Makina stared intently at the group, getting an eyeful of the new supply of fresh meat. To her, they don't really matter; the group will just be another group of annoying wretches that will end up dead in matter of days, weeks if lucky. However, as she grazed through the group, one person caught her eye and it was a tall boy with a sun kissed blonde hair. "So, this must be the famous massacre kid." She took her eyes off the boy for a minute to start her traditional monologue to the new inmates. However, Naruto noticed her gaze and knew what she was planning...

...

"So this thing that's lodged into my chest is some sort of network key?" Naruto silently said to himself as he was grazing into the files that were installed into the weasel's computer. For a straight up jag-off, Tamaki had some pretty good specs on a computer. If Naruto wasn't on a time crunch, he would have sat down and played some of the games Tamaki had. Now that Naruto thought about it, Tamaki had A LOT of toys, games and knacks in his room. Almost like this whole thing is like a game to him. Naruto was really surprised, after the shitty introduction and the framing, the minute Naruto access the room, he automatically listed Tamaki with TOS.

The Orochimaru Syndrome. Only for those who look creepy and wish to be like Peter Pan and be a child forever. (Also have a strong head case of being a pedophilic psychopath, hence the name)

'Okay... So this shard in my chest could possibly cure what's wrong with Shiro? No, that's not right, from my last encounter, Shiro's split personality was not enforced by her own blood, it just sedates the personality, hence the Mother Goose system... But from what I remember, the incident was fueled when my stuff when it was put into the mix, so how does it affect her?' Unfortunately, Naruto's thought process was interrupted as he heard the Door unlocking. Naruto quickly exited out of the files and ducked behind the overtly massive pink teddy bear the Man-Child kept in his room and kept quiet. He saw out the corner of his eye, Tamaki walking into his office, with another person following him. Naruto gained a closer look and saw the bombshell. Decked out in a Marine type captain flak jacket that could barely contain her bountiful assets was a late 20 something year old woman. She had on white tights that was covered knee high by her boots and also wore a beret that contained most of her hair, although a single dark brown strain framed her face. Unlike Sorae who was heart shaped, the woman's face was much more angled and narrow, but didn't stop her emancipated beauty, while she, surprising, sported a pink lip gloss around her full, pouty lips. However, all things became dead once you look at her eyes, although her eyes were a rich blue like Naruto, her eyes however, was dull, cold, and harsh, like staring into the eyes of a experienced killer... like a shinobi. If looks would kill, this chick would have a long line of dead man (and women who might swing there) in her wake, and scary part is from her presence, nothing could say that death wasn't a possibility.

Naruto watched out the corner of his eyes Tamaki sitting behind his desk while the woman sat in front him.

"So what did you call me in for Tamaki?" The woman answered. Like what was predicted, her tone was cold, serious and straight to the point. Meanwhile, Tamaki was havening a fit of giggles.

"My, My, Chief Warden Makina, always straight to the point are we? Well, I guess it's fair since I pulled you out of your free time, so I'll make it quick."

Tamaki turned around on his computer chair and pulled out a key in his pocket and turned to a File cabinet, he then unlocked draws and began to go through it. At the same time, he was also talking to newly noticed Chief Warden;

"After you get off break, there will be some new inmates being transported to the prison, right?"

Makina rolled her eyes, hoping this wasn't the news he wanted to talk to her about.

"So? Just more blind sheep being led into the slaughterhouse, that's nothing newsworthy." Tamaki nodded his head sagely, indicating that there was no lies behind her statement. "Well yes, that may be true, but there is someone that is VERY special within the new group."

As he said that he slides a folder to Makina and she opened up the folder. In here she sees Naruto smugly smirking on his mugshot. Makina raised an eyebrow, wondering why some teenager has Tamaki's eye.

"This is the "special" in the group? I'm not impressed." She had to admit; the boy had a cute rebel look but just looked like another child going to the slaughterhouse. "Hmm, yes, from a physical perspective he's not much but his history proves otherwise."

Makina raises an eyebrow, "Is that so?" Tamaki grin grew even more curled and sinster, to the point where it looked like he had an inside joke that Makina did not know and won't tell her.

"Well, I guess visiting the child and being his lawyer in the Nagano trail doesn't matter anymore I suppose..."

That was the sentence that got to her. Her eyes went up in surprise, Tamaki VISITED this person?! Neither less, became his representative? And top it off w/ the infamous Nagano massacre trial, Makina has a hodgepodge of speculation and secrets that was just repeatedly hitting her in the head, however, knowing the little weasel in front of her, he'll keep his mouth shut simply to keep this out of her reach (and treat this like a fun game as always).

"Well... I guess he now became "special" I suppose..." Tamaki softly chuckled, like he tought of a funny joke for himself, "I guess you can say that, like I said, just keep an eye on him and report any "odd" occurrences will you?"

Makina stiffly nodded, not liking what the events will play out with the new recruit and left his office. Tamaki laid back on his swivel chair and picked up Naruto's file and read it, while thinking in his head about the things that will happen with him around. Meanwhile, on the opposite spectrum of the POC's, Naruto was still crouching slightly behind the giant plush bear. He stared intently to his jailer and went into thought about the whole ordeal.

'Shit, well to be honest its better for me to be here rather than Ganta I suppose. Kami knows all the Hell he'll have to endure if we switch sides to the whole thing. Even if, I'm still sort of in the dark about this I will have to improvise A LOT throughout this adventure in order for me to stop this nonsense. If only I knew what exactly this shard does, then I'll start moving in the right direction, but I can't know that this SOB is still here.'

Naruto returned back to watching Tamaki, only to notice that Tamaki had moved on to his computer, not noticing the files, Tamaki quickly grabbed a controller and Headset, then booted up to a generic shooter on the desktop. Naruto inwardly sighed.

"Welp, looks like this mofo isn't leaving anytime soon... might as well make myself comfortable."

Naruto soon to slowly fix his position behind the bear in order to make himself comfortable, but his movements caused the bears ear to move a play ball and the ball fell on the floor. Naruto inwardly cursed and hoped that Tamaki didn't notice. Unfortunately for him, Tamaki noticed the ball bouncing out of the corner of his eye and began to look at the corner of the room. He paused the game and takes off his headset, and slowly walked towards the bear. Meanwhile behind the bear, Naruto mind is going a thousand thoughts per second, while staying completely still and have cold sweat go down his brow. Tamaki, curious while being completely on guard, reaches the head of the bear, slowly, then, once he had on his hand on it he quickly pulled the bear and-...

WOOSH...

Tamaki was hit with a barrage of smoke and dust and began to cough from the wave of debris. "Well.. *cough* I guess I never noticed how dirty it is back here. Now that I think about it, I should clean this room out soon. ..." Tamaki then slowly saunter himself back to his chair and goes back to playing his game...

...

"AHH, SHIT!"

"Oh would you relax, you baby. I can't believe a big healthy boy like you will be that soft to a needle."

"PFFT, Soft, I think you mean 'sensitive', besides, y'all of the opposite sex seem to dig it."

"Whatever, child, still soft."

Naruto rolled his eyes at the little dig the redheaded nurse gave him. He's currently sitting on a bedspread in the Nursing facility of Deadman Wonderland. Currently he's sitting in there to get his physical for the facility and has a needle being currently prodded into his arm. However, instead of wailing about the needle, he was wailing about the extended memory flash his shadow clone gave him.

'Fuck, that was too close for comfort, I swear ever since the end of the Great Wars I've been kind of off my game. Shit, she might be right, I might be actually getting soft..."

Naruto quietly muses himself as he starts racking up a game plan, the nurse starts to look into Naruto's medical data.

"No abnormalities, Blood pressures fine, perfect BMI, no trace of heart diseases or diabetes, hell, I can't find any sight of cancer cells. From a standpoint, you looked to be the perfect human."

Naruto raised his brow, knowing that since he did up the ante on the healing factors of himself, considering now he can barely do genin type jutsus, Kami knows what will happen if he does chunin, jounin or KAGE level jutsus…

"You know, it'll be easier to see the perfect specimen more up-close and personal than from a computer..."

The Nurse snorted at the remark, "The perfect specimen need to be at the perfect age for someone like me..."

"Where are we, America? I've been past the Age of consent, hell; I'll be considered a full class adult at this point."

"Either way, it's not like you can handle me anyway."

Naruto just had to let a conniving loud snort, "Lady, if there's one thing that is true about me, is my promises, and I promise you there is no type of woman I can't handle."

The nurse gave a teasing smile to the teenager, and starts to saunter towards him. She boldly lay on his lap. Naruto, getting kind of excited, looked at her with eager, but controlled eyes, making sure he looks mature and not like a horny teenager.

"Well, if you believe you can handle anything..." She says as she lines her finger up his chest.

She then pulls out a sheet of his records from her back.

"Then you'll go to the secretary and give her your papers..."

Naruto groans and a snatched the paper and walked out while the Nurse gave a sedaatious chuckle from his ire.

...

"Sir? Your bag."

Naruto then snapped out of her little recall in the past and focused on the cute secretary that was passing out bags."Oh, A-arigatou." She gives him a weary smile, while Naruto turns his attention to the topic Makina was talking about.

"As you all are aware, Deadman Wonderland is a privately owned attraction, on the inside it is a prison for the worse of the worst, meanwhile on the outside it's a tourist attraction for the visitors. Think of it as a way of paying your debts to society. Anyway, as you all notice, each of you all have a metal disk wrapped around your neck. This device keeps track of your vitals, location, and overall health. Why? Well as you all are aware; you are all under the death penalty. In fact, most of you shouldn't be alive now. However we decided to keep you alive ...for awhile. The disk around your neck is emitting a poison in your body, and the potency of it will kill you in three days."

While Makina talks, her assistant pulls out a tablet with a video playing on it. It showed a guy holding a hostage with a shank in his hands, demanding for candy. While doing so, a speed up beeping sound was heard, till the man's eyes went white, his body convulsed and showed blood coming out of his sockets. The lineup of men was in shock, including the blond at the end.

'The hell? That's not poison, at all. From the looks of it, it seems like he was hit with some nerve agent. I can't tell, I thought that shit was too strong to be held back? Maybe they made a version that could be dispelled by taking in a counter agent. Fuck, I thought that I could bypass this considering I'm resistant to any poisoning, but from the looks of it, I don't know if my body can withstand , nor do I remember experiencing it before, and I don't plan on gambling to find out.' (1)

"So, how can you stop this from happening? You will have to eat these." Makina, then pulls an object out of flak pocket and show a small candy in her hand. "These candies will reduce the effects of the poison, until you will need another dosage of it, which will be another three days." The men frantically checked into their bags to find the lifesavers, only to look surprised at what they found.

"What the fuck!? There's only one in here!"

"Exactly, in order to keep living, you will need to earn it. The best way to get more candy is buying it with this." Then, she pulled another thing out of her pocket, this time it's a rectangular card that looked like a credit card. "This is a Cast Card; it is currently filled with what is known as cast points. Cast Points is the currency used here in Deadman Wonderland. From doing various jobs, missions, games, and etc, you'll be able to gain them. Cast Points can also be used to buy food, furniture, Entertainment, and it even buys off some years of your sentence."

The men looked in awe, years of your sentence!? How awesome was that!? Even Naruto was a little surprised but he eventually snapped out of it, smart enough and knowledgeable to know that there was a mighty catch behind the grandiose claim coming from the warden.

"I believe we have covered the basics and we'll leave the rest of the info we've missed up to you to find out," She says that while giving a ghost of a smile that Naruto caught, "Neither less, if you have questions, feel free to ask now." With a smirk, Naruto put his hand up before anyone else did and drew the attention to himself.

"I'm pretty sure I'm speaking for everybody on this one soooooo, cup size?"

That earned lecherous giggles from the lineup from men, mainly because they knew that the absolute reason they kept adamant attention was her bountiful assets.

Makina rolled her eyes slightly; she already can tell the annoyance the boy will be later on.

"I'm a G."

"38?"

"34, thanks for trying."

Naruto gave an indifferent shrug, he's usually on point when guessing, but couldn't really tell due to flak jacket being in the way.

"Anyway, do we have anymore, wiseasses?"

Another guy was about to put his hand up, but was quickly interrupted by the sound of a cart crashing into someone, that someone named Naruto.

"Argh, dude what the fuck."

"Oh man, I'm sorry, I didn't see you there. Hang on, let me help you up."

Over the corner of the giant cart was a guy who looked to be in his twenties, he had a slim frame while his hair was over a swoop. He grabbed Naruto up while dusting him off.

"Sorry about that man. Hang on; let me pick your stuff up for you." The blond man went to pick up all the stuff that fell out of Naruto's sack. At first, Naruto didn't really care about the whole ordeal, until he saw something that made him tense. While the guy was picking up the stuff, he noticed one thing off, when he did pick his stuff up, he noticed that when he pick up several of his items, a small little piece of paper stuck out of his arm. Naruto got a little closer and noticed that piece of paper was striped, not just striped but red and white striped too. So to Naruto, that only meant one thing; he took his candy. However, Naruto wasn't the only one to notice.

"You. Return the item." Naruto turned to see Chief Warden Makina slowly walking towards the guy, apparently also catching the little slipup.

"Huh? I'm sorry I don't know what you're talking about?" Naruto had to give the guy credit; he was standing his ground with his acting skills. Look of confusion, meanwhile having an innocent whimper, textbook soft guy routine, this guy could have the potential to be an actor.

"Whatever. You knew the consequences." In a moment flash Naruto's world slowed a bit. Surprised, not because he's senses picked up, but because his senses were riled up due to a non-enhanced human. Unlike everybody else, Naruto was able to see Makina swiftly go for the cutlass by her side and could see she was bracing for a sheathe attack. Naruto, on edge, quickly grabbed the blond guy and pulled him towards his direction. Although the blade missed his torso, it was able to nick his forearm/wrist.

"Whoa, did you see that!"

"That guy was lucky!"

"Jesus, how did he see that!?"

"Bitch. Is. Nuts!"

Some of the other new inmates were in shock and awe about the whole intake of events; however, the most surprised was Makina. She couldn't believe it, most people couldn't even see when she did her swift sheathe slash; only those who did were trained warriors or those with heighten senses. She turned toward Naruto, who was staking small deep breaths after the ordeal, and began to wonder about the boy.

Naruto on the other hand, his mind was a bit numb. Surprised by the sudden attack and was quick enough to stop it. He hasn't encountered a moment like that ever since his run-in with the 'Redman' and even that wasn't as suddenly intense as this. This made Naruto wonder,' if this is making me on edge, then what's gonna happen when I actually get out of the frying pan and into the oven?'

"Holy shit. Hey, thanks for the save there, man." Naruto turned, quickly bringing him back to reality and remembered the guy he just saved from serious injury. His arm was slightly bleeding, but it wasn't anything to cry over. He had offered Naruto his good arm; however, he noticed the still candy hidden in his arm. Naruto, looking at him, extended out his arm, only instead to grab the base of his forearm.

WHAM!

Just like the attack earlier, there was a giant quick wave out of nowhere. Only Makina was able to see the whole event go down, everybody else only saw the aftermath. And in it, was Naruto burying his knee into the guy's abdomen. The guy was hunched over on Naruto shoulders, rather than having a look of pain, he had the look of pure shock only after processing the quick event. Naruto slightly shifted his head over to the guys head and whispered,

"No problem. Hope your gift is worth it."

The guys eyes widen, his face, although shows a look of shock, but instead in disbelief, it was in realization. But the chance to say anything was cut, thanks to his body finally registering the searing, hot pain in his abdomen. Naruto noticing decided to slightly shove the guy away, like a parent does a child, and let the rest deal with gravity. The man quickly grimaced in pain and slightly yelled out while putting himself into the fetal position. Everybody began to murmur about the event, while the meganekko assistant rushed to the blond guy's attention. She opened up his jumpsuit and opened it until it hit the abdomen. Instead of the same white skin color that accompanies it, it was replaced with a giant splotch that was completely purple and black.

"Whoa do you see that?"

"Ive never seen someone that type of purple on somebody before."

"Fuck that shit, I don't wanna fight that guy anymore, y'all have fun with that shit."

Hearing the commotion, Makina decided to capitalize on the event after failing to do so the first time. She walked over to the injured man and slammed his head on the floor with her high heel, much to the already injured man's ire.

"You thought all of this was gonna be a walk in the park? Think again. What you've seen here was just a preview. If you think that a simple mess like this was out of the box, well here, it's just another slow Tuesday. That's how we roll in Deadman Wonderland and if you don't like that, then your shit outta luck. Either get with the program or get out, and trust me, it's easier to bend than to break."

.

Naruto watched as the guy he injured was hauled off in a stretcher by a few medical staff personnel. Apparently, the strike was so brutal that he caused some internal bleeding. Naruto watched with a thought of concentration. 'I wonder, did strike him with Chraka enhancement? Nah, well, I could have to cause some internal bleeding… Maybe it was adrenaline?' Naruto continuously mused to himself in thought about the strength of the kneeing while everybody else was dismissed. Naruto being on autopilot followed the others too.

"Except you, #5580, you're staying."

Naruto took a pause, finally breaking out of autopilot, he semi-frantically checked himself to see if he had the number she called out. Fed up that he couldn't see, Naruto turned around and pointed to himself.

"Yes, you."

Naruto turned around and walked to the Chief Warden's direction. Then, he stopped at an appropriate distance, while putting his arms behind his back to show he had her attention.

"Tell me, you knew that inmate had your candy, so why didn't you stop him?"

Naruto thought about it for a quick moment, then gave an indifferent shrug,

"I don't know, if someone had to blatantly do something like that, especially in front of the Chief Warden, spelled desperation to me, so I let it pass."

"And yet what if he had no good intentions and just did it for his own personal gain?"

"Uh, we're in a maximum security prison. I'm most definitely sure about a good 75% percent of us are here for selfish gains. Besides, who said he got away without consequences?"

"Then why didn't you let me cut him down?" Naruto then did his signature sheepish smile while rubbing the back of his head

"To be honest, I just got caught up in the heat of the situation and just reacted. Besides, it seems like a waste of time and work for those who have to clean up the blood. "

Makina cocked her eyebrow, surprised an 18 year old boy was able to cause her to be in a loop. Obviously from his demeanor, he just seemed like your everyday, typical guy, but the way he was able to quickly react to her swipe and was able to cause some extensive damage to the pilfering inmate, suggest that there's more intellect behind his façade. And now that she thought about it, her cutting the inmate down would have just sent him to the infirmary for a quick sew-up, and he could go on his merry way. But thanks to the injury Naruto gave him, he's going to spend a whole lot more time within the infirmary, well passing the 3 day time limit. 'So, by the time he would get out, the whole point of stealing the Candy would be moot in the grand scheme of things. Hmm, looks like the weasel was on to something about this boy, there's a lot more than meets the eye with him. But how can I force him to show more without having to use context of it.' Then, like a light bulb going off in her head, Makina was able to hatch a quick, effective plan.

"So tell me #5580, do you still want an antidote?"

"Well I don't plan on dying anytime soon."

"Then meet me in the Room #580 in 15 minutes if you want to retrieve it, I'll meet you there."

Naruto quickly raised his hand up, like an eager student ready to answer the teacher's question. Makina rolled her eyes at the boy's antics, despite it being somewhat genuine.

"We're not in line anymore, boy. Speak your mind."

"Uh, well, I… don't exactly know where the hell that room is,… Ma'am." Makina gave a small grunt, and then kicked up the boy's bag. And with great reaction time, Naruto grabbed the bag before it hit his face.

"You will find the room on the map of the facility inside your bag." She says while slowly but briskly sauntering off to the destination while Naruto stared at her with confusion and anticipation.

"pheeeewwww. Dear sweet Kami, this place is fucking massive." Naruto said as he walked into the rendezvous point. Before he came, Naruto decided to familiars with some of the areas of the giant Maximum Security Prison/Amusement Park. He didn't see much, but got the chance to see one of the many Prison Chambers, the Lunchroom, and the gateway for the inmates to the actual Amusement Park. However, on his way here he accidentally bumped into someone. He couldn't remember that much but it looked to be a female with purple hair sprinting and apologizing while doing so. The event happened so abruptly that Naruto couldn't properly react to it, only he was met with confusion afterwards. But he delve into it that much, as he was about to enter in the room. And when Naruto looked at it, he was just too damned impressed.

On various walls hung a hodgepodge of different types of weapons. From Blades, to daggers, Katanas, Halberds, Lances, Whip Blades, Cutlasses, a damn ball chain too. Hell, if it was a melee weapon that didn't supply bullets, there was a good chance it's in there. Both Old school and others that had a more advanced design was on display and ready to use. Not only that, there was also multiple maps, Circle rings, punching bags, Dummies, Weight Machines, and an actual ring with bleacher seats around it. Naruto continued to soak in all the new things being displayed to his eyes.

"Looks a lot more advanced than your typical fitness center, huh?" Naruto turned towards the direction the sound came from. From there, he saw Makina, only instead of her usual get-up, Makina was now decked out in full training gear. With white gi on while having all her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail. And instead of high boots, her footwear changed into standard running shoes. Instead of her cutlass she had a wooden stick to her side.

'Kendo? Seriously? Why would she-…. Wait. Don't tell me she's-'

"Are you sparring with me?" Naruto asked with a cocked eyebrow. Makina as she approached the boy held a ghostly mused face.

"You catch on quick. I figured if you were that smooth enough to evade my strike, you should be at least knowledgeable with Kendo, am I right?"

Although Naruto held a uncaring face, inside he was pretty conflicted.

'Fuuuuuck. Well, there goes the subtle approach. Then again, that shit doesn't work with me period anyway.'

Naruto thought it over, granted, this put a wedge on the whole keep it simple and discreet gameplan, but this could work in his favor. Obviously, from studying her earlier, he could tell that the woman, although very knowledgeable and is held in high regards, is completely in the dark in the grand scheme of things. He can easily tell that she doesn't like Tamaki and has a somewhat idea that she is in the dark about something big. Knowing how the rest of this can play out, he will obviously be caught into Tamaki's game later. If he gets heavily involved with Makina, there could be a possibility that there would be a coup, but that's pushing it somewhat.

'Fuck it, it's not like I wasn't in deep shit as it is, anyway. As long as I hold back, nothing will be loosed and everything will be gained.'

"Yeah, I trained in Martial Arts along with learning Kendo. Performed at a couple of tournaments and won a few."

"Good. That means you're going to be my sparring partner for now." Makina says while handing the boy the Kendo stick. Naruto looked at the stick with mild disgust and confusion.

"Really?

"What, child?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it."

"No, I believe I heard some flack in your voice. Well, I guess I can compensate for your sake." She says while walking towards a rake of weapons. Naruto looked at her with mild interest, wondering what the buxom warden has in plan. In a flash, he saw a silver flash veer at him at extreme speed. Naruto, with his quick reflexes, caught the hilt of the revealed blade.

"I pretty sure this up to your speed, right?" Makina said, with a small smirk that Naruto noticed.

'Mouth. Foot. Insert, now.' Naruto inwardly groaned, 'Damn, I can't believe I played into that, now she definitely knows there is more to me, I just gotta pander on and hope for the best.'

.

Shnik!

Shnik!

"Shit!"

"What's the matter, can't handle the heat?"

Naruto growled at the taunt the woman gave him. He obviously knew that she said that only to get a rise out the boy. Ever since this fight started it has been Makina on the offensive. Naruto knew he was going to downplay his strength, obviously to make sure he wasn't viewed as a threat. However, Makina wasn't buying into that and was making sure he was going to reveal to him. Naruto sidestepped a bit as the woman gave a diagonal swipe his way, she quickly turned her wrist and gone for a sideswipe. Quickly noticing, Naruto brought up his blade in a downed position to intercept position.

Naruto quickly shifted his hand in a upwards position on the hilt, ready to knock the blade out and to get ready to strike on his own. He pushed the blade away from his side and proceeds to cut down Makina, only for him to hesitate and slightly cut her upper arm and shoulder. Makina hiss slightly as she stepped back and regrouped. She looked at the boy; he had his dominate foot out while having the blade in his left hand pointing downward while being met in a right diagonal. She growled lowly, ever since they've started the kid transformed himself into water. Always shifting into the opposite direction, avoiding the blade last second, constantly ducking and covering the last minute, the boy looked like a trapezeman out there. It may seem like typical novice reactions to an experienced swordsman (or woman), but the movements and the timings of it was impeccable, it's like his style is just evasion tactics. 'Not only that, he incorporates it with standard types of defensive technique', so it's obvious the boy is heavily trained in a hybrid defensive style.' But what really kills Makina is one thing; He has not been on the offensive. Actually, a more correct term is; he has been heavily avoided any moment to go on the offensive. The hybrid style of defensive the boy has obviously opens up moments where he could easily have entered in Makina's safe zone. Plus, from the way he held the hilt of the Katana, the boy seems to be more of a close combat type character. Not only that, Makina purposely left herself open many times for the boy to strike, at first it may seemed like a trap, but the other times he almost went for it, only to stop or redirect it to another part of her body.

And t wasn't like Naruto was doing any better on his side. He himself couldn't read the woman, as her styles shifted from standard to close combat as well. Hell, she has been acting like a berserker since the beginning, but he could tell there was more calculation behind her eyes as she fought. He knew that she was pressing on him hardcore to make him fight for the tempo, but thanks to Naruto evasion techniques, he has been avoiding it entirely. At first, Naruto only planned on keeping things on the defensive side with well placed strikes, but only wanted to do that with the Kendo sticks.

'She was waiting for me to give her a reason to press on and show her more of my prowess and I gave her one.' Now Naruto has to sleep in the bed he made and deal with actual blades. He could have simply dealt with the Kendo sticks. Granted, the hurt like a bitch, but he could easily deal with those rather than actual steel blades instead.

"You're open."

Thanks to him over thinking, Naruto completely forgotten the time and saw Makina completely in his safe zone. She crouched down, ready for an upward strike, only to be surprised for a hand to overpower her. In a flash, Naruto rotated the blade in his hand while turning his body behind her. He was still holding on to her hand as he wrapped his other arm on one side of her neck while holding the blade parallel to the jugular and her chest. He heard the hitch in her breath and her heart rate step up. Naruto, with his eyes shadowed over his hair, moved his head towards her ear and said;

"Submit."

Makina exhaled and relaxed her body. She let go of her blade and slowly put her hand up. Naruto smiled and was about to let go… Only instead, Makina kicked his leg in and ducked slightly. Naruto' body leaned forward as the momentum pushed him forward. Makina grabbed his arms and flipped Naruto over. Naruto slammed into the floor with extreme dazed. And while doing so, Makina overpowered the boy's grip and stripped him of his blade and pointed it to his windpipe. She stood over the boy and gave a smirk.

"Any last words..?"

"…..Nice view."

Makina rolled her eyes, even in the face of death, he still found a way to be annoying (and lecherous as well). She lifted the blade slightly and drives it to the ground. Instead of going through Naruto's windpipe, the blade instead hit the ground near Naruto's neck. And after all of that, Makina still saw an indifferent look on his face. Makina cocked an eyebrow at the boy's resilience to break façade while he kept staring at her until he gave her a shrug. Makina then turn tailed and left the room for Naruto to be bothered with silence and descending footsteps.

….

"I'm surprised you're still laying there."

"It kinda hurt to move at first, but then I got a little too comfortable."

Makina shook her head at the odd boy's antics as she saw him still laying there with bruises and cuts riddling him.

"Here."

Naruto caught the roll of gauze and back-up jumpsuit that Makina gave him and sat up. He took off the shirt of his that was covered in cuts and blood stains. When he did Makina noticed a lot about the boy. First of he had a complex tattoo that covered his abdomen. On it was a yin-yang symbol, only for a white fox to come out on one side and a black one coming out. Around it was a ring of fire with different kanji s coming out of it with five tomoes covering the outside of the markings. She continuously stared at it, guessing that the tattoo must be tribal as the boy covered wrapped his body in guaze. But what really surprised the woman were the wounds. Obviously with the use of actual steel blades, cuts and gashes were going to be welcomed during the match, which is why she left the room to get changed into another training gear and patched up her wounds. (2)

But what surprised her was that the boy seemed to have healed 60% of his wounds. And the most major ones like the gash across his chest, looked to be a minor slash at best. Makina looked with a curious expression, wondered how was able to heal that fast.

"So, any reason why you don't look damaged at all, superman?"

Naruto looked up and looked at his body. He laughed lightly and did his signature behind the head scratch.

"Haha, yeah. Apparently I was told by doctor's that my immune system is so mutated that some of the most incapaciting injury I can get seem like a walk in the park. Hell, one time I got into a car wreck with this drunk driver and the doctors said I was going to be in a coma for about 3 weeks. And lo and behold, I woke up like 3 days later wondering what the fuck happened." Makina looked at the boy in shock, really surprised about this revelation he had given her. Sure, she has heard and experienced a few Freaks of Natures herself, but this boy and the way he shrugged of this really blew her mind.

"So, what made you want to learn Kendo, #5580?"

"Well, funny story. My mom was a scientist, she and a group of her colleagues at a lab were constantly studying new ways to transform both technology and human medical advancement, which my mom specialized in. At the time, I was considered a goldmine to them, y'know thanks to my mutated genes and stuff. They wanted to see if they could use my DNA to change radical growth and human longevity, considering they tested me and said that according to their records, I could live to be 130 from an average basis, not even covering good constant health also."(3)

Once again Makina was shocked by the news told by her, '130? I was lucky enough to make it past 23 back in the mission days.' She recalled, remembering back when she was still in Special Forces.

"So, to see if they can mimic my abilities they usually tested on a few animals with different concoxions, a blood cocktail, drugs, y'know the speil. Apparently, one of the dogs they were testing on gone feral and broke out of the lab. It was able to find me and my brother in the Lab's garden playing. It ran straight towards us, ready to strike. My brother Ganta was only 6 at the time, while I was 9 going on 10. From a standpoint, it would have seem to be an easy hero story, big brother protecting the little brother, especially since I had a giant, thick stick in my hand. But instead of fending of the dog like some typical older brother, I froze in fear. I didn't know what to do, I was at wits end during the whole debacle, and it was insane. The dog smelt the fear and lunged at us, while my brother was crying and yelling my name. I closed my eyes and waited for wait, only instead I heard a small yelp."

Naruto finished wrapping up his body and put on the spare top of the two pieced jumpsuit he had on. "I opened my eyes and was met with white. Turns out it was hair, and the figure turned around see a little girl, a bit pasty to practically albino degrees, covered in a jumpsuit with a smile on her face," Makina gave a questioned glance, from the description of the mystery girl, she seemed to remember something like her, but couldn't put her finger on it.

"Now, at the time, there was another kid at the facility. Like me, she was also special, unlike most kids her age; she had extreme durability and pretty monstrous strength. She tried to play fight with me and my brother one time and partially fractured his jaw and gave me a black eye and a broken pinkie after a few well paced swings, so they had to give the girl some gloves with padding so she could play with us. And according to my mom, she was so accurate with her drop kick that she gave a clean break to the dog's neck and cut his jugular along with it. And all she was trying to do was reenact a move from that TV show we used to watch as kids Aceman." Makina paled, really wondering what happened to the girl, considering that she was able to snap a dog's neck when she was a kid, how would she turn out as a teenager, much less an adult?

"While everybody else was checking us and subduing the dog and asking what happened. All I saw was her with her hands up in the air with that goofy smile. A preteen kid with a serviceable weapon cowered in fear, meanwhile a small girl around my brother's age, who taught the whole situation was all a game. That day, I promised myself I would learn, I would thrive, and I would sacrifice in order to protect those who will protect me. That's why I learned to fight."

The air was pregnant with silence as the duo took in all the information. While Naruto's mind was drawing a blank, Makina's was looking at the boy in a different light. She could see somewhat that under the façade that Naruto had, being an uninterested, narcissist clown was a symptom to the flawed, broken boy that had to learn a bit about life a lot sooner. It really made her doubt the claims the people gave back n the massacre trial.

'This is the guy that supposedly killed over a dozen school students? If he was a serial killer, then I'm a goddamn Dictator.' Makina thought in her mind, while she caught the little alliteration she made, considering she did seem like a dictator here in the Wonderland. Which made her more intrigued about the boy, despite knowing she was very attractive, Makina also knew that ever single inmate here despite their boast of claims feared her in some way. Even the most suicidal, batshit crazy people that flood into this facility knew how to fear here properly, it just took time instead. This kid on the other hand, has not shown her an ounce of fear, in more ways; this kid has mocked her ever since he showed up. To some, that would aggravate others and would put Naruto on the shitlist and would try to break him ASAP, but that was completely different story to Makina. It intrigued her, made her want to learn more and in a way, she heavily respected that, especially considering those she likes are only on good terms with her thanks to their confidence and self-esteem. They had balls, so Makina can definitely back those types of people up. She continuously stared at the boy, still wondering what makes him tick, until the silence was interrupted by a loud chime.

"What was that?"

"Lunch Bell. Whoever has lunch in this period goes there."

"How can you tell?"

"You'll receive two buzzes on your collar."

And like clockwork, Naruto felt a hum on his neck pulsate twice when Makina finished her sentence. Naruto then got up from his sitting position and stretch for a bit.

"Well Chief Warden, Looks like-"

"Makina…"

"Beg your pardon?" Naruto said while looking at the still sitting woman with a confused look on her face. The woman got up slowly and looked at the boy.

"Makina. In private you make call me Makina instead of Chief Warden…"

"…."

"….."

"….Uhh, what?" Makina rolled her eyes, starting to backpedal on giving the boy a reward/responsibility on having a bit of leeway with formality between the two. Especially considering the possibility of him being a menace, since she already studied up on the boy (and to Naruto's perspective, he also already knew the brief history of the woman). Naruto finally looked at the woman with a look of clarification, knowing what she wanted.

"Naruto. Naruto Igarashi- Uzumaki. It's a pleasure working with you." He said while having his hand extended. She looked at the hand and gave it a firm handshake, while Naruto displayed the goofiest smile he could come up with. At that point, Makina couldn't help but smile at the boy's ray of positive energy, despite the situation he's in right now.

"Well I gotta go, gonna need to fill up on that grub, y'now? I see you later Makina." Naruto smoothly turned around and was ready to take off to the lunchroom.

"Wait Naruto."

Naruto stopped, obeying the head authorities command and turned around. Makina stuck her arm inside the collar of her gi and fished around her chest area. She stopped after a few seconds and brought her hands out with her fingers in a flicking position.

"Catch."

She flicked whatever that was in her hands towards Naruto. Naruto unconsciously caught the small item and opened up his hand. Inside it was a small candy with purple and blue striping around it. Naruto had a look of shock and awe and it quickly transformed into a smile. He looked up and saw Makina walking away from him and gave a small wave from behind her back. Naruto stared at the figure, well, more at the bottom of the figure and noticed a bit of sway in her step, making him wonder if she did it on purpose. Smiling, Naruto quickly grabbed his belongings from the debrief and left the room, ready to take on the rest of this pretty wild first day….

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Trivia:

(1): Nerve agents are biochemical agents, its main objective is to disrupt and confuse the mechanism of nerves transferring info to muscles, organs, etc. Side effects of dealing with Nerve agents are extreme contractions to the muscles, pupils, along with profuse bleeding, salvation, urination and defecation. And in most strong cases, causes death due to the collapse of respiratory muscles. Nerve agents are most universally known as WMDs and are focal part of advanced warfare in the modern era. Considering watching both the anime and manga, I heavily believe that the whole poison spiel was bullshit. Especially with the description of it thanks to that one killed off character, showing that his eyes went white with blood seeping out and body collapsing. At first, I thought the cause was actually the bends, but that would be too hard to follow and explain. When I thought about it, I made the connection of it to typical Nerve agents. However, I don't believe that they have made a version of it that is injected into the bloodstream, however, I think I will stick to my own headcannon and say that the collar has a timer that tells it when to go off, only for the candy to be a medium to signal it to restart. It's especially easier, considering the idea of hacking the system to kill the timer, considering one de facto group *cough cough hint hint*

(2): This is just an updated version of Naruto's seal. I'm not gonna reveal a lot about it, but I'll keep it simple for y'all for you to guess, considering the nerfing going around.

(3): This is standard knowledge of the Uzumaki tribe, their well known for their extreme longevity, impeccable healing abilities and overall massive chakra pool. Now, combine that with the extreme chakra pool of the kyuubi with Naruto and you have an extreme powerhouse.

AN:

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Hi.

It's been awhile.

I'm not gonna delve that much into the return, more less entertain the dumb thought that this should be hyped, considering other writers are usually halfway done w/ their stories in this timeframe. But I'm forgetting about the past and just want to move on.

First off, this story is heavily getting nerfed. I don't want to change that much, or start from scratch, but I'm just saying from here on out that everything that was planned has been revoked and has changed. If you noticed from my other stories like Rise of Phoenix Tail and Frost & Fire which btw please check those out if they interest you) my writing style has changed a bit. (And if you are smart enough, you can kinda see the evolution going on a bit in this chapter.) I guess when you get older you learn more about yourself and the way you design certain things. So, I kinda grew out of this a bit and only continuing thanks to the awesome feedback by all of you and still believing while everything was pretty dark for this story.

Originally, I was suppose to include the whole section of this story, which included the flashback, meeting point, the duel, the lunchroom incident, meeting with Shiro, and the building collapse. However, this chapter was pushing past 8K+ and could have gone into the 10K+ zone (kudos to y'all writers who do this type of shit on a daily basis), so I split the initial 4th chapter up to save time and my sanity.

For Naruto's preferences, his character archetype will be nerfed heavily, along with his abilities. I like Naruto, but as a series and as a character I felt that the whole series was lackluster from beginning to end and felt that the ending to it kinda was like Favre when he couldn't just retire and get it over with.

I don't want this to devolve into that, especially to you all and me. So, like I said, I'm nerfing a lot of things so the idea is a lot more fresh and consistent while making it fun and exciting.

Anyway, I gotta go and would like to welcome the new fresh faces to the project, while those who've been down since the beginning, all I gotta say is thanks… Time for me to press that button.

I'll see y'all later.

(Also, happy pre- 1 year anniversary y'all.)

-Icarus