A/N: Yo, for those of you readers who may be interested in Harry Potter fanfiction, with a tinge of Naruto in it, you might want to check out my main project, Harry Potter: Divergent Paths! If not, well, just continue reading this one~

For those of you readers who came from HP:DP, what do you think my writing here is like in comparison to HP:DP? Considering that they're different styles of verses to write about though.

Itachi shut off his emotions and continued slashing through his enemies, slashing them down for the good of Konoha. Inwardly, he sighed. This wasn't going to end well, it was going much too smoothly. He quickly approached his final destination.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, Itachi!" the man shouted.

"Cleansing…for the good of Konoha," Itachi replied, "I will not allow your foolish ambition to plunge Konoha into chaos. I have too much here."

"Mikoto, kill him! He is a failure brought about by your idiotic ideals and gentleness…strike him down!"

Mikoto stood in the room, next to the man. "No, I will not. I refuse to strike down my own son…" she replied, locking eyes with Itachi. She saw regret and sorrow. Not the eyes of a cold-blooded murderer.

"Worthless woman…" the man said, holding his sword at Mikoto's neck. A door opened and an eight year old child walked in.

"Father, what's going on? Why is everybody dead?" he asked, coldly.

Fugaku Uchiha grinned devilishly. "Ah, my son…Itachi has turned traitor, become a disgrace to our clan. Your pathetic mother refused to kill the traitor, so she is a traitor, and trash, as all women are. You know what to do to traitors." He said, handing Sasuke his sword.

"Mother…" he said softly.

"Sasuke, I-"Mikoto started, Itachi watching.

"You worthless whore! How dare you disobey the orders of Father! He was right, all women are good for is breeding and nothing more…now DIE!" he said, stabbing the sword towards Mikoto's heart.

Itachi was caught off-guard and too far away to stop the thrust. Blood spurted onto Sasuke, who had an eerie and maniacal grin on his face, as did Fugaku. That grin slowly turned into rage as they registered what had happened. A hand grasped the blade of the sword, stopping it an inch from Mikoto's chest, which then shattered the sword. Itachi took the chance and beheaded Fugaku, who had just activated his Mangekyou Sharingan, but was too late. Sasuke fell down as he took the brunt of a large amount of killing intent.

Naruto felt disgusted at the creature before him, who had just attempted to kill his own mother. He turned to Itachi, a questioning look on his face. "What are you doing, Itachi? What is all of this?" he asked, helping Mikoto sit down, legs shaking from Sasuke's betrayal.

Itachi looked into Naruto's eyes with an emotionless face. "I needed more power…so I killed my clan. I was going to spare Sasuke's innocent worthless life…" a flicker of disgust appeared on his features, "Fugaku has corrupted him too much. And you…cannot remember this." Itachi spoke his words coldly and calmly. But his eyes betrayed him. Before Naruto could speak up, however, he heard a single word. "Tsukuyomi." His previously onyx eyes were replaced with eyes of red sclera and dark shurikens as Naruto froze.

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World of Tsukuyomi….

Naruto found himself bound to a cross, unable to break the chains. Itachi appeared, holding a sword. "For the next 72 hours, you will watch your loved ones die…" Itachi said.

Izanami appeared, smiling as she always did with Naruto. Itachi sliced off her legs, eliciting screams of pain from her. He stabbed the sword into her stomach and carved up, bisecting her from the waist up and causing her organs to spill out into a mess. Naruto yelled and cried, struggling furiously against the chains.

Tayuya appeared, wearing a black kimono. She mouthed the words I love you, before getting struck by a mass of shurikens and kunai, turned into a macabre target, spilling blood. Hinoko appeared, and a fireball engulfed her, causing her to scream bloody murder. All three appeared together, facing each other with bloodthirsty glares. They launched into battle, each hit taking off skin, jabbing holes, tearing muscles, spilling blood, cutting off limbs.

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54 hours later…

Naruto continued to scream, but focused on something else, managing to tear his eyes from the gruesome scene before him. He watched Itachi, who had long averted his eyes, betraying his outer mask. Itachi did not notice that he was being observed, convinced that the Tsukuyomi would drive Naruto into a deep rage. After the first 24 or so hours, Naruto had managed to calm himself down enough and contemplate what was going on. It was inconsistent. Hinoko could not die by flames, this…was an illusion.

…..

Reality

Naruto slumped to the ground, the initial terror and despair that he faced coming back to hit him, even despite understanding it was an illusion. Itachi's eyes were filled with self-disgust at what he did to his younger brother figure. Trying to divert his own mind, he turned to the monster that he had thought was his biological little brother. He could not allow the mini-Fugaku to live. If Itachi left him alive, Sasuke would be praised and supported by the village as the Uchiha Heir, with Mikoto brushed aside. But he would treat women like scum, his mother worse than scum if not murder her outright, and would become power-hungry and obsessed. He would not be loyal to the village, opting to betray it at the slightest opportunity to gain power. As such, Itachi clinically slit his little brother's throat.

Naruto's eyes burned, chakra flooding to the spheres in his eye sockets. His eyes began to change, feeling as if they were eroding slowly by an acid. The despair and desperation he had faced in watching Izanami, Tayuya, Hinoko, his mother, and Mikoto die before him was enough. He needed the strength to protect his loved ones, stop others from losing theirs.

His pupils disappeared, along with the whites of his eyes. His sclera became deep shade of amethyst purple. Three black concentric circles appeared in his eyes, a tiny, golden slit-shaped pupil remaining in the center. Nine white tomoe were evenly spread out, three on each concentric circle. He raised his hand towards Itachi as one phrase reverberated through his mind. "Bansho Ten'in (Heavenly Attraction of All of Creation)!"

Itachi found himself flung through the air forcefully and was caught by his neck. He looked into Naruto's eyes, which burned themselves into his mind. He felt as if he was looking at his death, when suddenly the threatening aura it projected disappeared. "Itachi…no matter how eloquently you perform or how well you hide your emotions, you can't lie me. Tell me the truth. Not just for me, for your mother as well," Naruto said. Mikoto, having finally collected herself over the shock, walked towards the two.

Itachi sighed. He found himself unable to move and found no reason to play a complete devil's advocate to his family. "I played as a double agent for Hokage-sama. The Uchiha Clan sent me into the ANBU to spy on the inner workings and had been planning a coup d'état to take over Konoha. Hokage-sama wanted to try to peacefully negotiate with the Uchiha. Danzo Shimura, one of the elders, instead asked me to annihilate the Clan. I knew that even if the Uchiha had been appeased, it would have been of no use. Fugaku was too power hungry to just stop.

I had planned on sparing Sasuke, giving him the chance to rebuild and redeem our clan, but…Fugaku had obviously corrupted him much too far. It was our fault, Naruto, kaa-sama (mother). I do not regret the time spent with you, Naruto, but I feel that with my mother and I pulled away, Fugaku was able to insert his philosophy into Sasuke's mind. We failed him…" Itachi said ashamedly.

Mikoto looked to be on the verge of tears, but Naruto brought the woman into his chest. "You cannot blame yourselves for this, Mikoto-chan, Itachi… If anybody, it is Fugaku's fault. Your lives are your own to live. Who knows how much Fugaku would've still been able to implant into him, how much you would be able to influence him? Even if we made mistakes, there's nothing we can do but move on," he said, rubbing Mikoto's back comfortingly. After a few more seconds, Naruto spoke up again. "What will you do now, Itachi? Your chakra signature is littered all over and I can sense the ANBU approaching."

"I need to be accused anyway, Naruto, so it will be fine if I'm guilty of the crime. There is another purpose for me to leave Konoha for now. Here's what we'll do, Naruto, kaa-sama…" Itachi started.

`…..

The ANBU headed quickly to the Uchiha Compound, alerted to the attack. The Hokage himself came along, grim expression fixed on his face. They reached the outer gates, swiftly continuing to the deepest part of the compound. As they approached, they heard sounds of fighting.

"ITACHI!" they heard someone shout, before an explosion occurred.

They entered the room to see Mikoto on the ground unconscious, with blood on her shirt, though no visible injuries. Fugaku and Sasuke were dead, with the former's eyes missing. Two men were clashing with swords in the middle of the room. All of the ANBU recognized Itachi, but only one and the Hokage recognized the other man. The deadly duel continued, the newly arrived unable to get in close. Slashes appeared on the floor, ceiling, and walls from pure air pressure, as the sound of metal clashing filled the room. Both attacked with primarily speed, precision, and flexibility, but the loud sounds when they clashed showed that there was good power behind those hits as well.

Ignoring the circumstances, the audience was extremely impressed with the display of swordsmanship in front of them, most of all being Neko. She had never quite seen anybody as skilled her idols Mikoto Uchiha and Kushina Uzumaki, the Black and Red Deaths of Konoha, but Itachi and Naruto weren't that far under. Itachi slipped, prompting Naruto to launch a kick into his stomach, smashing him through a wall.

The ANBU moved quickly to secure their former captain, but he had disappeared, leaving only a murder of crows in the room. Naruto gave the Sandaime a knowing glance, who in turn sighed. "It seems that Itachi Uchiha has escaped and is guilty of the massacre of his clan. Naruto, why were you here?" he asked curiously.

"I was practicing my sensor abilities when I sensed the chakra signatures of the Uchiha Clan dimming and recognized Itachi's moving systematically through. I arrived in range to hear Fugaku order Sasuke to murder Mikoto, for not obeying his order to commit suicide, to 'deny Itachi the satisfaction.' I arrived in time to stop Sasuke from piercing Mikoto's heart," pointing to his hand, which was still bleeding, "As I was distracted, Itachi quickly killed Fugaku, Sasuke, and took Fugaku's eyes. Mikoto fainted from all of the stress, as she'd been betrayed by three people and fell unconscious. The blood on her shirt is from my hand, when it splattered. I engaged Itachi in combat until you arrived," he reported.

Sarutobi nodded. "Alright, Naruto. I sense no lies in your words, and you've had plenty of stress. Check over Mikoto for injuries and bring her to your apartment, if you don't mind. I doubt she'll want to stay here and you should be able to help her with any trauma. You are dismissed," He said, but gave a look into Naruto's blue eyes that said 'Tell me later.'

Naruto nodded, checked over Mikoto for injuries, picked her up bridal-style, and left with an acknowledging nod. One of the ANBU turned to the Hokage, curious about what just happened. "Hokage-sama, who was that man just now? He was incredibly skilled, but I've never heard of him before."

Sarutobi smirked inwardly. Naruto had probably set it up, so that he could start getting a name for himself, even before he became shinobi, but confined to only rumors within the system, so that it wouldn't spread too far. "He is Naruto Uzumaki, and he is eight years old. His growth is due to the intense training he puts himself under, to gain more strength. Strength to protect his loved ones, as you saw in his defense of Mikoto Uchiha. She is rather precious to him. He can be one man's best friend, or another's worst enemy. You would be wise to pick the former," the Professor said cryptically, finding some slight amusement in helping Naruto in the village scuttlebutt, before walking to return to his office. 'Oh, the paperwork…'

…..

Naruto jumped from roof to roof, working his way back home. Mikoto would be a mess when she came back to consciousness. She had held together well because of the seriousness of the situation, but you can only hold back the river for so long before the makeshift dam breaks. He'd have to recount everything to jii-san too. And then he'd need to figure out what his new eyes were, and what those new powers were. Naruto sighed. At least Itachi wasn't actually a traitor, which was good.

Eventually reaching home, Naruto opened the door and walked in with Mikoto. Hinoko, Izanami, and Tayuya gave him curious glances, but his eyes said that he'd explain later. They nodded in assent and went back to what they were doing, while Naruto moved straight to the bedroom. Waking up Mikoto, Naruto just looked gently at her, preparing for whatever would happen. You never know with distraught women.

Mikoto Uchiha had had a rather rough day, to put it lightly. First, Itachi had started to slaughter the entire clan, which was rather upsetting. Then, Fugaku had told her to kill Itachi, which she simply couldn't do because she just couldn't kill her son. It went even more downhill as Sasuke called her a whore and attempted to murder her. Her eyes started to burn, just like the day she got those 'cursed' eyes of hers.

Things started to get better when Naruto came to save her, though. It made her heart flutter like it never had before. When Itachi ended Fugaku's sorry existence, she didn't fell as sad as she thought she would. Then again, he had never done anything for her, so it was a primarily loveless marriage. Sasuke dying broke her heart and her eyes burned more, but her mind acknowledged that her little Sasuke was gone. And now that Itachi was gone...

"Naruto..." she whispered, finally coming out of her daze. Tears started to pour from her eyes and she sobbed into Naruto's chest. "I've lost everything..."

Naruto simply hugged Mikoto to himself tightly, projecting as much warmth and comfort he could. After letting her calm down a bit from the initial shock, Naruto lifted her head up by her chin gentlly and looked into her onyx black eyes. "You haven't lost everything, Mikoto-chan...you still have Izanami, Hinoko, Tayuya, and me..." He whispered softly, so as to not bomb her with any unnecessary stimulus.

Mikoto found herself staring into those caring, gentle, and love-filled blue eyes, unable to control herself in her weakness. She leaned forward and caught the lips that were previously forbidden and unreachable. Naruto was hesitant, but he felt the need to be loved in her kiss and couldn't ignore his own feelings that had been growing since that day five years ago, and returned the kiss with love. Mikoto's heart soared, feeling Naruto willingly return the kiss as well as the innocent love-fueled passion.

The other three girls watched from the doorway, with slightly different reactions. Hinoko looked on with a grin of satisfaction. She had been waiting for Naruto to capture another relatively much older woman so she didn't feel like a cougar any more. She was also happy for the woman who had known Naruto for the longest time aside from herself. All three ladies had seen the subtle glances and lingering eyes of a woman in love whenever Naruto was near Mikoto, as they themselves knew the feeling. Tayuya and Izanami were thankful for an older woman to talk aside from Hinoko. For a demon of high power that was centuries old, she acted really childish frequently. Izanami was slightly happier, since Mikoto shared similarities with herself.

The trio left the doorway to give the newest sister some privacy, Tayuya and Izanami finally having come to terms with the peculiarities of loving somebody like Naruto. Mikoto pulled away from the kiss after two minutes and settled her head on Naruto's chest, smile plastered on her face. The newly formed couple laid down and drifted off to sleep, Mikoto snuggling tightly into Naruto. Naruto slipped off into his dreamscape to figure out the mysteries of his new eyes.

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The next morning...

Naruto's eyes snapped open, a smirk present on his face. He was rather satisfied with the abilities he'd discovered for his special variant of the Rinnegan, the dojutsu of her father/progenitor, as Hinoko identified it. The natural benefits of photographic memory, capacity to master all five basic nature transformations, and ability to see chakra and chakra points was already unbelievably useful. The Six Paths were just waiting to be explored, Preta, Naraka, and Human more specifically. He'd need practice though, more preferably criminals of some kind.

While Hinoko, Izanami, and Tayuya were up against him in some way as usual, he was paying more attention to the newest addition. While Naruto had never specifically admired her body in his early years, could and did do so in the more recent times. Raven black hair ran long down her body in a similar fashion to his mother, completed with onyx black eyes. Mikoto was slender and beautiful, with a streamlined figure, firm C-Cup breasts (currently pressed onto him), and a tight ass (which was accidentally being groped at the moment).

Naruto slowly moved his hand off its dangerous position and sighed in relief when he succeeded. He lay there thinking about how he was going to explain his newly discovered abilities. Deciding that he'd spent enough time laying there, he gently shook Mikoto awake. Her eyes slowly opened and Naruto gave her a small peck on the lips, waking her up fully. He repeated the process with the other three girls.

"Do you feel better now, Mikoto-chan?" Naruto asked, helping Mikoto get up.

"Yes…much better, Naruto-kun. Thank you…for everything," she said with a smile.

When Hinoko, Tayuya, and Izanami woke up, they asked to know what happened, but Naruto told them to wait off until they went to meet the Sandaime, so he would only have to tell the story once. After getting cleaned up and eating breakfast, the group left for the Hokage's office.

…..

"Well, things worked out for the best with your intervention, Naruto." Sarutobi said, taking a puff of his pipe. "I see now that Itachi was correct in his method, Fugaku was no doubt unappeasable in the end."

"Regardless of that fact, jii-san, you need to exercise more control on your council. Danzo seemed to be infringing upon your own decision-making, you can't let him override you like that." Naruto said seriously.

"Yes, I've grown rather complacent as of late…I will need a successor soon," the old man said contemplatively. "Anyway, anything else I should know about?" Naruto spoke up.

"Yes, I appear to have unlocked a dojutsu…" Naruto said.

"'Seem' to have? For what reason would you have doubt of such a thing?" the Professor asked.

"It appears to be a variant of an existing dojutsu," he said, closing his eyes and channeling chakra to them. He opened them again, showing them his new eyes. "A variant of the Rinnegan, that is."

Sarutobi stood up and came over to inspect his eyes, while the rest of the ladies were mesmerized by the pattern. "The legendary dojutsu of the Sage of Six Paths…truly unpredictable, Naruto. You bring new surprises constantly…"

"I can somewhat feel the capabilities of my eyes. I know that I have access to the basic abilities of the Rinnegan. The Six Paths of Deva, Preta, Animal, Naraka, Asura, and Outer are available, the use of the Six Paths Technique, the possible mastery of the five basic nature transformations, and the ability to see chakra. The additions that I have found, however, are photographic memory, further manipulations of the Paths, and I can feel that there is more to discover."

"Fascinating…what manipulations of the Paths do you speak of?"

"The Paths that only particularly affect myself are unchanged at the moment. The ones that affect others, however, have potential. The thing is, the morality is questionable, so I'll need people that are scheduled for execution, and people that you want to interrogate. I should be able to frighten the information out of them…" Naruto said, eyes furrowed in concentration, thinking about how to approach it.

The Hokage just raised his eyebrows, but nodded in assent. The potential information gain was too useful to not try. "We will have ANBU present, myself, and chakra suppressing restraints for safety. The degree of information we gain from your testing will determine the reward you receive, though that will be on hold until you become a Genin. Are those conditions alright for you?"

Naruto nodded, but added a statement solemnly. "The faint of heart should not be there to witness what I do. Tayuya-chan, Izanami-chan, Mikoto-chan, I'll want you to be there…I'd rather not display my ugly side to you three, but it's better to get it over with now…"

"Aw, what about me, Naruto-kun? Do you not care about me anymore?" Hinoko asked, inserting some levity and pouting.

Naruto just smiled, leaned over, and kissed her softly. "You already know everything about me, Hi-chan."

The other three ladies pouted, but Naruto just laughed. "Come on, let's go."

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A/N: I've decided to alternate between Romanized technique names and English names. I'll do Romanized when it's convenient, English for anything I make or when I feel like it~

Torture and Interrogation Department, Larger Room…

"So, what's all of this about?" a man with two scars across his face, wearing his forehead protector on a bandana, asked.

"Must be pretty serious if Hokage-sama said he wouldn't tolerate my tardiness," a man with spiky, white hair, forehead protector over one eye, and reading an orange novel commented.

"It's somewhat strange, as to why he called all of us here." a woman with short, brown hair asked, face framed by her forehead protector, which was shaped like a headpiece.

"This is indeed a strange occurrence, Nadeshiko… Any thoughts, Anko-chan?" Yugao asked, purple hair waving slightly.

"All I know is that this involves my man testing out some abilities of his. He asked specifically for criminals scheduled for execution and people we've been trying to interrogate, so some kind of new method?" Anko speculated, thinking about what Naruto might have come up with.

"Your man? I wasn't aware you were interested in anyone, Anko." Ibiki asked, curious about one of his top interrogators, who was normally rather evasive of men, despite her open style of dress.

Before the audience could continue their dialogue, four young women walked in, followed by the Sandaime.

"Mikoto-san, it's good to see you. Are you feeling well?" Nadeshiko asked. Her former teammate

"Yes, never better actually. I've been awakened to some things recently and I'm looking forward to the future." She answered, smile on her face.

"I'm sorry about Itachi…I can't believe he would…" Kakashi said. Mikoto purposefully flinched, pretending as if she was bothered. She was smiling inwardly though, seeing that her son still had people that believed in him, if only slightly.

"I won't let it bother me, don't worry. He made his choices, but I won't allow them to weigh me down," Mikoto said with determination. Kakashi nodded in assent and returned to his 'novel.'

"Who are those three, Mikoto-san?" Nadeshiko asked, curious about the three women that came along with her.

"We are all companions of -"Izanami began, but was stopped when the chatting around quieted. Nadeshiko directed her gaze at the rather attractive man who had walked in.

Naruto approached the prisoners who were restrained in the middle of the field. He scanned his eyes over them. Two of them were women, both looked rather distraught and bruised. They were the interrogation and torture victims, though they didn't seem to have been breaking down anytime soon strangely enough. He would investigate further on that later

The other three were stereotypically shady looking men, two of which had glares on their faces. The last had a calm expression on his face, but looking into his eyes, Naruto could feel something hidden in there.

"So, what're you three in here for?" he asked conversationally, directing his gaze at the men.

The three stared blankly at Naruto. "Who the fuck are you?" one eloquently said.

Naruto smiled. "Oh come on, don't be like that. It's not like you're hurting anything by telling me what you got put in for. You're all fucked anyway," Naruto stated.

A/N: Rather creepy disgusting description in this following paragraph. I might just be light-hearted though.

"She wouldn't accept me…she always said it was because she had a daughter to take care of. So, I took care of the daughter for her. I cut her up into tiny pieces and she was so happy when I showed her, she cried tears of joy…" he said with an insane smile. "Oh, how loudly she screamed in pleasure when I finally took her…she knew just what I liked…people that fight back. She played the role really well, I actually felt like I was…"

Chains erupted from Naruto's hands, wrapping themselves around the 'man's' limbs. Ibiki, Anko, and Sarutobi had grimaces on their faces, while nearly everybody else was green at the recounting. Naruto had an emotionless expression, but his eyes burned with rage. He blinked, channeling chakra to his eyes, and activated his 'Rinnegan.' Some of the spectators recognized the signature concentric circles of the legendary Rinnegan, but were confused at the overall design of Naruto's eyes.

"You get to be my experiment." Naruto said briefly, striding towards the man. Naruto put his hand on the man's arm. "Preta Path: Blocking Technique Absorption Seal." Controlling the rate at which he absorbed the chakra, he slowly drained the man's arm of the chakra flowing with it. His victim started to scream in pain as the arm visibly began to shrivel and wrinkle.

Moving onto the next arm, Naruto tried something else. Rather than absorbing the chakra, he interacted with it, redirecting it throughout the arm. He forced it towards the digits and stimulated the flow, forcing it into the arm until it exploded, inciting another scream of pain. Forcing the flow again, he redirected it back into the shriveled arm, revitalizing it until it exploded from over flow. Finally, he changed the flow and pushed it into his genitals. The following explosion had all the men in the room wincing and reaching down to protect their own. As one more test, he attempted pushing his own chakra into his subject, which was successful.

Finding no more use with his test subject's body, Naruto put his hand on the subject's head, ripping upwards. The room paled at the sight of the man's soul, a ghostly apparition, as the body lost the light in its eyes. Naruto thrust his hand into the soul, concentrating on what he wanted, and ripped outwards. The embodiment split into two halves, with labels. One had 'Techniques and Skills' materialized on it, while the other simply said 'Inconsequential.' Naruto crushed the Techniques half in his hands, the soul dispersed itself into Naruto's body, who closed his eyes for a second taking in the new knowledge.

"Well, that's a rather cheap way to get power…I'll try to hold back on that," he mumbled to himself, glancing at one of the other men. "I wonder…" He put his hand on another head, ripped out the soul, and stuck it into the body of his first test subject. When he stirred awake and started screaming in pain, Naruto mumbled, "Alright then. Well, since Naraka serves no intimidation purpose, guess I'll just continue." Naruto shot his chakra chains at the restraints binding the other two men, broke them, and gestured for them to come.

Nadeshiko started to grow roots to bind the men, but Anko put her hand on her shoulder, shaking her head. "What do you mean Anko? Those two are Jonin level shinobi, even if they've been in captivity for a while! That guy's not even a shinobi yet!"

"Don't worry about it, just watch the show," Anko said with a grin.

Nadeshiko returned her eyes to the man who was in the room and found herself looking into those strange eyes that he had. Naruto had sensed the strange chakra composition and noted who used it. 'Mokuton (Wood Release), huh…' Naruto vanished out of sight as a fireball flew across where he was just standing. The convicts just looked around the room, unable to locate their opponent.

The two women who had been in the middle of the fray found themselves suddenly located with the spectators, courtesy of the blonde. He returned to the fight, dashing straight towards one of his opponents. "Rasengan," he said quietly. Many of the attending shinobi gasped at the sight of one of the Yondaime's signature techniques. Slamming it into a stomach, he quickly spun himself around and planted a foot into the other. One was sent flying into a wall, but the other landed on his feet, aching from the kick. "Katon: Goryuka no Jutsu! (Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique)" The dragon inched closer to Naruto, who stood there calmly.

Swinging his hand up in a slicing motion, a scythe of wind flew into the dragon, bisecting the flames and cancelling the technique. Naruto pointed his fingers at the standing convict, who stood there for a second, confused at the motion. Lightning shot from his digits, spearing through the arm that he was pointing at. His opponent cursed, but then suddenly smirked.

"Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu (Earth Release: Hidden Mole Technique)." Naruto quickly tunneled into the floor, avoiding a torrent of flame that passed overhead. Resurfacing behind the one who had attacked him, Naruto held his hands apart, framing his opponent. The spectators quirked an eyebrow, wondering what he was doing. "Suiton: Suiben (Water Release: Water Whip)." They gasped, watching his materialize water from purely the molecules in the air.

"Fire Release: Ring of Flames." Having had enough of testing his control over the elements, Naruto trapped the two convicts and dashed into them, placing a hand on each head. Ripping out their souls, they slumped to the ground dead as Naruto absorbed the knowledge they had, discarding the memories. Sighing, he returned his gaze to the two women that he was supposed to interrogate. They looked at him in fear, but Naruto was busy analyzing their chakra systems. He noticed peculiarities on the back of their necks, covered by their hair.

Walking over to them, he lifted his hands. The two women closed their eyes and flinched, in fear of whatever he might do to them. They felt his hands on their heads and prepared to die the same way the other three did, but just felt a small tingle. Opening their eyes, Naruto had turned his eyes back to normal and his hands were glowing with the Mystical Palm Technique. Running his hands over them carefully, he healed the bruises, cuts, and other wounds they had. He placed his palms on the seal arrays hidden on their necks, absorbing them and memorizing the composition.

Looking into their eyes, he removed all of their chakra restraints, and focused threat into his voice with chakra, combined with some killing intent. "You will serve me now. We shall provide you refuge from your home villages, who decided to send you on suicide missions. You attempt to betray us and I will kill you painfully. You work properly and I will treat you well. Understood?"

The two women nodded. Naruto clasped their palms and they felt a sharp pain, which vanished as quickly as it came. They felt altogether more powerful. Inspecting their palms, a fox-head tattoo was present, with a Roman numeral for three on its forehead. "You are now my vassals. Do not shame me," he said authoritatively.

"Yes, master," the duo answered. Turning back to the group behind him, he was met with a lot of questioning glances. Naruto looked at Nadeshiko.

"You are a Mokuton user…" Naruto stated. Nadeshiko nodded. Naruto smiled. "Would you like to be one of my Paths?" he asked.

She tilted her head. "What does that mean?"

"I've been looking for people to become my Paths. You'll be able to use one of my Rinnegan abilities, while I will be able to look through your eyes and summon you to aid me, if I wish," Naruto explained simply.

"Which one were you thinking on giving me?" Nadeshiko asked, genuinely interested.

"I believe you would be able to use Preta Path through your Mokuton, which would be extremely beneficial for you. It's the one that absorbs chakra."

"…Sure, I don't see why not," she deadpanned.

"Awesome, 'ttebayo!" Naruto exclaimed. "I didn't think I'd get one so quickly. Now, then, how to make this not extremely invasive and painful…" he mumbled.

The whole group sweat dropped at how easily he was ignoring them all and his statement. Eventually Naruto palmed his fist. Facing his palms together vertically, he materialized a necklace and two bracelets made out of a black metal. "Put those on and we'll be all set. Practice with your powers, so you aren't accidentally sucking everything dry," he said bluntly. Nadeshiko blushed at the awkward phrasing, Sarutobi and Kakashi got nosebleeds, and everybody else burst into laughter.

"Oh right, I was going to report what I found out," he said, scratching the back of his head sheepishly when he returned his attention to the occupant of the room. Everybody face faulted at his forgetfulness. "I'll meet you in the office, jii-san," Naruto said, grabbing his two new clan members, Asako and Mai, along with Tayuya, Izanami, Hinoko, and Mikoto, then vanishing.

The room, once again, sweat dropped at the abrupt exit, when Ibiki finally voiced what everyone was thinking at the moment. "Who the hell was that?"

"Why did he know Minato-sensei's signature technique?" Kakashi asked.

The Sandaime just sighed, but decided he would just bring Kakashi, Ibiki, Yugao, and Nadeshiko along, as they would become privy to the information sooner or later. He'd rather it be later to save some time. "Follow me to my office. You will know everything in a few minutes.

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One massive information dump later…

"You can't expect me to believe that, Hokage-sama," Kakashi started, "that is simply ridiculous. How are half of those events even remotely possible?"

"You know what I find ridiculous, Kakashi?" Naruto started. "How the great Copy Ninja Kakashi is also known as the man who reads smut unashamedly in public constantly and is three hours late to anything short of an urgent A or S-Rank mission. What would my father say if he could see you now?"

The cyclops opened his mouth to retort, but couldn't refute anything. "If you miss your sensei and teammates so much, why don't you actually continue on with your life, instead of sitting and staring at the memorial stone all the time? I understand your sorrow, but it is simply too much. You are letting your skills atrophy to the point of where you can barely be considered an A-rank shinobi, purely because of the advantages that the Sharingan give you. You can't let a secret weapon carry you through life." Naruto continued on, tearing Kakashi a new one, who sunk down. "Learn the lesson, Kakashi. You can be better than this." He finished.

Nadeshiko and Yugao sweat dropped at their captain being verbally smacked into the ground by a boy who was apparently only eight years old. Normally they'd be panicking at the thought of the Kyuubi loose from the seal, but since the Sandaime didn't seem to care, they didn't really have cause to worry.

"Anyway, if you want proof that everything is true, look no further!" Naruto exclaimed melodramatically. He released his ears and tails, as did Hinoko. He suddenly found his tails being cuddled and turned to see Yugao and Nadeshiko petting them. 'How the hell did they get in my guard like that?' he thought, sweat dropping at how completely out of character they were. After collecting themselves, they blushed deeply at their behavior, bowing in apology, which Naruto waved off.

"Anyway, since we took care of all that, any questions?" Naruto asked. Everybody shook their heads.

They were extremely shocked initially and continued to be so throughout the tale, but the Sandaime had no reason to lie to them and would not be easily lied to. Honestly though, this was the world of shinobi, not much was impossible. With the amounts of effort that Naruto put in, which they could see quite easily in his display earlier, it was actually understandable, given the natural properties that Naruto seemed to be gifted.

Naruto suddenly vanished from sight, before each person suddenly felt a stinging sensation on their palms, even the Hokage himself, and discovered the fox-head tattoo on their palms. The Sandaime felt better than he had in years, lively and spry. Looking at his hand, he saw that he had lost some of his wrinkles. Naruto noticed his surprised look and grinned, producing a mirror of water. Looking into his, the Sandaime saw that his face had regained more of his youthful look and some of hair had actually gained color again.

"How did this happen, Naruto? What did you do to me?" the Sandaime asked in surprise.

Naruto gave him a thumbs-up. "I channeled more chakra into the longevity and youth aspect of the mark. I don't want you dying on me any time soon, old man, and I feel more comfortable with you in the Hokage's seat than anybody else!"

The Sandaime smiled gratefully. "Thank you, Naruto. I appreciate that more than you know."

"Yea, yea, jii-san, don't get too sentimental on me. Just do your job right, don't let people push you around, that's all you have to do for me," Naruto rubbed his nose, grinning. Remembering why he was here, he became serious again. "Anyway, since we have all of that out of the way, let's go over the information that you wanted from them. Both of the ladies were sent on their missions for reconnaissance, Asako for Iwagakure (Village Hidden by the Rocks) and Mai for Kumogakure. From their memories, I gather that neither A, the Raikage (Lightning Shadow), or Onoki, the Tsuchikage (Earth Shadow) actually intend on picking a fight with us any time soon.

There are, however, people within each village that are warmongers, just as in any village. There are specific people within Iwagakure who irrationally hate our village because of my father, and his 'massacre' of the Iwa forces, ignoring the fact that it was war time, and they would've done so to us with no remorse. Those were the ones who assigned Asako and Mai these missions. They were sent because they are orphans, like me, because of the war. It's surprising to me that you two don't resent Konoha at all," Naruto observed, turning to the two girls. "It's quite amazing, actually."

The duo blushed. "It would be silly of us to hold grudges on our enemies when we attempt to do the same. It's simply business," Asako said.

"Yes, our parents took the choice to fight in the war, but lost. It's not as if they were attacked with the sole intention to orphan us. Out on the battlefield, all is equal. We fight for our homes and make our choices," Mai finished off.

"Well said, you two," Naruto praised. "Anyway, that aside, I also now have memories of the layout of both villages, as well as a couple of secret entrances and other things, so we're in a good position. Those details, however, I will keep to myself, so our warmongers don't try to abuse it."

"That's fine, Naruto, I understand your point. Well, that's enough for today. I'm sure all of you are rather tired of all the official business."

"Alright, see ya jii-san. I've got more training to do now. Ah, I need to work on mastering everything even more now, then I can imitate all the hybrid nature transformations all I want…"

Everybody sweat dropped at Naruto's mumbling, but continued on. The Sandaime told everybody that this was a SS-class secret to reaffirm the severity of the knowledge, which Kakashi, Ibiki, Yugao, and Nadeshiko took to heart. They were being trusted with something special and they wouldn't betray Naruto's trust like that. Naruto, company, and their two new additions left for home soon afterwards.

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