AN: If anyone's wondering how long Repossession is going to be... I have no idea. I'm aiming for at least as long as Possession (though in fewer, longer chapters), but I don't really know. Hope you like chapter three.

-demonicnargles

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A boy walked into the small town, his platinum blonde hair moving slightly in the wind. The passers-by wondered at his strange cloak, black with red clouds, but did not think it was anything other than a unique fashion.

The new arrival looked around the main street of whatever town this was, seeing kids playing, and adults shopping at the market stalls or eating recently purchased food. Before the newcomer could decide what to do, his thoughts were interrupted by a young girl.

"Hey, mister, where'd you get that cloak? It looks kind of cool."

The owner of said cloak looked down at the small brown-haired child who had spoken to him. He hadn't really planned on replying, but the girl's expectant gaze demanded some sort of answer. "I... got it from a guy I met once. He didn't need it anymore."

A small boy walked up. "Hey, mister, did you put those red clouds on the cloak to match your eyes? They're like the same color as your eyes!"

The cloaked individual looked slightly uncomfortable, but said, "No, the cloak was already like that."

More small children came over to him. "Hey, how did you get such cool eyes? They're like a cat or something!" "Why don't you wear shoes, mister?" "Are you new here? How long are you going to stay?"

Before the stranger really knew what was going on, he had become part of a game of hide-and-seek with the children in the market. It wasn't really that bad. Maybe he could hang here for a while, since no one knew his secret. The blonde had been planning to pick a new place to live anyway...

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Kakashi followed Kiba down the road. It seemed that their target, the Kyuubi or Naruto, had stuck to the road. Even though Kiba couldn't always pick up Naruto's scent, he could always find the evil stench of the demon, which was for whatever reason so strong that Kiba began to wonder how his fellow ninja couldn't also smell it.

The rest of the rookie nine followed close behind Kakashi. Chouji sort of lumbered quickly, still eating potato chips, next to Shikamaru, who managed to run while keeping his hands in his pockets and his gaze on the clouds. Ino ran with them, unusually silent, with her long hair flowing in the breeze. Sakura followed behind, looking worried. Neji and Tenten ran on either side of Rock Lee, who easily kept pace with the group, despite the weights and despite the fact that he was running on his hands. Kurenai and Asuma brought up the rear.

As they ran, Asuma turned to his fellow jounin. "Hey, Kurenai. Do you really think we can bring him back? I mean, if he's done what they said he has, I'm not sure the genin and Shikamaru will be safe."

Kurenai sighed. "I hope so."

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Naruto sat in the street next to the last boy left as they waited for the kid's mother to finish shopping. They could see her down the street, talking to another woman.

"Hey, mister."

Naruto rolled his eyes on the inside, but kept a straight face as he turned to look at the kid beside him. "Hm?"

"Where are you from?"

Naruto paused. He couldn't risk telling people that he came from Konoha. "Nowhere."

The boy looked confused. "What? You have to come from somewhere, don't you?"

Naruto smirked, his red eyes shining slightly in amusement. "Nope. I didn't come from anywhere. Just appeared at the edge of town here."

The boy furrowed his eyebrows. "But... but... how did you get here, if you didn't come from somewhere?"

Naruto chuckled slightly, his laughter deeper, softer, and more mature sounding than the laughter he had been known for in Konoha. "I just appeared there. Wasn't born or anything. Just came in existence at the edge of the village." Naruto thought it sounded silly, even to himself, and was thinking of some other way he could explain his arrival should anyone else ask.

The little boy shrugged. "Okay, if you say so. But how did you get this cloak from someone you knew if you came into existence at the edge of the village?"

"I knew him in a former life." Which was technically true. Itachi had attacked him before he... almost died? Died?

"What, so you got the cloak in some other life?"

"Exactly. You catch on pretty quick." Naruto rolled his eyes. Kids were so strange.

"Wow, that's pretty cool."

They looked up to see the boy's mother walking toward them. "I guess I'll see you later, kid. Unless I disappear like I appeared."

"Don't do that, mister! We had fun today! You should come play with us like that again!"

Naruto's lips curved into what could have been a genuine smile. "Maybe I'll hang around for a while."

The woman stopped in front of them. "Come on, son. It's time to go home." She turned to look at Naruto. "And I suppose you are the one the kids have all been talking about? Have you found a place to stay yet?"

Naruto cocked his head to the side. "Yeah, I'm that guy. And I was thinking I'd sleep in a tree somewhere. Or maybe on the ground, if the trees are too small."

The woman frowned. "I can't let you sleep outside. Why don't you stay with us for this night at least?"

"Alright, I guess." Naruto stood up, shaking the dust from his cloak, which he still had wrapped around him to preserve his modesty.

They began to walk down the street. The woman up at him. "I don't think I caught your name?"

"You can call me Aku (AN: Japanese for evil)."

The mother did a double take. "Who names their child that?"

"No one."

"What do you mean?"

The little boy jumped into the conversation.

"He told me all about him, mom! He's from nowhere! And so no one named him!"

Naruto smirked. "You're a quick thinker, kid."

The mother looked confused, but shrugged it off, figuring the nice stranger was joking around with the boy. They arrived at a little house, and sat around a little table to eat dinner. The mother thought this Aku was rather polite, although she didn't find out anything about where he had come from, because he kept playing along with her son, never being serious..

After dinner, she showed Naruto a room with a small bed, and said she would awaken him in the morning. She left him with some black pants and a black shirt to sleep in. Before he went to bed, Naruto put on the pants, if only so that he wouldn't have to worry so much about letting cloak open in the future.

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Naruto dreamed. He saw Sasuke fighting Gaara all over again, but couldn't see Gaara. Sasuke dodged and wove around arms and pillars of sand. Naruto was confused. Where was Gaara? Suddenly Naruto felt himself extend his arm, and saw Gaara's arm go out in front of him. He was Gaara.

Naruto was helpless to resist as he killed Sasuke. And for what seemed like hours, he looked at the mangled remains of Sasuke.

Then Naruto felt a sense of danger that seemed out of place. Like it was more real than the battle happening now, after Sasuke's death. He heard a faint voice, that grew louder with every repetition.

Awaken. Awaken. Awaken!

Wake up idiot! They're here!

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Kakashi looked down at the sleeping form of what appeared to be Uzamaki Naruto. Even while the boy slept, the copy-nin could feel the activity of Kyuubi's chakra. Kakashi formed a few seals for a long-lasting sleeping jutsu, to prevent any trouble on the way back. The masked jounin finished the seals and reached down with a hand to apply the jutsu.

Kakashi barely kept from crying out in surprise when Naruto suddenly woke and grabbed Kakashi's wrist. Kakashi had a bad feeling about this, even before Naruto's red eyes began to glow with an angry inner light.

Asuma, Kurenai and their teams waited outside for Kakashi to return. Kakashi was going to make sure Naruto or Kyuubi or whatever wouldn't awake, and then they could return to Konoha without any problems.

The sudden blast of killing intent caught them all off guard, but put them on guard so that the house's explosion did not. Kakashi flipped in the air and landed on his feet next to the other jounin. "This could be a bit more difficult than we thought."

Asuma frowned. "Well, we did bring our teams to convince him..."

Kakashi grimaced. "I don't know how much that will help if he thinks I was attacking him in his sleep."

Asuma and Kurenai mouthed a silent 'oh'.

When the smoke cleared, the 3 teams saw Naruto, or what appeared to be Naruto at any rate. Except for the red eyes, claws and tails, and the growing storm of red chakra surrounding him.

Kakashi spoke first. "Naruto, we just want to bring you back to Konoha with us. We can help you resist the Kyuubi, and stop him from doing what he did in Suna. I know you wouldn't do anything like that on your own."

The three teams felt vaguely disturbed at the manic laughter that Naruto responded with. They saw the demon child tilt his head to one side, and give a slight smile. "Yes, Kakashi, that would explain why you didn't even bother to wake us before attacking. Yes, it's because you care. Do you really think we're that stupid?"

Kakashi tried to reason with him. "Naruto, we just wanted to avoid letting the Kyuubi get out like he is now. Here, I can put a temporary seal on you to free you from Kyuubi's influence for a while, and then when we get back to Konoha, Jiraiya can replace it with a more permanent seal, so that these things don't happen again."

The jounin thought that he had convinced Naruto, judging from the way the boy paused after listening. But the soft, dark chuckling, which was somehow even more frightening than the loud laughter from before, told him otherwise.

"You really don't get it, do you, Kakashi? We've already been hunted by ANBU, sent to kill us. You guys are just here to get me to return with you so they can kill me back there, or put so many seals on us that we'd never be able to use chakra again. Not that you could know that most of your seals wouldn't work, or that I would figure it out."

The three jounin were floored. Most of the seals wouldn't work?

Naruto appeared to smile at their confusion. "Most of the seals that could be used revolve around strengthening or modifying my current seal. Or rather, the seal I used to have." Naruto opened his Akatsuki cloak, and showed them his bare stomach. (AN: Keep in mind that Naruto is now wearing black pants under the cloak. He's not flashing them.) The assembled ninja looked, but they saw only lean, wiry muscles. No seal.

Good thing that reincarnation doesn't bring back old seals. Of course, Kyuubi's bound to me soul-to-soul by the old seal, but it doesn't have a physical presence now, so it's not a problem.

Really too bad it didn't let me free, but then, this is much more interesting than wandering by myself. A bit cramped... and we have to keep killing all these people... Kyuubi hoped that he sounded reluctant to kill.

Well, we don't have to kill them now. I mean, they used to be my friends and stuff.

They attack you in your sleep and you think we can afford to let them go?

Naruto was silent. He closed his Akatsuki cloak. I don't think we really need to kill them. Even if they come after us, we can just into some country that doesn't like Konoha.

They obviously came here on order, kit. They won't just let you go.

...Maybe if we just kill one, the rest will leave us alone?

You lived in Konoha before, didn't you? Killing one will make them all mad and you'll have to kill all of them. I didn't advocate killing them just for my own benefit. Just mostly.

Naruto felt trapped by what seemed to be the only logical conclusion. Wait, if we just kill the jounins? The genin will run away, probably.

Kyuubi mentally frowned. But killing three people was better than killing no one...

Kakashi waited for Naruto to go on. But the boy just stood there looking down at the ground. Kurenai leaned over to him.

"Kakashi, did you notice how he referred to himself as 'we'?"

Kakashi's visible eye widened. If Naruto said 'we', then that could only mean...

"He's been repossessed."

The ninja paid no attention to the civilians gathered around the area, watching and waiting for a chance to search the destroyed house for any survivors.

Kakashi spoke up. "Naruto, why are you so quiet?"

Naruto looked up, his mouth curved into a frown. "I was figuring out how many of you I need to kill to get the rest of you to leave."

Naruto had meant it to sound gracious, after all, he had decided against killing all of them, hadn't he? But from the effect he could see his statement having on the assembled ninja, he knew that they didn't see it that way.

They didn't seem inclined to move first, so Naruto chose to attack first. One seal later, an army of fiery, demonic clones attacked the leaf-nin.

Kakashi leapt away from the first charge of the clones, but had to immediately run back to help defend the slower genin. These clones were not difficult to kill, a single hit destroyed them, but they were incredibly fast and aggressive. The clones used claws, fangs, fists, feet, knees, and any other available body part to attack.

Neji fought gracefully through the sea of clones. He could see them all clearly with his Byakugan, and the clones were too intent on attack to think of attacking from his blind spot. Neji dodged clawed hand and tapped the offending clone, which disappeared in a flash of red.

While the jounin tried to help the other struggling genin, Neji worked his way toward Naruto. Kakashi had explained that in case they failed to convince Naruto, they would have to kill or capture him, and so Neji slowly made his progress to the demon container.

Suddenly the Hyuuga dodged an attack and sprinted right at Naruto. He saw Naruto turn those blood-red eyes his way, and mentally braced himself for the worst.

A large red hand shot out of Naruto's chest straight at Neji, who dodged to the side and ran up to the angry blonde. Neji tapped a few tenketsu before he had jump back to avoid another clawed hand.

Neji couldn't get near for a moment as the whirlwind of evil chakra drew closer to the container to protect him, and so the Hyuuga could only watch in fascination as the sealed tenketsu were forcibly opened by the demon's chakra.

Suddenly Naruto, the real one, leapt straight at Neji. Neji dodged and blocked, but every block burned his arms, and Neji couldn't permanently seal any tenketsu. Neji jumped back, preparing to use the Kaiten to knock the demon away.

But Naruto was too fast, and hit Neji several times with two fingers on each hand. Neji immediately felt horrible pain as large amounts of caustic chakra were shoved into his body. Although the blonde had missed Neji's tenketsu completely, the white-eyed boy couldn't help but acknowledge the effectiveness of the attack.

Neji grew slower and slower as the poisonous chakra ate away at his internal coils and organs, until Neji failed to dodge Naruto's claws, which promptly ripped across his throat. Neji fell to the ground.

Tenten saw this, and in a fit of rage, jumped high into the air, unfurling two scrolls to attack the demon with her signature move. But once in the air, she couldn't dodge the long red arm that reached out and grabbed her, and she was too surprised to escape before it reeled her back to the miniature Kyuubi.

Kakashi looked up when he heard a high-pitched scream. Neji and Tenten! He had been so busy helping Ino from the clones that he had failed his team. Kakashi's sharingan eye, uncovered in the fight, saw that there was no chakra left in their bodies. Two teammates down. Remembering the Hokage's warning, Kakashi yelled for everyone to run away.

Naruto looked up and saw the retreating backs of the leaf-nin, and, still filled with a lust for blood and battle, reached out one more time, underground.

Kakashi gasped in surprise and horror when a red hand popped from the ground and grabbed him. The hand pulled him back to the demon child, but before he was within range, Kakashi broke from the hands grasp and landed on the ground a few yards from the demon container.

Ino looked back, and saw Kakashi preparing to face Naruto. "NO! Kakashi-sensei!"

Kakashi looked back for a moment, motioning for the team to leave him, before returning his gaze to the unholy genin before him.

Naruto struggled with his thoughts. Or were they Kyuubi's? It was hard to tell, sometimes, they were so alike. He couldn't kill his old sensei when that sensei was going away anyway. But he had to kill his heart to be a real ninja. He was too weak. He had never been a real ninja. And now he was a coward too, because he really wanted to let the jounin go out of fear. Who said that? Naruto didn't know, but whoever it was made sense to him.

Naruto suddenly sprang toward Kakashi, fangs bared and claws at the ready. Kakashi moved to form some seals, when two of the remaining clones grabbed his arms. Where had they come from?

Naruto thrust a clawed hand through Kakashi's torso, watching as the jounin gasped and sputtered blood. Naruto smirked.

Then the jounin burst into smoke, and Naruto cursed aloud. Lost him. We'll get him next time. We? Or I? Aren't we me, or am I us?

Either way, they or he was or were annoyed at the crying villagers, who had seen to much already, at any rate.

Hours later, as Naruto jogged down the road, he decided that maybe he hadn't needed to kill all of the villagers. But they were there, and he was already in a killing sort of mood. What was a village or two in the grand scheme of things, anyway?

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Kakashi reported back to Tsunade. "Mission failed. Two casualties."

The Hokage took a large swig of sake. It was not a good day.

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Naruto wandered into Cloud country, and settled in a small village there. For years, no one came looking for him, and so he stayed and became just another member of the town. Until this year...

Tsunade looked up from her paperwork. "Sakura, you are to take your genin team on a C-ranked mission. There is a guy in this village in Cloud, not far past the border, that owes our client some money. Find him, get the money, and get back. And avoid any Cloud ninja."

The pink-haired medic nodded, and led her team out the door.

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AN: So, I was lazy for a while and didn't really write a lot. I would have made this chapter longer, but instead opted to post early. I hope you guys don't mind.