My Naruto Fic is back with another chapter! Still Naruto POV, and I still don't own Naruto…

BTW: I just realized that my summary s(_)cks, so I have a small request: plz help me write a better one!

And on with the story!

Chapter 3: Demon, Departure, Return

Screams from the valley reminded me I should be fighting the demon and not wasting time on her, I ran to the battlefield and I saw the monster, It was a giant 2 headed panda bear, he noticed my presence and looked at me, I could hear his voice booming inside my head "so, this is the great kyubi? I guess you deserve it, I hope you two have fun, did you take the control yet?", his voice was a scary as the kyubi's but it lacked the non shalante tune, "oh, its him, the panda, I hoped it'll be someone else, well I guess that's my luck, being stuck in a kid and being mocked for that,,,  hey, Naruto, what are you waiting for? Go beat that panda ass!" hearing those words made me feel slightly better, I was afraid the kyubi will try to force me to join forces with the demon, I created a clone and ran into battle.

There were a few bodies around, but I nobody that I knew, probably just new chunins which passed while I was gone. Neji was also fighting the bear, he tried to aim at the chackra producing organs, but the bear had he's own chackra wall beneath his skin, so it was useless, I tapped into the kyubi's power, it felt different than before, I tried storming at the panda, but with no use, "that's not working, he's almost at my level, you'll need to release everything from me just to cut a normal wound in him", I knew he was right, but my mothers voice still waved on inside my mind, I didn't want to let the Kyubi take control, it can turn out a disaster as much as the panda can be, but I knew I needed somebody as big as the bear, I summoned gambunta - the boss toad.

"hey punk, what do you think this is? You don't call me for 5 years and than you expect me to fight this thing? What are you, crazy?" his weird accent still made me laugh, "oh, shut up you frog! It's not some petty shower peeking here! That thing is one of the demons! I'm telling you to fight him!" after being tortured by the Akatsuki, and hearing two demons talk inside my head I was more confident about my plan, the fat toad could complain as much as he wants, it wont change my plans "who do you think you're talking to? I should pluck that head of yours our for the insults… even the 4th was smart enough not to do it… so much unlike you disrespectful brat!" the giant toad kept on going, but I didn't care, I jumped to his head, and called out the kyubi's chackra, I put my hands on the frog and forced the chackra inside him, he started screaming when the fox spirit took over his body, "thanks for the chance kid, now I can settle my business with that over sized four eyed bear" said the fox from inside of the toad's body, he transformed himself to the nine tails form.

I started to feel pain through the seal, I didn't know what it means but I also was too concerned with the fight to worry about it, the kyubi jumped at the panda and they stared whirling around each other, ignoring all the ninjas, they were both at another level, way out of our league. the fight lasted three hours before I couldn't keep up with their movements, with the fox power gone into the toad, I had to really on myself to dodge the bear's attacks which were meant for me, after those 3 hours was all worn out and fell to the ground.

I woke up at the field that morning, I could see two giant bodies lying around, one was the panda demon, the other was the boss toad, once the kyubi's power left him he didn't have a chance to recover from these wounds, Jiraiya was there, I avoided him, I didn't want to tell him I forced Gambunta to fight, I didn't want him to know I released the kyubi's power and allowed him to act free. I called the fox demon but I heard no answer, he was tired from the fight as well, I dragged myself around, besides from corpses, I was the only left shinobi I didn't know what to do, the right thing to do was probably to go back to the village, but I hated the idea of my friends staring at me, knowing what I am, wondering when am I going to unleash the demon again, I started walking to the north.

After a few weeks a came across the sound village, with Orchimuro's crazy ambitions for learning all the jutsus, the village was struggling to survive, both the leaf and the sand were trying to finish the village constantly. I decided to check out what's going on there, maybe I'll meet Orchimuro and kick his ass, I wasn't thinking right that time, walking into an enemy village with no disguise or a plan whatsoever, the village was poor and minor ninjas were running around in scared eyes, I asked one of them to point me to the ramen shop, I sat down and it reminded me of the times I sat with Iruka back then, before he died. "So, what are you doing here? Last time I heard you were a missing nin with a bring back alive status" I turned my head and saw it was Kabuto "and how are you doing? Still playing the nurse for oro?" he laughed "nope, I'm the acting kage of the sound now, and what are you doing here? I don't think you came all this way for ramen" he responded back. "Well, you are right, I have nothing to do here, I'll be on my way now"

I left the sound and kept walking east, I wondered across many places, until I found myself at the water country, it has finally been developing, I sat down and watch people and cargo move on the great Naruto bridge, on that bridge I first released the Kyubi, on that place I decided about my ninja way. But that was long ago, when I was young and innocent, when I believed I can do anything, before I realized the pain of being a shinobi, when I was happy.

Weeks have passed while I sat and watched the bridge, I crossed it many times, I heard kids run and play, I even think I saw Inari, but I didn't talk to him, he wouldn't recognize me anymore, I've changed since then, I am now like he was once, and he's probably full of shit about being a hero, just like I was years ago.. his grandfather is most likely still planning bridges around the water country. As I sat there and pondered my past, a little boy came and asked me why was I sitting at the spot for the last month, I didn't have an answer, so I left again, to find whatever I'm looking for. As I passed the bridge and headed north, I read the sign which announced the bridge name and quoted what Kaize told Inari "if you're a man, live a life of no regret, and protect what you love with both hands". There was I time when I believed in those words, but that time has passed, all I had left was a wish for death, my death.

 My travels across the land has brought me to a near sea town at the cloud country, it was apparently some big festival, because someone turned 15 that day, and his rich family tradition was to catch a whale for the party, they did it because they were rich and bored, the commoners partied just to get a day off work. I entered the town and walked the street alone, sales-man were shouting about big discounts and high quality, three kids even tried to pick my wallet, but I carried nothing with me, so they just wasted there time, and I didn't want to cause a commotion by catching them, more than anything else, I wanted to be left alone, never having people staring or avoiding staring at me. there was a mirror shop at that place, the shop keeper had a nice set of non straight mirrors which made you look thinner, an old but effective trick, especially against women.

I looked at my reflection at a normal mirror, I have changed so much since I was a kid, both from my inside and from my outside, I wasn't even close to what I used to be, my blonde hair lost his vitality and spikiness, my eyes lost their spark and passion, even if I possessed the same traits as before, I was different, and it was imposable to make a connection between the boy I used to be and the man I grew to be. The crowed started to scream a clap their hands, the teenage boy was making a lap, showing the whale he "captured", the person who carried the whale was a female shinobi, she didn't wear a head band, so I had no idea where she was from, but she was beautiful and I felt an urge to meet her, just to talk with someone like myself, I followed their group, changing my looks each time with henge no jutsu, she was a jounin, and she had two chunins following her, they all kept their eyes hidden beneath a cloth, perhaps they were training in some form of blind fighting, anyhow, that night they left after getting paid, I followed them from a safe distance, I made sure I wasn't spotted at day time and closed the distance during night time, I spent 3 weeks doing so, sleeping only an hour each day, at that hour they got me.

I couldn't believe I allowed them to catch me, I was sure I'm out of their sight by miles and I changed my form each day, they couldn't possibly know I was tailing them, but once they captured me, I enjoyed being with another ninja, I didn't realize until then how much I missed the life of a shinobi, I loved the excitement of the mouse and cat chase. They tied me and tried to investigate me using genjutsu, the jounin has some talent but nothing compared to Sakura's skill, but I acted like I'm affected by it, I didn't want to revel myself completely to them, so I said "I'll talk! Just stop the torturing!" that's when they started their integration which lasted all night.

"What's your name?" they asked.

 "I'm Rasen of the sand, please, let me go!" I told them. "There is no Rasen, not in the sand and not anywhere, you don't have any weapons or equipment,  so you have to be a missing nin" she said sharply, one of the chunins jumped in and said "you should come and look at this, I made arrangements to check for missing nins with the same body structure of this one and came upon a very interesting thing" the jounin talked with him silently and said "So, now this is getting better, trying to pose as the leaf's S-ranked missing nin - Naruto Uzumaki with that skill? Who sent you and what were you planning to do with the low level imitation of him?" me, a wanted missing nin? Who could have ordered such a thing? Tsunade was the only one who had that privilege, but it made no sense to do so, I was missing but I have nor committed any crimes special to shinobis or sold out information to enemy villages, my statue should have been a D-ranked at the worst case.

It wasn't the mission or the eye cloths which made me wonder about whom that jounin really was, she talked as if she knew me, and there was exposed anger when she talked about me, like she was furious about the thought of someone trying to pass as me. The following week passed with non stop interrogation of me, but the more they tried to make me talk, I found out more about them, for my great surprise, the jounin and one of the chunins were from the leaf and the other chunin was from the sand, the kazekage has sent him with them as a favor to the hokage, the girl was on some sort of special mission to prove herself worthy to inherit something, the whale catching was a cover up story for the true challenge, after that week, the sand was the only one who interrogated me, the jounin probably realized I pumped some information from them so she stopped trying, the sand wasn't so bright and was easy to read, but he knew nothing about the true mission or the girl, even though, he was    filled with stories about Gaara, the best jounin of the sand, so I convinced him to tell me about him, it made the journey a little less boring.

We arrived shortly to a building, it was a ninja torture chamber, I guessed it was inside the sand village, but the decorator didn't put anything inside that could support my instincts. A dark guy came out of the shadows, he was carrying a maul like object, it wasn't hard to recognize him, he said "so the leaf couldn't break you? You'll soon find out just how horrific is the fine art of terror which the sand in known for…" he looked at some papers and continued talking "so, no-eyes said you're trying to be Naruto Uzumaki from the leaf, I met him once, you do resemble him physically, but no where near him in the attitude.. that guy was one of ki… " "just shut up, you talked about true terror, did you mean your stupid memories from that exam?" I barged in and then understood I said too much. "so, you know a bit more than the dumb act you played before, lets see what else you can say" he grinded "I might actually break you before no eyes leaves…" my eyes lit, was that girl still around? That meant I can follow her again, I wasn't sure why, but I really wanted to do it.

I quickly released myself and stormed at him, the real him, not just the doll he used. When I hit that object it turned to another doll, I searched for the true him while dodging his attacks, there were no other objects around, and I had no way of following the source without summoning toads, but that jutsu was lost forever with gamabunta dead, I knew that if I take too long he'll call for help, and I'll have no chance to follow that girl, I used my kage bunshin and filled the room with clones, after that I started digging through the floor, the clones will disappear once there are hit or after an hour or so, it'll be enough time for me to sneak near the girl' s bag and transform myself as something inside it.

******Chapter 3 – Demon, Departure, Return – End******

Well, I have to admit this chapter was kinda messed up; a good part of the plot will start with the next chapter.

Now for reviews of the reviews!

Hattuteline thx for the helping review, I know the start of the story is a bit confusing, and the numbers don't really have any meaning, but every story has to start rush so it won't bore the readers (think about Naruto, when it started it had a plotline to each episode, now a single battle can go over a whole volume), the numbers are there partly because I needed them to build the timeline around.

Mekitsu thx, I really worked on the story to get it to the best I can, so it's good to read reviews such as yours, the fic will be updated once a week, at Saturday\Sunday night, I think it will go on for about two months, and then I'll take a month break (and post some other fic I'm working on, A Ranma 1\2 or a special Naruto crossover) and after that I hope I'll finish the sequel, cause I'm on a tight schedule.

Loki thx! I'm pretty sure that the start is the worst part of this fic, so if you liked it so much I'm really flattered, and I would have blushed if I wasn't a trying-to-look-cool type of guy!

Chibi Dragon well, Naruto isn't Hokage, too bad, Ha? It started out with him being the Hokage and telling his memories before death (of a heroic cause, of course), but the story changed so I decided it wasn't fit anymore. Oh, and after being forced to learn French for 4 years of my life, I can say this: MERCI!

Well. That's about all I can say, have an easy Yom Kippur (Sunday-Monday) and if you don't have a Yom Kippur, just have a nice week.

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