Okay folks sorry for the wait. Here's the new chapter that you've all been waiting for.

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Thought: Kyuubi

Speaking: Kyuubi

Radio/phone etc:Kyuubi

Jutsu/ Deity: Kyuubi

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"No!"

"Why!"

"Because I said so, that's why."

"But-!"

"No!"

"Please! I'll do whatever you want."

"Why are you so interested?"

"I don't know, I guess I just want to find out what happened here." This caused Naruto to release a sigh. Since Suzume had woken up, they had gotten to know one another a bit. He got to learn a few things about her, though for some reason she still didn't give her last name.

He didn't know why, but he really didn't care either. The reason for their current conversation however, was because Suzume wanted to explore the old Uzu ruins, though she didn't know where she was, and Naruto wasn't willing to allow her to do that.

It wasn't everyday you get to explore the place where practically your entire family was killed after all. Add in the fact that he had to train and, from the info he had gathered from his sensei, it wasn't safe to have anyone around when training.

So with these thoughts in mind, he made his decision on what he was going to do. "*sigh* Suzume, look there's something I need to tell you." said Naruto in a sad voice. Suzume, hearing the tone in his voice, immediately began to listen to what he had to say.

"What is it?" she asked, curious to know what could have caused him to become so sad. She watched as Naruto seemed to struggle with the words he was trying to say, something that he never did before, further proving that something was wrong.

Naruto fidgeted around for a bit before speaking. "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to leave." spoke Naruto. The effect was instantaneous as Suzume's facial expression turned from curious to extremely sad, almost on the brink of crying.

This was exactly what Naruto was hoping wouldn't happen. It wasn't that he didn't like having her around, it was just that he didn't want to accidentally hurt her while training, and he wasn't even sure what type of training he would be doing.

"W-what! W-why1 If it's because I want to explore the island and keep trying to sneak out, then I'll stop." she said in a desperate voice. She didn't know what she did, but she would try and fix it so that she could stay with her friend.

"*sigh* It isn't that, it's just that I can't have you around right now. You'll only distract me and I can't have that. Besides, I wouldn't be able to protect you if something happens." said Naruto, trying to calm the girl down.

This, however, just helped in angering Suzume. "What makes you think I need your protection? In case you haven't noticed, we're the only people here, so what would you have to protect me from?" asked Suzume in an angry tone.

"Myself." was Narutos' simple answer, causing Suzume's eyes to widen in shock. Why would Naruto have to protect her from himself. For the past few days she had gotten to know him better, and he didn't seem like he would hurt her.

This only caused for more questions to be asked and less answers to them. While she didn't know everything there was to know about Naruto, she knew enough for her to know that he wasn't violent.

So why would he have to protect her from him, unless his real reason was because he didn't want her around anymore and found her as some kind of annoyance. "Fine," she said, anger clear in her voice, "I'll leave." she finished, turning around and heading back to their makeshift house to get her things.

Naruto could tell that she was mad, pissed even, but he knew that he had to be alone to complete his training or he would just be a danger to himself and everyone else if he didn't get control over his Rin'negan.

If he thought she was mad now, then he was sure that she was gonna be pissed later. "There's one more thing." spoke Naruto, gaining Suzume's attention before she could finish leaving the area.

"And what's that?" she asked back hotly.

"You can't know the location of this island. I'm sorry!" replied Naruto. Before Suzume could ask what he was talking about she felt a hard hit to the back of her neck. She began to fall forward, only to be caught by one of Naruto's Kagebunshin.

The last thing she saw before loosing consciousness was Naruto looking at her sadly before turning around and walking away. "Gather her things, then put her somewhere safe and watch over her 'till she awakes, but don't let her know you're there." said Naruto to the clone who nodded and went to do as instructed.

"*sigh* If we ever meet again I'll make it up to you, and that's a promise." whispered Naruto to himself as he walked along the path that was instructed to him. "How much farther is this place?" asked Naruto aloud.

"It's in the very center of the island. Once we reach there, then you training can finally begin." said Akado.

"Yeah, and that means no slacking off, Naruto." spoke the voice of Kyuubi afterwards. This got a nod of affirmative from Naruto.

"Well, we might as well get to it as fast as possible." said Naruto as he took off as fast as he could with his weights attached towards the center of the island. He ran pass all of the broken and almost destroyed homes of the village, trying not to look at them any longer than he had to.

He knew why his family and half village was destroyed. It was because they were feared for their sealing arts and their long lives. He had heard everything from his sensei's about how the village was attacked and everyone killed, though he doubted the last part.

And because of this, he had decided to remind the world of the true power of the Uzumaki clan, along with revive the ruins of Uzu. To do this, however, he had to re-gather its people that were most likely spread out across the land.

He wasn't that naive to think that he was the only survivor of such a large civilization, and he had vowed to find his people and bring them back home once they wanted to return. He couldn't and wouldn't just force them to return if they didn't want to.

With this thought in mind, Naruto increased his speed so that he could begin training as soon as possible. He continued running until he reached the center of the island. In the center, there was a large mansion.

It was in the design of a traditional Japanese house and was four stories high, though there were holes in the roof and other parts of the building being heavily damaged, along with vines and other plants growing all over the house.

"This is it kid. Now go towards the front gate, you'll know what to do once you get there." spoke Akado. Naruto nodded and headed towards the gate. The symbol on the gate he instantly recognized, as it was one he had seen all over Konoha, along with being his family's crest.

It was the swirl of the Uzumaki clan, marking this mansion as the clan home. This caused Naruto to freeze up a bit. So far he had been lucky, but what if he did find the dead bodies of his family in there.

Sure he didn't know them, but they were still family none the less. He took a deep breath before resigning to the task at hand. He quickly pulled out a kunai and cut his palm, followed by smearing the blood on the swirl and pumping chakra through it.

He waited for a few moments before the gate seamlessly opened up, not even making a squeak. Naruto looked forward at the dead grass and mangled house before him. He released a heavy sigh before stepping through the gate.

When he did, however, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. What was once dead, un-kept grass was now green and well maintained. What was once trees that were growing wild and hideous, were now trees blooming with life.

He slowly looked up at the house and saw that, like everything else, it had looked like it had just been thrown in a washer. The holes and plants growing over it were gone, and it looked like it was just built, its white paint having no spots.

Naruto could only stare in wonder at what he was seeing. "What's going on?" he asked himself.

"This, my young friend, is the power of an illusion seal." said Kyuubi. This just confused Naruto.

"Why would they put an illusion seal here though?" he asked, curious as to why they would.

"Simple, when the village was attacked, this is where all of the valuables in the village were stored. They placed the illusion so that the invaders would think that they had destroyed all of the clans secrets." spoke Kyuubi once more.

"So you're telling me that all of the clans placed their secrets here? But, why?" asked Naruto.

"This is the most secure place in the entire village. The Uzumaki seals were unbreakable by anyone but them, since nobody could even begin to understand the complexity of them." spoke Kyuubi.

"I see, so that means that I won't have to worry about finding the other clans jutsu as well." spoke Naruto nodding his head. He began walking towards the house as the gate closed itself.

He silently walked up to the house and was about to knock until the door swung open on its own. As soon as he stepped inside he began feeling weird and uncomfortable. It was a feeling as if he was being watched.

This caused him to get more alert. One thing that had been taught to him was never let your guard down, even if you thought that it was safe. If you did, then you could end up dead.

He discreetly looked around the inside of the house. He was in a large open area with a large staircase in front of him. In the door to his left you could see a large dining area and the door to his right was closed. He continued to walk forward slowly, looking around for the first sign of trouble.

He went up the stairs towards the second floor. This floor seemed to have bedrooms all along the corridor. He cautiously walked forward towards the end of the hall. As he walked, he noticed all of the pictures hanging from the wall, most of the people in them had red hair.

"I don't like this." thought Naruto. He continued walking down the hall until he heard a squeaking sound behind him. He quickly spun around and saw a door close. He sprinted towards the door, intent on finding out who it was.

When he rushed into the room, however, he was surprised to find that there was no one there. He slowly walked out of the room. He looked down both ways of the corridor. "Something doesn't feel right." he thought again.

"I agree with you. Check and see if you can sense anybody." spoke Akado. Naruto nodded before sending out a pulse of chakra, followed by more pulses. He was surprised, however, when his chakra just bounced off of the walls, instead of going through them like normal.

"What the hell is going on here!"

"There are seals on the walls to stop things like that. The Uzumaki wanted to make sure that, if somebody managed to enter their house, they wouldn't be able to pinpoint where they were. You can't even sense someone's chakra in here." spoke Kyuubi.

"So you mean to tell me that I'm blind in here?"

"No! It's just gonna be a little harder to get a lock on anybody." spoke Kyuubi.

"Just great." replied Naruto, sarcastically.

"Don't worry about it, but activate your Rin'negan just in case. You might be able to get some training in with this." spoke Akado, trying to reassure his student. He knew that Naruto wasn't really scared, he just didn't want to get caught unprepared.

Naruto nodded slight as he activated his Rin'negan. When he did, he was shocked by what he saw. All along the walls, floor, ceiling and everywhere else he could see were seals. They were so advanced that he couldn't even begin to understand what he was seeing.

"W-what is this?" he asked aloud. He continued to look around until he heard something flying through the air. On instinct he pulled out a kunai and deflected all of the objects, which were revealed to be kunais.

Now he was really tensed. Thanks to these seals he hadn't even sensed when whoever it was that attacked him came out. Since he couldn't sense or see who, or what, was attacking him, he decided to try and listen.

He closed his eyes and began concentrating on the sounds around him, which weren't much. He turned his head from left to right, trying to get a definite location on where his enemy was.

He began to concentrate as hard as he could and applied all of the training that he had received into it so that he could find his attacker. Everything was quiet for a moment, before he heard the silent sound of wood creaking.

Without waiting any longer, Naruto spun around and tossed eight projectiles, four kunai and four shuriken, towards a door at the beginning of the hall. He was granted satisfaction as he heard the sound of metal entering flesh, along with a startled gasp from whoever was hit.

He immediately ran towards the door and swung it open, but was disappointed to find nobody there, just a bloodied kunai. His initial attack did pay off, however, as there was now a small trail of blood leading towards a dresser situated by one of the walls.

He walked up to the dresser and examined it more closely. Like everything else around him, the dresser had a lot of seals on it, but there was one seal in particular that stuck out to him. For some reason he felt like he knew the seal from some place.

It finally hit him. The seal he was looking at was just a more complex version of the one at the entrance of the Uzumaki base that he had inhabited a few weeks prior. This caused him to finally realize what was going on.

"So, there's a secret passage here." thought Naruto. He found the idea to be absolutely brilliant. With secret passages all throughout the mansion, it's inhabitants could get around easily to either ambush, or avoid their enemies.

"Hopefully this works just like the one at the base." he thought as he used another of his kunai to cut his hand. He then proceeded to rest the bloodied hand onto the seal and pumped a bit of chakra into it.

He received a surprise though when the seal started pulling his chakra out of him. Just as soon as it had started, it was over and, while the chakra stolen wasn't enough to put him at a disadvantage, it was enough to get him a bit worried.

He silently watched as the seal absorbed the blood before the kanji started twisting around before forming a large hole in the top of the dresser. He peered inside the hole only to see nothing but darkness.

"What do you guys think?" asked Naruto, wanting to get some form of advice before jumping inside a dark hole. He didn't have to wait long for a reply from his two tenants.

"Just go, but make sure that you're prepared for any type of trouble." spoke Akado, getting a nod from Naruto. Kyuubi then decided to add his two cents in.

"Yeah, stop being such a pussy and man up." spoke Kyuubi in a humorous matter. This just got an annoyed expression from Naruto. Leave it to Kyuubi to insult him at every chance he got.

"Remind me why the hell I even listen to you again?" asked Naruto.

"Simple! Because I am the almighty and all-knowing Kyuubi no Kitsune." replied Kyuubi smugly. Naruto just shook his head before jumping up onto the dresser, legs open with one leg on each side of the circle.

"Well, here goes nothing." thought Naruto as he jumped up and brought his legs together, allowing him to fall into the dark hole and into the unknown. Hopefully there wouldn't be anybody waiting to ambush him.

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Within a dark tunnel, which the only light sources were torches hanging from the walls, a lone person stumbled forward holding its left shoulder. The figure wore a long black cloak with a hood that hid its appearance and gender.

A closer look revealed a hole in the cloak where blood was leaking from a deep stab wound. The figure continued to stumble down the corridor. "Must warn the others." were the mantra that was being whispered from the strange persons mouth.

The figure then stopped when it seemed to hear something. The cloaked person almost immediately got tensed. "No! That should be impossible! How the hell did he manage to break the seal?" asked the figure to himself.

He could sense the chakra of the intruder that had just entered the tunnel. Seeing as this intruder was getting through their seals so quickly, the person began running down the hall, though anyone looking could tell that the person was struggling.

"I must want the others before it's too late." whispered the figure again as he continued his run towards his destination, unaware of what the future might hold for him and those he was trying to protect.

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Naruto silently landed on his feet on a hard stone floor. He looked around and was surprised to find himself in what looked like tunnels, though the walls, ceiling and floors in here weren't covered in seals as far as he could see since his Rin'negan was still active.

"What is this? Where are we?" asked the blond curiously.

"These look like escape tunnels, though how far they go I cannot say." spoke Akado in an intrigued tone. "They do seem to look a bit familiar though." he finished. Naruto just nodded his head.

Since there wasn't any seals, Naruto decided to try and see of he could sense anybody down here. When he did he felt a large amount of chakra coming from the direction in front of him.

Seeing no threat at the moment, Naruto released his Rin'negan since they still took up a lot of chakra to use and began walking down the long tunnel, but he was ready to reactivate them back at a moments notice.

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While Naruto was making his way down the tunnel, Kyuubi and Akado were both sporting very confused expressions on their faces. Both of them recognized this place, though they were both sure that they had never been in these tunnels before.

"I don't know why, but I have the strangest feeling like I've been here before." said Akado.

"Yeah, the same here, though I'm sure that when Kushina came to visit we never went into any tunnels." spoke Kyuubi who also felt like he had been here before.

"Well then, I guess we'll just have to wait and see where these tunnels lead to." said Akado, getting an affirmative nod from Kyuubi. The two of them wanted to find out why this place was so familiar.

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Back with the cloaked figure, he had managed to walk all the way to the end of the tunnel until he reached a wall that was blocking the path. He quickly went through a few hand signs before slamming his hand into the wall, causing it to start to open up.

After the wall completely opened, it revealed a large open chamber. The person quickly walked inside before the wall closed back, intent an warning its colleagues about the impending danger.

"We will not be destroyed. We will not falter. We will fight till the last man. And this time, we shall win." whispered the man to himself as he continued to walk through the chamber.

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Naruto had been walking in the direction that he had sensed the chakra coming from for a while now. The reason he was taking his time was so that he would be able to locate and hopefully avoid any traps that might have been set up for him.

He wasn't taking the risk of rushing in when this entire thing could be a trap. He silently walked down the tunnel, making sure to look out for anything that even looked like a trap.

As he walked he decided to take a closer look at his surroundings. The tunnels looked very old and he couldn't quite tell what the stones were made of. He could tell that these tunnels had been down here for a long time.

He finally made it to the end of the corridor, but was annoyed when he found a wall blocking his path. He could sense the large chakra source on the next side of the wall, meaning he had to find a way to go either around, or through it.

"Yeah! This doesn't look like a trap at all." sarcastically thought Naruto. "Well, here goes nothing." said Naruto as he performed a few back-flips and landed facing the wall. He then cocked his fist back.

"Well, what better way to see how strong I've become?" asked Naruto to himself. He cocked his fist back a bit more before gaining a resolute look on his face. Seeing as there wasn't any reason to waste more time, Naruto charged at the wall.

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In a dark forestry area, two confused brown orbs slowly opened and dazedly looked around. The noticed that they were in some type of hollowed tree, with bush covering the openings.

"Where the hell am I" asked the confused voice of Suzume. She didn't know how the hell she had gotten here. As a matter of fact, the last thing that she could remember was talking with Naruto, and him telling her that she had to leave.

And that's when she remembered being knocked unconscious by one of Naruto's clones. This caused an angry scowl to appear on her face. She didn't like the fact that he had knocked her unconscious, or the fact that he had bought her here.

Sadly she didn't know where the island was, or even how to get to it, so she resigned to her fate. She took one more look around the hollowed out tree and noticed all of her belongings were beside her along with an extra scroll and a note.

She quickly grabbed the note and began to read its content.

"Dear Suzume

"If you are reading this, then that means that you have awakened and realized what has happened. I just wanted it to be known that I hold no ill will against you, nor did I want you to leave, but in order for me to focus completely on my training, I had to let you go."

"Inside the scroll is a few pairs of clothes, extra food and some money, along with a map indicating where you are so that you wont get lost. I hope that you don't take this personally, and if you never want to see me again then I completely understand.

Signed

Naruto Uzumaki."

As she finished reading the letter, Suzume couldn't help but sigh. Leave it to Naruto to make sure that she was alright. She quickly picked up her belongings along with the extra scroll and put them in their rightful places.

She folded the letter and placed it in her shirt, right over her heart. "I'll never think bad about you, Naruto. You saved my life and I still have to repay you for that." thought Suzume before a smile graced her lips.

"Well, if you're going to be training to get stronger, then I guess I'll have to as well. After all, I can't let you get any more ahead of me than you already are." thought Suzume with a smirk as she started walking in a random direction. "I hope that we can see each other again in the future." she thought sadly as she walked.

She really would miss her blonde haired companion. It was then that she remembered something else. "*groan* I never even got to see his face." she said in a depressed tone. She was so busy walking with her thoughts that she didn't notice a Naruto clone go up in smoke.

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Naruto continued charging the wall with his fist raised back for a punch. He jumped a bit into the air and bought his fist towards the wall. The wall held for only a second before spider web cracks began to form. The wall then exploded inward, showing how much force was in that punch.

This surprised Naruto a bit. A few months ago he was sure that he wasn't able to do that and, even though the wall wasn't that thick or wide, it just proved that his training was paying off in more ways than one.

He smirked a bit as he walked through the hole. His smirk quickly fell though as he noticed that there were six men in different colored robes with hoods standing before him, each different from the last. Before he could say anything, one of the men spoke.

"Halt intruder, you are not welcomed here. Allow us to escort you out, or you will die a very painful death." spoke the man in the middle. Naruto looked at the man before his smirk returned to his face.

"Is that so! Well, we'll see about that." spoke Naruto in a calm voice as he pulled out his katana from on his back.

"Halt! Do not make us attack you. We will not go easy on you because of your age." spoke another one of the men.

"Good, because I wouldn't want this to be too easy." spoke Naruto. In a burst of speed Naruto dashed at the men, intent on getting some information out of these guys one way or another. The other men did not disappoint as they also charged, ready to take down the intruder.

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Well here's the latest chapter. I hope that you all enjoy and please remember to review.