"Sai! Give me that back!" demanded Naruto, hands forming into fists.

"But how in God's name can you read this?" Sai held the book without any care, ignoring the blond, "I had no idea that you could read a book with no pictures in it!" said the sarcastic young man.

"We-ll," Naruto crossed his arms to his chest, "for your fuckin' information I can read perfectly fine!" Even though I would prefer pictures…

"Oh Naruto… Silly Naruto," he threw him a fake smile, "you need to pay attention to more important things…" He threw the book carelessly into a puddle of mud, "Like me." Sai raised his eyebrows narcissistically.

Naruto reached quickly for the book and as he wiped the novel against his chest, walked away with a loud 'humph!".

"Nah ah ah Naruto-kun… Let's go to my work space and look at my 'artistical' designs that I plan on publishing into a museum in France," he said while putting an arm around Naruto's waist and somewhat forcing him toward said space.

Naruto harshly pushed Sai's arm away and took a rough step back.

"Would you just stop Sai? I can't and I won't! I gotta go home to help my dad with this thing he's building," he said, a tone of worry etching his voice.

"That crazy loon?"

Naruto stopped and felt his anger bubbling up inside of him just as those words spilled out of Sai's big mouth. C-crazy loon? Oh he's going to get it if he doesn't shut the fuck up… He stared blankly at the smiling man and exhaled deeply as a bull would when about to attack anything that was the color red. Sai raised an eyebrow as he speculated the blond with great curiosity. The fake smile only increased in size as Naruto wheeled around to walk straight back home.

"I'm sure you know that he needs all the help he can get… Ne?"

That's it. "What the FUCK did you just say?" Naruto shouted obstreperously. Everyone turned their heads, paying full attention to what was going on.

Sai chuckled softly and rubbed his face with one hand while the other rested inside his pants.

"Your father," he said in a low tone, "needs all the help that he can get."

Naruto pulled back without warning and struck Sai in the lower jaw with his mighty knuckles. He then grabbed him by his shirt's collar and kicked him twice in his stomach with the use of his knee cap. The paper skin male fell on his side and lay defenseless on the ground, feeling at the injury on his face to see how much damage the blond had caused. Sai let his arms fall to the side of his head as he began to feel lightheaded from the impact he received on his stomach. Naruto's eyes had become an orange-red and the scars on his cheeks darkened in color, watching the bastard suffer with much satisfaction.

Sai waved his hands weakly in defeat, praying to God that Naruto would stop; He was blinking slowly as everything began to go dark due to his blurry vision. He hadn't known the potential that the blond had once he passed his limit of getting angry.

"Naruto-kun, please, stop!" Sai pleaded, his breaths becoming shallow.

Naruto stood motionlessly before looking at his surroundings. The villagers and children were terrified as they kept their eyes locked onto Naruto; Some were staring at Sai. Guards stood anxiously just a few feet away from the two young adults, deciding that it would be best if the blond calmed down a bit first in order to help unconscious and bleeding man. Naruto glanced down at his enemy, and a sudden feeling of guilt and remorse overindulged him in a matter of seconds.

To make matter's worse for him, he instantly heard the cottage's basement explode from the inside-out, making Naruto forget about his feelings and rush back to see what had happened to his father. Everyone watched as the blond grew smaller and smaller into the far distance and hop right into the underground basement.

Naruto forced open the basement handles and hopped inside the small room. He hadn't realized that some sort of dark pollution had occurred because of the explosion until he inhaled deeply; He was suffocating from the lack of oxygen. As the black smoke kept hitting him directly in the face, he was trying to feel for his father, whom he thought was injured or even unconscious. Coughing, he managed to regain strength and soon he found his father after the air finally cleared.

"Dad?" he asked, kneeling down next to him.

"Do not worry Naruto I'm fine…" He sat up and wiped his sweaty forehead with his sleeve, "This damn contraption just won't start up! I'll never get this piece of shit to work!"

"Oh c'mon Dad! You always say that!" Naruto smiled, punching his father's shoulder playfully, "And then you fix it… So quit whining so much!"

"Son, I really do mean it this time! I'll never get this thing to work!" He kicked the robotic ninjutsu machine and grasped at his own blond strands of hair.

"But Dad think about it for a sec! If you win, their gonna be saying," Naruto raised his hands in the air as if illustrating a huge rectangular sign, "'Minato Greatest Inventor in The World'!"

Minato chuckled lightly, "You really think so Naruto?"

"No!" he smiled, "I know so."

"Well then!" Minato cleaned his hands with a towel nearby, "Let's fix this ne?"

After all the convincing, Minato did everything in his power to finally fix the ninjutsu machine. He was so astonished and proud of himself when the machine began to come to life, that he had decided to go to the fair early in the morning. He got on Akio (their white stallion, or horse) and Naruto helped his father out by carrying the robot onto the medium-sized carriage. With a short good bye and a cheerful nod in return, both Minato and the stallion passed through valleys and acres of land until finally reaching a wooden pole with the attachments of signs… Problem was that the signs were written with an odd language that Minato had never seen in his whole existence.

Akio noticed that there were two paths; One was eerie looking and gave you chills and shivers at the mere thought of just standing in the middle of that path (it held strange sounds and was far too foggy to visualize anything). The other path that was to the left, was, well… Just one of those regular not-so-dangerous-looking-paths-that-look-like-you're-going-to-die-if-you-go-into-it. So anyways, as Minato was analyzing the unreadable signs, Akio believed that the best route to take was the one that was on the left. But Minato pulled at the reigns and looked skeptically at the other direction, his thumb and index finger feeling his chin, as if studying an important map.

"Let's go this way Akio!"

Akio panicked and kept forcing his master to go to the lit path way. He had a terrible feeling that they would not remain safe but Minato insisted. Once again, he pulled at the reigns toward the dark path, leaving his horse a nervous wreck.

"It's alright Akio," he said somewhat anxiously, "It is just a short cut!"

He twisted and wheeled around about as if expecting someone to attack him from all sides. Akio, galloping and nickering in caution, had stopped fearfully as the sound of hooting owls and howling wolves frightened him.

"Akio… Where in God's name have you taken us?" questioned Minato in a fearful tone.

Akio began to gallop once more, only this time backwards. He hit the bark of a tree, causing many bats to fly out, screeching above their very heads.

"Whoa whoa," Minato tried soothing the horse by petting its neck, "Steady boy steady!"

But Akio couldn't take the anxiety and fear any longer. He frantically galloped away until he reached a dead end.

"Go back Akio, go back!" Minato yelled.

As the blond man pulled back at the reigns to turn around, the stallion stood up on its back legs and kicked his front knees in the air, causing Minato to fall off and land on his back. Akio, galloping away from his master, was soon out of sight.

"AKIO!" Minato shouted, reaching his hand out in the hopes of seeing his horse appear right before his eyes.

The sounds of howling wolves made him gasp and also brought him back to reality. He finally stood up, running as fast as his feet would carry him in order to find safety somewhere in this dangerous area. But as luck was definitely no where near his side, he had wheeled his head around only to be notified of the pack of wolves chasing after him.

But to his surprise, he bumped into a pair of two enormous, iron gates, which led to a castle filled with the negative energy of rage and depression.

"Help!" Minato struggled to open the gates as he shook them in panic, "Someone please help me!"

Miraculously, the iron giants swung open and Minato rushed inside, kicking the gates with his foot to close them. The wolves had reached their destination but, to their disappointment, they had been far too late; In other words, they failed to capture their dinner.

Minato sighed deeply after regaining his breath, "Who's tough now, bitches?"

He then glanced towards the black, uninviting castle. His eyebrows narrowed sharply, because he knew for a fact that he shouldn't be here out of all places. But his choices were to either: stay outside and freeze to death, try to escape the hungry wolves as he ran out the front gates, or go inside the castle and stay there until tomorrow, no matter who lives in there. Obviously, he chose to go with the latter.

He walked until he had gotten close enough to the large, mahogany doors that allowed him to enter the castle. He was about to knock, when shockingly the door opened by itself, as if knowing that someone was waiting to come in.

Minato raised a curious brow, "Um, hello? Is, uh, someone there?" he asked, carefully closing the door.

On the left wall, there was a granite counter top table with two objects that stood perfectly still; But these two objects were no ordinary household decorators… They were actually quite peculiar! They had eyes, and both were squinting suspiciously at the blond man as he looked around in curiousity.

Woooo-weee! I'm finally done re-writing this damn contraption-y thing...y XD

So do you all like it? I've gotten better during the past year so don't lie! And feel free to write any constructive critism and tell me what you think of this Re-Make! Please review because I love knowing what each and every one of you has to say. I'll appreciate it from the bottom of my heart, I promise =) Thank you very much!

-Bluegirl20