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Chapter 6

Secrets Kept and Secrets Told

Lei was not a happy man right now, in one day he was punched in the face, ignored when asked questions about his fellow members of the group, got into a fight with a dick head, and now being dragged at top speed by his younger brother…with his face on the ground. Yes the Kazama was just having one of those kind of days. Finally, Naruto stopped his mad dash allowing the poor mage to finally stand up, his face covered in dirt and scraps from being dragged. After a punch to the top of the blonde's head he wiped away the dirt and scraps off his face, "Damn it bro, think you could show a little bit more restraint?" The older brother asked, receiving a confused look from the younger one. ". . .right, of course you don't when it comes to that food." he groaned out as they walked into building . . .well one bouncing while the other was walking, Kyu was in her seal since she didn't want to draw to much attention while the little green fox was resting on the shoulders of Kitsune Yellow. "So this is a place huh?" Black asked as he looked at the sign of the ramen stand.

"YEP!! BEST RAMEN IN THE WORLD!!! ICHIRAKU!!!!" The former hyper active ninja shouted as he jumped into his customary stool. "OLD MAN!! GIVE ME TWO, NO, THREE BOWLS OF EVERYTHING!!!" Naruto screamed out 'Man oh man, I missed this place, no one serves ramen like Ichirkau!' he screamed into his head, annoying a certain fox. The two workers behind the bar stiffen and froze from whatever what they were doing. Only one customer was able to order that much, and only one customer was that loud. They turned around slowly, praying that this time it was who they thought it was. Ayame, the ramen girl, and old man Ichiraku gasped at the older, more mature looking young man that was once their number one customer. Naruto gave them is famous fox smiles, "What, it looks like you two seen a ghost or something." As those words left his mouth he found himself in a tight hug with the ramen girl, which force all air out of his lungs and broke all but two ribs. Needless to say. . . It was an all Ameri- rrrr I mean all Kohona 'missed you so much' glomp.

"IT REALLY IS YOU!" she screamed in his ear before letting go and get a good look at him, "Oh wow! You sure have grown, I bet you have a hard time keeping the girls off you." she said with a wink, all three of them enjoying a good laugh.

"Naruto, what have I told you a . . . bout . . ." the mage said and then slowly stopped as he met eye to eye to a certain brown haired woman, and started to blush. 'woman beautiful is me like think I' were the jumble thoughts of Lei as he looked at the girl, who was also sporting a blush. "Um I hey I'm pretty woman who are Lei? I mean I'm hey pretty Lei. . . I MEAN I'M LEI NICE TO MEET YOU!!" he stumble out as he turned redder and redder while the two other males laugh hard. 'I'm going to make sure to do something very evil to my brother' he thought to himself as he found a stool open next to Naruto and took his seat and order a bowl of beef ramen. The flushed woman, from the attempted hello from earlier, quickly nodded and went to get his order as his brother's massive order was placed in front of him and began to eat with manners that the two Ichirakus have never seen before. "So the ramen here is that good huh?" he asked as his brother slurped more of the food into his mouth.

Kitsune Yellow just nodded since he was chewing some food, he still had the bruises Kyuubi gave him from the last time he talked with his mouth full. After swallowing the last of the goodness that was ramen he turned to Lei, "Yep, you haven't lived till you tried Ichiraku's isn't that right old man?" The blonde stated and asked proudly.

Old man Ichiraku chuckled and gave his own nice guy pose that seemed to really become a trend to the Leaf village. "You bet it is!" he shouted out and soon joined Naruto into a belly laugh as a blushing Ayame came back with a beef ramen and placed it in front of an equally blushing mage. Looking over the Kazama the old man finally had to ask the question, "So Lei, what's you're relation to my number one customer?"

Shaking out of his thoughts, Lei smiled and patted his partner's back "Well I'm sure you've heard of the group, the Kitsune Mercs right?" After receiving nods from his reply he puffs up his chest proudly, "I am Kitsune Black, and Naruto here is Kitsune Yellow and we are two of the four that make up the group of the Kitsune Mercenaries!"

Both of the ramen workers gasped, it was these two that left that the fox on the Hokage Mountain. It was these two that created the Hell bridge incident, the first recorded action the two caused. All those reports and stories they heard from customers about the group and now here they were, in their stand, eating their ramen. Of course at this time, Lei finally took his first bite of the bowl. Everyone looked at him as he hung his head down, covering his eyes with the bangs of his hair. "It's….it's…" he lifted up his head, his eyes had stars in them and his mouth having a large smile on his face, "it's the best food I had ever eaten in my life!" he said with great glee as he quickly went back to eating the food of the gods, a stupid smile on his face and hearts surrounding him as he continue to eat. At this time, Carbuncle woke up with a little yawn and jumped onto head of Lei after uncurling from his neck, the site of the green fox making the eyes of the two cooks go wide at the sight.

Seeing how his brother was too busy enjoying his meal, Naruto filled the two in about the third member of their little group. From there the two fox brothers went on to tell more of their adventures from their point of view. The whole time Ayame was fixated on the mage while said mage was talking and sparing a few glances at the ramen girl and blush, and failed trying to hide it. "So then we sent the gang packing with a few well placed traps and then…"

"Uzumaki Naruto, Kitsune Black; the Hokage wishes to see you." An ANBU stated as he poofed into the little restaurant and just as quickly vanished, interrupting the story telling of the Naruto.

The two mercenaries sighed and paid for their meals; The blonde having eaten three of everything and the brunette eating three bowls. Course before they left the mage promise that they'll come back again, and then suggested to the waitress going out sometime as he blushed, which Ayame nodded in response sporting an equally colored blush.

The two brothers walked into the office of Tsunade, seeing nearly all of Naruto's old acquaintances. Both of the demon fox hybrids made no changes to their stern faces as the walked to the center of the room and awaited for the village leader to speak. "Our spies have found a large group of remaining Sound nins located in a canyon located on the other side of Rock." She stated as she pointed to the circled area on a map located on the wall. "It's about a three week journey-"

"One week actually." Naruto spoke up as he walked up to the map and pointed to a mountain range, "Hey Black, don't we have one of our checkpoints here?" He asked his fellow mercenary as the others in the room thought about what he said. The elder of the two walked up and looked at the area before nodding. "We could probably take a small group in and catch them off guard." He suggested as he moved his finger down the path to the circle.

"Yeah, there's no doubt Sound knew all of the Leaf's routes through here, and have no doubt shared it with anyone with a grudge against it." Lei said out loud as he looked over the map, "The area they're in…it's pretty close to….no, they couldn't have found it, could they?" he thought out loud, catching a lot of attention from everyone.

"Found what exactly?" the Hokage asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I won't know unless I see for myself and even if I did I wouldn't tell, it's very classified for only mages of certain levels to know about." The mage simply stated which irked two people in the room, while the only one of them accepted it. "So we'll need about an eight man team, so with my team that leave three slots to fill. Then we see what they're up to, kill them, then I'll look around to see if it is what I think it is there. Then we head back, easy as that." He simply put it as he leaned against a wall next to the map.

"Just 7 people?!! ARE YOU INSANE?!!" Sasuke shouted out..

"We're being generous here allowing you guys to bring three ninjas with us. Our team can do this blindfolded, both arms tied behind our backs, and on one foot." Naruto retorted back to the traitor, which surprised a lot of people on how quiet he said it. "Of course it'll be of my choosing, we have to make sure we keep our secrets safe." He finished as he leaned on the wall next to adoptive brother.

"Done." Tsunade stated and raised her hand to stop any argument on her decision, "Hand me your choices in tomorrow and be ready to go in the next day." With a nod both the ninja and mage of the Kitsune Mercs. left through the door. "You're all dismissed, come back here in two days know who will be going on this mission and then leave for it the next day." she stated with finality and looked out the window, ending the meeting.

Later in an unknown location

Danzo was not pleased at all with the situation he was in. All plans of having the container made into a weapon for his use had backfire, and now he was told from his spy that the mercenaries will be choosing the people to go themselves, and by going in a completely unknown path to Rock his men won't be able to follow them. 'Damn that man! That Black has been nothing but trouble since the container ran into him, and with no files or even a name I can't find anything useful to force him to do as I please!' The man mentally shouted as he looked at his spy. "You may leave now, report any new information you find, Sasuke."

In the Apartment of the Mercs later that night

Lei was tossing in his bed, his face showing pain as sweat covered his face; his body twisting and turning as his nightmare continued. With a gasp he sat up, his arms keep him up right as he pants hard from the terror and his eyes wide. He let out a sigh and buried is face in the palms of his hand, trying to collect his nerves. 'That damn memory' throwing off the sheets he made his way to the bathroom and hopped into the shower and let the cold water cascade down his back and soak his hair and cover his face as he leaned against a wall and hung his head. With another sigh he let his illusion down showing his foxy features, and the scars that covered his entire body. The scars were his only secret that no one, not even his brother, knew about. They were from the day they made the blow to the Akatsuki that ended their rein of terror, what everyone didn't know about was he was caught by them two days prior to the event. There he was tortured by all the males in the worse way possible which he told his adoptive brother about; but what he kept to himself…was what the lone female member had done it to him.

Flashback

Lei panted hard as he hang from the wall as his wounds slowly healed thanks to the seals the basterds put on him. He flinched when the light of the door opening hit his eyes and saw a shadowy figure enter the room. "You and your brother have caused us a lot of trouble lately." a feminine voice stated as the figure shut the steel door. Thinks to the cloak the mage couldn't see what the person's body looked like at all except for the long blue hair. "I let the guards off, so it's just you and me." The figure grinned as it pulled out a blade. "I haven't had a good lay in long time." the figure moved closer and took a painful hold of Lei's manhood. All that could be heard from the cell were screams and moans ones were of pleasure; the others were of pure pain.

Flashback end

He was raped for two hours and cut open again and again and again. The woman had a fetish of blood and she used those two hours to have her fetish fulfilled. The next day Naruto rescued him, when he heard the screams Lei focused as much mana as he could to hide most of the wounds that would show rape; his brother never knew what happen that day and he would make sure he never will. The reason why he gave the two those seals were not only to keep their noises down, but to keep them from hearing him screaming from his nightmares of that day and anytime he had those terrible nightmares of it. His brother lived his life in a living hell hole, he wasn't going to let him bother deal with his pain which is like a droplet of water to his ocean of pain. It was also the reason why he was still single; every time he got close to a woman…the nightmares got worse and he had flashbacks from the smallest similarities when he was around a woman he got close to.

He exist the bathroom and looked at the clock, the red light saying it was 12:30 am; he groaned and left his room, to see the seal on the door to his brother and his lovers room which meant they won't be out till noon the next day. Looking at one of the comfy chairs, Carbuncle was fast asleep with its soft snoring. With a sigh he went back into his room and put on his Kitsune Merc jacket and reapply his magic to cover the scars once again along with his fox features. Before leaving apartment and then the building he grabbed one of his special storage scrolls attuned to mana instead of chakra and then left for some much needed fresh air knowing it was going to be one of his longer nights.

The fox mage walked down the roads, which seemed to have very little civilians and more shinobi walking around; course it didn't bother him in the slightest. Looking from building to building the magic user was looking for an open bar. However nearly all the bars seem to close down early. "Great, when I'm in the mood for sake, not a single bar is open." he mumbled as he continue on his quest for alcohol, which lead him close to the Hokage tower where he found a sign reading 'Dragon's Breathe' with his nose he could smell the alcohol coming from the place. "Oh thank goodness." He said out loud and quickly made his way into the bar. Once inside Lei took a seat at the bar and order for a bottle of sake as he took out his storage scroll and opened it up and removed his favorite bowl of fruit, raspberries. When his bottle of sake came along with a saucer he popped one into his mouth and took a sip of sake, enjoying the mix of flavors hitting his taste buds. "Ah, that's the stuff." he spoke softly to himself as he repeated the process, being part demon had its perks and falls; all the taste of booze without getting drunk, until after 5 bottles, which would lead to the worse morning hangovers anyone can get.

"Funny, from the reports given about you it said you were more of a tea drinker; not a heavy drinker." a feminine voice said before the figure slipped onto the barstool next to the Lei. He turned his head a bit to see the leader of the village in the seat, he smiled softly before taking sip of the sake with a raspberry chaser.

"I can't get drunk that easily thanks to the side-effects from an experiment with demon blood, so I avoid it when I can or else I have to pay a large bill." He spoke softly before staring at the saucer looking as his reflection in the booze. "Alcohol. The drink for those who want to dull a pain, forget the past, or remember lost friend and/or loved ones. Either way you cut it's just a short term fix," he turned to Tsunade, "so why do you drink?"

Looking down into her own saucer of sake, her face was unreadable as she thought back to the two she lost all those years ago. "The last reason." she spoke softly before downing her drink before turning to the mage, "What about you?" she asked out of curiosity, from what she was able to make of with Lei from her short time around him; he seemed to be carefree and kind of an idiot like Naruto was. That's when it hit her 'He's wearing a mask like Naruto used to.' Indeed there was more to the mage than she first realized.

"The first and second reason." He answer with no emotion in his voice as he ate a raspberry without the sake. "So it seems my brother took my advice huh?" he let a small smile grace his lips as he saw the old woman nod with a smile on her face. "If there was one thing I taught him it was never let anger rule you. Sorry about earlier, we both have very little love for this place for what they did to him."

With a sigh the Hokage shook her head, "I can't really blame you for it, many of us have lost a lot of respect for our home since the banishment. Ugh, I still remember how many tried to quit that day when they heard what happen. Even the ones who hated Naruto were pissed off for the reasons the council banished him. They started to see him in a new light, the light he was meant to be seen in."

At this the mage went wide eyed and his mouth slightly open, "Talk about a mix blessing. You toss him out and soon he becomes a legend in the shinobi world, has a girl, and a family. And at the same time the village starts to change their view." They both shared a chuckle as they continue to drink their booze, enjoying each other company, and dulling their past pains.

Early next morning

Naruto let out a large yawn as he stretched out his arms, causing Kyuubi to snuggle further into his chest as she started to wake as well. It was odd for them to be awake around this time since there sex sessions usually left them so drained they ended waking up around noon. After their joint shower they walk into the main room to get to the kitchen to stop cold in their tracks and bugged eyed and slacked jawed. There were sake bottles everywhere on the table stand and some on the floor, all empty. Being careful not to knock any over they make their way to the couch where they see one that helped them the most, out cold and smelling of booze. What really caught their eyes were the increase amount of scar tissue on any shown skin. "Naruto, have you two been doing any sparing behind my back again?" Kyu asked her lover, remembering the last time the two had a sparing session they nearly killed each other. So after a beating from her they promised never to spare without her being there to make sure it never went too far. After all, she doesn't have any real medical skills except for Naruto.

"No we haven't. But even if we did, these scars look to be a few years old. . .like around the time when we took out the Akatsuki." Naruto said as he crossed his arms and began to think. "You don't think he's been hiding what they did to him do you?" He looked at her with worry in his eyes.

She shakes her head and frowns, "If he is, it's not our place to force it out of him. When he feels ready to tell us, he will. And we'll be there to help him through it." She leans against the love of her life and wraps her hands around his waist "After all, for all he's done for you, for us, I think we can let him get away with this secret." she finished by kissing his cheek.

He smiles down at her, "I guess you're right, come on, we have a team to start picking out." and with that the two left the sleeping mage and made their way to the Tower to discuses it with the Hokage. After all, they have been away for three years, and people can change during that amount of time.

Dream world of Lei

Lei grunted as he felt himself land hard on his back "Damn ow!" he shouted as he rubbed the back of his head. He looked around and saw he was in front of a half circle table. On the other side of the table were 13 shadows, in an instant he knew where he was since it was his fifth time here. The place where the spirits of the highest of the highest grade of mages rule and lead all the sects of mages they are called, "The Council 13 of 12. So, what do I owe the honor for this visit into my mind again? No wait, let me guess, it's the 'temples' right?"

"Correct Fool Arcane mage Lei, the temples are being disturbed. You know what will happen if the 5 chains should be severed, correct?" The furthest shadow to the left at table said in a boom male voice.

"Hai, if they should break. . . IT is freed and will destroy all life, right down to the cellular level. So I was right, but the question remains how some left over Sound ninjas found out about the temples. You said it yourselves that I am the last mage on the planet right now. So even if they did find them they wouldn't be able to sever the chains."

"They have the key." The center shadow said in a woman's voice, making the mage's eye go wide, "Yes, they found all 300 pieces and assembled the 'Key to the Garden'. What fools we were thinking we could hide It from the ninjas."

"Well just great, so my worst fear of the whole situation came to pass. . . Well I guess I should go and tell my team to forget selecting the team of ninja. But I will have to explain the situation to the Hokage. You know that right?" Lei stated as he turned to walk out from under the light that was on him. "Look like our foolish brothers' actions really came to bite me in the ass huh?" and with that he vanished from the 13 immortal mages.

"Are you sure it's wise to lay this all on their shoulders, they may not be ready to face. . .Eden." the eleventh shadow stated as he looked at his fellow councilmen.

"Do not worry, they will be ready to face our greatest folly. We must have faith in the mage and his family." the head shadow said quietly as the room faded back into oblivion. No sooner did they faded, Lei open up his eyes, picked up Carbuncle, and quickly left to find his brother.

In the Hokage tower

"So this is your selection?" Tsunade asked as she looked over the list Naruto made with a critical eye.

"Yes, I think they would be the best for this mission." The other blonde stated firmly. On there way to the Tower, Kyu suddenly told him to go on without him and she'll be there later. Trusting her fully he let her go.

"You're going to have to scratch the team bro, this one HAS to be done by us alone." A new voice stated, cause the two occupants in the room to turn to the window to see the mage sitting against an open window. "It's what I feared when I saw the map, and The Council 12 of 13 just confirmed it." He stated with a tone that was filled only with seriousness. Naruto nodded; he knew of the council, but nothing on what ever had his brother scared.

"Okay now I want some answers! WHAT the hell is it you feared and WHAT is this council?!!" A pissed of kage shouted as she bust her desk in frustration.

"I'll start with the council Tsunade," Lei stated firmly as he looked back out the window to view the village. "The Council 12 of 13 are 13 of the highest, greatest, and first arch mages of each Arcane."

"Arcane?" The Hokage asked in curiosity.

"Think of it as the element of chakra that the shinobi world uses. For us mages there are 13 Arcane instead of elements, each representing 13 of the 23 Arcane of the tarot card. They are Fool, Magician, Priestess, Empress and Emperor, Strength, Death, Devil, Justice, Tower, Sun, and Moon."

"But that's that only 12." The busty blonde stated.

"That's because the last one is rare. . . The World. Magic gets it power from these Arcane, each one with spells of there own. To find out the Arcane a mage excel at, we use the tarot cards and channel mana to our hand and draw a card from the pile and see which card it is. This is done five time. What you draw from those five draws determine which Arcane suits you best, I got four fools and the World card; which meant I can do the basic of all spells from the feature of the World Arcane, but strongest with non elemental spells."

"That doesn't explain about the World card."

"If a person draws a world card and starts drawing the other Arcane in order; they have to continue till they get all the Arcane and draw the World card again. . . This shows that the mage can use EVERY spell from EVERY Arcane; there has only been three mages to every be pure World Arcane. Now back to the council. As I said the Council 12 of 13 makes up each of the Arcane, they stay in a dimension that keeps them alive for all time, yet they can never leave. They are the leaders of all mages and see all that can happen or will if nothing done."

"So what exactly did they confirm?" Naruto asked this time, his head spinning from the explanation.

". . . Along time ago, a group of mages thought that ninjas shouldn't be their allies; thinking that mages were the better class. So they decided to do the impossible. . . A create a Guardian Force, the project was called Eden." the mage said quietly.

"WHAT?!!" Kitsune Yellow shouted as he stood up, "but you said that Guardian Forces can never be created!"

"And that is true, you can't create a GF. However, the group did mange to do just that. . . By using humans to be a base for it. And the it was a complete success and Eden was born. It is a GF stronger than all Guardian Force creatures out there; so powerful that it can't be control. Once they realized this, the mages quickly confess their mistake and after months of Eden's rampage, which was called "The Purifying" they finally managed to seal it into the earth by summoning the 5 most powerful chains to bind it and put it into a deep slumber, they called the area where it sleeps "Eden's Garden" for nothing but the most beautiful creatures and plants can grow there; how ironic."

"How come I never heard of this! How come NO ONE has heard of this!" Shouted Tsunade.

"The mages of that time thought it was best to wipe the memory of all non-mana users of 'The Purifying' to keep anyone from wanting to let it loose. The only way to know about it is to read it in a book written by mages, like mine. Now, in order to keep the creature asleep they built five temples, called the Temples of Binding, where each chain came out of the earth and place a spell on the chains to keep the beast from escaping. However, the chains can be broken with a special item that was spilt into 300 pieces; they renamed the item 'Key to the Garden'. I was told that someone had just assembled the pieces and have found the first temple."

"So, wait. . . You don't think that. . ." The Hokage started, which the mage nodded, "Oh dear Kami." she whispered out.

"There is some good news, the chains can only be broken in a certain order and can only be broken one for every three months." The mage stated as he got off the ledge.

"And how would we know when a chain as been severed?" Just as those worlds left her mouth, the earth shook and a powerful force struck everyone in the room that caused them to fall to their knees as they heard screams of terror coming from the villagers. Tsunade was scared out of her mind; Kyuubi's power was nothing compared what she was feeling right now. As soon as the earthquake and power came it left. Before the three to regain their balance, Kyu burst into the room and tackled Naruto to the ground and started to shiver and whimper into his chest in pure fright.

"Well. . . We have. . . Three months. . . Till they can break the next one." The mage breathed out as he wiped away the sweat off his brow.

"THEN GO!!" The Hokage shouted out "STOP THEM AT ALL COST!!!"

There you go, and next chapter is a crossover with another Fanfiction. How will Naruto deal with a Naruto who had a life he wanted, a living Fourth Hokage, and a Lei Kazama in one of his "Pranking periods"? And what's this, the Kyuubi of this Universe is that's Naruto's mother?!!