look ok?"
"You look like you're perfectly fine, aside from being covered in protoplasm."
Naruto made inarticulate noises and flexed his hands in fury.
Shino stared on impasively, and pushed his glasses further up his nose.
"I...urk...Ah...ugh...eh...HNNNN...FUCK YOU SHINO!"
"Shall I begin gathering samples of the protoplasm?"
Naruto again sighed, and again ran his hand through his hair, and again regretted it, and again shook his hand to dislodge the slime. "Sure, why the fuck not."
Shino nodded, and waved his hand. A cloud of black insects swarmed over Naruto, picking each and every speck of offending slime off of the blonde, which they then deposited inside special containers, meant for just such a purpose.
Naruto shook himself to dislodge any remaining beetles, and left Shino in charge of cleanup. Serves him right for not making enough of the compound they'd needed to stabilize Naruto's little experiment.
A bell rang, echoing through the compound, and Naruto brightened up, placing his glasses in the pocket of his white coat. "Ah, Danzo-san must be here with new subjects. Perhaps he'll agree to giving me a few of his henchmen. They are rather plentiful."
Naruto and Danzo had a pleasant working relationship. The compound Naruto had discovered shared the Konoha underground with the compound of Danzo's Root organization, something Naruto did not mind in the slightest, so long as he was given his space.
Upon discovering that someone had moved into the abandoned compound, Danzo had stormed the place.
Naruto was outraged, and Danzo lost roughly twenty men to Naruto's traps and experiments.
Needless to day, Danzo was surprised that a nine year old child had defeated twenty of his highly trained Root operatives, even if said nine year old took no direct part in the combat. When the remaining members of Root finally corned the blonde boy, Danzo was further surprised. The Kyuubi jinchuuriki.
Seeing the potential benefits of having a positive relationship with the blonde jinchuuriki, Danzo apologized for the intrusion, and offered his friendship.
The blonde accepted, on several conditions.
Danzo thought them to be prudent, and acceptable, and so agreed.
The secretive man began supplying the blonde boy with scientific equipment, and funding his research.
Not once since this relationship began did Danzo regret his decision.
"Ah, Danzo-san, how has your day been?" Naruto appeared behind Danzo's escorts, a pair of scalpels pressed into their backs. The old warhawk grinned, and a member of Root materialized behind Naruto, and placed a blade at his neck.
Naruto sighed, and palmed his scalpels, stowing them away in his sleeves. "Ano..you win yet again Danzo-san."
"My day has been well Naruto-kun, I have some spies for your experiments, and a gift. But before that, how goes your project? Is the blood I acquired for you sufficient?"
Naruto rubbed the back of his head, tugging lightly on his pony-tail. "The blood is more than sufficient, but my progress is slow. What with keeping my cover, and the difficulties of combining the blood in a stable sequence, I don't expect to make much progress in the immediate future. The trouble is with stabilization! I can see what it must be but all the variables are difficult to isolate, if I can manage to stabilize it for just a few moments longer I ca-"
Danzo raised a hand before the blonde got into a rant on his project, "I have faith in your abilities Naruto-kun. So, which would you like first? The spies or your gift?"
Naruto's face lit up, and Danzo was reminded that, despite everything Naruto did, and how he spoke, the blonde was still very much a child. "Gift!"
The warhawk chuckled, "Very well Naruto-kun, here you go." The leader of Root placed a glass cylinder in the blonde's hand.
The blonde stared at it, "Is it?"
A smile, "It is."
Awe showed itself on Naruto's face, for an instant, quickly hidden, "Who's?"
Danzo's smile wavered, for but a moment, before it reasserted itself. "Can't tell you that Naruto-kun, you know how it is."
Naruto nodded "Abilities?"
Danzo pondered that for a moment, then smirked, "Wow where's the fun if I just tell you Naruto-kun?"
Naruto nodded and smiled broadly, "Have you analyzed the structure?"
Danzo nodded, "Only superficially, we did not want to damage them before I gave them to you."
The blonde nodded, slipping the cylinder into his white coat. "Spies?"
"Ah, yes. We have quite a diverse selection for you today, at least one from every village, several have Kekkei Genkai, or are members of clans with unique techniques. I'm sure you will be able to analyze them more thoroughly."
The blonde shrugged, his hand was in his pocket, and he was clearly toying with the glass cylinder.
"Is there a limit to how many I can take?"
Danzo shook his head, "I'm feeling generous today Naruto-kun, after all, you're to graduate from the academy tomorrow, and officially become a shinobi, yes?"
Naruto stopped in his tracks, before hurrying to catch up with Danzo, who hadn't stopped. "I had forgotten, thank you Danzo-san, I'll have to analyze your gift immediately after the spies are transferred to my holding cells, though, regrettably, I'll have to wait in my observations of them. Danzo-san, I'll have to excuse myself, I wish to analyze these immediately, I hope you can convey all the spies to my holding cells? And please, I would like all of them. You know I'll find out if someone is not brought."
Danzo nodded, remembering the last time he had attempted to not deliver one of the promised subjects. The blonde had melted a hole in the side of Root headquarters that was still being repaired. A repeat of that event was to be avoided. The blonde was quite vindictive when he chose to be.
"Shino-kun! Prep my tools!"
Shino seemed to materialize next to him, "Which tools Naruto-sama?"
Naruto said nothing, only showing Shino the glass cylinder.
Shino nodded, adjusting his glasses, "Are you going to inspect them first?"
Naruto laughed, "Of course I am, I wouldn't put it past Danzo to kill me in such a manner."
Shino nodded, and hurried off to do what he was told.
Naruto held up the glass cylinder, peering at what waited within.
"This will be...interesting."
AN: So, thoughts?
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