AN : Alright so here is the next chapter I hope you all like it, there are some pretty interesting things in it and a few references which I will be surprised if anyone gets.

As always I do not own Naruto, this was a disclaimer, I don't know whether I keep needing to do this but I do anyway as a lot of the other tings I read do a similar kind of thing.

So anyway I hope you all enjoy and leave comments/ reviews etc.

Now onto the next chapter.

(Last Time)

Furui had only take two steps to follow them when he paused for a moment, before turning around so that he was 'looking' in Naruto's direction with his sightless eyes. The old man seemingly thinking something over as he sightlessly assessed Naruto. His pause quickly got the other two Shinobi's attention and they too turned and stopped to wait for him, looking from the old man to Naruto but not saying a word.

Eventually a small smirk spread across Furui's face before he motioned for Naruto to come over to him, moving the hooded blonde in front of him and holding his shoulder when he did before turning to look back at the woman.

"Perhaps it would be a good idea for my new friend to join us; he has skills that may be able to help us get information."

While the man showed no other reaction then to frown slightly, Naruto saw Mei's visible eyebrow lift slightly as she looked him over a contemplative look on her face.

"Is he another member of the Dorima Clan? Because it is still early to get them involved yet, we haven't even started questioning him."

"No, he is not from the Dorima Clan. He is something different..."

Seeming to take a moment to examine him more closely or at least examine what she could see of with his hood up, Mei finally gave one more look to Furui before smiling and giving a nod.

"Very well, I'll show you where we are keeping him if you are sure."

As she turned away Furui leaned down slightly so he could whisper in Naruto's ear, making sure he wouldn't be overheard.

"Remember what I said about showing yourself to be useful, this is your chance."

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Chapter 7- The Outcasts

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(With Naruto)

Naruto made sure to stay close to Furui as they were led through the camp, his eyes constantly scanning his surroundings as he carefully made his way through the cramped corridors in between the camp's tents. He put effort into trying to avoid tripping on any of the guy lines that crisscrossed their path as they moved their way through the encampment. The camp seemed to be set up like an organised maze, with the majority of the tents being made to look exactly the same so it was impossible to know what was in which, as well as also making navigation difficult by removing anything that could be used as a reference point.

On top of that was the fact that there were armed ninja at every turn, watching their every move with several of the more cautious Shinobi lightly fingering their weapons as they kept an eye on the strangers in the camp. It was more than a little unnerving for Naruto, but every time he hesitated Furui was always there to give him a small nudge and a light squeeze on the shoulder before anyone noticed. Despite the fact it should have been impossible to find their way around the camp, Mei was leading them with a confident stride that showed she knew exactly where they were going.

After almost fifteen minutes of walking, they came to a stop outside of one of the tents; this one however unlike the other similar ones they had passed, had two grim looking Shinobi standing outside it acting as guards, which Naruto cynically thought to himself the only made the thing stand out more from the others around it. Naruto was fairly sure they had been led in several circles throughout the camp before they came to a stop in front of this tent, which was probably done to make sure they were lost, Naruto was after all a new and untested recruit.

The two guards outside the tent snapped to attention as Mei moved to stand in front of them, before the both of them walked away when she gave them slight a nod of the head. When the two were out of sight she turned back to Furui, only for her eyes to move down to look at Naruto, a gentle smile spreading across her face as she knelt down to his level and laid her hand gently on his shoulder.

"Ok sweetie, Furui says you will be able to help us convince the man inside this tent to answer our questions. So I want you to tell me what you will be doing?"She asked her voice kind, yet holding a note of firmness to it which revealed to Naruto that this was a woman who was used to giving orders and having them obeyed.

Naruto however upon hearing that frowned under his mask before shrugging the hand off of him. He knew it might come across as slightly petulant or childish, but at the same time he didn't travel all the way here to be treated like a child, he came here to grow stronger, which was something he wouldn't be able to do if he allowed people to talk down to him.

However instead of deliberately calling her out on it, Naruto stood silently and stared at her from under his hood with his baleful blue eyes. After a few minutes passed Mei's smile turned back into a smirk as she stood up, seeming to be satisfied with something, though Naruto wasn't sure exactly what it was.

Deciding he just wanted to get it over with so that he could rest and get himself settled into the Outcast Camp, Naruto spoke in a quiet voice that would be too low for any would-be eavesdroppers trying to listen in to hear. "What do you need to know?"

His question got a raised eyebrow, but the older woman seemed to take it in stride as she just gave him a casual shrug of the shoulders. "Anything that might be of use."

"Do you need him alive after you get the information?" Was Naruto's bland reply, a response which got a raised eyebrow from both Mei and her bodyguard, the two of them clearly quite surprised by such a young boy asking such a question.

"No, once we have the information he will be killed anyway…why?" Mei said carefully, her gaze once again on Naruto only this time it was more cautious and assessing.

Instead of answering Naruto gave a silent nod, motioning Mei to lead the way inside the tent. While still looking curious, Mei turned to the man with the eye patch who upon meeting her eyes pulled the flap of the tent back without a word and held it for them to walk through.

The first thing Naruto noticed when he walked into the tent was the fact it was almost completely empty, with nothing inside other than a man tied to a chair in the middle of the space, and a desk with blank paper covering it and a pen in the corner. Said man looked to have been on the wrong end of an earth Jutsu, his clothes were torn and covered in dirt. With the only clothing that wasn't damaged being the Mist Headband on that was on his head. The prisoner was also covered in a number of injuries, with a both of his eyes blackened and swollen shut and several of his yellow teeth missing.

However other than his sorry state, there was nothing much else about him that would make him stand out in a crowd. He had short brown hair and brown…eyes, he was neither muscled nor skinny. In fact looking at him everything about the man just seemed plain and bland.

Naruto stayed back in the shadows as the three adults moved to stand in front of the Mist-Nin, choosing to remain unseen for the moment as he instead just watched the proceedings. The moment the prisoner saw them the Mist-nin's battered face twisted into a sneer and he tried lean back and spit at Mei, only to fail and have it fall in a dribble down his chin.

"Fucking freaks, I'm not saying anything to you creatures. I'll die before I talk!" The man snarled out, his speech slightly garbled by his injuries but his words still quite understandable to everyone in the room. What wasn't understandable however was who he was speaking to, was he speaking to the bloodline users or the Outcasts?

Naruto didn't know if there could have been a better moment for him to make himself known, and smirked under his mask as he stepped forward to stand between Mei and Furui.

"That can be arranged…I'm hungry." As intimidating lines go it was probably a good one, or at least it would have if it did not come out of the mouth of a ten year old who was wearing a mask that looked more clownish than intimidating.

For all of three seconds after he moved forward to treveal himself there was silence, before it was broken by the Mist-nin suddenly bursting out into insane laughter as he looked a the short figure of Naruto.

"HAHAHA! Are you kidding me! You're getting a brat to interrogate me now? HAHAHA!" The man shouted, his strained and high pitched voice carrying slight, as he continued to guffaw, or at least as much as was possible while being tied to a chair.

Instead of answering the man and before anyone else could do anything, Naruto pulled out the knife he had got from Itachi and with a step forward and a single arm movement he used it to slash the Mist-nin's throat. There was a spray of blood from the cut, as instead of being a precise cut aimed at making a kill as clean as possible it he had instead just slashed the man, the blood that sprayed out of the man's now gaping neck covered Naruto, the blood hitting his mask and dripping down it. The ghastly sight certainly made Naruto's mask look more intimidating. But Naruto ignored the blood as it dripped down from his mask and soaked into his coat, instead he just wiped the blood off his knife and returned it to his sheath, acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had ever happened.

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(With Mei)

"Wait."

The only thing that stopped Mei or Ao from jumping forward when they saw the boy pull out his knife was Furui holding out his arm and telling them to wait.

Torture was a common practice in the Elemental Nations, a necessary evil. In fact before hearing that Furui had returned they had been beating the Mist-nin in an attempt to get him to talk, though with little success. Shinobi were conditioned after all to resist torture, which made breaking them and getting information very difficult, and any information they did get was always suspect as it could just be made up. This was why upon hearing of the return of Furui to the camp; Mei had put the interrogation on hold so that he could lend his assistance to the task.

Mei didn't like the idea of a child being involved with an interrogation, or war in general for that matter. The only reason she had agreed to allow him to come now was because she trusted Furui, and if the man claimed the boy had skills that could help them, then she was willing to give it a try. After all they were in the middle of a civil war with their home village, a war against the tyranny of the Mizukage Yagura and his targeting and purging of the Shinobi Bloodlines in the Land of Water.

But even if she did allow him to be here, she certainly didn't expect him to just kill the man, you couldn't get information from the dead after all.

Mei was one of a growing number of the Rebels who had no issues with the Lone-nin, or as she had learned they preferred to be called, the Outcasts. While she like many others held fear of what several of them could do, she understood that it would be hypocritical of her to hate them while fighting a war against a madman trying to kill them for having Bloodline Limits. It was an opinion a large proportion of the Rebels had, after all as the war stretched on and they continued to work more closely with the Outcasts, bonds of comradeship had begun to form, and the hypocrisy of their hate had begun to become clear to them.

Though honestly although she accepted them she was still somewhat unnerved by some of them, but even so Mei made the effort not to judge, something she knew more and more of her commanders and soldiers were also starting to do.

But even then not all of the Outcasts had originally been hated for what they could do, but because of their refusal to join the any of the Hidden villages. Many of the Rogue Clans that had originally been refused when the Hidden Villages were first formed had simple been misunderstood, most not knowing about the intricacies of their abilities at the time.

The people setting up villages had been looking for perfection, and anyone that seemed to be anything less than perfect were not welcome as they were thought of as dead weight.

Such as the Katame Clan, who had been rejected for the flaw of having bad eyesight up close? All it took as a special pair of glasses and they were no different than any other ninja that needed glasses, but the short sightedness of the Shinobi of old had blinded them to the potential of many such Clans.

By the time any of the Hidden Villages realised their mistake it was too late, and none of the Outcasts wanted anything to do with the people that had rejected them. Then there were the Clans and Shinobi that refused to join any village from the beginning, which just left a bad taste in many mouths.

Mei wasn't even sure if people remembered why they had originally started hating the Outcasts anymore. Which is why she had taken the time to get to know them as humans, learning about who they were and what they could do as she did so.

Unfortunately some people weren't too happy about this, which had forced her to set up strict rules to prevent some of her own people rebelling against her out of spite. She couldn't risk anyone from either side acting out against the other, so tried to keep them separated as much as possible. After the war was over when the need for soldiers and strict order was not as necessary, she could change the rules. But for now it was for the best to keep them separated, that way there would be no distractions caused by the more prejudiced members of the Rebellion.

Mei was well aware that as things were at the moment the Outcasts were the only thing keeping them going at this point in the war, they were simple too outnumbered and outgunned to fight Yagura without their help. This reliance on the Outcasts was part of the reason some of the more hot tempered members of the Rebellion were being so hostile, they way they saw it this was a Rebellion that should be fought and won by Mist Shinobi, and as such they were only tolerant of the Outcasts so long as they proved to be useful regularly. The others though were thankful for the help but due to the tension of the issue were not comfortable bringing it up. As it was their Rebellion had begun gaining more traction, as more and more Outcasts and rebel Mist Shinobi joined the cause.

Gritting her teeth and aiming a slight glare at the old man, Mei tried to ignore the voice in her head telling her to just push pass him. The only thing that stopping her being the respect he had earned though her patience was wearing thin.

"He just killed our prisoner before we could even get any information out of him." Mei said her anger rising as she glared at Furui, forgetting momentarily that the old man didn't actually have any eyes.

The response Mei wasn't expecting was for the old man to let a light chuckle escape lips at her words, even as he slowly and carefully placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. His tone warm as he spoke in response to her anger. "My dear I can tell you now that death is only the beginning when it comes this young man here."

Mei had no idea what that meant. However when she finally turned her attention back to the boy Mei felt her mind come to a stop, her eyes widening in shock as she saw what he was doing.

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(With Naruto)

Naruto would have liked to have given the man a quicker death, but he wasn't sure if he was strong enough to stab through his chest and into the heart. There was the brain, but if he hit the wrong spot it could also make it more painful, so instead he had gone with the only choice he was sure would work. A slash to the throat, he was sure it would be quick, but what he didn't know was that it would be so messy.

Naruto took no joy in slow deaths, even for enemies like he was sure this Mist-nin was. If they deserved a slow and painful death then he knew that You would take care of them when they came to him, his counterpart being much more sadistic than him, Naruto saw no reason to make it harder, of course that is only for the Souls that he devours, what happens to those that go to the actual Shinigami he really did not want to know.

He could hear Furui and the other two adults behind him talking, but Naruto didn't listen to them. He was putting all his focus on the dying man in front of him, making sure he was watching as the light left his eyes. No matter what the man had done in his life, Naruto felt it important that he at the very least acknowledged his passing…especially when he was the one that ended the man's life.

And then there it was, a Soul forming in front of him above the man's chests. It was smaller than he was expecting, and from what he could see more than half of it was covered in black spots. The black spots that he had come to realise meant corruption, of one's soul.

Slowly he put his hand out channeling chakra into it as he did so; reaching out Naruto grabbed the Soul and turned to the three reminding adults in the tent with him. He wanted Mei and the man with the eye patch to see what he was holding, and what he was going to do with it. The moment he saw both their eyes widen in shock and confusion as they saw what was in his hand, Naruto opened his mouth wide and pushed the Soul into his gaping maw.

As he felt the Soul going down his throat and being absorbed by his body, he once again felt that rush of energy and the rapid flashing images that momentarily appeared in his head. He then closed his eyes and took a moment to concentrate, his body thrumming pleasantly with the added power he had just acquired.

Naruto and You had found that they were able to talk without Naruto needing to enter his mind, but neither was as used to it. It shouldn't have really been surprising that they could communicate like this, after all they were two personalities that shared the same soul and body.

Five minute of concentration later Naruto opened his eyes and without a word or glance at the others in the tent walked over to the table and started writing down everything he now knew, though he didn't write down the Jutsu. After all that information might be more useful later, so he would write them down in private. You had gotten the information to him quite easily, the boy taking time out of whatever it is he usually did to sort through the two months worth of memories they had just acquired from the Mist Shinobi, absorbing his thoughts, feelings etc. though You did take it upon himself to remove one or two of the more unpleasant memories and discard them, after all the memory of murdering a baby was not something anyone should see.

"What was that?" Mei asked as Naruto turned away from the table where he had just written down what he had found out from the man.

"Just my Bloodline" Naruto replied calmly, his tone firm as he refused to say anymore than that.

"And just what is your Bloodline?" Ao the man with the eye patch inquired, his tone a lot more rattled that Mei's as he showed how clearly unnerved he was by Naruto's ability

"I have the ability to see people's memories." Naruto replied, deciding that using a half truth to explain away his particular skill set may be better than lying. Already he was regretting making such a show out of it. The thing he had told them was an aspect of his ability and so it was not a lie, however judging from the expressions on their faces they knew it was not the full truth.

It took another two hours before Naruto and Furui were allowed to leave, though Mei and the eye patched man still weren't happy to let them go. They both had wanted to know just what Naruto had done and how he was able to see the enemy Shinobi's memories, but neither the blonde nor Furui would answer anything but the basics and eventually they had no other choice but to let them leave.

They had the information they wanted, though Naruto was sure they would be checking it several times before they trusted him. If nothing else Naruto had proved he was useful for now, even if what he could do clearly made people…uncomfortable.

The eye patch man led them out of the camp this time, leaving them the moment they reached the edge and pointing them towards where the Outcast's had set up their camp.

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The first thing that Naruto noticed when they got closer to the Outcast Camp was just how…different, it looked to the Rebellion Camp. Where the Rebels had arranged everything perfectly military and uniform, the Outcasts Camp looked like a mixture of different camps that had been clumsily pushed together. Few tents looked the same, all different styles, sizes and shapes. But even the ones that did look the same weren't together; they were all spread out in a seemingly random pattern.

But the moment Furui led him into the actually camp itself; Naruto couldn't help but stare in amazement at the people walking around and between the tents. As they passed a dark purple tent Naruto saw a man sitting outside on the ground that seemed to have fallen asleep, the man had dark skin and coppery coloured hair.

Naruto saw two women and three children all dressed in animal skins with the head of said animals acting as hoods/masks with their green eyes glinting slightly in darkness as night crept in, the small family was all crouched around a roaring fire pit, with any exposed skin they had covered in white paint. All but one of them was wearing a wolf skin, with the exception being one of the women who was wearing what looked like a bear skin.

As Furui saw him glancing in their direction he explained that they were the Nabarah Clan, a clan of skin changers, who were able to use the skins of animals to turn into said animals. But not in the way of a Henge, they were able to physically wear the hide like a second skin. They were a Clan famed for their infiltration and assassination abilities, but who were feared for the macabre nature of their ability.

Carrying on through the Camp, Naruto also saw his travelling companion Kyojin standing outside a very large brown tent with a woman the blond could only assume was his wife and several other members of his Clan. Like Kyojin they all seemed to wear the bare minimum amount of clothing, and their bodies were covered in tribal tattoos. Though Naruto did notice that one of the men's tattoos was brown and another's tattoos were blue for some reason instead of red like Kyojin's.

As he continued on through the Outcast Camp he also saw several members of Shapu's clan as well, all who had their bows and arrows close by and at the ready.

They passed one tent that looked like it had been made into a blacksmith, with a furnace built outside that was being constantly fed to keep it hot. Naruto was a little surprised to see a group of ten men moving around it at a fast pass, yet not getting in any of the others way, to Naruto they looked to be moving in perfect synchronicity. However the most surprising thing about it though, was the fact that all the men couldn't have been taller than three foot at the most, with several of the men being even shorter than that.

He didn't even need to look Furui's way to get an explanation from the old man this time; a he explained that they were members of the Gungnir Clan, a Clan which produced masters of craftsmanship, with the weapons they produce being known as some of the finest in the land, beyond even weapons from the Land of Iron in terms of quality and strength. Unfortunately though their Clan was rejected entrance into the Hidden Cloud Village during the formation of the villages, apparently the fact that every member of the Clan always suffered from dwarfism was enough of a turn off for the Clan to be refused entrance.

Even while living in the Hidden Leaf Naruto had never seen so many different people in one place, and based on the way they were all interacting and greeting each other everyone got along just fine. Hardly anyone even turned to look in their direction as they passed other than to wave at Furui before going back to whatever it was they were doing before, barley even glancing at Naruto as he walked along besides Furui.

There was also an air of calmness that wasn't felt at the Rebel Camp, where their seemed to be a constant tension in the air, Naruto found that he liked the more chilled out atmosphere of the Outcast Camp than the more rigid atmosphere of the Rebel Camp.

"Hey! What took you so long?" A voice said suddenly interrupting Naruto from his thoughts.

Jumping slightly as he was brought out of his thoughts, Naruto turned to see Victor waving at him from a tent in front of them with his usual insane grin on his face. The tent itself actually made Naruto think of his friend in that it looked to have been patched together out of several different tents, and not all of them were the same colour.

However the thing that really caught Naruto's attention was the woman next to Victor and the…thing that stood next to her.

It had the basic shape of a man, though was twice the size of Kyojin in both height and width. It was wearing clothes that just like the tent they were stood in front of were patched together, only without sleeves, most likely because no one would make clothes for something that size. Its skin was a dull grey colour and had more scars then even Victor, and its head looked a little too small for the rest of its body. It was also bald, though that was mostly because its head looked like it was made of metal with the skin bolted to it in several places.

Its arms were also too long even though they were just as muscular as the rest of its body with a pair of giant bolts sticking out of its shoulders, and the way it stood made it looked to have the posture of a gorilla with its arms being used to walk more than its legs. Instead of hands the thing had blade like appendages grafted on to its limbs.

Overall it looked more like a zombie then Victor… as it looked like it had been made from several different bodies being sewn together. To Naruto who was probably not even five feet tall, the monstrous twelve almost thirteen foot abomination was absolutely terrifying.

The woman Naruto strangely enough was relieved to find looked more like Victor, including the scars and wiry grey hair that was sticking up in every direction while still falling to her shoulders. She looked older than Victor, probably in her mid-twenties, and just like his friend she wore a patchwork lab coat and she even had a similar looking shovel on her back just like his friend. However the thing that really stood out about the woman was her right hand, it looked to be made of metal and was several sizes too big compared to the rest of her body. Instead of fingers Naruto saw what looked like giant needles that could have been used as senbon, and he also noticed that there was ninja wire running up from each finger into her sleeve. Looking at it closely it looked like a more sophisticated version of Victor's weaponized bracers. Though also for some reason Naruto couldn't help but be reminded of a sewing machine as he looked at it.

As they got closer Victor came running up to Naruto, the woman following along behind him at a slower pace while the giant…thing stayed behind and stared off into space with a blank look on its face. When the two were standing in front of him Victor was practically bouncing in place as he pointed to the woman.

"This is my third cousin Gekai, on my dad's left big toes side…I think…something like that, or was it on my arm's mother's side…. Anyway Gekai this is the friend I was telling you about, you know the one that eats Souls, I still don't have a name for him though…"

Naruto ignored the pointed look Victor sent him with the last comment and took the hand Gekai offered him in a firm shake, thankful that it was her more normal left hand. Now that she was closer Naruto also notice that she lacked the slightly maniacal gleam that Victor had in his eyes, instead she looked more calculating only without any coldness.

"Nice to meet you, hope Victor isn't being too much trouble." The woman said her soft smoky voice at odds with her flamboyant appearance.

Naruto could only give her a blank expression that could even be seen through his mask, making Gekai give a quiet sigh before noticing that the giant was still by the tent. Turning around with a frown she shouted out in a slightly louder voice that probably only just carried over to the monstrous thing. "Hey Chunk get your arse over here!"

The moment Gekai spoke the now identified 'Chunk' started slowly moving towards them, each step making a loud thud and leaving an indent in the ground, the beast making strange groaning noises as it moved. It came to a stop right behind the grey haired woman, but didn't say anything. After a moment he opened his mouth but instead of speaking, a large glob of drool dripped out and fell right on top of Gekai's head.

"Chunk what the hell! I told you to stop doing that! This is the third time today and I am tired of washing my hair every few minutes!" The woman said her face screw up in irritation as she gave the beast a light punch to the thigh, which was incidentally the highest point the woman could reach on the beast.

Naruto blinked slightly in surprise at seeing what had just happened, before a look of understanding crossed his masked face.

'Well…that explained her hair.' Naruto thought in amusement.

Blinking as he watched the older woman start yelling at the giant Chunk, Naruto turned to Victor only to see him giggling behind his hands.

"What the hell is that thing?"

"Who Chunk? He's one of Gekai's 'Corpse Dolls' or as they are sometimes called 'Abominations', it's one of my Clan's unique Bloodline Jutsu. Basically you build a body out of spare parts, then use a fuck load of Lightening Chakra to give it a jumpstart. They aren't the smartest and it would be an insult to wood to say they were as dumb as it, but if you know what you're doing they are strong and come in handy."

Naruto wasn't sure what to think about that, though when he turned back to look at Gekai, only to see her still yelling at Chunk for drooling on her head he couldn't stop the sweat drop from running down the back of his head. Looking more closely Naruto used the ability he had decided to call his 'Death Sense', as he used it he could feel the Souls and life force of everything around him, looking at the hulking Chunk he could see that it contained life, but upon closer examination he could see nothing resembling a Soul contained within it. Blinking Naruto stop using his sensory ability and instead looked at the monstrosity before him in shock, he had never before seen a living being without a Soul, and he was glad as for someone like Naruto it was incredibly unnerving.

Eventually deciding to just ignore it for now, Naruto turned back to Furui who had been standing quietly for the last few minutes with a smile on his face, as he watched the ongoing shenanigans of the Outcasts new and old occasionally chuckling in amusement as he heard Gekai's smoky voice raised in annoyance as she shouted at the oblivious Chunk.

"So ermm… Furui where can I set up my tent? I have one stored in a sealing scroll so I just need to set it up and I'm good." Naruto said a slightly nervous note in his voice as he saw Furui turn to look at him; it wasn't Furui that made him nervous, no his nervousness was caused by the potential that he might be rejected.

The old man took a moment to think about it, before nodding to himself and walking off in a seemingly random direction, Naruto following along behind him.

"If I remember correctly, there is a space between Hodan and Clementine's tents in the northern section of the camp. I'm sure you will be able to get along just fine with both, though I should warn you Hodan is also known as Cannonball around here… and Clementine… well you'll see."

Not sure he understood but still willing to follow, Naruto gave a quick wave to Victor who would no doubt be staying with his Clansman, one of the few dozen left in existence or at least that was what Victor had said. With a quick shout of 'see you later' to Victor Naruto turned on his heel and ran to catch up with the surprisingly spry old blind man.

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As the night began to close in and the sky became darker and darker, Furui led Naruto to the other side of the camp where he would be living for the foreseeable future. The old man soon came to a stop just in front of two tents that had what looked like a decent sized gap between them. The tent of the right looked normal enough and was made from a plain brown material, though there were a number of dark stains on the fabric, the tent looked like it could hold at least five people with ease. There was also a foot wide pole stuck into the ground that reached high into the air, easily higher than any of the tents in the camp. It was a large contrast to the tent on the left, which looked to have been patched back together even more times than Gekai's tent had been.

Before Naruto could even think to comment on either however, Furui grabbed his shoulder in a tight grip and pulled him three steps to the right.

BANG!

This action was soon followed by a loud banging sound; the sound was soon followed by a fast moving something that came shooting out of the tent on the left at high speeds and right through the space where Naruto had previously been stood.

The blur carried on and cut through three other tents, much to the annoyance of the owners of said tents, before a member of the Okorimashita Clan, a great beast of a man with a bald head and brown tattoos move to stand in its way and used his own body to bring it to a stop. As the man took a step forward the brown tattoos on his body began to glow, this was soon followed by the earth around him lifting into the air and covering his body like a second skin. His earth 'armour' in place the man reached forward to stop the swiftly moving blur, catching it in his arms he was pushed back about a foot, but no more than that before the blur fell to the ground with a…groan.

Now that it had stopped moving Naruto could see that the blur had actually been a guy in his mid-teens, who was slowly pulling himself up a sheepish expression on his face as he started apologising to everyone around him.

The teen looked to be of around average height for his age, with a lean build that was normal for a Shinobi. He was dressed in a black jumpsuit that looked to have extra padding on the outside, with a pair of fingerless gloves that seemed to be attached to the jumpsuit. Naruto also noticed that the boy was wearing boots instead of Shinobi sandals, and that the boots the teen was wearing were huge and looked to be coated in metal. His strange ensemble was finished off by a metal helmet he wore on his head. There was also a pair of tinted goggles that covered his eyes, and the beginning of a beard on his lower face.

"That's Hodan, and like I said he is better known as Cannonball. He's not actually part of a Rogue Clan, but instead he is from a small village in Earth Country. From what I understand he was…asked, to leave after knocking down a few houses because of his ability, it got to the point that he had to make a run for the border before the Hidden Rock could take him."

Naruto listened to Furui as the old man talked his eyes on the now named Hodan as he watched the teen starting to help to fix the tents he had knocked over while continually apologizing over and over to anyone who would listen.

"What was that exactly, I've never heard of anything like that happening…?" Naruto asked his forehead scrunched in confusion as he tried to work out just what the boy's ability was, he had already seen the results of the 'cannonballs' ability now he just wanted to know what it actually was.

"And before meeting you, I had never heard of someone that could eat Souls. Things like this happen more often than people think, new Jutsu are created through trial and error or even accident. New Bloodlines can appear randomly, going unnoticed for years. Eventually most find their way to Outcast camps like this, the same way you yourself did. It's no secret that the Hidden Villages across the Elemental Nations have a habit of trying to collect people like that, many becoming breeding stock or worse."

Naruto wasn't sure what to think to this news, being the son of the Hokage. He knew there were parts of the job his father never talked to them about, but Naruto just couldn't even imagine his father ordering something like that. But then again, how many times had he heard Minato talking about needing to put the needs of the village above all else. It had become a saying he would use when trying to explain why he had done something.

Suddenly feeling very uncomfortable, Naruto turned back to the empty plot between the two tents and pulled out his sealing scroll. Furui said a quick goodbye before walking off, telling him that if he needed anything to come and ask before disappearing between the tents.

He had just finished organising everything ready to put the tent up when a voice to his right caught his attention.

"Not enough one, why must that old man keep sending brats in my direction. I mean first it was that rock head Hodan, and now it is some little kid wearing a clown mask." A voice said interrupting Naruto from what he had been about to do.

Turning around Naruto caught sight of the speaker, in front of him was a young blond hair girl that looked around Naruto's own age. The girl was a slim with shoulder length blonde hair and pink eyes, the most unnerving thing about the girl though was the look on her face as she spoke, it was the kind of look a predator would give her prey.

"Hey come on now don't be so harsh to the new kid." Hodan said as he approached a wary look on his face as he looked at the blonde girl. As the boy came closer more of his feature began to stick out, he had removed his helmet to show he had short brown hair that already looked as if it was beginning to thin. He also had brown eyes that at this moment were switching back and forth between looking at Naruto in concern and at the girl in slight fear.

"Did it look like I was talking to you boulder brain." The girl snapped as she turned to face Hogan, the smile on her face if anything getting bigger, which only seemed to unnerve the older boy more.

"Come on Clementine I wa…" The boy began to say as he backtracked slightly, looking around Naruto noticed that a small crowd of Outcasts were beginning to form to watch the entertainment. Before the boy could finish what he was about to say he was interrupted by the girl, who in a rapid blur of motion appeared right in front of Hogan a look of anger now on her face, with what had once been a pleasant smile turning into a malicious smirk.

Moving almost too fast for Naruto to see the blonde girl drove a fist into the older boy's gut, now in normal circumstances the idea of a little girl doing that to a boy twice her size would be laughable. Unfortunately for Hogan these were not normal circumstances as with slight choking sound the boy had the breath knocked out of him and collapsed onto the floor. The reaction this received from the crowd was one of amusement as they cheered the younger girl on, some part of Naruto thought that they might still be pissed off about their damaged tents.

"I've told you before, and I will tell you again boulder face. The name is Lady Clementine, the Inhuman Lady Clementine!" The girl said grandly as she bowed slightly to the crowd, gaining a few chuckles and cheers from the crowd as she did so.

"Sorry Lady Clementine." Hogan gasped out from where he lying on the floor in a fetal position.

"You are forgiven I suppose." The girl Clementine said before she turned back around to face Naruto, her pinks eyes gleaming slightly as they caught the light from one of the nearby fires. "So short, skinny and ugly who are you?"

Hearing that Naruto blinked slightly in confusion, getting to his feet so he faced the girl, Naruto pulled down his hood revealing his pale blond hair and the mask that concealed his face.

"Oh I see so you're not just ugly…" The girl said gesturing to his mask. Naruto gave a nod of his head whilst opening his mouth to confirm what she was about to say, only for him to be taken aback by what the girl said next. "You're so ugly you have to actually wear a mask to hide your hideousness from the world."

Blinking slightly as he heard that Naruto replied before fully thinking through what he was going to say. "You're kind of a bitch aren't you?"

BANG!

Naruto hit the floor gasping for breath as all the air was taken out of his lungs, the little blond haired girl having just landed a punch to his gut that knocked him to the ground. But his condition didn't last long as he felt the charka from the souls he had consumed burning in his veins, he could feel his adrenaline pumping as his system was flooded by chakra. His first thought when he felt this is that he had somehow done this unconsciously, but that thought was soon put to rest when he heard the soft voice of You in his head.

"Come on Naruto kick this bitches arse!"

Pushing himself to his feet Naruto was able to see the surprise on Clementine's face before he charged her, aiming to tackle her to the ground. Only to receive a boot in the face as the girl leapt back a step before kicking forward taking advantage of Naruto's uncoordinated attack. Once again Naruto hit the floor, but unlike last time though he didn't stay down long as he hit the ground in a roll and made his way back to his feet. Thrusting is arm out in the direction of Clementine as he did so.

What happened next truly surprised Naruto. A chain like construct made of pure chakra erupted from Naruto's hand, it was reminiscent of the Chakra Chains he had seen his sister and mother make; only his was made up of his unique grayish chakra. Naruto it appeared wasn't the only one taken aback by the chains appearance as Clementine to was shocked. So much so that she didn't even try to dodge as the chain came swinging at her, catching her in the mid section as it catapulted her a few metres back.

"Arghh! Dammit that hurts like a bitch!" Clementine shouted as she got back onto her feet, her pink eyes lock on Naruto as he too was on his feet now facing her. "You can make a weird chain thing, that's not fair."

As she said that she broke eye contact with the blonde opposite her and looked down at where the chain had struck her. The parts of her shirt that had been touched by the grey chakra was gone, the edges of the fabric showing that it had rotted away. The flesh beneath though looked like it had also started rotting, as it had become dry and grey, the skin already falling off to show the decaying muscle beneath.

Instead of looking horrified or angry about it though Clementine let out a loud cackle of laughter. Looking down once more she could see one of the aspects of her bloodline were already at work, the flesh had begun to regenerate, the new flesh driving back the rot that had been caused by that chain like chakra construct. Looking up she could see the boy's eyes behind the mask, the sclera had turned black and the irises had turned crimson. What was more noticeable about them though was that they were widened in surprise, as though the boy had no idea how he had just done what he had done.

Jumping up and down slightly in excitement now that her previously festering wound had been healed, the blonde girl sent the masked boy a feral grin. "Finally a kid my own age that can fight back! So what's you name then kid? Or should I just keep calling you Ugly?"

As Naruto heard what Clementine had just said he had to blink in surprise, after what had just happened to her he thought that she would either be crying or raging, but instead she seemed happy. His surprise however only lasted until he heard what she called him, it seemed she recovered from that really painful looking and borderline life threatening wound very quickly. Looking up he looked her dead in the eye seeing the hidden glee contained within, he decided to say the first thing that came to mind. "My name is Pain bitch!"

AN : So yeah that is the name Naruto has chosen to go by, it was a bit of an off the cuff decision of his. But I thought it would be quite amusing if Pein of the Akatsuki met Pain of the Outcasts. They could have a Peainoff... haha, but anyway yeah I quite like it, I hope others do to.

So on to other things, there will be a time skip between this chapter and the next as I don't wan the story to drag its heels. One thing I find annoying about some stories is how they can have hundreds of thousands of words written and yet the story will have barely progressed. I know character development and setting out the world etc. is important, but so too is pacing. There is one story I have read recently which has over three hundred thousand words written and they have only just gotten passed the wave arc.

Also I hope you all like the last important OC in the story, I passed their character off of a character from a different anime, as I really liked that character and I thought with a bit of development it could fit seamlessly into the Naruto world. All of these OC's will be developed much more than most of the Konoha 12 ever were during canon.

Another thing to note is we saw a bit more of Naruto's abilities developing which is always interesting.

So anyway yeah, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I hope you drop a comment or a review.

See you all next time.

Seagate.