Child of Hate

by Foy the Snooze Button

The Kingdom Hidden in the Skies. It was a dream Naruto and his sister, Naruko, had together as they cowered in their cage in Hidden Sound; to have revenge on the father and the world that had thrown them to the snake. She was killed. He was what they made him to be. His dream was global domination, for him and his sister. Dark!Naruto Ruler!Naruto god-like!Naruto

7. Chapter 7

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CHAPTER 7

Spring hasn't changed much, Kakashi noted as he waltzed through the capital gates quickly. His dull one eye looked around from under his dog ANBU mask, he signed over his shoulder to his team of four jogging behind him.

"Go and gather information. Meet me back here in thirty minutes."

They saluted and disappeared in different directions to ask the citizens of the country the detail of the invasion from their perspective and compare it with that of their captain when they met so that would at least understand what sort of threat they were up against. As the sharingan holder looked around he didn't notice any major change in the capital to signify that it was overrun besides the large flag that waved at the top of the Spring daimyos palace under the country's flag. The flag had a deep red background with the kanji for Sky written in golden strokes. There were also scuff marks on the ground from obvious struggle and as he came closer to the palace he saw that there were blacksmiths mending the hinges of the great door, even if it didn't seem like it had been ripped off its hinges but rather they were checking and refortifying it.

The masked man entered the palace, ignoring the workers that ran about to reorganize their lives, and proceeded to the woman sitting on the throne. Koyuki had a sad frown etched onto her beautiful face and the actress closed her eyes at the memory of how easily her personal guards were dispatched. She opened them when she heard a polite cough.

"Greetings, Lady Koyuki. I am Dog of the Konoha ANBU, the Yondaime sent me here to see if your country still needs help fighting those 'Sukai Forces'"

"Just you?" she said with a raised eyebrow.

"Several squads of my comrades are stationed outside the country."

The woman sighed and slumped a little more into her throne. "Regardless of that, it is too late…they have already gone."

"Lady Koyuki, if I may," her fingers twitched on her armrest, telling him he was permitted to speak. "Can I know more about this Sukai Forces so that we can better know how to defeat them."

The actress was silent for a few long moments, staring at the dog masked man with gradually widening eyes. "They cannot be defeated; the sole reason my messenger even reached Konoha is because their king was merciful enough to allow it…" her eyes dulled at the memory of the almighty king of the army of monsters. "Their king…he was able to crush the heads of three of my guards with nothing but the air and without a serious thought." she pointed at her neck, where a thin red line circled around it like a necklace. "He did this to me…without even coming near me."

"Lady Koyuki, this all does not mean he cannot be killed; he is still human."

"No he is not. None of the Sukai soldiers are human and I believe the civilians are not human as well."

"I'm sorry ma'am but we still need information. Can you tell us what you know about the Sukai king?" the man and his forces didn't loot the kingdom or usurp the daimyo and take control, then it was less and invasion and more of attacking a country because they felt like it. Making it more or less a hobby.

The woman wilted into her seat and rubbed her still sore neck. "He said his name is Naruto-"

The man's eye became alarmed and he burst out. "Naruto?!"

Koyuki looked at the Hatake with squinted eyes, the rubbing motion on her neck slowed to a stop. "Are you familiar with that name?"

"Describe him, please."

"…He had red hair and pale skin. It was like he did not know how to express himself because I could see he wanted to smile or grin more but he didn't know how to; I know this because I'm an actress." She then snapped her fingers. "The security cameras inside the palace were still working after he left, I think he didn't know about them." she snapped her fingers and a white haired boy in his late teens wearing thick glasses and casual clothing ran up to his daimyo and presented a small handheld device with a flat screen that was just as big as both of his hands cupped together. The woman thanked the boy and tapped the screen twice, it lit up and she swiped across it once with her pointer finger and tapped again. She closed her eyes and gave the masked Konoha ninja the device.

It was a video recording from all four corners of the ceiling.

When the door opened up easily after all the materials used to block it had magically shifted aside dozens of soldiers in red shirts and black pants with golden under armour stomped in and stood by the walls. A woman in rainbow coloured hair then marched in a swivelled to her right, placed her hand over heart in sync with the other soldiers and tilted her head a little bit down, though the soldiers by the walls didn't do so but rather kept their eyes on the defiant Spring daimyo and her guards.

Then Naruto walked in and Kakashi's heart almost stopped in shock, he held back from stumbling away as he watched as each step the boy took towards the woman rattled the building to its very core and the head of a guard exploded in a geyser of blood and brain matter. The actresses face turned a deep shade of grey as an invisible force grabbed hold of her neck. Naruto took his time walking to her, blowing up to more heads before the guards finally got a clue that he was the cause and prepared to attack but were swiftly killed by the guards lining the walls with various weapons to their heads.

The golden armoured soldiers dropped their hands; somehow Kakashi felt like these soldiers lining the walls were mostly ninjas.

The rejected son of the Yondaime Hokage stopped before the woman and gently placed his hand on her head, releasing her from his hold. There was no sound but the war veteran as well as star shinobi could feel chills run up and down his spine at the mildly amused face of the actress.

"He was telling me that he knew about my message to Konoha." the woman said from her throne, her face in her hands and shivering at the memory. "That he predicted I would send on but he wanted Konoha to get the message." She looked up to the Hatake, tears devoid in her eyes and her face eerily calm. "And I had a feeling that he could just as easily kill them with a snap of his fingers." The man silently listened as he kept watching the thought to be dead son of the Fourth. Naruto said something over his shoulder. "He knew I was about to stab him and he still didn't kill me."

The man's hands shook. This wasn't the little bundle of happiness he knew; this was a bitter, sadistic, evil shadow of the child he used to visit every once in a while. He heard from the Yondaime that the twins had been killed and he didn't question it but something in him told him that one of the twins had indeed died.

Naruko.

It was very obvious that Naruto treasured his sister.

"Can I have a copy of this video?"

"By all means." The woman said and the same white haired boy took the device.

Kakashi scratched his chin with a deep frown on his face. 'I need to report this to Minato-sensei.' He idly took the tape of the video and rushed out of the palace. He met up with his team, all of which wore grim expressions under their masks, and ran out of Spring.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The Sukai Forces Arena Alpha

The Military Barracks

The Sukai Kingdom

Indra Watashi drew the kubikiri from his back and placed it on his shoulder. Small drops of sweat grew on his head as he looked across the training ground, a red haired teen that stood with his hands to his side and a wistful smile on his face.

"Make sure you don't hold back, Indra." Naruto called to the platinum rank.

"I will try my best, my lord." The head of the Frontline soldiers said as he bent his right knee and held the handle of his sword with both of his hands though still keeping the massive blade on his right shoulder. Naruto though didn't move from his position.

Arena Alpha was a place where silver ranks were tested to see if they were ready to be promoted to gold ranks, so needless to say that the place was so fortified with reinforcement seals that there had to be a separate seal set in place to not destabilize the floating island kingdom. The other Promotion Arenas, Beta and Gamma, were less reinforced because bronze to silver and copper to bronze respectively because the abilities of the lower ranks were a bit less dangerous than the higher ranks.

The other division heads watched from the side-lines, on a row of seats set apart for them and the king of the kingdom to watch over the promotion exams, this time though their king was the one fighting, or rather 'having a quick eye and body check'.

Indra grit his teeth and ran to his king, moving so quickly he created a faint black blur of motion that raced towards Naruto, who still hadn't moved.

Barely a feet away from him Naruto's black with red ringed eyes pulsed and the world moved to a slow slur, the eagerly watching group of division heads slowed down with it until it all stopped. Naruto observed the man before him, bringing down the head cleaver to split his head open with a stoic expression and a rigid posture. The king pursed his lips and his eyes moved around, noticing that the dust in the air froze completely. He walked behind the man and his legs shot to the back of Indra's knees, forcing him to fall onto his knees but even still Naruto's quick eyes still saw everything in stillness, like he had mentally clicked reality's pause button. The rinnegan king then swung his foot and nailed the swordsman on the side of his head but instead of sending him into the wall the king continued the motion and brought down the division heads to meet the ground in a ground shaking thud.

Naruto stepped back and allowed his eyes to see things like any other person.

The division heads collectively blinked in shock when they saw that at one moment Indra was about to open up the head of their king and then the next their king stood over the body of the man in a flash of red light. It wasn't that his amplified rinnegan was able to slow down time but rather he was able to see at such a fast pace that it felt like time had stopped but rather it moved at a pace far slower than the crawl of a snail. The eyes also allowed him a limited ability to anticipate the next move of his opponent but that wasn't what he was using at the moment.

Naruto's lips twitched upwards when he saw his subordinate grunt as he got back to his feet. He took a few steps back and lifted both of his hands to Indra, motioning him to come at him again. "Come on."

"If you wanted a practise dummy then I would have gladly agreed to be that dummy, my king." Indra grunted sourly, his pride hurt that he had been taken out in the blink of an eye.

"I apologize, Indra, but that was the quick eye check, now for the body check." Naruto said and again beckoned his loyal till death subordinate to come.

"As you wish, my lord." He ran to Naruto and slashed the head cleaver to the side, tearing through the sky towards Naruto's left side. The king lifted his left forearm and blocked the blow, bright red and yellow sparks rained down after contact not because Naruto had quickly changed the composition of his arm from normal to a metal Asura path arm, like he did with his 'battle' against Mei Terumi, but rather used his unbreakable obsidian under armour along his arm and fingers to defend against the attack. He stepped back from a palm strike and then jammed his foot into the midsection of the swordsman, driving air out of the man's lungs. Naruto slid around the stunned platinum rank and again kicked the back of his knee though this time sweeping his feet from under him in a blur of motion and slamming the man into the ground with an axe kick to the neck.

Naruto stepped back and dusted down his shirt. "It seems I've still got it." he said before he walked closer to Indra and helped him back to his feet. The division head bowed his head in humility and Naruto smiled. "You did well."

"Thank you, sir."

"Go and get yourself fixed up; there is still a festival for you to celebrate." Indra nodded and allowed Karin to gently throw his arm over her shoulder and lead him to the medical bay in the arena.

The other division heads trooped to him and fell on one knee, with their right hands over their hearts. Mora, the head of hunter ninjas, asked their king. "What will you be doing next, my lord?"

Naruto hummed as he looked at them. "I will be going to the ground to perform a few personal missions." He made sure to emphasize 'personal'.

"You do not want a guard detail?" Mora asked, fighting the urge to raise his voice at his king.

The rinnegan king waved their concerns away. "The missions I want to go to are of the greatest importance and I have to do them by myself. That means I do not want a guard detail or any tail following me, am I understood?"

The division heads faltered nervously before they bowed their heads. "Yes, sir!"

"Good. I will be leaving in a few minutes but make sure my absence isn't noticed. If anyone asks for me then say that I am not around, simple as that."

"Yes, sir!"

"I'm sure you are all aware of the protocol if by any chance I am not present to lead."

"We are to all go about our functions until your return, my king." Hamato the head of Intelligence and Interrogation said in a low grunt, not very happy that his king did not want anyone going with him to the ground. It was not that they doubted their king did not know how to best defend himself, the battle had served to show them he was still fully capable, but rather the itch in them constantly wanted to make sure that their king was ok and in good health.

"You will all report back to me when I return."

"When will you return, sir?" Yu Akuso, head of Espionage and Infiltration, asked.

"In six days or so. Maybe sooner, maybe later; I'm not very sure. I will relay any change to my scheduled return to you, Hamato." The bald man nodded as Naruto's black with red ringed eyes flicked over to him. "Make sure my kingdom is still in one piece when I come back."

"We swear it on our lives, my king!" the division heads chorused, even Karin and Indra, who had returned after healing the latter. The red haired medic and the black haired swordsman dropped onto their right knees, like the other division heads, placed their hands over their hearts and made the oath with the others. "We will defend the Sukai Kingdom with our lives." As it was their sworn duty, they never really had to verbally profess this because it was a well-known fact.

Naruto clapped his hands and waved for them to leave as he began his steady walk to the entrance gate to the mighty floating kingdom. "Then I will see you all later."

He wasn't going to use the royal vehicle to take him down to the ground but rather fly down; he already had his things packed and sealed into a small segment on his wrist. There was no need to go back to his palace to get his things. His division heads escorted him to the entrance, clearing a path through the gaggle of excitedly murmuring citizens that saw their king in the flesh, a few of them even passed out. Naruto waved to them with a tiny smile and nodded back to the salute the gatekeepers sent him, each one of them standing in a rigid standing position by their post. The sixteen year old rinnegan holder shook his head when his driver made to enter the royal car, silently telling him that he wouldn't be taking the car.

He turned back to look at everyone; the division heads that stood at a row before him, the gatekeepers at attention by their post and the massive gathering of citizens to see their king. A true smile came to Naruto and he waved to them for the last time before his feet slowly left the ground and he descended down to the ground, much to the uproarious cheers of his people.

At the moment, the Sukai Kingdom was floating over the ocean much further away from Uzushio and Kumo but still within Lightning country. The king dropped down to the earth, ensure the solid black armour under his short sleeved red shirt and black pants was still in place before he ran headlong towards Konoha.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Day one, Six days left

09:30PM

Konoha Graveyard

Konohagakure no Sato

Fire country

The Death Reaper Seal. One of two existing seals that was able to seal away the strongest tailed beast on the planet, the Nine Tailed Fox.

No simple seal or vessel was capable of holding the nine tails for an extended period of time without it being destroyed and the backlash of the unsealing taking its toll on the surrounding environment.

The first considered seal was the Demonic Beast Fourteen Chain Shackle seal which conjured fourteen great binders that would hold down all nine tails of the fox as well as the arms, legs and neck for added measure. It was greatly effective in sealing away the fox as well as ensuring that the beast had no influence on the holder. Quite frankly it was the more trusted of the two existing seals that were able to hold the fox until the death of the holder, where it too would die. The down side was that it took exactly fourteen days to draw and shackle the beast inside a holder, which must be Uzumaki because the clan's chakra was proven effective in containing the beast. Each shackle took a whole day and the next shackle had to be fastened immediately after or else the beast would gain freedom. Barely anyone had enough chakra for three days of continuous use, much less fourteen days of use, beside the much acclaimed Uzumaki clan, but even with this great chakra buff the user of the seal, an Uzumaki, would die from strain after the fourteen shackles had been set in place.

Mito was the first person to use this to contain the fox within her after leading the fox away from the fight between Madara Uchiha and her husband, Hashirama Senju, who was also globally known to be the Shodaime Hokage as well as the strongest ninja that ever lived.

Kushina Uzumaki was the second person to have this seal used to contain the fox in her.

The sealer had to be awake and actively seal the beast for fourteen straight days but also the person the beast was being sealed into.

The world watched the effect of having the beast slowly removed and transferred into its second holder; a slow decline into madness before the inevitable death of the sealer.

Steady madness waited for the person that slowly removed the seal from within him or her, so what would happen if all fourteen shackles were destroyed as one and the tailed beast was savagely torn out of the jinchuriki?

Terrible insanity.

This was why Kushina, after fighting in the third shinobi war and going on numerous missions that would sooner break the mind of any other person, a strong Kunoichi in her own right, lost her mind after her beast had been taken from her.

The Death Reaper seal was not too innocent either; the seal could take a relatively short time to draw but in order to seal the beast into its next holder the sealer needed to summon the Shinigami, the death god, to do it. Minato didn't have the chakra to use the fourteen shackles and Kushina was much too insane to lend a hand so he had no other option but to summon the death god to separate the Kyuubi's chakra and her soul and seal them into Naruto and Naruko respectively.

Before the god could stab his hand through Minato's back to complete the deed the Yondaime was pushed aside by the Sandaime.

No one was aware but the Shinigami desired to consume the Namikaze's soul very much; the blonde man had created two high S rank abilities, one of which pushed through the realms of mortals into the one of heavenly deities. The Flying Thunder god seal. A seal, or jutsu, that allowed Minato to travel from one point to another faster than lightning and as many times or as many places as he wanted. This was one of the main reason Minato was such a feared man over the continent; his ability to seamlessly be in many places at once, adding his taijutsu as well as general jutsu abilities and the Yondaime was the strongest and fastest living shinobi on the planet. Most even compared him to the likes of Madara and Hashirama.

The death god was all too happy when he was summoned to seal the Kyuubi into the man's twin children, but he was enraged when the older Hokage shoved his dinner out of the way to take his place. The Shinigami could not change the direction of his hand so he kept going, plunging through the soul of Hiruzen Sarutobi and sealing the Kyuubi into the twins.

As punishment for being denied the soul he so much desired to devour and instead being given a tired old soul the Shinigami swore to consume either of his childrens soul when they died unless he was sated with the soul of any one of the people that he yearned to eat.

Those that have cheated death numerous times.

This was why Minato didn't care much that Naruko had been killed; being eaten by the death god was more merciful than what he had in mind for his 'children' when they returned. Besides, if Konoha had plenty of people that defied death frequently then it was to his benefit.

Dark rinnegan eyes looked to the tomb stone of the Third Hokage.

Konoha had a long list of people that frequently defied death so much so that it annoyed the death god. But the rinnegan king needed to know who was possibly at the top of that list somehow; he couldn't summon the Shinigami to ask, the price was too high, but he did know someone that possibly knew each and every death defiant person in Konoha.

But before that…

Naruto turned his back to the grave of the Third Hokage to a wide area of land sparsely populated with trees and bushes. His black with red ringed eyes shone in the dark as he lifted his left hand, palm open and facing upwards, as his hands rose the ground trembled lightly, just about enough to alert the Konoha ninjas but he had that sorted out; he had a shadow clone also make the ground shake far behind him to the east gate of the village. As his hand became level with his hip and rising the ground cracked open, shaking up the trees and bushes around it, the crack increased as Naruto's hand lifted up to his diaphragm level. When he got to his chest a wide, dark purple dome peaked out from the ground. After this the shaking stopped abruptly but Naruto's hand kept rising, revealing a large, purple head of a creature with black with red ringed eyes and a fat, light purple nose. The head had no ears, seeing as a kind of light brown-red cloak-helmet covered its head, thick, light purple eyebrows that barely touched the massive nose of the beast.

Naruto hummed the rinnegan ability under his breathe. "Naraka path: Summoning jutsu: King of Hell."

It was like the world around him watched in horror as Naruto mentally commanded for the king of hell to open its mouth, revealing a frightening gaping maw. It had thick, sharp teeth under its upper lip but the bottom was bare, though there was only darkness inside it.

The rinnegan king was not in the least bit intimidated by the sight. The red head gingerly dropped his left hand but raised it again with his right up to his belly. A poof of smoke later revealed a clean white body bag about the size of a ten year old child.

He gently dropped the bag onto the ground as he knelt down on both knees, clenched his eyes shut tightly and took in three deep gulps of air before he opened his eyes again and unzipped the body bag. He couldn't suppress the tears from falling down from his eyes when he saw the face of his twin sister, her face set in a peaceful smile, the one she had on after her throat had been slit to put him at ease, but that had failed because her brother futilely thrashed against his captors. The sixteen year old boy sniffed and his shaking hands went down, gently tucking a strand of red hair over her ear. Naruto was now sobbing quietly, his tears splashing down on the immaculate face of his sister, barely resisting the urge to hug her body.

A few minutes of crying over her body the king pulled down the zip of the body bag, revealing that his sister was in an armless red dress with gold trimmings at the bottom, but not in obsidian under armour but rather bandages to hide the pain stacking stitches over her body. Orochimaru and Kabuto did indeed want to incinerate Naruko's body but not before they conducted a series of tests on her corpse; Naruto recovered her body from Kabuto's section of the lab, slashed up, ripped apart and devoid of blood. It had taken Naruto months to feed her his blood, because their godfather had said that they were the same blood type, as well as many months of sorrowfully stitching her body together. Only his division heads knew that he had been doing that but everyone in the kingdom knew that the king had a beloved sister that had been murdered by their dead slave master.

Naruto sniffed and rubbed the tears cascading down his face with the back of his hands. The eyes of the king of hell looked down on his master stoically, keeping its massive mouth open.

The boy gently picked up his dead sister, easing her out of the body bag, and steadily walked to the gaping king of hell. The king of the Sukai Kingdom knelt down as he got into the mouth of the king of hell and dropped his sister on her back. He stood back up and admired her glowing, peaceful face for a few moments before he walked backwards out of the mouth of the king of hell.

The king of hell closed its mouth and Naruto patiently waited before his patience was awarded when darkness gathered over the head of the king of hell. It was formless but with a pair of evil red eyes.

The king did not waver in place as he crossed his arms, meeting the glare of the king of the dead, the Shinigami. Five years ago Naruto had attempted had attempted to use the Outer path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, an ability of the Outer path of the rinnegan, to revive his sister but the Shinigami had barred his path and repeated his condition to the king before he could release hold of Naruko's soul. At that time Naruto did not know many people that the Shinigami would want to eat besides his father.

Summoning the King of Hell was an ability stemming from the Naraka path of Naruto's rinnegan. It allowed all that it swallowed to be healed and rejuvenated in both mind and body. It was a medic's wet dream. The rinnegan ability could heal but it could not resurrect, Naruto would have to tap into the Outer path to do that. Unlike when he was younger he intended to use the Outer path before healing his sister, this had inadvertently summoned the death god to inform him of the price for Naruko's soul. This time Naruto wanted to do it right. He wanted his sister to return back to the living with no pain and no trouble; he would heal her body of every and all abnormalities and diseases before placing her soul back inside.

The reason the Shinigami was now present was because it had sensed the mortal body of the one he had devoured, or imprisoned within himself.

"You can only have her soul back when I have the soul of one who frequently defies death." The god of death reminded Naruto, who remained unafraid. The sixteen year old boy narrowed his eyes up to the god and replied.

"I will have this soul ready for you soon."

The Shinigami hovered in the air silently, observing the rinnegan king. He then said, in a deep voice that would normally drive any other mortal to insanity. "I cannot reap your soul because of your rinnegan. You are very lucky…Naruto."

Naruto knew his eyes were special, even by normal standards, but to have the ability to repel the death gods touch? "You will give me my sister and I will find one of those that frequently defy death."

"You are one of them…just so you know…"

"And I am the only one you will never get."

The god grumbled sourly, like a pouting child. "Bring me the soul and your sister is yours, but if you don't then you will never see your sister again."

"…Fine…" the death god disappeared and the king of hell began healing the wounds of the girl inside its mouth, removing the stitches on her body and sealing up the skin, making it as good as new. Though the process of doing this for her whole body might take up to an hour since Naruto had commanded him to take his time to properly fix his sister, more than enough time for the king.

Naruto turned back to the grave of the Sandaime and his lips twitched up in glee. 'Soon I will have Naruko and your sacrifice will all be in vain.'

His black with red ringed rinnegan flashed in the night and there were dozens of chakra smoke burst around the head of the king of hell. The smoke cleared to reveal roughly fifteen hulking monkeys stationed around the head housing his sister's corpse. All of which had his brand of rinnegan eyes, he could see through each of them too. The animal path summoned animals all crouched onto the ground and hid their presence as their summoner ran out of the graveyard and into the hidden village.

It was ironic how the summoning animals of the dead Sandaime were in some way contributing to destroying the village they once loyally served.

The irony almost made Naruto chuckle out loud.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Three minutes later

The Hospital

Konohagakure no Sato

Fire country

Tsunade Senju yawned loudly and smacked her lips as she pushed her key into the door of her office and twisted, locking it.

Being the Head Doctor slash Medic of the Hospital was hard work; she was in charge of screening in medics, nurses and doctors, make her rounds to ensure everyone was working, check the hospital records for any discrepancies, take charge of patients that were afflicted with severe problems and sift through papers and papers of reports from her subordinates.

Today was particularly taxing on the Senju because Konohamaru, the late Sandaime's son, and Hanabi, the Hyuuga clan heads youngest child, had gotten into a vicious fight over some ridiculous playing card. There were many casualties in the children's wing because of this fight but thankfully no one had died. Sasuke had gotten a severe concussion from Minato junior after the latter bashed his head into the wall many times because the former had attempted another chidori on his turned back. Asuma and Gai had torn their calves during a spar. A few genin thought it was good idea to prank a teammate by pouring powdered ghost peppers into her pants. Lastly Kushina had stubbed her toe on a door as she entered Inoichi's office for a mental evaluation.

Needless to say Tsunade was beginning to regret agreeing to become the Head Medic.

Damn her guilty conscience.

With Kushina losing even more of her mind the mournful Senju found less of a reason to stay alive but more of a reason to atone for her ineffectiveness to save her family. The main reason she stayed in Konoha was to look after her niece, Kushina.

The medic sharply looked up when the lips flickered. "…Strange…" her lips quirked down but she shrugged it off. Tsunade slipped the key into her pocket and began her trek out of the hospital, already making bar hopping plans. The building was fairly silent, with just a few patients roaming around and in the company of her staff. Technically she wasn't supposed to leave until they were all asleep but the woman felt very tired and in the need of a break from all the noise.

She stopped outside of the hospital and sighed deeply.

"Katsu." The woman didn't even lift her hands to cut the genjutsu. The world around her wavered and thinned before she realized that she was on the empty roof of the hospital, looking ahead of her at a shadowy figure that stood with his back to her and looking at the Hokage's monument. "Using a C rank genjutsu on a jounin as experienced as I am. Quite frankly I'm insulted."

The person, she realized, had his arms crossed. He shifted slightly and spared a look over his shoulder before his eyes went back to the monument. She tried not to step back when she saw his eyes were black with red rings, a painful reminder of a child she once knew with purple and black rings. "And yet you still went along with it." his voice was breezy, she noticed, but not quite enough for her not to hear him. It was a calm night; the stars were blinking in the sky with the waning crescent moon.

"I wanted to see who had the balls to put an illusion over me."

"I see…" he hummed offhandedly.

"I'm gonna make this simple and straight forward. Who are you?"

"I am…" the person said and waved his right hand flippantly. "An old memory."

"What's that supposed to mean?" she said and crossed her powerful arms, ever ready to turn the figures head into a smear on the ground at a moment's notice. "Yes?"

The person didn't answer her question, but rather threw a question that very nearly unsettled her. "Is it true you enjoy lying, Tsunade?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. Now answer my quest-"

"A good poker face is the key to winning a game of cards…or so I hear…and burying the truth under several mountains of lies is a good way to hide the pain of loss and dread decaying your soul…is that not so?"

"Listen up, whoever you are, if you don't start making any sense right now I'm going to paint this roof red with your blood."

The person shook his head. "I came to ask a few innocent questions, after that I will leave you be." For now.

"I still don't know who you are."

"And you will not find out for now." He turned around and her whole body locked in place as his godly eyes levelled on her own. "First we need to go somewhere."

"What-" she ground as all bodily movements left her, forcing her to stand rigidly in place. Her eyes looked down to her immobile arms and legs before they flicked up to the shadowy figure, who was now facing her but there was still not enough light to illuminate his body.

"Take her and follow me." There was a large blast of chakra smoke behind her and she was summarily picked up by the back of her shirt by a sharp beak. A drill beaked bird that had the eyes of its summoner flapped its mighty wings three times before it flew into the air after its master, who was rocketing through the sky, throwing an illusion around that he was a shooting star.

No one saw him kidnap Tsunade or saw the chakra smoke because Naruto was using a much higher ranked genjutsu to both hide his presence as well as the drill beaked bird.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

"I will explain this as best and as nicely as I can." The figure began as he mentally ordered the bird to gently drop the Sannin onto her feet. The bird pulled its wings back to its body and shuffled back to hide in the shade of a tree. The woman saw that the figure had a little bit more form to show he was in a short sleeved shirt and black pants, though she wondered whether or not he was barefoot or in a pair of really thin sandals. The other thing she observed was the massive rise from the ground behind the speaker on his right. He held up a finger when Tsunade was about to begin yelling obscenities, her mouth clamped shut as if an invisible hand was placed over her lower face. "I would appreciate it if you kept quiet."

That was when the 'rise in the ground' shivered and a pair of black with red ringed eyes opened up close to the top, a large light purple nose flared under it and thick light purple eyebrows sprouted out from above the powerful eyes. If she had been placed on the other side of this…thing…then she might be able to see its face, as well as her captors, in the light cast by those still awake in the village, but all she could see in the dim light was the awe-inspiring eyes, the nose and eyebrows, and then the mouth opened and the Senju's eyes widened in horror as its mouth gaped impossibly wide, showing a darkness inside it that was so deep and so palpable it made her gulp.

Not that she would ever find out but on the other side of the King of Hell was another face, which was where Naruko's body was being healed. For now though Naruto commanded for another face to be created on the back of its head.

"If I ask you a question and you do not answer it with a hundred percent honesty then that would rip out your tongue and drag your soul to hell." This was to his advantage because he would instantly get the memories of the Sannin, which would add up to Orochimaru's memories making two Sannin memories.

The woman was now visibly shaking, more from how hollow the boys voice and also how terrifying it would be to be plunged into eternal darkness by this terrible beast.

"If you answer my questions with a question…your soul will go to hell."

She swallowed thickly and closed her eyes tightly.

"If you answer my question cryptically, or vaguely, then…your soul will go to hell."

Breathing suddenly became hard for the war veteran. She was trained by the Sandaime Hokage and had fought the likes of Hanzo the Salamander, but never in her life had she ever met a person as intimidating as this mysterious figure who had control of that nightmare inducing monster.

"If you make light of a question I asked…then your soul goes to hell. If you do not answer a question…your soul goes to hell." His own red ringed eyes at her from the King of Hell. "Do you understand?"

Tsunade summoned as much pride she had in her body and tilted her chin up. Naruto's eyes narrowed but eased up when she whispered. "…Yes…"

The teen was mildly surprised he didn't need to prove himself, but he regained composure and asked. "Who are the strongest shinobi currently in this village, Konoha? Name Five."

"Minato Namikaze, Shikaku Nara, Chouza Akimichi, Might Gai and Asuma Sarutobi."

"Who are the strongest retired shinobi in the village? Name five."

"The three council advisors to the Hokage, Kohoru, Hamura and Danzo, Mebuki Haruno and Fuu Gomen, she's a farmer." Retired ninjas were those that were lucky enough to see old age.

"Who among those five are the most scarred? Name three." Scars meant that they had been in many dangerous scuffles, especially for a retired ninja. It didn't have to be physical scars; it could also be psychological wounds.

"Mebuki Haruno, Danzo Shimura and Fuu Gomen."

"Who among those three have refused to come for a regular check-up? Name two." This showed stubbornness, meaning that they were unwilling to ask for medical help because they mostly preferred self-medicating (AN: Which is NOT safe. Don't do it.)

"Danzo Shimura and Fuu Gomen."

"Who is the oldest between them?"

"…Danzo…"

"How old is he?"

"73 years old."

"What rank would you give him based on his strength?"

"Jounin rank."

"Have you given him an unasked for scan and why?"

"Yes and because I wanted to know why a man as old as him would be in such good shape."

"Last question, in your opinion how desperate is Danzo to stay alive."

The woman shook. "He…I can sense different chakra in him, mostly around his arm and his eye, but he has seals there that try to suppress them. I don't know what they are specifically but with how secretive Danzo is it isn't good."

"Good." Now he had a target for one that frequently refused to die. "You see? It wasn't so hard now was it?" Tsunade's vision became hazy and she fell flat onto her face.

"Gungh!" Tsunade sputtered awake, her eyes wide in horror and staring at the blackness before her. Her quivering hands patted down her body, surprised to find that there was a blanket covering her body. She reached with her left hand to her side and clicked on her bedside lamp, sighing in relief when the light went on to illuminate her bedroom in her apartment. The door flew open and Shizune stood at the door holding a kunai so tightly her knuckles were white.

"I…I thought I heard a noise." The assistant said and stashed her kunai back into the pouch on her lower back. "Is something wrong, Lady Tsunade?"

The woman stared at Shizune for a few minutes, just grateful to be alive, before she shook her head with a gentle smile. "No, its fine. It was just a bad dream. Go back to bed."

Meanwhile back in the graveyard Naruto smirked a little in triumph. His eyes went to the massive head behind him, as well as the hidden animal path summons. 'Now I need to find out where Danzo lives so I can take him.'

He silently mused to himself for a minute before he snapped his fingers; he had two spies in Konoha. One of them was especially close to the old geezer. He tapped the back of his hand, making a red dot light up in the very centre of the back of his hand. He dragged the red dot towards his pinkie, and then tapped his right ear, where a white ear bud sat.

Naruto closed his eyes and ran through his memory for the name of the spy he wanted. It finally clicked and he finally spoke to the awaiting receiver. "Patch me over to…Sai."

Authors note

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