Chapter 2 of Q, by OniRudra37, note to reviewers, nothing made to be blackmail, I disapprove of it highly, I just feel that if no one reads, no one should write.

Disclaimer: Naruto: "Where am I?"

OniRudra: "you are in the world that I have devised."

Naruto: "So where am I?" Naruto pulls out small blade.

OniRudra: "Careful your in limbo that comes before every story, you're here to do the disclaimer"

Naruto: nods, he points to the typer, "I have formally announced that OniRudra does not own me in any way", he turns to me. "What now?"

OniRudra: Story I guess…………

Chapter 2, Q

Naruto awoke to be surrounded by white, and sounds of beeping. 'Hospital' he thought as he looked around and saw no one. He tried to move only to see large leather bands holding him down.

'I wonder where these came from, more importantly why am I here, what do I do now?' Naruto began to feel that tell tale tightening on his gut that he knew was the sign of his body demanding answers, but he breathed and after several minutes was able to ignore the pressure of the unanswered questions.

He looked around as he tried to figure out where in the hospital he was in, he then decided against it. He looked at the straps and then proceeded to reach for his sleeves of his hospital gown. He brought an arm to his face and bit into it, ripping the flesh away with his teeth, producing a file, then making short work of the leather bands, he noticed that they were attached to the bed and picked up a scalpel from the tray beside the bed and rolled up his sleeve, his arm showing with the pale lines that formed his earlier questions he chose a clear piece of skin and etched another question, 'Why does the pain under shadow the questions?'

He watched as the bloody lines began to heal, he then produced pieces of black and red charcoal as he brushed the two across his skin, making the bloody script heal to black with red outlining; he then took up the scalpel, and proceeded to remark all of the older ones on his arms and chest then producing more charcoal for certain types of questions: red and black for questions on pain, blue and his skin's natural pale for questions over his chakra, and a verdant green for those over his body and mind.

Finally he went to the small bathroom that joined the room and looked at the hard Plexiglas that showed his two largest works to anyone who could see past his orange jackets white armor collar.

The two bold capital Qs looked back at him as he looked at himself in a new light, his neck was a little sore, but that was to be expected. He shook his head and felt his neck tendons pop. He looked at them again and thought of something.

'The seal array that sensei's were going over before I showed up here could be placed around these and it would cause them to stay like this, and I would not have to redo them.' He nodded as he drew his hands to his jacket pockets hanging from the door and pulled out a small case of black blood infused ink, and drawing a needle from the neck of his coat he began to put his masterpieces to fruition.

He felt the dull pain as the needle burned his skin as the ink mixed with his blood so that it could bring about the required result, but he just bared his teeth and began with renewed vigor.

XXLaterXX

Sarutobi was a man with many fears, the destruction of his village and all of the people that he protected were just a few, but now he was sprinting to the room where the blonde had been checked in. He stopped outside the door to see a woman shaking her head and sobbing saying that the boy had finally lost his soul to the demon and was beginning his release.

Sarutobi felt his own heart clench, and he opened the door, seeing the twelve year old boy sitting on the floor a bowl of ink in his hand and he was drawing a swirl over the floor, finishing it as the man walked in.

"Hello Hokage-sama", the third flinched at the respectful term and tone from the boy, he had never used it before this day and he saw the boy sit up. The hokage walked up to the boy and grasped his shoulders; he pulled down the boy's collar to see one of the Qs on his neck surrounded by a very recognizable seal structure: the Gogyou Fuuin.

'Where did he learn such a destructive and depressing jutsu, could he have known it from the time Iruka had told the class that seal jutsu were fully recorded in the library and pulled it himself while no one was watching him? Wait there is some more seal to it inside it, I need to ask him what these do, but I must tread carefully.'

"Naruto how are you my boy," the boy shrugged as he gazed at the complex drawing on the ground trying to fix the smearing in some places. "Naruto do you know what is on your neck?" The boy stopped and stood straight and nodded, not facing the man his hospital gown picked up by an odd breeze.

"Seals hokage-sama." The aged man nodded as he walked around to the front of the boy, and flinched at his face.

His mouth was covered in a rustic metal color that could only be dried blood, it looked like the boy had bitten in to his own arm to produce something from it, he looked and saw a snapped file lying in the corner of the room surrounded by the pool of blood from where he perhaps gotten the seal ink.

"Would you like to tell me what they mean?" He knew what parts of it were but hopefully this would shed some light on the situation. Naruto nodded as he drew a scroll from inside the pocket of the jacket he always wore and showed the man his detailed notes and his completed seals, while hiding the others.

"It is a seal that allows me too use the combined elements of the A class fuinjutsu: Fuuja Houin, Gogyou Fuuin, and the C class jutsu Shikoku Fuuin, by combining separate elements with my own detailed version of the seal on my stomach I have created what I call the 'Hidoi tamashii heiwa shizu chinmoku fuuin'."

The Hokage looked at the boy as if he had a question for him, then thought about it. 'That's a very complex name for something that seems just so equally complex, how did he build this seal, wait remember who his father was Sarutobi, and this is to expected.' He smiled as he took the bowl of blood from beside the boy's feet and gave him a smile.

"And what dear Naruto caused you such a great interest in seals?" The old man asked the blonde who held his head down and the old hokage never noticed a flash of memory to go by the boy's eyes.

Memory Placement technique.

Naruto lay on the ground curled up in a ball; he had just received the worst beating in his last six years, all because he had asked a question.

"What exactly do seals do sir?"

The man behind the counter growled as he lifted the ten year old boy in to the air and yelled at him.

"They keep defenseless villagers safe from demons and the pain that their illusions cause, nothing that you could possibly use monster, they are used to help people."

Naruto heard nothing else as he felt his mind unlock and cause him to begin to spout out questions beyond his recognition. He was ripped from his mental contemplation as he felt his lungs close without his knowledge only for him to see a monster fist bury itself into his face and cause him to fly back and get jumped and beaten for practically nothing.

The villagers eventually left the boy here and showed how he came to his current predicament; beaten bruised and bleeding he had kept one thing in his mind with incredible focus, 'Seals could help me.'

Cancel technique…

Naruto looked to his closest person to be family; he shrugged as he poured chakra into the seal on the floor, and then began the pain.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!, it hurts! OH Kami! Please don't keep this happening to me please I am sorry just make the pain go away!" 'Sob, sob, sob' "Oh god it hurts so much ahhhhhhh!"

The third hokage was shocked from his skin as he had heard the blonde's seemingly random outburst till he saw the ink crawling up the boy burning and boiling the poor boy's skin till he saw it finish and the boy lay on the now bare floor as if he had just been beaten to a pulp.

The hokage leaned on a knee next to Naruto, and put a hand to his neck. Alive good he saw the boy gazing out with so much forgotten pain the he nearly cried right there in front of the blonde till he walked closer to the boy and asked him the big question:

"Naruto why did you make the seal, and why did you administer it with so much pain twice?" The blonde croaked out an answer that perhaps scared the Hokage more than any other thing he had ever heard from the boy.

"By trading one pain for one far worse, I can ignore the second and finally find my answers, pain shows the answer to all things, the villagers told me so."

The hokage stood and could not look at the defeated boy and his unbearable pain; he was in such a hurry that he never saw the young girl with dark blue hair. She saw the Hokage moving away with all speed and looked into the room.

She ran away a second later, dropping the vase of flowers on the ground with a crash, shocking the boy back into the state of mind he was in before the Sandaime left.

'Why did Jiji leave, all I did was answer his questions, and who brought the flowers, who cares enough to bring me flowers, why would someone bring me flowers, they are pretty, what kind are they?'

XXX Three days Later XXX

Naruto walked through the village, pushing back his hair as he put a pair of blue goggles on his forehead, he had received them anonymously many years ago, and they meant a lot to him. He knew that he was supposed to wear a headband on his head but he believed the goggles had more of a practical use besides; he could wear these to hide the pain the village pushed towards him.

Naruto was walking to the academy, intending to take the gennin exam today, he did not know why but he could focus on the exam and he found he did not have so many pieces falling randomly in his mind. He marked this as a sign that he just needed to focus more, but even when he believed he had finally blocked the multitude of the questions out he could feel more invade his mind again.

'What is the exam going to cover, am I recovered enough for the taijutsu portion, why didn't Jiji visit me again at the hospital after the first time, who brought me the flowers?'

Naruto stopped as his hand went to his chest, sitting in his inside jacket pocket was the head of one of the flowers from the hospital, and he needed to thank whoever it was after all, 'someone cared enough to try and bring them to me, who could it have been, who would like to be nice to me, sakura would only do something like that for sasuke, so she is out. Who could it have been after all, it has to be someone I know, and a girl too, most guys wouldn't bring another dude flowers that I know of, but more to the point WHO?'

Naruto was cut from his ranting as he entered the school yard, he walked past all the students as he headed for the entrance, passing most of the students as he entered and headed for class.

Hinata Hyuuga was not what someone would call, a social butterfly. Where most girls would like to act all weak and defenseless, she did not act. She was perhaps the strongest kunoichi in their year, but her lack of forwardness and her massive amount of shyness were detrimental features to one such as her.

She did have one thing however; she was head over heels for one Uzumaki Naruto. Sure he wasn't the smartest in everything, or the fastest in a race, but he had charisma, an attitude that made you just want to be near him, that was until just recently, when she had been stalk…. She meant following her crush around she found that he was nothing like anyone she new:

Naruto was a tortured individual, it was as if something was on his mind all the time and he could never focus on anything with whatever else had grasped his attention. He wad been found out by her to have a lot of questions, somewhere along the line of someone wanting to know each and every little thing through personal knowledge or experience. Though lately even his normal behavior was over shadowed by some deep complex need to ask questions, and she had found out a few days ago that when he had no one to ask the questions he would ask his body in terrible and frightening ways to the young Hyuuga girl.

'He just needs someone to be with him and show him that not everything has to have an answer, it is like mother used to say "knowing everything about life takes all the fun out of living it."' Hinata nodded as she saw Naruto pat his chest affectionately. Confused she stepped behind a tree and activated her bloodline.

"Bya… Byau….ku….Byaukugan." and in a flash of her own chakra she found something that without a doubt made her young heart sing. She wrapped her hands around each other as she held them to her chest.

Naruto the ever questioning, and ever answer searching blonde Adonis, had one of her personally grown flower's heads in his coat pocket, along with two scrolls and a long piece of purple ribbon.

She quickly deactivated her own doujutsu as she headed for the class room, she had to be in her seat to admire her long time crush and hopefully future something, as he sat in his seat and began to twiddle his fingers in several tunes that she remembered from going to the play house with her father and younger sister.

'Naruto-kun likes music? I never knew that, how come he never mentioned it to anyone, does anyone but me know? Should I approach him? What would I say?'

As Hinata pondered this Naruto could hear an argument coming from behind him, he turned and looked to see a large boy arguing with a fur collared boy about trying to take his chips.

'It seems as if nothing has changed in my absence, does anything ever do though, I wonder who started this argument, would it be worth it to try and dissolve it?' Naruto considered this mindset till he noticed something.

The quiet girl in the row he was sitting in a few days ago, she had the most beloved and cherish able look on her face, he didn't know why but it captivated him to no ends, and before he realized it he had begun walking to his eye's object of interest.

'What am I doing? Have I lost it, I don't want everyone to think that I am completely attention handicapped, but she just looks so pretty, I wonder what facial muscles have to pull to create that specific face, it is just so pretty.' Before Naruto could realize anything he had been thinking he was practically replacing her right arm with his proximity.

Hinata felt a presence and looked up, only to feel her face go deep red, and let out an "eep." He was right in front of her, close enough that she could reach out and touch him if she could bring the courage to try. She almost passed out right then and there as he reached out with his hand about to touch her own, only for it to be shattered.

"Hey dobe what are you doing to Hinata," Naruto turned to see the angry face of Kiba a few inches from his own and wondered if this was a bad idea, suddenly all his thoughts came back.

'Kiba and Akamaru, what do they want? I have not done anything but walk up to her, does she not like me for some reason that I don't know? Is she Kiba's girl? How should I respond with this maybe I should just sit down and try to pretend this did not happen? Or should I protect my pride, Kiba is not the most brilliant student, but he could probably hurt me from a scuffle, and after getting out of the hospital not a good idea.'

Naruto was about to head back to his desk when he heard the boy yell at him again and push him back, causing him to fall behind the poor girl, which he tried to apologize and block Kiba's retaliation in the same move, only to be thrown off.

'That smell, those are from the flowers, so it was someone close to her, judging by the way she tightened her shoulders she is nervous and tense around me, she must be scared of me, am I really that scary? I don't do anything that bad, do I?'

Naruto sat up as Kiba kicked him and he felt his cuts throb, he shot up immediately and punched the dog boy, causing him to fall over in shock. Naruto faced Hinata and reached in to his pocket and handed her the length of ribbon he had bought to tie around his scroll on theories of why questions replicated. She took it with a shaking hand only for him to be tackled from behind to the floor and for a continuous stream of blows to pour into his back from the enraged Kiba. He could feel each word that the fist connected with underneath his jacket and shirt. Suddenly he felt Kiba's hands go for his neck and he responded with how he fought with the older civilian boys.

Kiba was surprised that when he went to choke he found the blonde had rolled over and was holding his arms away, while his knee shot into his chest, causing him to let go, and Naruto to tackle him back twice the distance that Kiba had hit him, before Kiba could recover Naruto remembered one of the things he had learned to protect himself from bullies and some villagers as he sprang into action.

Hinata watched in fascination as Naruto shot one hand around Kiba's throat, followed by a foot, while using the opposite arm to grab his left arm, and his other leg locking Kiba's remaining arm. He pulled tight and Hinata was amazed. One of Naruto's pants legs had hiked up and she could see the muscle like a coiled spring, it looked much like that of the elder Hyuugas when they practiced the clans eight gates maneuvers.

Naruto felt Kiba laying there, trying to break his hold on him. 'Not a chance, now how to incapacitate? Choke out? Tiger neck pull? Or perhaps a sharp one eighty degree twist to the right, and watch him go in to a three hour muscular spasmodic knockout? Yes that will work.'

Naruto was about to finish this scuffle off when he felt two pairs of hands pull him away, as Kiba rolled on his side and sputtered like he had been forced under water.

Naruto turned and glared at the two who freed him, only to see Shino and Chouji holding him back. He knew he could have escaped and continued his busting of Kiba and he had the right moment now.

Shino and Chouji learned in that small period that Naruto was not to be trifled with, in short of a few seconds; Naruto had gotten his arm free of Shino and grabbed Chouji, pushing him away.

Shino came at him from behind, his right arm grabbing his stomach and his left arm going for his head, only for Naruto to block it and deliver a sharp elbow to the boy's stomach causing him to hunch allowing Naruto to pull him into the air with his left leg, and quickly twist locking his arm between his side and arm and slam Shino head and shoulders first into floor rendering him unable to move.

Chouji came next planning on getting him in a bear hug and keeping him there till their senseis could get here. Naruto spun and seized the boy's short arm grab, before moving to his immediate inner left and with his right foot blocking the back of his foot Chouji lost balance and was driven to the floor by the blonde's shoulder, stunning him as well.

Hinata watched as her blonde crush quickly disabled two of the strongest taijutsu users in their year with an odd grabbing and throwing style. She always wondered why Naruto was not comfortable punching and kicking like the rest of the class, it now made sense as she watched him use his stylized grappling style to take half the male class apart in seconds.

Naruto looked around as he centered his breathing, half of the class was defeated and he saw Kiba looking at him in fear before growling and charging, Naruto executed a slide tackle, and knocked Kiba to his rear where he rolled behind him, his right forearm choking Kiba while his left put his chest under tremendous pressure. He was about to tighten when he was surprised by a poof and a log appeared.

'A log, substitution! But who did it? Was it those two? Or perhaps another boy? Maybe a transformation to make me lose my guard? That's it I will continue my hold.'

Naruto was broken from his thought process as he felt himself be grabbed and immediately tied; he looked to see Mizuki had subdued him and Iruka was checking Shino, Kiba, and Chouji who had the worst injuries.

Iruka walked and looked sternly down at the blonde, surprised as he got just a feral glare sent right back at him. Iruka could hear whispers going around the room as they talked about what just happened.

"Did you see?" "Yeah he took out Kiba, Shino, and Chouji with that weird grabbing thing." "Did you him flip shino with that one move, that shouldn't be possible." "Yeah my mother must be right, he is a monster, and did you see that smile he had when Kiba started to choke. No one I know who is sane enjoys battle that much."

Iruka looked at Naruto who was just glaring around with incredible ferocity causing several girls to shy away, including a Hyuuga. He stopped when he saw her and more importantly the ribbon she had tied to her wrist underneath her jacket sleeve.

'Calm, the fight is over no point in this, why did the dog boy have to go for my seals on my neck, I would have ignored anything else, but why the neck? Does he know? Should I try to run? But what about the pretty girl, I don't want to lose her, do i?'

'Well since Naruto has exhibited such ridiculously effective taijutsu, he will not need to take that portion now lets begin the exam." The classes let out whoops as he saw all of them begin to chat about their test.

'I can still pass, but what is their besides taijutsu? Genjutsu casting? What about dispelling? Then there is ninjutsu I can do everything but the bushin, what if I have to perform all three? What do I do?'

XXX end of the exam XXX

Naruto sat in one of the last three occupied chairs as he heard the Uchiha come up and perform all three and a fireball jutsu, with much applause and calls of awesome from some.

"Uzumaki lets see you take a shot." Naruto stood and walked to the center, noticing only the Nara and the pretty girl were watching him the others surrounding the Uchiha.

"Naruto, Kawarami, Henge, and bushin." Naruto nodded as he flew through the first two and saw that the others were still congratulating the Uchiha. He watched as he pooled a ridiculous amount of chakra, hoping to force the bushin to work through sheer chakra mass, then everything went up in his face, literally.

The class looked up as an explosion sent Naruto colliding with the wall with the equivalent of a cannonball and causing him to fall bruised to the floor, thankfully hitting the wall head first as to stop the scars from throbbing.

He looked up to see people laughing at him and some even making snide comments, he growled and stood running for the window as he leapt away from Iruka's call to return and to try again with less chakra. Alas he did not hear and was gone in a blur causing one with black eyes to scoff.

Hinata watched after him with a disappointed expression, he had tried so hard, and he had still not made it. She let a silent tear fall as the rest of the class laughed except for the few that felt somewhat the same.

XXX In the trees across from the shopping district XXX

Naruto sat in a tree, watching blood roll down his arms. He had added several new questions. 'Why would a pretty girl be interested in him? Why should he try when he was bound to fail, but he ended up scarring that one out, he couldn't believe that, he had the seals on his neck to prove it. Why did he enjoy fighting so much? Finally what did that girl mean when she said his grinning at winning a feet was a monstrous thing to do?'

He sat there as he watched blood fall down his arms, he began to smear it as he tried wiping it off his arms, he wouldn't go through another year of this.

"I am better than this, I just need a chance to show it off, but How?" he said as his thumb rolled over one of that words cutting in to his skin.

"I can help with that." He turned to see his other instructor sat there with a grin. "Really?" The man nodded, "But it will be hard."

Naruto let one of his large smiles appear.

"Try Me."

A few dozen yards away a young Hyuuga watched this and silently mouthed: "Be careful Naruto-kun."

In the forest later.

*Skipping forest scene up to the point that the Hokage will announce that the scroll is safe and they could all retire.*

Academy the next day:

Naruto walked in to the room to gasps and calls to get out Kiba even going so far as to tell him to leave his betters be, he just ignored that all as he focused on the pretty girl who had been on his mind.

'Just you wait Hyuuga Hinata, I will make my own answers to the questions that scar me, and I will become stronger through it. Then I will approach you and you wont have to worry about how others will think of you, I will be worthy for you, but my body has a lot more to learn before I can set my sights on you, worry not though I will have you eventually. I swear on my questions and my honor, the two real things that I have.'

Hinata watched as her crush looked at her and she could not help but feel a heated feeling go from her spine to her belly, and she blushed looking away, He responded with a dark grin and a quick ninja hop to his seat.

Then the door slams itself open.

Wahoo there we go, chapter two, four thousand plus words.

Naruto's fighting style is my newest class I am taking it is Kodokan Judo.

Sorry about beating up Shino and Chouji.

Moves used against this chapter:

Kiba 1 – Jigoku Jime.

Shino – Haraimakikomi

Chouji – Kosotagari

Kiba 2 – Okuri Eri Jime