AN: This is my first ever AN. I never had an AN before. You know why? It was actually for a simple reason really.

I didn't want to.

But now that I've seen many fanfiction works, it seems that everyone has some type of AN, so here's mine.

Uhhhhhhhh…

Bleh.

Now on to the story!

DIOMWHWTB CH7

Naruto sighed and shook his head. "Your family died because of Shadow reapers? What, murder? That's the risk you take when you accept this job. I thought one of your age would now that."

"My age?", said Tsuyosa. "What do you mean 'my age'?", he said, a tick mark on his forehead.

Naruto cleared his throat. "I mean, please explain.", he said with a quick smile. He was happy to see that the older man let go of his irritation on Naruto's observation.

Tsuyosa turned around and faced the fire in front of him. For a few moments, he warmed his hands over the fire, trying to figure out where to start.

"Understand this. My family was killed way before I was chosen as a reaper's apprentice.", Tsuyosa started. Naruto shrugged and said, "Hey, all of us reapers have to kill, right? It was just unlucky that your family was picked to die."

Tsuyosa glared at him. Naruto didn't flinch, but at the same time, felt a pang of guilt. Did he say something wrong?

"Luck, huh?", he simply said. Naruto slowly nodded, trying to not piss him off any further. "Yeahhhh, luck. That's all that was.", he said carefully and slowly, ready to stop mid-sentence if he saw a hint of anger.

Instead, Tsuyosa looked over, not with anger, but sadness in his eyes. "Then tell me this.", he said, trying to hold back a sob. "Was it luck that four Shadow reapers came into my home, tortured my family for hours, before leaving them to die of blood loss?"

Naruto opened his mouth in surprise and shock. Finally, after getting over that, he managed to stutter out, "W-What? N-no. No, no, no. That can't be true. Reapers never travel together."

"Well, apparently, these guys didn't know that because they did travel together and killed my family."

Naruto tried to think it through. "Even if that was true, it is really unlikely that four out of the seven Shadow reapers would have compatible darknesses so that they wouldn't kill each other."

"I told you. It happened.", he said through clenched teeth. "I don't care what you say. You may be right. It Is impossible. But, that doesn't change the fact that it happened."

Naruto started to feel an unusual itch and dull throb of pain all over his body. It seemed that Tsuyosa was causing it, but Naruto had no idea how he was doing that.

Then as suddenly as it came, it went. Tsuyosa let out a deep breath and leaned back a little, looking more relaxed. "Enough about me. I don't want anyone knowing about that part of my past. But, now it's your turn to tell me something."

Naruto nodded. "Fine, shoot."

"Why are you here?" was Tsuyosa's simple reply.

Naruto looked at him with confusion. "I don't understand. You mean, why am I still here? Well, I-"

"No.", Tsuyosa interrupted. "I mean, why are you here in this village?"

With only more confusion, Naruto answered, "I live here. I always did all my life."

Tsuyosa grinned. "Ohh, you should have said so. You're a civilian. That makes a lot of sense. I was a little confused when I saw that headband, but-"

"No, no.", Naruto said, shaking his head, "I'm a ninja."

The laughter of Tsuyosa started to piss Naruto off. "You mind telling me why you thought that was funny? Wait, I'm not sitting in animal shit right now, am I?" Naruto tried his best to crane his neck back to see his backside. But of course, that is anatomically impossible unless your neck was already broken. So Naruto attempted to see his backside for a few minutes until Tsuyosa tapped his shoulder.

"What? I'm trying to see if there's crap on my butt. Can you wait?", Naruto said, impatiently. After a short moment, Naruto growled in frustration. "You know what? I'll do this the easy way." He stood up, made the cross hand seal, and said, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

One clone poofed into existence and went around the original. "Nope. Boss, you're clean." With that, the clone dispelled itself.

Naruto smiled to the fact that there was no poo on his pants. But when he bent his head forward to the correct position, he was amused that Tsuyosa had white circles for eyes and an open mouth. Naruto's smile got bigger. "What? Never seen a ninja use a jutsu before?"

Tsuyosa's surprised look turned into a look of disbelief. "Now, I'm the one that's saying it's not possible."

Naruto gave a big grin. "I know. There aren't as many awesome ninjas like me. Don't worry, it's fully possible."

"Not that, you retard.", Tsuyosa meanly spat out. "You have no idea though, do you?"

"About what?"

Tsuyosa shook his head. "It's not that you're are that special or anything. It's just you shouldn't exist."

Naruto's fist clenched as a spark of anger started up in his chest. "You know, the last guy that said that, "You shouldn't exist; you shouldn't be alive" was executed.", he growled.

Tsuyosa looked at him with confusion in his eyes. That made Naruto calm down a little. "What are you talking about, kid? I didn't mean it as a bad thing. It's just that the thing is, many years ago, the Ethereal Reapers had forbidden ninja reapers."

Naruto looked at him, surprised. But, in the inside, he realized that this man didn't know about the Kyuubi, or if he did, didn't either care or know who he was.

"The Ethereal Reapers realized if one who can control chakra, a mixture of mental and physical energies, controlled zeher, a mixture of spiritual and physical energies, then they would become too powerful. All the other reapers wouldn't stand a chance, and if given enough time, all the reapers would start coming out of the Elemental Countries."

"The Ethereal Reapers knew that the Elemental Countries must not gain any more power than now. Currently, the world is in balance. There are many other countries with people of strange abilities. But the range of jutsus is endless. There could be thousands of combinations. So it didn't seem fair to the Ethereal Reapers if the Elemental Countries got a reaper in their forces.", he explained.

Naruto had a blank face for the first part of the explanation. But as he listened, he understood one thing from Tsuyosa.

Ninja Reapers are really powerful.

His grin got even bigger when he figured out that he was the only ninja reaper in existence right now. At the end of the explanation, Naruto just said, "Sweet."

Tsuyosa was not surprised by the boy's reaction. Anyone, except for a certain few, would either go mad with power or just be completely relaxed after learning that they were more powerful than the average folk. He was relieved to see that it was the latter. The former usually end up destroying half the world. I mean, look at Hitler. He was a reaper, a Shadow reaper at the time more specifically. He used the advantage of looking into people's darkness in his favor.

Next thing you know, WWII.

Tsuyosa rubbed his hands together. It was getting a little chilly. He placed his hands a little closer to the crackling fire. "Now", he said, "let's discuss my daughter's servitude" (I actually have no idea if this is the correct word. But it does have servant in it).

"What do you know of reaper servants?", he asked. Naruto shrugged and mumbled 'I don't know'.

Tsuyosa's tick mark returned. "What do you mean "you don't know"? Didn't you learn this from your teacher? And why the hell would you go seal a servant if you don't know what they do?"

Naruto huffed and crossed his arms. "Well, I'm sorry. But I had a crappy teacher. Plus, I didn't even want to seal her. Shadow just took over."

Naruto waited for a response, but it never came. He looked at Tsuyosa and saw that he was looking at him oddly.

"What do you mean Shadow took over?", he asked.

"Do you have shit in your ears? Actually, how would that work? But anyways, Shadow, one of the Ethereal Reapers, the reapers aligned with him you want to kill, you know who I'm talking about, right? He took over my body and made the seal against my will."

Tsuyosa then stared for a moment, took his pinkie finger, cleaned out his ear (which was clean already), and said, "Repeat that for me."

"Huh.", Naruto said, "You don't have shit in your ears. Interesting."

'How is it interesting that I don't have shit in my ears?, thought Tsuyosa. "So what you're telling me is that Shadow took over your body and made my daughter your servant?"

"Uhhh… I think I just said the same exact thing.", Naruto said, "I'm sorry, but I have to ask. Are you deaf and/or retarded?"

Tsuyosa stood up and grabbed him by the collar. "You know, I'm really losing my patience with you."

Naruto looked down at Tsuyosa's hands on the front of his shirt. "And what part of this says you still have patience?"

Tsuyosa was about to throttle the boy when a feminine voice intervened. "That's enough, Tou-san!"

Naruto waved. "Hey, Kotomi." Tsuyosa had not let go of him yet, so it was a little odd that Naruto was still smiling. However, Kotomi didn't acknowledge Naruto's response to her arrival. She just stared at her father with a look Naruto had seen before.

'Geez, that look reminds me of Sakura's look right before she starts yelling and tries to kill me., thought Naruto.

Kotomi spoke up, "I made my choice, tou-san. I don't care what you do and why we're kicked out of villages all the time because it is important to you. But when you start attacking people who I already said won't hurt anyone, that's when I start to stick my nose in everyone's business. Now, tell me why you're trying to kill Uzumaki-san again."

Tsuyosa threw Naruto to the ground, who's hand and landed in the fire, and turned to Kotomi. "You stupid girl! Do you even know what you agreed to?"

Kotomi stood her ground. "I know perfectly. I made the contract to be Uzumaki-san's servant."

"Did you know that he could make you do anything, and you would have to obey? He could send you to your death just for the fun of it."

Kotomi shook her head. "No, I don't think he would. Look at him, tou-san. Does he look like someone who would send someone to their death?", she said as she pointed to the spot where Naruto is, or was. Both Tsuyosa's noticed three things. First, Naruto wasn't near the fire anymore. Second, half the entire forest was on fire which meant that it ignited when they were arguing. Third, Naruto was trying to get the fire off his hands and was rubbing his hands against a tree. When the tree burst into flames, whatever fire that was on Naruto's hands but were snuffed out by the rubbing came back, making Naruto go to the next tree. A sweatdrop traveled down both of the Tsuyosa's foreheads.

"No.", Tsuyosa said, "Right now, he doesn't seem like the person to do that. Right now, he seems like he's a escaped mental patient."

"Uhhhh…. Tou-san?", replied Kotomi nervously as she watched the destruction that Naruto was causing, "Don't you think that we should help him?"

Tsuyosa sighed. He really didn't want to. But if this went on, Naruto would set fire to the entire village before the small fire on his hand went out. Instead of answering Kotomi, he controlled the water of the nearby lake using his zeher and made it rise up. After moving it over the inferno Naruto started, he let the water drop, effectively drenching everything and putting out the fires including the one on Naruto's hand.

Naruto felt crushed when the water first hit him. Kotomi was afraid that the weight of the water had killed him, but was relieved when Naruto sat back up and waved. He let out a tiny "I'm okay".

Kotomi whispered to her father, "Why didn't he go to the lake directly? I mean, you used the water against him in the fight before so he knew that there was water nearby, right?"

Tsuyosa just shook his head. He felt that if he tried to understand half of what had happened ever since Naruto showed up, he would need an entire bottle of aspirin. Instead, he grabbed Kotomi by the arm and started to drag her off. "Come on, we have to pack for you."

Kotomi and Naruto, who had rejoined the two, both said, "Why?"

Tsuyosa slapped his forehead. "Right, sorry. I forgot. You don't know about servants." He turned to Naruto. "For servants to do their duties, it was usually best if the servant lived with their master. Now, it's required."

At that time, Tsunade was sitting at her desk. She gave Shizune the day off, telling her that work had been slow. The truth was she was drinking away, trying to forget some things and at the same time wait for Kakashi to come back.

She was about to take another sip when:

"WHAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!"

A huge yell came from the direction of the training ground. Tsunade jumped a little in surprise, making her breathe in a little. She immediately bent over and started to cough the alcohol out of her trachea.

After she had stopped choking, she sat back at her seat. Not a second later, there was a knock.

"Come in!", she ordered, and a chunin walked in. "Umm, Hokage-sama?", the chunin said nervously, "The council wants to talk about the return of Uzumaki Naruto."

"What?", Tsunade shouted, "How did they figure out?"

"Umm, one of the gate guards was drunk and blurted it out to the entire village."

Tsunade sighed. She was really not in the mood for a council meeting. "Fine, give me a few minutes."

She waited for a those few minutes, and when she realized that Kakashi was not coming, stood up and went to the council meeting room.

As soon as she entered, she could tell that the councilmembers were talking before. She sat down and waved her hand as to start the meeting.

The first person to speak up was Hyuga Hiashi. "Tsunade-sama, is it true that Uzumaki Naruto has returned to Konoha?"

Tsunade merely nodded and the entire room burst into shouting.

"Kill the demon!" was thrown around a lot. Tsunade just yawned. It wasn't like these cowardly civilians would do something. The ninja council was surprisingly quiet, however it might just be the loud, obnoxious shouting of the civilian council that made it hard to say or ask anything.

A poof was heard next to her. She looked at the person who had just arrived. "Kakashi, you're late as usual."

Kakashi gave a little eye smile, where his eye does that upside-down U thing. "I'm sorry, but spying on Naruto took a lot longer than I thought."

After Naruto had left the hospital, Tsunade ordered Kakashi to spy on Naruto to see what other abilities he had gained and if the Kyuubi was responsible for any.

She slammed her fist into the wall behind her, making everyone shut up.

"Now, Kakashi. Report."

He nodded. "After doing surveillance, I saw that Naruto had left for a duel of some kind. I watched him fight with a civilian with unusual abilities."

"And? What's your conclusion?"

"Naruto is not being controlled by the Kyuubi." With that, a couple of civilians relaxed; however, most civilians grumbled under their breath, saying things like, "Maybe not now, but…"

Kakashi leaned down to Tsunade's ear and whispered, "But, I can't say for sure that Naruto isn't being controlled. His skills with these abilities he picked up are beyond Chunin, maybe jounin."

Tsunade nodded at Kakashi's reasoning and yelled, "Meeting adjourned." She grabbed her sake and went back to her office muttering, "That meeting was too short. Waste of my time."

She didn't notice Kakashi walk back with her to her office. She only noticed when she sat down and saw the copy-ninja standing in front of her.

"You still have something else to say?", asked Tsunade. He nodded before reaching into his pouch and taking out a piece of paper with an intricate seal on it. Tsunade's face showed a look of recognition and surprise for a brief moment, but Kakashi caught it and said, "You know what this is then."

Tsunade snorted. "Who doesn't? That seal can record videos and later show them to someone else. It was made after seeing the video cameras the outside world had."

"Since you know what these are then, you'll want to see this." With that, Kakashi poofed out of the room.

Tsunade took another sip of her sake and activated the seal with her chakra. A faint image created from the chakra appeared in place of the seal and showed her most of the battle between that civilian and Naruto. After the video ended, she swiveled around in her chair and looked at one of the pictures hanging over her head.

"You would be proud of him, Sarutobi-sensei. He's grown strong."

"Tsunade-baachan!", she heard behind her. She turned back and looked at the blond that was so obnoxiously calling her.

"What?", she shouted, "Be quick about it. You're giving me a headache."

Naruto pointed to her bottle of sake. "Well, maybe if stop drinking that, you wouldn't have a headache and actually be pleasant to be around."

"What?", she asked, with a tone that said 'say that again, just to make sure I'm beating the crap out of you for the right reason'.

"Nothing!", Naruto said quickly, "Anyways, I need your help."

"No."

"Wait! You didn't even hear what I need your help on. I just need a new house."

"What's wrong with your apartment?"

"Welllll", Naruto said, dragging out the well so long, you could see Tsunade's vein in her forehead. "Spit it out, or I'll throw you out the window."

"Man, grouchy. See, the sake is making you more unpleasant."

"Naruto!"

"All right. Geez, just making an observation. But, I kind of have someone who needs to live with me now."

"Like a friend? I can give them a hotel room or something."

"No, no. Not a friend. More of a… servant."

"Huh?"

END

AN: heheheHeHeHeHEHEHEHEHEHE (clear throat) Sorry about that. Insanity could be a little annoying sometimes. But anyways, tell me what you guys think of the story so far. I really don't care if it's a flame, compliment, threat, or all of the above. Just press the review thing at the bottom.

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