9 Lords

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Chapter: 3

It was only seven hours ago that Sasuke got home from the Hokage's office and now he had just woke up. 'Why am I worried about Naruto he's cunning enough to survive out there.' Sasuke shook his head. 'That's not it I'm worried he'll get caught or do something stupid.' Sasuke remembered the look in Naruto's eyes and shuddered. 'Then again he looked like he was going to wipe out some mortal enemy at that time before I approached him.' Sasuke sighed. 'I hope he'll be fine.' Sasuke got out of bed and went to get dressed.

Naruto yawned as he rolled over in his sleep. "Oi brat wake up." Naruto groaned.

"I don't want to." Kurama growled.

"You fool wake up now or you'll have to deal with the creatures that call this place home!" Naruto sat up quickly.

"Jeez don't yell in my head you stupid fox!"

"Keep your voice down fool." Naruto sighed.

'Ok then I'll use my inside voice.'

"Cheeky little brat."

'Yeah I am aren't I.' Kurama sighed.

"Ok kid go change and let's get moving."

'Ok.' Naruto jumped up and opened up his new pack. He took off his jumpsuit and pants and quickly threw on the blue jeans and black shirt he had stolen. He put his jacket back on but left it opened as he grabbed the red bandana.

"You should put this on over your face kid."

'Why?'

"Simple you don't want to be easily seen and have people go tell Konoha where you are and have to always be hiding from them as you try to move around." Naruto nodded.

'Yeah you got a point Kyuubi.' Naruto tied the bandana around his face and smiled. 'Let's get to this waterfall of yours Kyuubi and begin the movement.'

"Yeah kid the sooner you start the sooner I get to rip shit apart." Naruto rolled his eyes.

'Ok calm down foxy you'll get your chance soon enough.' Kurama growled.

"Damn brat I'll make you pay one day!" Naruto laughed as he left the cave and moved towards the path he had been walking on yesterday.

Back in Konoha

"What!" Sasuke cringed as everyone took five steps away from him as Hinata grabbed Sasuke by his shirt. "What do you mean Naruto's gone?!"

"I saw him last night he had taken the Forbidden Scroll of Sealing and was pissed off talking about killing some dude some day and when I talked to him he said he couldn't tell me and that he was leaving." Hinata growled.

"And you didn't try to stop him."

"No he looked serious I doubt that short of beating the crap out of him and brining him back by force would have been useless." Hinata sighed as she let Sasuke go.

"I'm going to kill him." Sakura pated her on the back.

"Ok Hinata me and Ino will hold him down for you when we find him." Ino smirked.

"Of course how dare he leave and not tell us about it." Choji leaned in and whispered to Shikamaru.

"Man I feel bad for Naruto."

"Yeah well that's his problem not ours." Choji, Kiba and Shino nodded. "What we need to do is find out why he had to leave."

"Yeah I mean there's no way he would just run off."

"Should I let Neji and the others know about this problem."

"Yeah Shino with them already being ninjas they may be able to find something we can't being just rookies." Shino nodded as he sent a few bugs out.

"Alright everyone listen up I told the Hokage I didn't see Naruto yesterday so don't mention this to anyone else."

"Why didn't you tell him?" Sasuke sighed.

"I didn't want to put Naruto in even more trouble also you guys should know that near the place I got the scroll from him they found Mizuki and Iruka both dead." Everyone looked disheartened to hear that Iruka was dead.

"You don't think Naruto..."

"Of course not maybe he could kill Mizuki but he wouldn't kill Iruka ever."

"Let's just go get placed on our teams we can worry about other stuff later." Everyone nods as they walk into the ninja academy.

With Naruto

Naruto sighed as he walked along the path Kurama told him led to the place another demon container was located. 'How much further is this damn waterfall?'

"If you'd pay attention to your surroundings more and whined less you would here the rumble of water only a few feet ahead." Naruto blinked and listened harder and smiled.

'Yes finally I'll run the rest of the way.' Naruto got ready to take off until Kurama growled.

"You fool this is the main entrance to a hidden village it's well protected by ninjas don't act recklessly." Naruto sighed.

'Fine then what should I do?'

"Head towards the waterfall slowly I need to double check but I'm sure there's a secret entrance that they don't know of since only the village head is suppose to know how to enter and exit from it and only uses it during times of crisis." Naruto nods as he slowly moves towards the waterfall and smiles at the beauty of it.

'Dang that looks cool.'

"Yeah it does kid." Kurama looked through Naruto's eyes and darted his vision back and forth before he smiled. "Ok kid I found it let's get moving off to the left side of the pond that waterfall falls into." Naruto nods and moves silently towards the place Kurama had indicated. "Ok walk up to the cliff face and look for the weird indent in the face." Naruto easily finds the spot Kurama mentioned and put his hand out towards it. "Yes this is a handle in here put your hand in and I'll trick the lock into opening." Naruto placed his hand inside the spot and felt a cool metal touch his hand and waited. "Ok brat give me a few seconds...haha stupid lock."

'We good then?'

"Of course we are push a bit harder and the secret entrance should slide open." Naruto pressed harder and slowly the wall moved backwards as Naruto quickly pushed the secret door open and shut it quietly. "Good job kid now then for the fun part."

'Fun?'

"Yep since I unlocked it from the outside the traps that protect this passage from being used by intruders are still up."

"What?!"

"I know right so all you have to do is survive this secret passage and we can meet your first follower in my sisters demon container."

'You damn fox this place has to have traps to take care of armies how am I suppose to handle that?'

"Simple kid don't trigger those ones and dodge the weaker ones you'll be fine." Naruto growled. "Of course if you do get extremely hurt you can always come in here and remove this seal which frees me and I will bring about destruction in your name." Naruto sweatdropped.

'Right I'll think about it.' Naruto sighed as he began his trek through what he felt like was a passage of doom.

Back in Konoha

Kakashi looked at his new team which had been thrown together at the last moment due to Naruto failing to pass the academy test and now he was gone. Kakashi sighed. 'Sensei your son is gone and I have no idea why and on top of that the day he ran away two of our own were found dead.' Kakashi shook his head. 'Hopefully I'll learn the truth before anything bad happens.' Kakashi looks at the three kids before him. "Ok then Sasuke, Sakura and Sai I will see you all tomorrow morning for the final test."

"What?!" Kakashi eyed smiled.

"Simple there is one last test you three must pass for me to accept you as students so I'll see you in the morning tomorrow...oh and skip breakfast you'll just get sick." Kakashi vanished in a poof of smoke as Sakura sighed.

"Great." Sasuke smirked.

"Don't worry we'll be fine even with our unknown partner." Sasuke looks at Sai. "Right Sai?" Sai gave his fake smile.

"Of course all we have to do is work together and all will be fine." Sasuke smirked.

"See Sakura so come on let's all get home and rest." Sakura sighs but nods as the three stand up and walk off.

Secret passage to Taki

Naruto ducked as three poison tipped spears flew overhead. "Son of a bitch!" Naruto jumped over the sudden pit that appeared before him which he noticed had spikes in the bottom of it. Naruto landed on the other side and took a few deep breaths. "I think I lost the bear." The sudden roar about five feet back caused Naruto to sigh. "Son of a bitch." Naruto looked back and saw the creature he had named the 'Demon Bear' raise up on his hind legs and stand at eight foot five and let out another roar. "I fucking drove a kunai into the side of the damn thing's neck and it's still coming after me." Naruto turned and ran as he dropped quickly to his knees and slid under a pendulum. "I'm so going to die." Kurama chuckled.

"I don't know kid you're doing pretty good."

"Shut it fox I didn't ask you." Naruto jumped over a piece of barbwire. "Hah they though that little trip wire would work."

"No but I bet they thought this would." Naruto turned to look in front of him and groaned.

"Really a fucking maze of barbwire I have to jump through." From the top to bottom barbwire was stretched straight across, at angles and even running straight up and down. "God damn it!" The roar of Naruto's friend made him groan. "And of course 'Demon Bear' is behind me just my luck." Naruto shook his head and sighed. "Here we go hope I don't cut myself up too much." Naruto easily steps over the first wire and ducks under the next two but notices he was almost on the ground the second time. He stood up since he could and sighed as he stepped over the lower wire and ducked under the higher one and slowly moved through the two piece's of barbwire. "Good about what a fourth of the way through." Naruto just looked down. "Son of a bitch." He noticed the next place he could get through would be hard. He'd have to dive through the two wires because there was one running right behind the first one so he couldn't step over the bottom one. Naruto sighed as he backed up a bit and ran forward and jumped and dived somehow just missing the barb wire as he landed on his hands and went into a handstand before flipping to his feet. "That was easier then I thought."

"Yeah sure kid let's finish the rest of this." Naruto smirked.

"Sure." Naruto gets through the next five parts with ease before he reaches a hard one. "Oh man." Naruto looked at the small gap he could dive through but almost right after was a piece of barbwire running from the roof to the floor that he was almost certain he'd hit. Kurama chuckled.

"Poor kid better you then me."

"Shut it fox." Naruto sighed as he pumped himself up for the jump then notice if he angled himself just right to the right of the piece running straight up and down he could just make it through the hole and miss the other one all together. "Hah I'm so smart." Naruto ran up and jumped and as he thought landed only a few inches from the piece of barbwire that he would have hit otherwise. "Point for me." Naruto turned and laughed as he saw the final challenge was to army crawl under five more pieces of barbwire and then he would be through. He dropped to the ground and crawled out of the barbwire maze. "I win." Naruto looks through the barbwire to see 'Demon Bear' show up on the other side. "Hah can't get me now stupid bear." Naruto turned and took five steps tell he felt the ground sink and the sudden snap of the barbwire behind him. He slowly turned and had a full body twitch as the barbwire fell to the floor giving the bear easy passage. "Son of a bitch!" Naruto turned and ran as the 'Demon Bear' roared and gave chase. Kurama was laughing his ass off.

"Way to go brat now you pissed off the bear with that insult."

"Shut up fox!" Naruto turned right and then left and right again. He almost feel over a trip wire but kept himself standing as he stumbled. "Great what did that do?!" Part of the wall behind him slide sideways and a giant boulder rolled out of the secret passage into the passage he was in. "Really!" Naruto ran and smiled as he saw the passage ahead got to small for the boulder to follow him. "Hah this is perfect."

"How?"

"Simple I'll get into that passage and the rock will block it off so the 'Demon Bear' can't reach me."

"I see you're right that's pretty smart kid." Naruto smirked. He got into the smaller passage and stopped to regain his breath as the giant boulder rolled into the passage and stopped since it couldn't fit in.

"Finally now let's get out of this place." Naruto walked a bit further and smiled as he saw the exit.

"Way to go kid." Naruto smiled.

"Thanks Kyuubi."

"Yeah don't get use to it you will screw up a lot more before you get good enough for my taste but for right now you're doing fine."

"I hate you." Naruto put his hand on the chakra scanner as Kurama tricked it open.

Rogue: And chapter

Chaos: Cool but that secret passage was crazy and how did Kurama know about it

Rogue: Simple he's been alive for years man and as you know is considered a trickster spirit so he probably visited Taki once in disguise

Chaos: That makes sense

Rogue: Well thanks for reading and please review