Chapter 4

Mara awoke to a strange surrounding, 'a bed, but how?' Mara thought as a pink haired woman walked in with a clipboard writing down some information.

"Oh you're awake? My name is Sakura, I'm your doctor" she said as she moved hand out to shake his hand.

"I don't think so" Mara said as he pulled the blanket from his body. He stepped up from his bed and headed for the door, his hand on the door knob. 'Were am I going? Who am I going too?' Mara thought of sensei until he felt something wet comedown from his eyes to streak his cheek. He felt the liquid. 'Am I crying? But I don't cry I...I... can't cry, can I?' his head felt like exploding.

"Why don't you rest?" the medic-nin asked nicely.

"No" Mara said bluntly with no emotion. "Were is my clothing?" Mara said finally realizing that he was only wearing a robe, Mara felt for his medallion to only realize it wasn't their either.

Sakura was a little shocked at this boy's resistance to her. "They're in the office down the hall on the right" sakura said holding the clipboard to her chest.

Mara left the room slamming the door shut; he walked calmly to the office to see an elderly woman at the desk. "Can I help you dear?" she said

"Nope" Mara said as he jumped the desk and started to search for his valuables. "Ah ha there you are!"

"Sir this is for employees only, please leave!" the elderly lady asked trying to act with authority. "What are you doing? Don't change here!" she said trying to block her eyes.

Mara pulled off his robe to reveal himself naked to everyone that was watching the small uproar. Mara only stopped to see everyone looking at him and his certain body parts, some of the younger girls blushed as their parents blocked their eyes. "What? You see one, you seen all of them, jeez" Mara said as he quickly dressed. 'Better be ready to pay me Mr. Uzumaki'

Mara walked up to the Hokages office and walked in instead of knocking only to see his client and another man wearing a vest and a spiky ponytail talking. Mara was being stared at again, 'they stare a lot in this village don't they?'

"What you never seen a teenage boy before?!" Mara said impatiently.

"Shikamaru, can you excuse us please?" Naruto said.

The other man just nodded then walked out of the room.

"Alright time to pay me, I did your job" Mara said with forcefulness. Mara did his usual stare contest with his client.

"I will pay like I agreed" Naruto said handing the boy an envelope. "But I also have a scroll from your sensei that he told me to give to you"

"A scroll? Why did he give you a scroll?" said Mara with a confuse look. It all clicked in at once as he looked in narutos eyes with sudden realization.

"You knew didn't you? But yet you didn't stop him!" Mara screamed with all his soul at Naruto. He basically killed his only family in Mara's eyes. 'I can't believe this! The Bastard knew, but did nothing!'

Mara took a step closer to Naruto, fist clenched. Naruto was getting prepared for a fight, but decided to end this peacefully instead of violence. "How about you read what is inscribed on the scroll before you do anything rash" Naruto said in a calming tone.

Mara would have loved to shove the scroll down naruto's throat instead of reading it but he his curiosity got the better of him. He slowly opened the scroll to find a short handwritten will. 'A will? How long have I gone unnoticed of this condition?'

Mara read out the will to himself and Naruto after reading to himself once.

"Dear Mara

Mara I'm afraid my time is coming. My heart has slowly been giving out a few years after your father gave you to me to look after you ever since I've been dying little by little. I decided with my dying thought that you deserve to be more than a merc, to belong to a family; I signed you up to be a ninja for the leaf village. Mara it's time for you to know what it's like to work with others beside's me. Mara I loved you like a grandson, I wish I could tell you where your parents were but I have never heard of them since. Do your best Mara; don't let some snotty brats beat you up!

Sensei"

Mara chuckled after reading the note out loud to Naruto. 'After all this I still don't know his name!'

Mara pocketed his scroll and stared down Naruto, his red eyes looking into the depths of naruto's very being. Mara's mental fortress went back up in an instant.

Naruto felt a chill go up his back, just staring into his eye's make him want to shut his eyes and hide in fear. 'I know what his sensei means when he told me not to get in his way'. Naruto held his ground and threw keys at Mara only to have them catch in mid air by Mara.

"Those are for your new apartment that is if you want to stay with us" said Naruto.

"Us? What do you mean by us?" Mara asked with an irritated tone. "Actually never mind, I don't want to know, just show me where it is" demanded Mara. He just wanted to be alone for a long time, some time to think to himself.

"Very well!" Naruto said excited at the result of their talking. Naruto yelled out to the man named Shikamaru; he entered only to be stared down by Mara.

"You don't have a lot of friends do you?" Shikamaru asked Mara with his usual lazy monotone.

Mara just stared Shikamaru down.

"Shika, just escort him to his apartment please" Naruto said agitated. 'I can't a moment's peace in this outfit!'

"Yes I got it Hokage, common squirt" said Shikamaru said as he gestured Mara to follow.

Mara only sighed lightly then followed keeping his eyes open and his body ready for anything; these were ninja he was dealing with. Mara knew he could not trust anything they said or taught, he was going to learn their moves then come up with a better defence against them. Mara smirked a huge grin.

Shikamaru looked at his follower to find him grinning; he looked around him to find nothing funny. 'That's odd'

After showing him the inside's of his apartment he waved goodbye only to have the door slammed on his face through mid-wave. 'And he's a little rude, I sure my daughter won't talk to him much, troublesome'

Mara slid with his back on the door. He stared at the empty apartment only to find a package on the table. He opened it to find a huge sum of money, and a little note; from Sensei.

Mara,

This is a little savings I made for you to go out on your own, don't spend all of it at once!

Sensei

This is going to be quite an adventure Mara thought to himself. 'Tomorrow is my first day at the academy? That is going to be loads of fun'

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