Okay, the first part of this chapter ((until you meet the light gray dash separating the differences, i will notify you in the text)) is the same for both of the chapters, the first part is the original plot; Itachi prepares Kyuubi to enter the world of actual time and the second half Itachi and Sasori decide to train Naruto for 4 or 5 years, then Naru runs away...
EDIT: A couple people chose one of the attempts because of Naruto's closeness with Kyuubi, let me tell you something...the First Attempt, of course, Naruto is gunna be very close with Kyuubi for the many years to come...obviously...and The Second Attempt, Kyuubi will NOT join reality BUT, heres the catch, Naruto will stay in constant contact with Kyuubi AND he MIGHT, just might...it depends..., just aquire a demon fox named Akki...think about Sora ((i think is the guys name...he a guy who holds all of the leftover chakra from the Kyuubi..if u dunno...look on Narupedia)) and replace Sora with a wolf-sized blazing red male kitsune named Akki. CASE CLOSED!
PLEASE TELL ME IN YOUR REVIEW WHICH CHAPTER YOU LIKED BETTER! PLEASE! BECAUSE IF YOU DONT THEN I WILL BE VERY CONFUSED AND A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED...AND PLEASE DONT DECIDE ON THE STYLE OF MY TYPING BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, THE SECOND PART IS MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE DETAILED AND BETTER EXPLAINED THAN THE FIRST ((i wrote the first part of the chapter back in July '09)) and the reasoning for July '09, I had planning on finishing this story before I had ever posted it XD it would much less stress of having to type up a chapter within a couple weeks because my schedule is frikkin busy! XD
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~Firewolfpup, AOTF
((((( Chapter 4 )))))
Two missing nins speed through the Konoha forest wearing black cloaks with red clouds emblazoned on it.
"So Itachi-san, tell me why Leader partnered me with you and not me and Deidara?" A red-head asked quietly.
"I have no clue, but the thing I do know is that Deidara was not suitable for this mission." Itachi replied.
Sasori looked forward and stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of a boy hanging upside down from a tree with an inhuman amount of blood pooled beneath the sun-shine haired boy. Sasori gasped softly and wondered what the boy did to deserve this torture.
Even the usual cold and stoic Itachi was shocked at the sight, but he revealed no signs of his emotions.
"What do you think he did to deserve this torture Sasori?" Itachi asked.
"I haven't a clue but we can't just leave him here. I have a horrible feeling that whoever did this, isn't done with him yet." Sasori murmured as a long, silver tail grew out of the man's cloak.
Itachi nodded as Sasori cut the rope and Itachi caught him in his arms. Naruto curled up in Itachi's arms and buried his head into Itachi's chest.
"Let's head to the cave on the other side of the forest eh?" Sasori asked Itachi.
Itachi nodded and sped after the red-head, who was running in the opposite direction of Konoha.
During the whole trip Naruto was embraced by a veil of red chakra; Itachi noted that his cuts and bruises were slowly healing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~First attempt at Chapter 3 back in July of '09!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Naruto was surprised to wake up, cradled in someone's arms.
"You are awake." Itachi announced.
'Don't be afraid kit. If anything happens then I'll protect you.' Kyuubi stated.
Naruto barely nodded his head, "Who are you?"
"The question is who are you?" Sasori countered from across the room.
'Should I tell them who I am Kyuu?' Naruto asked Kyuubi.
'Hmm…sure why not kit?' Kyuubi decided.
"…Namikaze Naruto."
"I'm Uchiha Itachi and that puppet over there is Akasuna No Sasori." Itachi pointed to Sasori with his head; Sasori only glared at Itachi.
"Wow, a puppet?" Naruto asked in amazement.
Sasori shrugged off his coat to reveal his puppet body. He also lifted up his palms and a latch opened. Flamethrowers slowly came out of his hands.
Naruto slid out of Itachi's arms and walked over to Sasori. Naruto touch the kanji on Sasori's heart container.
'Hey Kyuu-onii-san?'
'Yeah kit?' Kyuubi asked sleepily.
'D o you think Sasori controls other puppets?'
'Hmm…Maybe but I would imagine Sasori controlling human puppets.'
Naruto's face suddenly turned a light shade of green.
"You…control…human…puppets?" Naruto wondered aloud.
Sasori swiftly pulled his cloak back on. "Who told you?"
Naruto looked towards the ground, taking sudden interest in his feet. "My Kyuu-onii-san told me."
Itachi flinched at how he addressed the Kyuubi, "Do you mind if I talk to the fox?"
Naruto suddenly snarled and his whisker marks grew blacker and more defined, "Don't call my onii-san fox Itachi."
Itachi nodded meekly and looked towards Sasori.
Naruto's whisker marks thinned out and he became his normal self again. "Well…I don't care I guess."
Itachi nodded, "Come sit over here and stare into my eyes. Oh and don't blink."
Naruto nodded and sat down in front of Itachi.
"Mange-sharingan." Itachi murmured and his eyes turned from the three tomoe to a pinwheel design.
Naruto's world went black.
((((( With Naruto and Itachi )))))
Naruto and Itachi woke up in the sewer that led to Kyuubi's cage. Naruto started to walk in a random direction (To Itachi at least) before he realized that Itachi was looking in the opposite direction.
"There's nothing to see there, now follow me." Naruto ordered.
Itachi glared but said nothing as he reluctantly followed. Naruto and Itachi soon heard snores coming from deeper within the cage.
Naruto signaled Itachi to be quiet; Itachi nodded and used almost all of his stealth skills to stay quiet. A little more than 20 steps they came to a large room with bars towering above their heads.
Orange and black fur poked out from the bars in all directions. A large orange and black head was barred against the cage. A long, large, and orange ear stood almost straight up in the air against the bars while the other ear was sticking out from the bottom of the cage.
Naruto held up his hand to tell Itachi to stay where he is. Naruto ran up to Kyuubi and hugged his giant head.
"Kyuu-onii-san!" Naruto yelled.
Kyuubi blinked sleepily, "Hey kit, what's up."
Naruto didn't answer but buried his head and mumbled something softly. Kyuubi glanced up to see Itachi standing there with a dumbfound expression on his face.
'Naruto…hugged…Kyuubi? Naruto hugged the demon. Naruto hugged the…demon. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!' Was the only things that was running through Itachi's mind.
"An Akatsuki eh?" Kyuubi snarled and stood up to his full height, he set a large orange paw in front of Naruto; ignoring the electricity that was shooting up his leg. "What do you want with my kit?"
Itachi flinched at how Kyuubi said 'my kit', "Well, my partner and I saved your kit from being further tortured from the leaf villagers and ninjas."
"Kyuu-onii-san I don't want those villagers to hurt me anymore." Naruto murmured.
"I know kit." Kyuubi tilted his head in thought. "Well…there might be a way for me to join you in reality but it's an extreme jutsu that has never been tested before."
"I'll help you Kyuubi." Itachi spoke up from his faze.
((((( With Sasori )))))
Sasori grabbed Naruto before he hit the cave floor. Sasori looked at Itachi who seemed to be dead. An idea suddenly dawned on Sasori. Chuckling at his brilliant idea, Sasori grabbed a block of wood and smashed it on Itachi's head. The seemingly dead Itachi never even flinched at the contact. Wooden splinters flew in all directions.
Sasori pointed at Itachi, "That just proves how much I hate you Itachi!" he yelled.
He quickly snapped out of his random moment and went to find more fire wood.
An hour passed without interruption and Sasori slowly appeared with a large stack of fire wood in his hands. He threw a couple blocks onto the fire and turned around to see Itachi performing dozens of hand signs within seconds.
Sasori watched in amazement was Itachi suddenly stopped on the 'tiger' seal. Naruto yelled out in pain as his body glowed a deep red. The outline of an orange paw stepped outside of Naruto's body.
'What is he doing?' Sasori wondered as the Kyuubi's head and body also stepped out of Naruto's body.
The rest of Kyuubi stepped out of Naruto and started to slowly materialize as Itachi and Naruto started to wake up.
Naruto turned his head to the left to see Kyuubi shaking his fur, his nine tails flailing in every direction. "Kyuu-onii-san!" Naruto nearly yelled and grabbed one of Kyuubi's large legs.
Naruto slid off the bed and measured Kyuubi's height with his eyes. Naruto noted that he barely touched Kyuubi's belly fur.
"Wow Kyuu-onii-san you shrunk."
"And you grew taller kit." Kyuubi chuckled as Naruto climbed onto his back.
"Ow fuck, I've got the nastiest headache." Itachi mumbled and Sasori started to burst out laughing.
Kyuubi looked away from Naruto to see Sasori laughing his head off at Itachi. Kyuubi's hackles rose and he snarled ferociously.
"Akasuna No Sasori." Kyuubi hissed.
Sasori stopped laughing, "Yes?"
"Were leaving kit." Kyuubi simply said before quickly walking out of the cave, leaving a confused Sasori and an angry Itachi.
"Where are we going?"
"Konoha."
"Why?"
"I need to tell the Yondaime/ your father that I'm going to take you out of the village for awhile to train."
Naruto was silent for a moment, "Ok, but at least can I have an hour or two to say good-bye to Kiba and Hinata?"
Kyuubi grinned, "Sure kit." And took off full speed through the Konoha forest.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Second attempt at Chapter 3!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Moonlight filtered through the caves large opening and shone on Naruto's face, waking him up slowly and annoyingly. Glass-like clinking sounds echoed throughout the cave and a fire roared from somewhere close to Naruto. The fire snarled loudly whenever the person threw a glass of dark liquid into the bright red flames.
Naruto looked around to see two black cloaked figures, one sitting at a long table mixing some sort of toxic liquids, and the other sitting at a small round table, near the fire, wearing thin, rectangular glasses and reading a book.
The one person sitting at the table growled softly and hurled another glass into the fire, causing the fire to roar loudly and turn a vibrant green. The other person looked up from his book and glared at the red-head sitting up the table, who was now writing down notes in a small notebook.
"Will you please not do that Sasori?" The man sighed annoyingly as he turned back to his book.
"What do you suggest I do with the poison if it lacks a quality I need, Itachi?" Sasori answered Itachi with a question of his own.
"Point taken…" Itachi murmured as his eye caught Naruto staring into the fire. "You're awake." He stated simply.
Naruto nodded once, hugging his knees to his chest, looking at Itachi out of the corner of his eyes, who was eyeing Sasori warily, waiting for the red-head to toss another toxic mixture into the fire.
"Well, what's your name?" Sasori asked while he stirred a dark orange poison by holding it up in the air and spinning the glass slowly.
"Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto murmured, turning his attention back to the fire.
"I am Akasuna No Sasori…and that's Uchiha Itachi." Sasori said as he sprinkled some kind of yellow powder into his dark orange, now a bubbling blue, poison.
Naruto watched Sasori carefully measure a thick purple liquid, that seemed to have a mind of its own, and pour it into the blue poison. With a loud hiss, the blue poison calmed down and the colour took on a blue and purple hue. Sasori looked down to write down a couple notes and looked back up to see Naruto peering over the side of the table at the 6 different coloured poisons that were lined up.
"What are those poisons for?" Naruto asked, barely showing any emotions; Sasori took this as a sign that he was still upset over what happened a day or so before. Itachi looked over at the two without moving his head; maybe Naruto could get some answers out of the secretive puppeteer.
"For my puppets." Sasori simply said, as if it was the simplest question in the world. He looked up at Naruto and saw that the boy wanted an explanation; with a silent sigh, Sasori began to explain. "These poisons you see here are all experiments; I'm trying to make my current poison better than it is now. You see this weapon?" he asked, holding up a kunai that was dripping with a light purple poison.
Naruto nodded, now very interested in the poisons while Itachi listened intently, wanting some answers. "One cut with this kunai will cause massive internal hemorrhaging, paralysis, and death; all of these side-effects will occur within three days. The point is to cause suffering and a very excruciating death." Sasori murmured as he noticed that Itachi was listening.
"So all of your weapons and…puppets weapons are soaked with that poison to ensure death within three days? Cool way to get rid of your enemies quickly and efficiently and actually know that they're dead…you are the only person to know of the antidote?" Naruto said, using the only basic knowledge that he gathered from the extensive library in his home.
Sasori looked at the boy with an eyebrow quirked, shocked, but you couldn't tell from his stoic mask. The boy was what? Six? Seven? And he understood the reasoning for his poison with just a short explanation.
"Correct."
Naruto looked down at the ground and back to the numerous poisons on the table. "No one in Konoha uses puppets as a Shinobi Technique…it wouldsave chakra one would normally waste for Ninjutsu to use to enhance your own limbs and chakra strings instead…I don't see why there are not more puppeteers…"
If the situation wasn't so sad, Sasori would have burst out laughing; trust a child to see the advantages and wonders of using puppets so easily.
"You're interesting in the Shinobi Technique?" Sasori asked curiously.
"Of course…it would be interesting to know how the Technique worked out in battle."Naruto answered quietly, watching the only poison moving warily.
Itachi's eye twitched annoyingly as he couldn't believe that Sasori was telling this kid they barely knew more than what Sasori told him and at the fact that the kid knew more on the subject than him.
Sasori nodded. "What do you want to do? Aside from visiting the surrounding villages, that is, doing so as you are now is a surefire way for you to get caught and sent back to that pitiful village"
Naruto asked himself that question now. What did he want to do? It's obvious that if he went back to Konoha by force or by will, he would most likely be lynched again by the villagers. If he went to any other village, now knowing that he had the Kyuubi in him, it probably wouldn't take long for them to realize it too and use him for it, so any hidden village is out of the question. That didn't stop him from wanting to become a shinobi though. He had no reason to become one though other than to protect himself, that wasn't great motivation to become strong and progress for the sake of progress would just make him bored quickly. He then had images of the Sandaime Hokage and the Ichiraku Ramen family flash through his mind before he smirked slightly.
"I want to be a shinobi…" answered Naruto which made Sasori raise an eyebrow in amusement.
"Then let Konoha capture you again, they'll let you become one eventually…" he answered, wanting to goad a reaction out of him which he did. Naruto's cold eyes met his own shining with fierce determination.
"I don't want to go back to Konoha or any other hidden village either…they'll just use me…I still want to be strong though…"
Sasori growled softly and threw the current blue potion into the fire while thinking about this last predicament, also ignoring Itachi's quiet curses. Though he wasn't terribly fond of the boy or anything, it would give him some way to pass the time when he wasn't doing missions with Akatsuki, not to mention that if he decided to train Naruto personally, he could make sure he was strong enough to resist them when they finally discover his identity and try to abduct him. He was not crazy, nor warmongering, he just hated being tied down by the rules and laws of a hidden village, preferring the life of a missing-nin. Should Akatsuki get a hold of this boy though, and the rest of the tailed demons, war would be the only possible outcome and though he was not particularly adverse to the idea, it would also escalate to the level where innocents would die, and he couldn't have that.
"I will leave often, for days, weeks, maybe even months, but if I chose to train you, will you listen to my every order in regards to it or will you be an insolent child whining about not wanting to work for strength?" questioned Sasori "My training will not be easy, in fact, it will be grueling and taxing on you at the best of times, but to learn what I have to teach you, you will need precise control of your chakra, excellent stamina, high speed and high intelligence, all of which will require a lot of work on your behalf, are you prepared?"
Naruto smiled a small smile for the first time since Sasori took him from Konoha which made him smirk back.
"Hai…Sasori-sensei" answered Naruto which made Sasori look up to the ceiling with a fare away look.
'Sasori-sensei? I like the sound of that…'.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO TELL IN YOUR REVIEW WHICH ONE IS BETTER! THE FIRST ATTEMPT OR THE SECOND?!...that is all =*]...also...my improvement over the course of a few months would be nice XD ((first attempt -July '09, second attempt - February '10)) XD a few months can mean a huge difference don't they? And please dont criticize on how short the second attempt is shorter because in the next chapter the remake is 2,000 words longer than the original...
Remembah...the more reviews, the less stress it is on me whether or not to post the remake or not! Majority Rule...which ever attempt has the more reviews...the story gets changed for better or worseXD
~Firewolfpup, AOTF