The Saboteur

By EyesofTCN

Disclaimer 1: I don't own Naruto

A/N: Almost to chapter five and it's already 10,000 words! I wonder how long chapter five'll be? There's an important announcement on the bottom so don't miss it!

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You sit there…

In your…

Heartache…

Waitin' on some beautiful boy too…

Save you from your…

Old ways…

You play forgiveness!

Watch it now here he comes!

When You Were Young by The Killers.

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Naroi trudged through the dank hallways of his boss' 'fortress'. The entire place was dank and was crawling with rats and other vermin. He had idly wondered his first day on the job what he had done his entire life as a mercenary to deserve to live in such a place. He had never killed women or children, unlike his colleagues who killed and raped with impunity. So what had he done to deserve such a horrible boss? Granted the pay was good, but that didn't really matter when people refused to even look him in the eye, let alone actually try to sell stuff to him.

Sometimes he wished that there was a union he could join or something, but the ninja have the standardized mercenary down pat so he couldn't really imagine a labor union standing up for his rights and living conditions as a killing machine.

"What's got you're panties in a bunch, Naroi?" his one eyed partner, Uraki, slurred as he stumbled next to him, his partner wasn't really one for sobriety. "we should go get some in the servants quarters," his partner continued as Naroi walked on and Uraki focused on not dropping the beer he was holding while stumbling after his partner" who knows what they might think if good-old-Uraki didn't show up to help them go to sleep, eh?"

Naroi snorted. They would be very happy if 'good-old-Uraki' didn't show up to help them go to 'sleep'. But seeing as he wanted to keep his head he just nodded as he turned into a hallway towards the servant's quarters. It was however only a few steps before he noticed something... different...

After a second he realized something:

A: his partner was NOT walking next to him anymore.

B: that he could practically feel chakra come off in waves from the dark hall way that his partners outline was clearly seen.

C: the outline was missing its head.

D: something was sticking out of his chest holding his still-beating heart a good foot from his chest.

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A black hand savagely pulled out the man's heart. As the body collapsed its last sight was that of its heart being crushed by a humanoid mass of darkness outlined by gold markings.

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Naruto scowled as the blood that was on his hands was absorbed into his skin darkening the purple even further. The seals absorbed the blood of his enemies to grow and strengthen him but it tainted his skin. He held up his hand and grimaced. Black armor covered the entirety of his fingertips and shone in the darkness. He was sure that underneath the solid black, blood armor that covered his fingertips was completely black.

He turned towards the opposite hallway away from the servant's quarters before pausing with a sigh while he looked upon his feet or rather where his feet were. Blood from both men's corpses coalesced into a large puddle which wrapped around his legs creating segmented armor which ended at his shin. The markings that adorned the side of his ankle sprouted from his the skin and began to hover an inch away from the appendage while letting off a harsh pulsating gold glow. He scowled at the evolution of the seal. During the years the seal absorbed blood and steadily grew and advanced more and more. The armor and the floating seal on his heel were clear indicators of that.

His head snapped up as rapid footsteps approached. His sense of smell picked up the adrenaline coursing through the men's veins and he grimaced once again.

"Dammit." he growled as his debut hour was finally taking its toll. He had forsaken stealth and left the bodies where had killed them. Undoubtedly all the guards were warned and were going through their rounds in packs larger than before and Gato was probably mobilizing his men to do a clean sweep of the entire base.

He dulled the glow of the seal by restricting his chakra flow and, using his armored fingers, attached himself to the low ceiling of the damp, hallway to better his chances of surprising the group and soon enough the men's voices become clear enough for him to pick out.

"…did you see those corpses, man?" one of the guards whispered sounding slightly nauseous. "All the blood was gone!" the man continued "it was as if something sucked it all out! What hell does that sort of shit!"

"Shut up, Rai!"Another man hissed at the now-named Rai "Just stop talking! You'll end up getting us killed!" two others mimicked the response and Naruto could only marvel at how right the men were before freezing at the next voice.

"He's here" said a man through a breath mask and the noise stopped immediately as the men's hearts began to beat faster, Naruto cursed explosively inside his head. A sensor type! How the hell did Gato have a sensor type with him? Sensor types were almost as valuable as Jinchuuriki in every country. Their ability to detect enemy forces in any type of weather at any time of day was vital to any shinobi army. The Byakugan bloodline was in fact an important military aspect because of its ability to see past obstacles and pinpoint chakra a good five miles away and not because of its ability to let it's user 'see' and neutralize chakra pathways.

"Where is he, Gann?"Asked one of the men. He heard the unsheathing of four swords and a crossbow bolt being nocked into place.

"Further down the hallway," the breathy voice responded "he's on the ceiling, probably using chakra. Be careful and use numbers to overwhelm the ninja. With you pressuring him I'll be able to maim him with a bolt or two so one of you can kill him."

You wish. Naruto launched himself from the ceiling toward the voices. His thoughts shifted onto the crossbow holder as he leapt trough the air. The faster he took care of the long-range specialist the faster he'll be able to take the others out from afar. Naruto black flipped in the air and landed in the middle of the group of men the moment the four with blades charged down the hallway. Faster than the man in front of him could scream Naruto crushed the man's throat with one hand while plunging the other through the crossbow and into the man's chest and crushing the heart. The man's blood was drained and absorbed into his body and more 'armor' segments formed to cover the entirety of his fingers.

Only moments after he pulled out his hand from bloodless corpse did the first of the swordsmen found himself without a jaw and unable to scream for help as he faced Naruto. Nevertheless the man, though spewing blood from his half-face, swiped at Naruto forcing the seal empowered youth back. Hearing the commotion the other three swordsmen appeared at their half-faced all's side.

His eyes took all four of the guards in. The guards wore no uniform and wore differing clothes. All four of them were trembling, though he was sure that in the half-faced man's case it was due to blood loss, he was sure that the other three were trembling because of fear. They wore differing clothes and held differing sized swords, the smallest being no larger than a ninjato, or ninja blade, and the largest was a nodachi, a sword nearly the entire length of the man holding it who was an impressive six feet tall. Silence seemed to permeate the air as the swordsmen took him in. Naruto could imagine the sight that they saw before them: a being covered in glowing seals, clawed hands that dripped of blood which slowly traveled and was absorbed into its skin, darkness floating behind it and a face that showed no more than glowing, gold eyes and a savage grimace.

Almost as one they let out a breath of fear.

It was a mistake they would never regret as Naruto charged them at that very moment.

Naruto finished the half-faced man first, almost like an apology for not killing the man at the first strike. Before the man could bring the sword down at him he plunged his right hand into the man's abdomen and after gripping the spinal cord ripped his hand out with said item out violently before throwing in with inhumane strength at the one with a ninjato. Bone met flesh and impaled the man in the neck, killing the man instantly as the spinal cord severed the man's own. The two he was left with, armed with a nodachi and a katana, charged him blindly hoping to kill or wound him. The first one to strike was the tall man with the nodachi. His sword strike though powerful was slow and clumsy. Naruto rolled to the side in a dodge and leapt from a crouch and as gravity took him he gripped the taller man shoulder and swung his knee into back of the man's head. With a sickening 'CRACK!' the head was sent straight to the floor and Naruto crushed it as he landed on it after flipping of the now-headless body.

He looked around for the last man. Could the man have left to warn his allies? Naruto felt irritation and slight respect for the man. While leaving his comrades behind was a pretty bad move the man could have potentially made the situation worse for Naruto now that they could identify him.

There was a sudden 'SQUELCH!' and he found himself impaled the sword blade sticking out of his stomach. He stayed absolutely still as his regenerative abilities kicked in. When he was in human form he was able to regenerate from gashes from swords kunai and shuriken with little difficulty stabs though were completely different. Getting an organ punctured wasn't exactly the best way to test your regenerative skills but over the years he found himself at odds with skilled swordsmen who used stabs as well as the faster swipes. In his human state he would need to dispatch the enemy the moment he was stabbed and take careful measures to take the blade out. In his demon seal form however…

He gripped the blade that extended out of his stomach and to his enemy's surprise and fear twisted the blade sideways and yanked it out of his body through his side. Ignoring the man's cry of fear as he yanked the sword out of his hand and turned the blade upon its owner. Holding the blade in reverse grip he slashed the man through the gut horizontally up to the neck and blood exploded out of the wound as the man crumpled. The blood engulfed Naruto and sank into the wound at his side. In less than a second a wound that would've killed a normal Jinchuuriki healed not leaving a mark of its presence besides that of a tear in the shirt's cloth.

Naruto stood in the midst of the bodies for a moment before turning into the dark hallway. The longer he was in the form the more changes would become permanent. His hands, though clad entirely in blood armor now, were not yet permanent. The seal needed to adapt and change so that every time he changes into sealed mode it would have more segments and armor pieces that it did before. The seal was, for all intents and purposes, a living being that had complete control over itself at a cellular level. Over time old cells were killed by newer stronger cells which replaced the old cells. The armor was the flashiest byproduct of the seal. It was lighter than paper, stronger than diamonds and sharper than the best katana. Wood, ice and, even bone were easily cut by the armor's edge. The armor however was not the strangest byproduct of the seal. because of the seal's continuing changes and evolution it needed raw materials and since it no material were readily available at any moment of any time it set itself to reusing and reabsorbing 'outdated' cells as well as any blood that Naruto absorbed into new cells and since the cells never really 'died' the law of diminishing returns weren't practical to Naruto's case.

In short he had inadvertently been turned into Orochimaru's greatest dream: an immortal monster.

There were, however, very large side-effects to the seal...

Naruto suddenly coughed. Seals began to criss-cross and glow all across his body and armor began to grow all over. Naruto collapsed onto all fours as whatever he had eaten came back up with a vengeance. He felt it happening again.

'Kyuubi!' he mentally screamed. Armor rapidly began to grow all over him body ' shut off all my chakra!'

'Shit! It's happening already?'

'Kyuubi!' Naruto screamed again as he clawed at his face trying to take the spreading armor off to give his partner some time...

'Relax! I got it!' Kyuubi tried to relax her container as he struggled against the growing armor. She herself couldn't stand the thing taking control of what was in control of her. But it was the price of power and power will make her eternal life as well as her containers eternal life MUCH easier.

Naruto succumbed the moment the armor engulfed his face

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Gato sat behind his desk shivering in fear. Screams echoed through the entire complex. His eyes unable to tear themselves away from the screen.

He remembered what he had told his men only an hour before... before the screams started.

It's only one ninja...

One shinobi can't kill you all...

The one to bring the ninja's head will get a raise...

In front of his eyes he saw what a fool he had been in doing so.

The men had charged into the complex's bowels with gusto. They sought wealth and blood being presented both on a silver platter just made the deal much more appetizing. They would find none of the wealth… but all of the blood.

What they found was no shinobi, but rather a monster that thirsted of blood and flesh. One that was impervious to any weapons that they had. The monster had no pity and killed and consumed with impunity even as men pleaded and begged for mercy. The monster's hands cut through armor as if it were water. It was… smaller than what most would imagine. The size however was the least of the thug's worries. Armor lined every inch of the beings body. Sleek yet archaic at the same time, the segmented armor deflected the strongest sword and even the odd mace in his army of thugs made no purchase on the armor. Blades broke from attempted parries. Axes were shattered upon impact. Nothing that the brutes had were capable of penetrating the armor. Even if the thugs did have something that could penetrate the armor the being they faced was faster than the ninja that a few of them had faced before-hand.

From the security cameras in Gato's room the man himself found the monster. The being moved with unnerving grace even as he watched it decapitate a man and stab another through the man's makeshift wooden shield and into the man's chest. The only difference in the entirety of the being's armor was the jaw. Instead of being black as midnight much like the rest of the armor it was silver and seemed to have some sort of use… but he perished the thought as his steel doors groaned as something crashed against it. More screams followed as the door took more hits. Huge bumps of steel formed where Gato surmised, in a calm that surprised even himself at the moment, his men had hit the door with enough force to shatter concrete.

Once the screams stopped the door opened in a calm manner that wasn't right for the situation and entered what was the most undoubtedly terrifying being Gato had ever laid eyes on. Segmented armor covered the entirety of the things body. The smoothest part of the being was the featureless black and silver jawed mask that Gato surmised was the things head despite the lack of eyes or eyeholes.

Gato locked onto the things face for a mere moment and then faster than he could see the being had him by a death grip his legs flailing wildly as he tried to free himself from the strong-as-steel grip.

"What do you –erg- want?" he managed to say even though his through was being constricted to the point of snapping "I-I'll give y-you an-anything! J-just l-let me go!"

The creature seemed to cock its head and its grip slackened a bit seemingly giving the man breath. There was a sudden hissing sound however and the jaw detached revealing a fanged mouth which whispered into Gato's ear as he was brought closer.

"Blood…"

Before Gato could formulate a reply the mouth sank into his neck and snapped his neck.

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Omake: Kakashi's pride.

Kakashi stood on the bridge wondering what the hell had happened the past week. Out of nowhere money that was stolen from the town by illegal means suddenly appeared and the small community found itself free from shackles as kidnapped loved one returned and announced that Zabuza and his apprentice with outside help destroyed Gato Inc. Many a tear had been shed that day as families were re-united and the yolk of oppression thrown off. Leaving the four shinobi transfixed and feeling left out since all they did was train the entire time.

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A/N: to everyone out there this will be the last chapter of The Saboteur due to lack of self esteem on my part as well as lack of feedback. I as of now have absolutely NO idea where this story stands. No one told me anything specific besides InaRealPickle who I am very grateful for. This story will be put on permanent hiatus and will only be brought back under the following conditions:

Story gets fifty reviews while on hiatus all from different people. (not happening trust me)

Sometime in the future (very far future) it wins's in a poll to be reinstated.

I REALLY WANT TO! (least likely since my muse practically murdered this itself)