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With Naruto: Two Weeks since Their Return

Naruto got the feeling that Itachi was passive aggressively punishing Naruto for being the bearer of bad news when he reported the failed infiltration attempt in the Hidden Rock village and the death of Itachi's beloved comrade Shishui Uchiha. In truth if Itachi really could peer into his mind like so many of the ANBU commander's opponents thought he could then Naruto was sure the Uchiha protégé would have already killed him.

Naruto turned his attention back to the students that were currently four years away from graduating the academy and shifted uncomfortably under their gaze. He was wearing his stander outfit of a long sleeve black shirt, gray shinobi pants, and black shinobi sandals with mesh armor underneath the clothing along his upper and lower body.

"Shinobi are supposed to focus on stealth and deceit to win their combats, remember you all are not training to be warriors or samurai."

Several hands shot up and Naruto figured what they were going to say, but he decided to face it head on and called on the first boy he came to with his hand up.

He was a young man with medium brown hair a gray top and shorts with a long blue scarf tied around his neck despite the tropical climate of the Land of Fire.

"My grandfather got to be the Hokage with his powers of ninjutsu! Why can't you teach us that?"

Naruto bit back a sigh, thought about what he was going to say and then spoke. "Young man what is your name?"

"Konohamaru" The boy said and Naruto figured that of course the grandson of the Third Hokage would be named for the Leaf village.

"Okay Konohamaru listen up your grandfather is an incredibly powerful man he is very proficient with ninjutsu, but his has become a master of every shinobi art, ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu, not to mention every sub category I can think of, your grandfather Lord Third Hokage excels at them all and that is why he is the exception to the rule. Most ninja that decide to brazenly attack and put on a steady stream of offensive ninjutsu while recklessly partaking in open field combat tend to die very very young that is why the ones that do survive like Lord Hokage are praised for their powers. The majority of you will die if you try to emulate the Hokage."

The classroom erupted into an uproar with several of the students going so far as to jump up and point. Naruto sighed, walked over to the desk he was assigned as a temporary teach, sat down and dropped his hands into his head sighing loudly while he did.

Naruto looked up longingly at the hour glass that the sand was slowly trickling out of. He estimated about five minutes before the sand would be gone which would signal the ending of Naruto's class. Naruto stood up from the desk and spoke in a very loud voice.

"Okay class is dismissed!"

Naruto watched as the kids all leapt from their desks and rush out of the room. Naruto expected nothing less from the young children. He decided then and there that he hated kids. It was worth the suspicion and, what he thought was the punishment from the ANBU commander though for one simple reason, he had in his possession Shishui Uchiha's active Sharingan.

Now Naruto's only obstacle to the power of the Uchiha was finding a way to implant the eyes into his own body. Naruto had hoped that his research into body integration and genetic rewriting would have yielded a feasible way to integrate other kekkei genkai into his body. It was disappointing that his lab was shut down by his current ANBU commander, but if Orochimaru had found a way to integrate the wood style into a person's DNA then Naruto may be able to use the same process to rewrite his genetic code and put the Uchiha genes in allowing him full use of the Sharingan.

Naruto shook his head while he made his way out of the academy building making his way toward the east end of town where Kurenai lived. Over the past few weeks since returning to the village he had taken to occasionally courting the jonin for the first week, but then she started her menstruation and Naruto had decided that a week's break would be beneficial to the budding relationship. Plus he couldn't screw her while she was bleeding and Naruto didn't care for the idea of spending money and doing stuff but with no chance of sex at the end of the night.

"Seriously what's the point of that?" Naruto said to nobody in particular as he made his way through the busy streets of the eastern part of town.

"What is the point of what Naruto?" Naruto heard a familiar voice ask and he jumped for a second in surprise at the fact that someone had snuck up on him but he soon realized why when he saw the Toad Sage Jiraiya walking beside him, the taller man shortening his strides to match Naruto's own.

"Master Jiraiya you startled me, it was nothing just a thought in my head, I was wondering what the point was of going on a date with a woman when it was impossible for that date to end in sex." Naruto deadpanned to Jiraiya.

"There isn't one!" Jiraiya proclaimed as he wrapped his arm around Naruto's shoulder and pulled him against his larger body before he continued speaking animatedly.

"I am so proud of you my student you're already learning all the important things in life." Jiraiya said as pride filled the man's posture.

Naruto did not miss the fact that the Sannin had called him his student, and while Jiraiya had taught Naruto the Rasengan while they were away on their scouting mission the young shinobi never thought the man considered him his student. Naruto though then took a moment as Jiraiya continued to ramble on about women and considered what all he could learn under the tutelage of Jiraiya. Naruto knew his true sensei Madara and that Madara was very power but he realized while his sensei was very capable the man didn't know everything or even most things in the world; Jiraiya could probably teach him many things Madara couldn't.

"I'm sorry Jiraiya sensei, I didn't hear what you said?" Naruto said taking a leap of faith that the Sannin would in fact mentor him.

Jiraiya beamed as he looked at Naruto. "I asked who the lucky girl was."

"Ohh" Naruto said as he placed his hand across his stomach trying to make it seem like a subconscious gesture as he spoke again.

"I don't think I should say, I wouldn't want. . . ." Naruto was interrupted as he was pulled into a side ally by the Sannin who, when Naruto looked at him saw a very serious look on the man's face.

"Naruto the Fox sealed inside you isn't common knowledge the women your age it shouldn't be a factor although the village may act differently toward her so it probably is a good idea you keep it a secret"

Jiraiya said to Naruto but then in the same breath asked.

"So who ya nailing?"

Naruto let out a quick laugh but then gave Jiraiya a leveled look.

"Keep it to yourself?" Naruto asked.

"Of course!" Jiraiya said enthusiastically.

"Kurenai." Naruto said quietly as he turned to exit the alleyway.

"Nice job Naruto." Jiraiya called out, to which Naruto gave a smile as he made his way through the crowd toward Kurenai's house.

Kurenai's Home

Kurenai had just returned from a mission with her genin squad and was currently washing the grime from being outside off of her hands. Hinata and Kiba were both coming along very well, but with Naruto off their team they would need to find another person to fill the fourth spot so they could be a complete team again. The thought of replacing Naruto was a notion none of the members of team eight including herself wanted to think about at the moment, because while Naruto may never have been particularly warm or inviting to any of them he was still their teammate and both Kiba and Hinata had bonded with him. Speaking of that bond, she still hadn't told Hinata what had happened, and what was continuing to happen, with Naruto and her. She was afraid of what her surrogate sister may think of the fact that she was dating her former boyfriend she knew Hinata still carried a torch for Naruto and harbored hopes that the blue eyed young man would make his way back to her but Kurenai didn't see that happening, besides she very much enjoyed being with Naruto he wasn't needy or demanding of her.

She smiled as she thought of her relationship with the young man, he was supposed to have returned from his week-long mission today and was supposed to come see her when he got off his assignment. Their relationship had started to blossom since their return from nearly three months away from the village and she was excited to see where it went, but they still had several major road blocks along the road mainly the way the village saw Naruto as the Nine Tailed Fox and Hinata's feelings for Naruto.

Kurenai set about moving around the kitchen to make dinner for Naruto and herself pulling different meats and vegetables from the various cabinets in her kitchen while she assembled them in several containers. During her visit to Naruto's apartment just before the chunin exams, and the months she spent living with the blue eyed shinobi she came to realize that he didn't cook nor did he go out to eat which lead her to believe that he had existed for the majority of his life solely off the ration bars she found in abundance within the drawers of his apartment. While they were living together she often would cook to keep up appearances and for sustenance for herself, but Naruto rarely ate anything cook and instead opted for the ration bars he brought with him on the mission. Those things tasted like dirt in Kurenai's opinion but she supposed if someone had eaten them their entire life it wouldn't really matter. She knew she wasn't the greatest cook in the world but she wasn't worried anything she cooked would taste better than the ration bars he had come to exist off of.

Once she had the metal trays she had taken out filled with the food she had prepared she moved down and lit the wood within her wood burning oven and placed the trays of food overtop. She figured she had about ten minutes before the food would be ready so she decided that it would be in her best interest to go take a shower and change so she would both look and feel her best for Naruto. Kurenai began to walk through the house while be started to unravel the bandages on her arms. She entered her bedroom and placed the rolls of bandages atop her night stand while she went to her closet and selected a sundress to wear, also pulling fresh undergarments while she was there.

Once she had her attire selected Kurenai proceeded to her bathroom and popped the cap on the warm water allowing it to project across the length of the tub as she shucked out of her bandaged style shinobi dress and stepped beneath the water allowing it to cascade down her body. A gentle sigh escaped her lips. She noted she had a few bruises and cuts along her pale skin as a result of the last mission her team went on. She decided that sharing an apartment with her current male interest was a much better assignment than jumping through the forest chasing a cat. With those thoughts being entertained she reached for her soap, rubbed the bar between her hands and then proceeded to lather her body with the soap wincing slightly as the disinfecting suds got into the small cuts she had.

She exited the shower and rolled her shoulders, she felt really good now that she was clean with the grim of the mission and training her squad complete. She reached up and plugged the warm water cap in her shower while she took a towel from a nearby rod and ran it over her body to dry herself. Kurenai pulled her sundress over her body and looked at herself in the mirror, the yellow sundress she had picked emphasized her womanly curves. She leaned down and wrapped a towel over her head to allow it to dry and opened the door to leave the bathroom to return to the kitchen so she could check the food.

Kurenai walked into the kitchen and took the metal trays off of the stove and placed them on her counter while she busied herself with putting the additional seasoning on them when she heard a knock at the door.

Kurenai froze, was Naruto early?

Kurenai furiously ran the towel along her hair before she tossed the towel into her bathroom and checked her appearance in the mirror, straightening her hair with her fingers and making sure she looked okay before she opened the door and called out to Naruto. "Hey your ear. . . . . ."

Anko stood on the other side of the door grinning and eating a stick of dango. "Ohh Kurenai where you expecting someone else?"

Anko then brazenly walked past Kurenai and into Kurenai's home much too said woman's objection.

"Anko what are you doing here?" Kurenai asked irritated at her best friend's intrusion.

"Well let's see, I haven't seen you since you got back from your hush hush mission, you haven't take the time to visit me and you clearly were expecting someone, so spill who is it?" Anko asked as she sat down and casually plucked a piece of fruit Kurenai had laid out on the table and began to eat it.

"Anko do you ever stop eating?" Kurenai asked as she sat down and cupped her face in her hands clearly annoyed at the intrusion.

"When I sleep, so who ya waitin on?" Anko quipped back at the older jonin looking intently at Kurenai.

"I am expecting someone he should be here any minute please Anko." Kurenai asked in a pleading tone while she watched her friends eyes light up at the mention of 'he', she sighed, Kurenai knew what was coming next.

"He? He who come on Kurenai don't hold back on me know who is this 'he'?" Anko asked very excitedly.

"Anko I can't tell you that we are keeping our relationship a secret for now it is important that it stays that way."

"Aww Kurenai come on you can tell me. When have I ever let you down?" Anko said pleadingly her eyes widening and her grin stretching to the limits of her face as she spoke.

Kurenai thought about that for a moment and while she knew Anko liked to gossip the woman had always been true to her and never let her down, plus Naruto would be here soon and she would like for their private night together to stay that way. She made a choice.

"It's Naruto." Kurenai said in a flat tone of voice and took in the look of utter surprise that crossed Anko's face. As she took in her friends face she thought quietly to herself that Anko couldn't look more surprised if she had just struck her.

"Kurenai what! Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki, quiet kid like sixteen years old."

"Eighteen" Kurenai corrected.

"Okay he is eighteen and you are twenty seven, so besides the age difference there is the little matter of him being your student and the freaking Nine Tailed Jinchuriki! I know he isn't the fox but everyone in the village will ostracize you for being with him. It sucks but people like Naruto are best left alone and should be given a wide berth."

"Anko seriously this coming from you?" Kurenai stated clearly implying her past with the snake Sannin.

"Kurenai I'm not trying to be bigoted or mean, but you are my best friend and I care for you. I'm sure Naruto is a nice guy and that you enjoy being with him but the entire village will hate you for it just like they hate him. I couldn't bear to know my best friend will have a miserable life because of who she chooses to be with."

Kurenai nodded. "I understand your concern Anko but I do enjoy being with him and besides he is a really private person and tends to stay away from everyone so I doubt he will make a public spectacle of us. Honestly I am just glad he is finally showing some level of emotion."

Anko looked at Kurenai on that one and broke into a very wide grin. "Ohh he is talented in other ways Kurenai?"

What she was implying wasn't lost on Kurenai and the woman couldn't help but blush. "Umm he is adequate."

Anko broke into a small laugh as she looked at her friend. "That's all? Come on girl details! How big is he? How long does he last?"

"Anko please not now he is supposed to be here soon." Kurenai said cutting Anko off before she could continue onward with her questions which would most likely make Kurenai even more embarrassed.

"Okay okay." Anko said as she raised up her hands in a placating gesture and walked toward the door just as she heard a sudden knock on it and froze.

Kurenai grabbed Anko and spun her around before mouthing 'bedroom window' to her purple haired friend and went to answer the door. She waiting until she saw Anko disappear into her bedroom before she opened the door and saw Naruto standing on the other side of the door and she beamed a smile at the young man.

"Naruto come in." She said as she opened the door wider.

Naruto: The Next Morning

Naruto shifted in the bed slightly trying to adjust his body so that the arm Kurenai was currently curled against would wake up again. He hated spooning. He ran his hand experimentally over her naked body and appreciated every curve he found. Naruto found her to be a lot of fun, and the meal she had prepared was enjoyable as well. Naruto felt Kurenai stir next to him and he reached his hand out and twirled a long lock of her black hair in his fingers for a few moment before he felt Kurenai spin on his arm. In the next instant she was facing him with her eyes half lidded as she leaned over to kiss him gently.

"Good morning." She mumbled as she pressed her head into his chest and let out a content sigh.

His former jonin leader was obviously not a morning person. Naruto pulled Kurenai against himself but then asked a question in a small voice so only her right ear could hear him.

"Didn't you say something about a team meeting this morning to prepare them for the chunin exams that are taking place in a few months in the Sand village?" And Naruto then smirked when he felt Kurenai go stiff and pull her head back from his chest her eyes wide.

"Damnit you're right Naruto I gotta get going." Kurenai said as she all but threw herself out of the bed and began to get dressed.

Naruto watched her hurry about to get dressed quietly enjoying the way her breasts and butt bounced as she quickly moved about the room grabbing the items she would need for her team meeting. She pulled on a fresh set of undergarments and placed her dress over her as she grabbed her ninja gear and started toward the door, but she paused and moved back over to the bed and planted a hard kiss on Naruto's lips, pulled back, gave him a wink, and started out of her apartment.

"I'll come by your place later if you're free maybe we can spend some more time together." Kurenai said in a promising tone as she exited out of the bedroom and later her apartment leaving Naruto naked and alone in her bed.

Naruto raised his hands up over his head and stretched his body before he spun toward the side of the bed stood up, and proceeded to walk toward the shower figuring Kurenai wouldn't mind if he bathed himself before he left. Naruto popped the water tap and ducked underneath the flowing water basking in the warmth while he began to scrub his body. He had the day off and naturally had big plans for his day, he had finally completed the Wind Style: Rasengan last week and was now working on being able to throw the new Rasengan while Naruto was also contemplating improving the jutsu into an ever more destructive force.

Naruto may have detested using such devastating ninjutsu as it often gave away ones presence and the uniqueness of several top level jutsu would give away who the shinobi was that had used it. Whenever there was evidence of a Lighting Blade jutsu used everyone knew it was Kakashi Hatake who was responsible. Naruto had no desire to be identified because he used a jutsu only he used and left evidence behind. That was one of the reasons he preferred genjutsu when the situation called for a jutsu. Genjutsu rarely, if ever left evidence behind to allow someone to figure out who the person who cast it was.

Naruto returned the cork to the water tap and exited the bath drying himself with a towel while he moved into the bedroom to find his cloths. It didn't take him long to find his discarded clothing so Naruto put his outfit back on and proceeded to leave Kurenai's house, locking the door behind him as he left. It was only once he was descending the small three step staircase in front of Kurenai's door that he heard a voice behind him.

"You reek of sex."

Naruto smiled and without turning around greeted the speaker.

"Hello Kabuto what brings you to this part of town?"

In the next second Kabuto appeared next to Naruto and the two began to walk in step with each other down the east side of the Leaf village right down the main street. It was Naruto who broke the silence first his voice barely a whisper.

"I thought you didn't want to talk to me in public."

"That was before the exam where we gained the ability to say that we met there and have become friendly." Kabuto said his fake smile beaming at Naruto.

Naruto nodded, that would do. "So what does he want?" Naruto asked implying the snake Sannin with the word he.

"He wants the deal you made to be complete within the month and he said as a gesture of good faith he would give you half now." Kabuto responded and Naruto felt the man covertly drop something into one of his pants pockets in such a way that nobody else could have seen it.

Naruto nodded. "I will have what he wishes for in two weeks' time."

Kabuto nodded and spoke to Naruto briefly looking at the boy before he turned his attention back to the road. "Glad to hear that I will arrange a time and a place for an escort."

"Sounds good, is there anything else my 'dear friend'" Naruto said in a mock playful voice to Kabuto and noted that the young man was looking down pensively thinking.

"No that will be all I will arrange a time and a place for you later."

"Very well until then." Naruto said and nodded as Kabuto branched onto one of the side roads and vanished into the crowd.

Naruto turned his attention back to where he was going and took to the roof tops moving so quickly that only ninja with the highest skill would have been able to see him let alone keep up with him. He quickly arrived where he wanted to and set about creating a shadow clone. Raising his hands in crossed ram seals he spawned another of his clones and proceeded to engage it in a fierce taijutsu match. Once Naruto concluded the match he dispelled the clone and began to work on his Rasengan training hoping to either find a way to throw the wind style Rasengan or to improve it to an even higher level. It would be his plan z, if everything else went horribly wrong and Naruto had to pull something out to either kill or escape an opponent it would be that jutsu, if he could ever get it to work right.

With Kurenai: Team 8 Training Ground

"So what do you two think? Would you like to pick up a third teammate and participate in the chunin exams that are supposed to be happening in the Hidden Sand village?" Kurenai asked as she looked expectantly at her team.

Hinata and Kiba were both covered in sweat while they sat beneath the shade of a large tree, exhausted after a hard day of training. She was impressed with the progress of her team, especially Hinata who had almost completely eliminated the stutter she had. Kiba was becoming stronger but also he was showing a greater level of calm and insight into situations instead of approaching each obstacle with a maximum amount of speed force and velocity. They had both come a long way and she figured that both of them would be ready to be made chunin of the Leaf.

"Were in." Kiba said as he laid back and relaxed against the tree. Hinata nodded confirmation to Kurenai and the woman beamed at the both of them.

"I am proud of you both I know the two of you are ready to become chunin." Kurenai said with a smile as a sense of pride filled her, although she couldn't help but picture Naruto sitting under the shade of the tree with them cooling off from practice. She often found she missed having the young man as a part of her team, but she was, in a way, glad that he had been promoted to ANBU black ops it meant that their romantic relationship could flourish.

"Very well you two are dismissed." Kurenai said and she turned toward the Leaf village and was just starting to walk toward Naruto's house when she felt a presence beside her.

"Kurenai sensei." Kiba said as Kurenai watched him come walk beside her.

"What is it Kiba?" Kurenai said in a patient motherly voice.

"What is going on with you and Naruto?" Kiba asked as he looked down at Kurenai.

"Whatever do you mean Kiba? Naruto and I . . ." Kurenai began before Kiba cut her off.

"I can smell him on you, his scent is very strong, and the two of you spent a lot of time very close together just like. . ."

Kurenai quickly moved forward and covered Kiba's mouth with her hand silencing the boy. "Naruto and I have gotten close yes, but you cannot say anything about it to anyone especially Hinata it would destroy her."

Kiba backed away from his sensei and spoke to the red eyed woman in a low harsh voice. "You're sleeping with your student's former boyfriend, a man who was also your student, I can't believe you would do something like this Kurenai sensei."

Kurenai took a breath and forced herself to calm down before she responded. "Kiba Naruto and I are both adults and while I know there is a lot of history between us we have both made the choice together to see each other can you not respect our freedom of choice?"

Kurenai watched Kiba open and close his mouth a few times looking like he had something to say but then thought better of it and kept it to himself. Kurenai allowed herself a brief moment of satisfaction before she turned and began walking toward her lover's apartment while leaving a baffled Kiba Inuzuka in her wake.

With Naruto

Naruto entered his apartment and immediately turned into his bed room where he spotted a gray haired man just a few years older than he was sitting on his bed. Naruto sighed to himself and nodded to his fellow spy.

"Ohh Kabuto it's just you." Naruto said as he made his way to his cabinet and produced two bottles of water out of them, and tossed one to Kabuto before he opened his and took a long drink of the contents.

"Expecting someone else Naruto, could it be Kurenai?" Kabuto asked knowingly a smirk settling across his face as he popped the cap on the bottle of water Naruto had thrown to him and took a drink.

"Yup I was hoping she was here so I could nail her a few times, finding you was kind of disappointing though."

"I think you initial plan would have been very uncomfortable for us both." Kabuto said and Naruto let out a slight shiver that was not a mental image he cared for.

"So where will this meeting place be?" Naruto asked as he observed the spy.

"Lord Orochimaru will have a group of four shinobi waiting for you to bring the Uchiha vessel to them five miles north of the village toward the Land of Rice Patties boarder. They will be standing by starting tomorrow and will continue to wait there until you bring what you promised our lord. Then you will be escorted to Lord Orochimaru's hideout where he will give you the process by which he infused the Wood Style into a living test subject."

Naruto nodded it was a solid plan and he doubted that if he managed to swipe an Uchiha from the village that it would go unnoticed the Uchiha police force and the ANBU would probably be all over him.

"That plan sounds adequate." Naruto stated as he placed a small bundle of books he had brought home with him from his training excursion on his counter top.

It was then that a knock was heard at the door and Naruto gave Kabuto a stern look. It didn't take Kabuto long to pick up on it and his fellow spy and temporary ally went out the window while he opened the door to find a beautiful red eyed jonin waiting for him on the other side. Naruto smiled as he reached out and pulled her into the room closing the door behind her. It took Naruto less than a second to discard the woman of her dress before he ran his hand down the length of her inner thigh and bite her ear lightly before whispering to her.

"It's been a long day, I want you."

Then the soon to be traitor of the Leaf village pulled one of the villages most loyal jonin up along the inner wall of his living room and took her.

Naruto: One Week Later

Naruto moved quickly along the roof tops beneath the August twilight the light would occasionally reflect off the ANBU mask he wore Naruto touched the large metal case he had strapped to his back; it contained all the information Naruto had been able to gather on the Leaf village plus all the items he got from his information sale with the Hidden Rock village. Today was Fugaku Uchiha's birthday and Naruto's day to make his move. He skillfully opened the latch leading to the catering service the Uchiha had hired and landed soundlessly in the back room where the food and drink that the Uchiha had ordered for the party tonight. Naruto withdrew several long flasks from within his ANBU cloak. Naruto then methodically laced every piece of food and every drop of drink he could find with the artificial pain killer Naruto had managed to synthesis back when his lab was still active.

He figured that the pain killers would make the Uchiha police force and the members of the Uchiha clan far weaker and disoriented for several hours after ingestion. It would allow him time to take one of the Uchiha to Orochimaru so he could obtain the system to implement the Wood Style into his own body.

Naruto had just finished lacing the food and drink the Uchiha clan had ordered when he heard footsteps on the other side of the door so Naruto quickly leapt back up through the skylight and landed soundlessly on the roof. He had an hour or so to kill before it was time to make his move so he casually went about his actual assignment of patrolling the village for the hour making sure to end up by the Hyuga clan compound toward the end of his hour and he slipped down the side of the wall and around the guards making his way to the Branch family housing. It didn't take him long to locate the Neji Hyuga the prodigy of the Hyuga clan. Naruto originally tried to hide from the boy but it proved to no avail because a second later Neji called out to Naruto.

"Come out I know you're there."

Naruto muttered a curse beneath his breath, Neji must have activated his Byakugan, and nothing could hide from those eyes. Naruto approached the older boy cautiously and produced the scroll from the depths of his ANBU cloak unravelling it in one smooth motion.

"Is that?" Neji asked his voice full of what sounded to Naruto like hope.

"This Neji Hyuga is the key that will unlock the Caged Bird Seal."

Neji started trembling and he approached Naruto slowly his hand outstretched but Naruto pulled the scroll back and tucked it away in his cloak. In the next instant Neji assumed a fighters stance.

"With that scroll I can reverse fate! I need it hand it over or I will take it."

Naruto responded swiftly, fighting the boy would serve no purpose and he needed Neji and the Hyuga clan as a distraction, plus the possibility to eliminate one of the most powerful clans in the Leaf village would go a long way toward his ultimate goal of destroying the Leaf village.

"I fully intent to give it to you I just wish to know that the Branch house will rise up once they have the key and overtake the main house."

Neji seemed to think on that for a moment before a thought seemed to strike him and Naruto felt a lump grow in his chest at what Neji may ask next.

"You're an ANBU of the village serving under the Hokage why do you want the Hyuga clan to fight itself?"

Naruto smiled behind the mask. "The Hokage sanctioned it Neji, he has grown tired of the Main branches' barbaric ways and wants the Hyuga clan to live as equals. That is why I was tasked with the mission of breaking the Caged Bird Seal that is why I am here with you know Neji Hyuga so that we both can serve our village!"

Naruto gave what he hoped was an impassionate speech. He watched as Neji's chest swelled with what he assumed was pride and the boy dropped the gentle fist stance and opened his hand for the scroll.

"Neji your orders are to unseal the members of the branch house with this scroll and then in one hour the Branch houses should attack the Main house. This is your chance Neji Hyuga your chance for revenge for justice and for your family. Good Luck." With those words Naruto thrusted the scroll into the hands of the Hyuga prodigy and left the compound highly anticipating what was to come.

It was then that the sun finally dropped beneath the horizon and Naruto made his way toward the Uchiha compound wrapped in his ANBU uniform and moving with sinister purpose.

It was then that it happened. Foul chakra started to well up from the outskirts of the village, a chakra so intense that even Naruto who wasn't a sensory type shinobi felt it. It was cold, dark, deep, and very malicious it set the hairs on Naruto's entire body on edge and he skidded to a halt along the roof tops his discipline faltering for a second before he regained his feet and continued on his way to the Uchiha compound where the party should have been going on for at least an hour.

Naruto arrived at the Uchiha compound just as the foul chakra he felt on the rooftops on the other side of the village grew to encompass the entire village. All around Naruto shinobi were mobilizing the ANBU were out in full force but he had yet to see any of the Uchiha police force. That was a good sign it meant that most likely his drug had taken effect. Naruto moved in absolute silence as he approached the Uchiha compound, the first thing he noted was several of the Uchiha guard were passed out in the lawn so Naruto took this as a golden opportunity to damage the Leaf even further.

He landed and opened the throats of the seven shinobi passed out in the lawn.

Naruto continued through the compound clinging to the roof tops as a giant surge of evil chakra went through the village and Naruto looked up just in time to see a large building tumble down to rubble. Had the Hidden Rock village attacked so soon? Naruto wondered as he moved through one of the buildings and took care of three more Uchiha clan members that were passed out before he finally found what he was looking for. Sasuke Uchiha lay on his stomach obviously inebriated and most likely drugged from the copious amounts of narcotic pain killer Naruto had put in the food and drink.

Naruto wasted no time in lifting Sasuke up and rushing quickly out of the Uchiha compound before he was spotted, he made it all the way to the wall of the Hidden Leaf village and began to move along it until he could find a point that was unguarded. Naruto realized he didn't need to bother with that because every shinobi that was supposed to be guarding the wall was missing, and once Naruto got to the top of the wall he realized why.

The Nine Tailed Demon Fox had reformed.

Naruto realized in an instant that nothing could have been a bigger and more deadly distraction than an attack from that! Although Naruto was sure the Hyuga clan was tearing itself apart fighting one another now that the seal of the main household had been broken nothing was more fearsome that the greatest of the Tailed beasts. Naruto immediately felt a surge of regret at not having transplanted Shishui Uchiha's eyes yet so he could have potentially gained control of the beast.

Naruto lowered Sasuke onto the wall for a brief moment and withdrew a syringe and plunged it into the young Uchiha's arm it was the paralyzing agent he had used once before on Shishui and it would keep Sasuke from moving a single muscle for some time. With that Naruto took off toward the Land of Rice Patties to meet with the Sannin Orochimaru to give him the body of Sasuke Uchiha while the Nine Tailed Fox began its deadly assault on the Leaf village.

It didn't take Naruto long to meet up with the shinobi that Orochimaru had waiting for him. He landed quietly in a small clearing that was filled with four people, three men and a single female. They nodded to him and he began to follow them to Orochimaru's lair.

Orochimaru's lair: Two Days Later

Orochimaru sat in a chair covered in bandages with the spy Kabuto at his side tending to his every need. Naruto found Kabuto's admiration for the man to be a bit on the fanatical side, but as much Kabuto seemed to show nothing but admiration for the man the large wooden figure sitting next to Orochimaru didn't share the spy's affection.

"Orochimaru how much longer until you can return to the field? You know I hate to be kept waiting." Bellowed out the monotone of a ninja Naruto was quickly coming to fear, Sasori of the Red Sand the puppet master of the Sand village and quite possibly the greatest ninja that village had ever produced.

"Kukuku Sasori patients my dear partner we will return to the road soon, now Naruto my boy why don't you tell us how the Nine Tailed Fox managed to attack the Leaf village when all of our intelligence said that it was you who contained the Fox."

"That's right I am interested in that as well." Sasori bellowed out while Kabuto stiffened, despite whatever else Kabuto and Naruto where the two of them had developed a sort of comradery Naruto had no wish to see the spy's life cut short and he was pretty sure Kabuto felt the same toward him, but that didn't really mean that he would lift a finger to help him if Sasori decided to attack.

"I released it from its seal as a distraction so I could bring your new body to you Lord Orochimaru." Naruto said smoothly. It was a lie he had practiced many times since he started toward Orochimaru's hideout.

"How did you survive then?" Sasori questioned and Naruto got the distinct feeling that he didn't believe him.

It was Kabuto that chimed in this time. "Because he is an Uzumaki, they are a clan reputable for their incredible life force there have been stories of the first Hokage's wife unsealing the Fox from her body and surviving it."

Naruto nodded to Sasori and the man seemed to accept that. Then Orochimaru spoke. "Very well Naruto you have well-earned your reward Kabuto take him to our special hideout and see to it that he is reward with the process we promised him. You did very well Naruto kukukuk we may become excellent friends."

Naruto stifled a shiver from the way Orochimaru's tone sounded, he then bowed respectfully to the Sannin and then to the puppet master before he followed Kabuto out of the hide out they were currently in.

One Week later

"So this is the place huh?" Naruto said as they came to a stop just outside of the hideout.

"Look Naruto I should warn you the person we have guarding the research lab can be kind of quick to action and her jutsu is formidable."

No sooner had Kabuto finished his sentence that a large shard of what looked like pink crystal came flying from several directions causing both shinobi to leap away Naruto's eyes were quickly scanning the area for the enemy and he spotted her standing with her head cocked to one side in a green kimono that had a white flower on the front of it and a smug look on her face.

"Guren is that any way to treat the right hand of our Lord and our Lord's newest guest?" Kabuto asked in a condescending tone.

"Please if you two were so weak than Lord Orochimaru would be thanking me for getting rid of you."

"Naruto this is Guren she will be keeping you company for your duration of time here, now I need to get going I need to infiltrate the Hidden Cloud village for Lord Orochimaru have fun you two."

"Impressive jutsu, I hope we can become good friends Guren." Naruto said to the blue haired girl as he looked her over.

Naruto took a second to size up the female shinobi and immediately judged her talent with the crystal as 'very useful' and followed her into the laboratory hideout. It didn't take Naruto long to find the notes, tanks, formula, and sequence to implement the first Hokage's Wood Style into his body. It was very risky he realized only one of Orochimaru's experiments survived. Naruto shrugged his shoulders and decided that he would come back to it later for now he had more pressing matters.

Naruto formed the Ram seal and created five shadow clones and then laid down on the table Orochimaru's lab had for test subjects. Naruto then removed the metal case he had strapped to his back and placed it onto the table withdrew some alcohol and poured it into a large tin before dunking several surgical implements into it. Naruto then went to the door and called for Guren, the woman appeared rather quickly with a slightly annoyed look on her face.

"Guren I have something I need to do in here it will be very loud so I need you to promise me that no matter what you here you won't come in."

"Ohh don't worry about that I was only tasked with showing you the lab Kabuto never said anything about helping you!" The woman said as she turned and walked away laughing loudly.

Naruto sighed, shut the door, locked it, and went to the table in the center of the room and proceeded to have his five clones strap him down. One of the clones gave him an injection of the paralyzing agent and another gave him an injection of his synthetic pain killer Naruto had a feeling he was going to need it.

Finally a clone appeared over top of him with a scalpel and lowered it to his eye. Naruto braced himself just as the paralyzing agent kicked in and he resisted screaming as the clone cut into his eye.

It had been three hours since Naruto had strapped himself to the table and now he was covered in sweat as the last of his clones removed the straps that held the young man down. The world looked different to him now, things were crisper, clearer, and he could see the way some of the chakra flowed around. Naruto went to the only mirror in the room and gazed in it.

Gone were the crystal blue eyes that so many people had come to know him by, and in their place stared red eyes with three black tomoe in them. The eyes of a dead man. The eyes of Shishui Uchiha.

Naruto had finally obtained the Sharingan!