TEACHER

TEACHER

Naruto smiled at the group of people that were surrounding, sure some of them were a bit weird but they all treated him with some degree of respect, even the so call prince of all sayains treated him ok for the most part, every thing was perfect in this world, no one was trying to kill him, no angry stares and no mistreatments from any one. This world was perfect and yet it was not his own world, but the question he has asked goku was a valid one and he hoped that he would honor his request, he hoped that he would say yes.

"Naruto"

Goku looked at him and smiled faintly at the young warrior beside him, the smile how ever was not the one that naruto was expecting and he knew what his decision was.

"They said no right?"

"Yeah, even I can't change there minds"

"B-but why?"

"It seems you have you own destiny to fulfill in your own world"

Naruto closed his eyes and shock his head, that couldn't be, there was nothing waiting for him in his world, nothing but hate, nothing but people who wanted nothing more but to see him dead, goku placed a hand on the boy is shoulder and smiled.

"B-but why?! I don't want to go back!"

"I am the guardian of this realm, but I am not a god naruto"

"You're stronger than those gods!"

The frown naruto saw on goku made him take a step back, he was annoyed at his words.

"Strength is not every thing naruto"

The blond is eyes widen and goku smiled, the kid still had a lot to learn but hopefully he could learn with them teaching him, every child needs to have some one care for them if they don't then how else are they to learn what its like to care for some one else.

"T-then I can't stay….."

"No, you are still alive we are not, you belong on your realm naruto"

"W-why? No body wants me there, they all hate me"

"So you will give up so easily? Don't let them win"

"L-let them win?"

"If you give up now, if you leave then you will let them win, they would have driven you away from the village and what would you become then?"

The villagers hated him; they all saw him as a worthless piece of garbage, as nothing more than trash to be disposed off. they screamed at him to leave the village to die, if he gave up, if he ran away if he stayed here then the villagers would win, they would get there wish and see that he became nothing but a worthless being. Closing his eyes and clenching his fist naruto made a choice; he would not run away.

"I-I will become hokage!"

TEACHER

VII

"HELL"

Demon, the title was given to those who were as evil as they were skilled in the killing arts; zabusa momochi was given such title and until this day he wore the title with pride and honor that is until he met a real live demon. Terror filled every single part of his body and as much as his body wanted to move he couldn't, fear had a grip on him and it refused to let him move. All his senses all of his basic instincts were shouting at him to run to hide to stay still, all senses were screaming at him and yet all he could do was watch as the genin held his blade and glared at him. His sword had been swung down towards haku and naruto, his plan was to slash at both of them, to kill the genin and his useless weapon.

"N-naruto…..?"

She couldn't believe what she was seeing, naruto had stopped her master is attack in mid strike, his bare hand was clenching the swords that had killed hundred of ninja all over the ninja nations, and yet now it was just being held there was if it was nothing but a piece of tin. Zabusa is eyes were wide with surprised and she could almost swear that she could see some fear beginning to surface, haku is eyes looked away from zabusa and turned to the person that was hugging her body. naruto is blue eyes were now red and had turned to a cat like form, his canine teeth were now fangs and his hands were claws, yet despite all this she found him the least bit threatening.

"W-why?"

She spoke and he just smiled at her, how could she ask why? Did she not known?

"I found you, I found my precious person"

He roared out pushing zabusa away and before haku knew it she was in his arms a few feet away from zabusa and the rest of the ninjas, naruto smiled at her and let her stand on her own. She glanced back at the two jounin and saw them gaping at the blond boy beside her, she turned towards naruto and just stared at him, there were so many questions that needed to be asked but only one came to mind.

"W-what did you?"

She couldn't believe that this was happening the blond boy is dramatic change seem more frightening when he was standing up, he was different, every thing had changed, his hands were claws, his eyes had changed from a clear shade of blue to a blood dark red, his canines had elongated making them seem like fangs. He turned to her when she asked the question and despite that terrible feeling that red aura was giving her she couldn't help but remain by his side, he was an outcast just like her, but unlike her he had never had any one.

"I won't let any one hurt you"

He rushed towards zabusa and haku could only blink in surprised, the situation didn't make any sense, how could she be some one is precious person? How could she be to naruto what zabusa was to her? How could.

"So you couldn't handle a bunch of kids eh, demon of the mist?"

The voice snapped every one out of there daze, turning towards the source of the voice they found a short little man surrounded by a mob of ninja, Zabusa couldn't believe what he was seeing, the stupid little man had gone behind his back and tried to double cross him, glancing towards haku he could see her eyes staring back at him as if telling him that she had been right all along. Kakashi looked at his other genin and frowned when he saw sasuke on the ground and sakura just shivering beside him, there was no way he was going to be able to fend off this many ninja, both he and zabusa were depleted. They had spent too much chakra battling one another, one look at the boy/girl and he could see that she/he to was spent. Yet looking at naruto he could see that the boy is glare had only intensified as well as the amount of power he was emanating, what ever had triggered his transformation had left him with some semblance of humanity.

"You will all die"

The words naruto spoke made every one is body tremble, the voice was not human, the red aura surrounding the boy was filled with evil, such evil that it felt as if it was squeezing the very life out of all the ninja accompanying gato. The short man fell to his knees and glared at the blond gening; whatever the hell the boy was doing, it was frightening the hell out of him and his men. It was as if he was staring at hell itself and it was threatening to consume his very soul if he didn't look away.

"S-stop him!"

He stammered out and the ninja complied, they rushed towards there target, hand signs flashing and jutsus being cast.

"WATER STYLE WATER SHURIKEN JUTSU!"

"SUMMONING JUTSU GOLUM REVIVAL!"

Kakashi frowned and took a step back, it was one thing for the man to be surrounded by thugs and petty criminals its was a whole other thing to be accompanied by jounin and chunnin, ninja that were not only skilled but were well beyond regular jounin or chunning, they were at least B-class. Rushing towards sasuke, he lifts him up from the ground and rushes towards sakura and tazuna, the battle that is about to begin is one that he cannot be a part off; his fight with zabusa has left him with almost no chakra. Glancing at zabusa he could see the anger and the inability to do any thing, his arms were almost useless and he was in the same predicament as he was, no chakra and way out of his league. No jounin no matter how strong could take on an entire army of ninjas and live to tell the tale not unless it was a certain blond jounin.

"Zabusa we have to get out of here!"

The demon of the mist just nodded and they both rushed away from the scene, there wasn't any thing they could do in this fight, zabusa looked at haku and frown when he saw her standing there, she was not moving or even making an attempt at running away, a brief glance between them was all that they needed, zabusa understood why she would stay and in return he had given her, her freedom. She would no longer have to be his weapon but she would no longer be welcomed by his side she was on her own.

Sakura Haruno looked at the scene before her and tried not to vomit. Her whole body was shaking and despite wanting to do something she could not, she was paralyzed with fear, something had happened something had gone wrong and as much as she wanted to be able to think about it she couldn't, all her body wanted to do was flee, to run for its life and never look back. Taking deep breaths she tries to steady herself, to not let that overwhelming sense of panic take over her and yet she couldn't, all she could do was stay rooted to the ground and shake in fear.

Looking around the area now that the mist had cleared she could see a mob of people in the bridge and something red and horrible glowing, beside it stood the masked girl who had fought them. She glanced around the area and saw her sensei rushing towards her with sasuke is body draped over his left shoulder, she was about to say something when his right hand sneaked around her waist and she was lifted up onto his right shoulder.

"Tazuna time to go"

The man couldn't even ask a question when he felt himself being dragged along side the silver haired ninja by the back of his shirt, there was no questions ask as they were moving far to fast for any of them to comprehend what had happened or what was going on.

"Demonic art, soul draining jutsu!"

Naruto is voice became as cold as ice and his whispered words sent chills down every one is spines, the red chakra that flared around him seem to become alive and lash out at the mob of ninjas who were gathered beside gato. The chakra coils began to wrap around the bodies of the jounin and chunnin gathered as soon as they wrapped themselves around a living being it began to drain there life essence, killing them off instantly and leaving only a pile of ash behind. When they realized what was happening they all jumped away from the area and tried to strike back at the blond genin, the water shuriken rushed towards him but as soon as they got within a few feet of him they immediately shattered into nothing but small droplets of water, as for the massive rock monster that seem to come out of no were it rushed towards the blond.

The rock monster threw a punch towards the blond, only to be evaded by naruto jumping upwards into the air, when he began to fall naruto extended his right leg and managed to connect with the beast is head, the impact forced the massive creature to stagger back a few feet. Landing the blond immediately rushed towards the golem for a second attack, his left arm raised above him he unleashed a punch towards the rock giant, the beast seeing the incoming attack raised his arm in defense; naruto is punch connected and much to the surprised of every one the golem is arm shattered under the force of the punch.

"T-that's impossible! My golem is powers c-cant be matched"

The rock jounin took a step back and shock his head, this couldn't be happening, that blond kid, he was much too young to be anything else but a genin, but his power, there was something to it, something evil and frightening at the same time. Looking at his forehead protector he could see the leaf insignia in it and frowned even further, he was from the village hidden in the leaf; that place had the fame of producing super strong ninja. It was rumored that they once had a 13 year old anbu captain and had created the legendary sannin.

"Is that all?"

The blond growled out right before the golem puffed out in a cloud of smoke, the genin jumped towards the mob and landed right in the middle of it there he was surrounded by every one and yet no one took a step towards him.

"If you step close and get touched by that red aura we will die so keep away from him! Long range attacks only!"

One of the most experience jounin called out, but it was no use, naruto moved with god like speed towards the mob, his claws slashing at the nearest ninja it could find, his aura slashing at all around him wrapping itself to whom ever dare get close enough to him, soon nothing remained but a pile of corpses on the ground. Gato looked at the boy and took a step back, he was not a human, no human could do what he had just done.

"W-what the hell are you?"

"Nothing that concerns a dead man"

"W-WHAT?….Y-you can't…. I'll give you any thing you want b-but don't kill me!"

"Any thing?"

"Y-YES A-any thing!"

NARUTO IS MIND

The blond looked at the fox is cage and frowned, this was not part of the deal, he could feel his body staggering just to stand, his chest wound had been healed externally but internally it still had needed to be tended too, the demon is little knowledge on human anatomy made him work at a slow rate less he reform a malfunctioning organ. The fox on the other hand was having a field day, it had been a long time since he had been allowed to let some of his powers out, it was a relieve to be able to do so ever since he had been imprisoned in the human he felt like he was being suffocated. All of his powers contained behind a little cage it was enough to drive him mad, that is why he let out small portions of it out once in a while and as a side effect it screwed the kid is chakra control.

"What are you doing?"

"I am toying with him"

"Finish him off"

"You want me to kill?"

"If we don't then he will just want revenge, we can't let him live"

"Then he will suffer"

"No, just finish him off"

"You speak as if you have a choice boy"

"I said enough!"

Naruto turned towards the cage and glared at the huge door, the demon inside just smiled and looked at the boy before him, he turned away from him and unleashed more chakra, only this time he was stopped.

"What are you doing?!"

"I said enough!"

Naruto is chakra flared up and the demon cringed back in his cage, the kid was glowing, his blue chakra was pushing back his own red one, the demon unleashed more power but it was meet on equal grounds by the blond kid is own chakra, what was more surprising was that it was actually pushing his powers back. The demon growled out and pushed more chakra out of his cage but the seal activated and he was send crashing backwards slamming against the back of the cage.

"Damn you and your forth hokage! If I were free you would be dead by now!"

"So you say but this is my body and I won't let you use it as you please!"

REAL WORLD

The demon had growled out and passed out, the huge blow he had received had drained him out and had knocked him unconscious, naruto fell to one knee and gasped, that had been to close, the demon had nearly taken over and his will had nearly over written his own emotions. Luckily he had managed to snap out of his little daze with enough time to stop the demon and now glancing at gato he smirked at the hopeful look the man had, he was actually expecting to get out of this alive. Standing back up he took a deep breath and slashed the man is throat with a kunai.

"I want you to die"

The short little fat man just gurgled blood and fell towards the ocean below, naruto smirked and was about to fall to the ground when a pair of arms came from behind him and held him close, looking at the person he smiled at her.

"T-thank you"

"Y-your wound"

She couldn't believe what she was seeing, the gaping hole that was once in his chest was all but gone, it was replaced by new skin it was as if the damage had never happened yet something was wrong with naruto, he seem to be gasping for air and was trembling as if his whole body was entering into shock or something. Placing him on the ground she could see that his condition was a lot worse than she had originally thought, even though he was no longer injured something had happened to his body.

"I-I heal p-pretty fast but……m-my body suffers a great deal of strain"

"From the regeneration…I see"

"Y-yeah…it takes a lot out of me"

Haku could see that he was not only in a weakened state but he was also in physical pain, there was so many regenerated parts that it had placed his whole body in agony, multiplying cells that fast had to be hard to do and who knew what the consequences were. Luckily his healing powers seem to be mainly focused on rebuilding vital organs and regulating vital body functions, hence why naruto was able to live with a gaping whole in his chest, what worried her was the weakened condition and the way his sensei had acted when he had snapped.

"We should leave the area, I don't know what you want to do but the sharingan user didn't seem to please when you changed"

Naruto cursed, he knew what kakashi was like, if he suspected or even had an inkling that he had given up some of his control to the fox then he was in danger, there was no telling what the copy cat would do. He needed to figure out his next move but he couldn't go back to the city not knowing what was going on, besides the mission was over he had killed gato and all of his men that would guarantee the city is safety and allow tazuna to finish his bridge, there was nothing more to do. As for haku the girl hoped that he didn't want to go back to that sensei of his, she had recognizes kakashi is gaze it was the same one she had gotten when the people had found out about her kekegenkai, what ever the copy cat is intentions would be from now on he could not be trusted.

"N-naruto!"

Both ninja turned towards the sound of the voice and saw a crowd of people looking at them with shock and amazement, in front of the crowd stood a very familiar little boy smiling at them, he was wearing some kind of armor and had a cross vow on his hands. Naruto recognized him and smiled back, he waved at him and the kid rushed towards him.

"Inari, what are you doing here?"

Haku could see the kid had no fear of him or naruto, his eyes were just focused on the dead body of gato; a small little smile played on the kid is lips, it was as if he was trying to hold back his laughter, his eyes turned towards naruto and gave him a thumps up.

"You did it! Just like you said, I-I wanted to help so I"

Naruto smiled and nodded he understood what inari was trying to tell him, it seem that the kid is bravery had inspired the other villagers to rise up and face the tyrant, this village had learned to stand together and fight.

"Your are very brave inari, all of your will make this land a great one"

Haku helped naruto stand and the villagers could see the condition of the blond, they immediately wanted to aid the blond kid but he smiled and told them it was ok, something in his voice how ever told inari that this was a good bye.

"N-naruto?"

"My mission is finished here inari"

"B-but why? Were are you going?"

He didn't know the answer to that question but he knew that he could no longer return to konoha, kakashi was a jounin a loyal one to the village and as such he would be force to report what had happened on the bridge, when that happened he didn't want to even think of what the others would think. The hokage had enough trouble as it was he didn't want to become another burden to the old man, not with how the village elders and the council were always after him, if they found out about this then they would have the perfect excuse to act against him and possibly take his life or lock him up for life.

He had no other choice but to leave right now, he couldn't possibly go back not with kakashi any way; he needed to talk to the old man and see what he had to say about all of this. If any one could come up with something it would be sarutobi, the man was the only one who had ever treated him normal. When he was little he had been around every single kind of ninja, from genin to jounin and even some anbu and they all had the same thing in common, they all were frightened of him, every one always had there guards up around him almost as if expecting him to go berserk and kill them all. The hokage had been different; he had never once been like that.

"I need to report something to my village first; I need to ask you guys for a favor"

Inari and the villagers nodded, what ever this kid would ask they would gladly give it to him, he had killed the man who had turned there lives to hell, looking around they wondered were the rest of the kid is team was, they were supposed to be here also weren't they?

"Any thing"

"My team, I need you guys to delay them and not tell them that you saw me, just tell them that I wasn't here when you showed up"

Inari looked at naruto and the girl beside him, something was wrong it was as if he was hiding something but what ever it was he had to have his reasons, the crow gathered around just nodded and inari smiled at him.

"Of course, but why?"

"I used a forbidden jutsu to finish off gato and his men, if kakashi reports it"

"It's all right kid"

The villages smiled at him and naruto was taken back by the look they were given him, it was not a questioning look or a look of surprised it was one filled with understanding and gratitude, it was the look he had longed to see in the faces of the villagers in konoha. He had earned there respect, they looked at him with nothing but respect and pride, they were proud of him, haku saw the tear in naruto is eyes and wondered just how much he had endured in his life.

"We will do what you ask no problem, right?!"

The man questioned out loud and the crowd responded in a resounding shout that they would, inari just smiled and said good bye to naruto promising that he would become stronger. Naruto smiled and vanished along side haku, they needed to get out of here before either zabusa or kakashi returned, heading into the forest naruto couldn't help but wonder what the name of the bridge would be or what tazuna would say when he found out that he was gone.

"Are you alright naruto?"

"I will be, I just need"

He didn't get to finish exhaustion took over and he collapsed on haku is arms, the girl smiled and placed naruto over her shoulder she knew that she needed to leave the area before kakashi or zabusa returned if they came back then they could sense her chakra and go after her and naruto. The way naruto had acted seem to tell her that he didn't not want his sensei to find him, the way kakashi had looked at naruto also told her to not let that man near the blond; kakashi had glanced at naruto with fear and border line anger, the last time some one had glanced at her that way a beating had soon followed. Then there was the way that the blond had acted during battle, his whole attitude had changed it was as if he was some kind of wild animal set lose, it was frightening and intriguing at the same time. She had heard of the Inuzuka clan from konoha and there feral looks but she was sure that naruto was not one of them.

Then there was his whole healing factor, no ordinary human could survive a blow like the one he had taken, she wondered if his village had experimented on him or if he was the result of one of the renegade sannin is experiment, after all there were rumors that he was in the habit of experiment on ninjas. Shaking her head she heads off into the woods and wonders what naruto would do once he wakes up, she is not used to making decision on her own she had always been a followers so the best she could do was hide out while naruto regained consciousness.

Far away from the bridge kakashi looked on at his students and frowned, they had been useless in the battle, his training had not paid off as well as he had hoped and had nearly gotten them all killed, even himself had been some what out matched in the bridge, truth of the matter was that he had let himself go, a couple of years back he could have easily taken on zabusa momochi with out so much as a case of chakra exhaustion. Now how ever that had all changed, even if zabusa was a great opponent the way he had collapsed after the battle showed that he had let himself become weak, he was sure that if it had not been for his sharingan he would be dead by now. Looking at zabusa he could see that despite the man is injures he could still go another round with him and he could barely stand.

"How are you feeling?"

Sasuke grunted and sat up, he had been knocked out by that mask ninja and it seem that the battle had been over for a while now; looking at his sensei he could see the frown on his face and the disappointing coming from his eyes.

"Fine"

"You should thank haku for that"

Zabusa smirked at the boy is scowl and looked at kakashi, the copy cat was deep in thought and he knew that something had spooked him, what ever the hell that kid had done had scared the living day light out of the sharingan user. That blond kid was no ordinary ninja or human for that matter, the kid had been impaled by his sword and had just continued to fight as if his wound was nothing. Then the wound had began to heal right before his eyes, that kid what ever he was, was not an ordinary human being, konoha had its share of secrets and something told him that the kid was one of them, and if the way Kakashi had been acting was any indication he was dangerous.

The blond boy had been terrifying, even he had felt fear when the red chakra had began to leak out of the boy, it was as if his whole body wanted to just run away, forget killer intent what ever that kid had unleashed it had been a hundred times more sinister and evil. Any normal human would have gone insane lucky for them they were ninja and were used to things like that but even so, that did not mean that they were UN affected by it. He glanced at the sharingan user who nodded, it was time for them to have a serious talk; he signaled him to follow him outside of the small shed they were hiding, the man complied and soon the two stood outside.

"So? What happened back there kakashi?"

"You call yourself the demon of the mist, well what you saw back there was a true demon"

"So a human sacrifice, I didn't know konoha practice that forbidden art"

Kakashi frowned, he knew that other villages practiced the art of sealing demons inside humans and then turning them into weapons, other villagers were known to have there little demons running around, but no one knew for sure they were just rumors, rumors that every one took seriously and had there eyes peeled just in case they turned out to be real.

"We do not, he was an accident"

"Fair enough, but which demon is it?"

"You know enough already, don't make me kill you"

Zabusa smirked and looked at his arms, they were still useless and would probably be like that for some time, but despite that he knew that kakashi was far worse than him his chakra levels were low almost depleted if the two were to fight right now it would be on equal grounds. That how ever was not an option kakashi still had used of his hands and that would give him an advantage so he decided to leave it at that and leave, after all with gato betraying him and haku leaving him he had no reason to stay here.

"He, I guess I will take my leave"

"Next time we meet"

"If there is a next time kakashi, if there is a next time"

Shabusa smirked and banished right before the sharingan user is eyes, kakashi looked back at the room and wondered what his next move was, sasuke had no idea what had happened but by now sakura would have already informed him of what had happened so there was no point in trying to hide any thing from the last uchiha. Then there was naruto and what had happened at the bridge, how he had used the demon is powers and despite being able to control it there was a definite danger in him being able to wield such power, it would be to much to hope that he could just summon it and be able to master it as if it were any other technique but that kind of power was far to dangerous to use or to be wielded by any one. He knew that he only had one option in dealing with what had happened; unfortunately he didn't known what it would mean for his student.

The hokage would try to protect him but the council would not have any of that, Sarutobi had only managed to protect naruto because there were no outwards sings of the demon is influence on the boy, the only thing that showed were whiskers marks and that was about it; other than that he was just a normal weak kid. Now how ever that kid had channeled the power of the nine tailed demon and the things he had witness in that bridge, they had to be reported he couldn't place the village in danger not when the seal had given away even if it were just for a couple of minutes.

"Kakashi sensei is every thing all right?"

The man shock his head and walked back inside into the shed, sakura looked at the man as he walked towards the far off corner of the shed, something was not right but she knew that this was not the time to question it, taking a deep breath she looked up at the night sky and closed his eyes.

"Naruto"

She whispered and wondered what had happened to the blond, sure he always annoyed the heck out of her but he was her friend and team mate, she had a right to be concern.

(((((((((((((((HAKU & NARUTO)))))))))))))))

The girl had already set up a nice little camp site for herself and naruto, she had enough fire wood to last the night and she had hunted some rabbits just in case naruto woke up and was hungry, what worried her the most was the fact that the blond seem to be dead to the world. Sure she had seen chakra exhaustion on many ninja but naruto was the first one who showed no sings of the usual symptoms associated with chakra exhaustion, if any thing he seems to just be resting, just sleeping as if nothing had happened as if he had never been injured at all.

"You ok?"

She snapped out of her daze and focused at the blond who was smiling at her as if nothing had happened. standing up naruto looked at her and saw her startled expression on her face, he knew what she was feeling right now a lot of people were amazed at how quickly he healed and bounced back from injuries as if they had never happened.

"H-how?!"

"My chakra replenishes itself as fast as my body heals itself"

Haku nodded and frowned at the same time, the blond was full of surprised she had originally thought that his healings abilities were due to the strange chakra, but it seem that it was not as simple as that. But now with what he had told her she was beginning to get an idea on how he worked, his healing takes a lot of chakra out of him so his body is force to produce twice the amount of chakra it would normally use to compensate the drain his healings causes his body. Naruto smiled at her and looked around the small campsite, this would not do, he needed new clothes and he wanted a bath badly.

"Haku"

No answer the girl was still deep in thought, he shakes his head; the girl was still pondering what he had told her. he knew that it would be natural for her to wonder about his abilities but she was taking it too seriously, it had to be her natural response after all she was trained to figure out an opponent is abilities, to figure them out and then find a weakness in them.

"Haku?"

No response and this time he decided to just forget about her and do what he was going to do, pulling on the small hanging whistle on his left shoulder he breaks it an out pops a small capsule. He knew that by doing this he would be revealing quite a great deal to the girl but there was just something about her that made him want to trust her so he pushed the button on the top of the capsule and throws it a couple of feet away.

POOF

"AH!"

Haku had been deep in thought, trying to figure out some one is a hard process and yet she had figured out more difficult things in her travels, so finding out how the boy worked should be easy enough. All she had to do was concentrate and she should be able to do it by morning, she how ever never got to finish her deep thoughts thanks to a mysterious appearance of a house, a big house. Her eyes wide and mouth hanging open she looks towards naruto and sees him standing up as if nothing is wrong, then he simply walks towards the house opens the door and walks inside.

"Are you coming inside or what?"

His head pops up from inside the house and she just looks at him as if he is crazy, her mind tries to come up with something but there is no logic, there is no explanation on how a house just pops out of no were. Naruto frowned when she does not respond to his calls and simply walks right up to her, grabs her hand and leads her inside.

"W-w-what….what happened!?"

"Huh?...oh you mean the house? Don't worry about it; I brought it with me from another place"

"B-BUT"

IF figuring out the blond was difficult before it had just gotten a hundred times worse, what ever he had done he had done it so fast that she had not even been aware of how it happened, then again she was deep in thought so she had to have missed him doing what ever it was that he did. Shaking her head she wonders if she isn't going insane.

"It's called a capsule corp. house; it comes out of this small capsule……."

He sounded crazy and by the look the girl was giving him he knew that he might look like one right now, so taking a deep breath he looks around the house and smiles at the old place, it was amazing how just being home could change your mood from grouchy, tired and over all feeling like crap to just feeling content all around. It was a small house probably the smallest model the capsule corp. corporation did but it was enough, three bedrooms 2 baths one kitchen that was about it, he turned towards haku and saw that she still was standing in the entry hall way, helping her out of her slippers and guiding her inside he gave her the grand tour.

First off it was the small living room which broke off into three different hall ways, one leading to the kitchen and the other two leading towards the bedrooms he smiled when he saw her trying to sit down on the couch near the entrance, it seem that haku was still in a daze as to how a house could appear from out of no were.

"This is incredible"

"What's incredible is that we have light, running water and all the comforts of home"

"B-but how is that even possible?"

Her mind was still trying to catch up to this new information, the whole thing seem to be impossible and yet here she was in a house that had come from just a small little capsule, she looked towards the blond and saw him take a deep breath.

"Look I know it seems unreal but….if you were to know the whole truth"

"W-what truth?"

She couldn't take much more of this, what ever naruto was or had witness was beyond her understanding, and yet she couldn't help but want to know.

"The truth about humans far more powerful than any thing you have ever seen, about beings from other planets who can destroy worlds with a wave of there hand"

"W-what are you saying? How is that possible? Is that even possible?!"

He nodded his head and haku knew that he was not lying, every thing he had told her was true she could see the truth behind his eyes and despite herself she could hear the sincerity in his words, there was no deceptions here there was only truth, as impossible as it sounded naruto was telling the truth.

"They are from another world haku; they are the ones who trained me"

"I….I see"

Now she knew why he was so strong, why despite every thing they had done he had won and they had lost, who ever these people were they had trained naruto, they had taught him every thing he knew, it was amazing to her how some one with such power had so much restraints in using them.

"You're wondering why I didn't turn my back against konoha."

"No, I know you're a good person and that you would never do such a thing despite the way you were mistreated"

"Well I'm glad you think so, so if there is any thing else what say you we take a shower?"

"WHAT!?"

Despite herself, she felt her whole body shiver and her face immediately blushed, naruto looked at her and frowned, but unfortunately, for him he had no time to figure out what was her problem when she began to remove her clothing. His eyes popped out of his sockets and he immediately turned around.

"W-WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?"

Haku raised an eye brow at the blond and frowned when she noticed he had turned around, he had asked her to take a shower so why was he acting so weird? Wasn't this what he had wanted?

"You wanted to take a shower?"

"YES BUT….WAIT WAIT, oh man you got his all wrong!"

"What did I do wrong?"

Naruto closed his eyes and turned around towards her, he couldn't do this facing away from her he had to do it face to face, even if his eyes were closed after all he didn't want to see any thing more than that milky white shoulder that send all kinds of weird and exiting feelings trough his body.

"I mean for you to take a shower in your own room and me on my own room"

"Oh….."

"What oh?"

She seem to be confused and some what perplexed at his words venturing a look he opened one eye and saw her pulling her clothes back on, this was a good thing what was not a good thing was the look of confusion and hurt on her face, which in turned made him groan in annoyance, he had no idea what he had done wrong. Experience had taught him that being nice and polite to women was the way to go and that if he did any thing perverted or things that would be considered perverted then there would be pain involved a lot of pain.

"W-what's wrong? What I do?"

"I don't know, it's different with you"

"Different?"

"W-with zabusa…….I-it was"

She looked away and naruto could see the shade of red in her face, he took a deep breath and walked towards her, despite him having no idea what she was talking about he knew when some one was distressed. He embraced haku and provided comfort to her, he knew that words would probably make things worse since he had no idea what to say, or had any idea what was wrong he hoped that a simple hug would do.

(((((((Team 7)))))))

Kakashi looked at the bridge and frowned, even though the moon light did not illuminate the whole area as the sun is rays would he could still see the sings of battle, the blood splattered every were and the villagers all cleaning the bodies from it. What he did noticed how ever was that every one seem to be silent about a certain blond, no one spoke of him; it seem that naruto was long gone when they had arrived but if that were true then why lie to him? He was a ninja he knew how to detect lies and these people were all liars.

"Sensei, I checked the bodies no dark haired girl and no blond hair boy"

"I suspected as much, there is nothing we can do about it, not until morning"

"So you think they are still alive?"

"Yes they are and for naruto is sake I hope he comes back before we head out to konoha"

The young uchiha looked at his sensei and frowned, what ever had happened on the bridge had unsettle the man, the same could be said about sakura who kept babbling about how the dark hair girl had a friend who leaked a horrible chakra, what ever had happened, had scared them. Sakura is description was vague at best; all she would say was how some one had leaked a red chakra that was vile and horrible, that no human could have that kind of chakra. When he had asked kakashi he had simply told him to not ask and to keep his eyes open in case there blond teammate returned, sasuke knew that all of this was due to naruto and he wouldn't stop until he found out what had happened and why kakashi seem to be so concern about naruto and his whereabouts.

Sakura looked at kakashi and sasuke with a frown, by look on sasuke is face it was clear that kakashi had no answer all of the boy is questions; it seem that not even sasuke was told what had happened on the bridge, what ever it was that had happened kakashi was remaining quiet and not telling them any thing. However, sakura was not stupid, she had seen the way kakashi had avoided her gaze whenever she had asked him about naruto, she had seen how he looked around as if on guard as if waiting for something to happened, whatever had happened or whatever kakashi knew it was clear that naruto was in the middle of it.

There was too much evidence that pointed in the direction of the blond, and she was determined to find out what exactly had happened to him, she had been to far from the action to actually see what was going on and the damn mist had been too thick for her to see any thing but shadows moving around. Taking a deep breath she walks towards the edge of the bridge and looks at the water below, there was something troubling kakashi and naruto was responsible. The warnings that her teacher had given her seem to be based on something he knew about naruto, yet despite this, she could not bring herself to think of naruto as a betrayer, as some one that could hurt them.

"What's wrong?"

"I-inari w-what are you still doing here?"

The boy smiled and pointed at were his grandfather was along side the workers of the bridge, it seem that despite every thing that had happened tazuna couldn't wait to get back to building that bridge of his, now with more workers seeing as how the was no more danger lurking around.

"Grandpa is exited to have all the workers back, so he is going over what needs to be done tomorrow"

"I see, now that there is no more gato they are free to finish this bridge with out them having to have to worry about there lives"

"Yeap, so how are you?"

She looked at inari and was touched by the concern behind his eyes, it seem that naruto was not the only one who had made an impact on the boy, she smiled at the small blush on the kid and wished that sasuke would look at her like that.

"I'm okay just worried about naruto"

"You are?"

She looked at his expression and frowned, was it that hard to believe that she cared about naruto? Sure she might be some what violent towards him but, she frowned and realized that despite her feelings of friendship that she had for naruto she realized that she didn't show it to the outside world, inside the actually enjoyed the blond is company and yet in the outside all she showed towards him was hostility. Taking a deep breath, she smiled at the boy.

"I guess I haven't been too much of a friend towards him have I?"

"Don't worry; you can make it up to him when you see him"

"You think I will see him again?"

"Of course you will"

He smiled at her and rushed away from the her, all the while laughing his head off, something told sakura that the kid knew a lot more than what he was telling them. Turning her gaze towards kakashi and sasuke she could see the worried look on there faces and frowned, what ever naruto had done, what ever the reason he had for running away she knew that he would never abandon them or betray them. She could not explain how she knew this, she only knew that if there was one thing she could count on it was naruto.

(((((NARUTO & HAKU)))))

After the whole misunderstanding he had finally been able to take a shower and change into a new pair of clothes, walking out of the bathroom he could see that haku was finally beginning to come out of her shock and had already establish herself in the house. After a somewhat awkward conversation he had finally understood why haku had tried to undress before him, why she misunderstood him, it seems that she was more than just a weapon to zabusa. After hearing that he could understand why the man meant so much to the girl, but he had also come to the realization that if he ever-meet zabusa again he was going to kill him. He had treated her as nothing more than a tool and that he could not forgive, not after what he had taken away from her.

"Haku?"

She was sitting down on one of the three couches in the living room the girl smiled shyly at him and motions him to sit down, he smiled and declined, he needed to clear things up with the hokage as soon as possible.

"Sorry haku but I have to go and visit old man hokage"

"W-what"

She knew that he was fast but he had just recovered from a serious injury, besides that his chakra was lower than what it should be, there was no way he could make it all the way to the village.

"Don't worry I'll be back before you know it"

"How is that even possible?"

He smiled and placed two fingers to his forehead.

"I will be back in an hour"

With that said he vanished and haku was left gaping at the place were naruto had stood, she had seen him vanish before but there was no way that he could cover such distances with that technique right? As she was left wondering in the capsule corp. house naruto materialized right before the hokage is very eyes, the man had been doing another all night in his office when all of a sudden the blond demon container appeared before his eyes.

"N-naruto? How?"

"We need to talk"

CONTINUED