Previously:

Raiga launched himself at Lee and swung down his sword...

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Blood flew...from Raiga's mouth as Naruto suddenly appeared and kicked him away. In mid-flight Raiga spun around and dug his swords into the ground, slowing himself down to a halt.

Raiga was crouched over nursing his jaw and thought, 'What the hell was behind that kick? There was way to much power and force behind that kick to be achieved by a little brat like him' Raiga rubbed his sore jaw and discovered that it was cold to the touch, deciding to put it off till later he looked up at the still air-born Naruto

Naruto landed on his feet and quickly melted the ice he encased his foot in and looked at Raiga, he then smirked and said, "Naruto Uzumaki arrives"

Raiga stands up to his full height and angrily says, "You damn brat!"

"Hey, there's something I want to ask you" Naruto said as he gazed at his opponent

"You were one of the Seven Shinobi Swordsmen, right?" Naruto asked

"So what if I was?" Raiga angrily replied

"So you know Zabuza Momochi right? You also know Kisame Hoshigaki right?" Naruto asked after

Raiga just stared at Naruto with an angry look on his face, Raiga then spoke in a dangerously furious tone, "I hate them. Who wants to remember them?" Raiga then snarled, "And I also hate you!"

Raiga charged at Naruto with his swords raised to kill, however Naruto ducked Raiga's first swing and jumped away. Naruto was then shocked to see one of Raiga's swords coming out of his chest.

Raiga had quickly turned around and jumped after Naruto, he was very soon close enough to stab his sword through Naruto's heart. Raiga let out a satisfied grin, at least until Naruto suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Bunshin?" Raiga asked himself. He then landed only to feel the blade of a kunai at his throat.

"You're weaker than before, you know that?" Naruto asked from behind Raiga.

Raiga only snorted and tapped his two swords together, generating electricity and sent it to Naruto, who just jumped away in time.

"What is that?" Naruto asked

"Your death! Raikyuu! (Lightning Ball)" Raiga formed a ball of lightning in between his swords and sent it straight at Naruto's chest.

Naruto felt volt upon volt of electricity course through his body, he screamed as he was launched back and roughly landed a couple of feet away. He struggled to get back up, however Raiga had other plans.

"Your pretty stubborn gaki" Raiga said as he made another lightning ball "Raikyuu" Raiga yelled as he launched the ball at Naruto.

Naruto tensed and screamed

Lightning ball after lightning ball was fired at Naruto, who found himself unable to dodge. Naruto fell once more and Raiga smirked, figuring him to finally be dead. However Naruto just grunted and stood back up.

"That didn't hurt at all" Naruto said with a smirk of his own

"I'll be sure not to remember your smiling face" Raiga said as he fired yet another lightning ball at Naruto. Seeing Naruto fly backwards again Raiga smirked, then looked up in remembrance, "Ranmaru, where are you?"

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Neji and Tenten were standing over the bag that was launched from Raiga's back with puzzled looks on their faces.

"What is this bag?" Tenten asked

"Let's find out, Byakugan" Neji looked into the bag, only to see a chakra circulatory system in it, "Inside of this..." Neji said until both his and Tenten's eyes widened slightly

The bag started emitting a red aura and a bit of it raised above the bag. To Neji's byakugan eyes a chakra circulatory system was built right on front of him.

"He's creating chakra circulatory systems!" Neji yelled. Looking into the bag again he suddenly sees two pure red eyes open and turn to look at him. Neji then looked to Naruto who was about twenty feet away and yelled out, "Naruto, use Kage Bunshin!"

Naruto, struggling to get back up shakily said, "But just now Kage Bunshin was..."

"Don't worry, Raiga's eyes are right here" Neji says back

Looking to the bag Raiga then yells out, "Ranmaru! After I defeat this guy, I'm going to save you!"

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" Naruto said as over two dozen of himself appear in puffs of smoke.

Raiga looked around to see himself surrounded by Naruto's. He touched his swords together and generated lightning and through it at a group of clones while yelling, "Raikyuu"

A couple of Naruto clones dispelled and the others taunted Raiga, "What? Was all that before just luck?"

Raiga just looked up and smirked saying, "Don't mess around. All I have to do is defeat them all!"

Naruto clones charged at Raiga, but Raiga just kept shooting off lightning and destroying the clones. The rest of the clones all jumped to dive bomb Raiga, but he just raised his swords up above him and electrocuted all of the Naruto's, thus making them disperse.

'At this rate, me chakra will...' Raiga thought as he stopped the lightning and looked and saw new Naruto clones around him. Raiga looked on and and thought 'The mist...The mist is fading. Damn it! I'll have to finish this now!' Raiga then charged a large amount of electricity and stabbed his swords into the ground.

Naruto looked on as the charged lightning destroyed some of his clones and started climbing the cliff face.

Raiga then pulled his swords out and ran to and up the lightning charged cliff.

"I won't let you get away!" The Naruto's yelled as they ran after Raiga

Raiga sheathed his swords and made a couple of hand sings as the Naruto's chased after him. "Ninpo: Hi no Hagane (Wings of the Sun)"

The ground below Raiga suddenly exploded as huge boulders came crashing down on the still running Naruto's.

"Naruto!" Neji yelled as he and Tenten heard many pops coming from the land slide.

Raiga reached the top of the cliff and looked down to see only smoke and no Naruto. "See that?" He asked himself smugly.

"Yea! I saw that!" Came an unexpected reply

Raiga turned around shocked to see Naruto in the air behind him holding a swirling mass of chakra.

From within the bag at Neji's side and from the side of the cliff came two cries of, "Stop it!"

Naruto's heard the cries and thought to himself 'I can't stop in time!'

Naruto's Rasengan hit Raiga in the stomach and Raiga screamed as he was forced into the air and sent flying into the distance to his death.

Naruto landed and said to himself, "I did it"

He was about to jump down the cliff to join his teammates when he suddenly heard someone scream in rage.

"How dare you!" Came the female voice

Naruto only had time to see his attackers bright silver hair before he was flooded with foreign chakra, making him scream and pass out due to the sudden and extreme pain.

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Neji, Tenten and Lee's eyes widened when they suddenly hear a girl scream in rage and Naruto scream in pain.

"Byakugan!" Neji yelled as he looked up to where Naruto was. He grimaced and said to the others, "We have company, and it's not friendly"

The other two turn to see someone land in front of them. On closer inspection they could see Naruto draped over the person's shoulder.

The person grabbed Naruto and flung him onto the ground in a heap.

"What have you done to Naruto!" Lee asked angrily

The figure turned to Lee and lowered its hood, revealing that the person was a female.

She stood at about 5 foot 6 and looked to be around thirteen or fourteen years of age. She had bright silver hair and emerald green eyes. They also saw that she had a beauty mark on her left cheekbone.

"He got what he deserved for killing Raiga-sama!" the girl yelled back

"He was our enemy, it was our mission to defeat him" Neji said

"That didn't mean you had to kill him!" The girl yelled, with tears starting to form in her eyes. "He saved me...he saved my life...he took me in...kept me safe, kept me alive....And you killed him! Its only fair that your friend gets the same thing in exchange!"

"What did you do to him?" Tenten yelled out

"I poisoned him with my chakra, he's dying as we speak" The girl replied

"What?" Neji yells as he uses his Byakugan to look at Naruto's chakra. He suddenly gasps when he sees an eerie purple chakra destroying his regular blue chakra. "There's purple chakra inside of his body, and its destroying him from the inside out!"

"Is there any way to help him!" Lee exclaims

Before Neji can answer the girl interrupts, "Only I can heal him. Its my chakra inside of him, and only I can take it out"

Lee frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

"Since you want to know I'll tell you, its Tsuki Hana. Now I have a proposition for you three" Tsuki replied

"And what would that be?" Neji asked

"If you give me Ranmaru and let us leave in peace, I'll heal your friend" Tsuki said

"Ranmaru?" Tenten asked

"He's inside that bag at your side. I'll repeat myself, let me and him leave in peace and I'll take all of the poison chakra out of your friend" Tsuki replied

While the four were talking no one noticed Naruto twitching on the ground and grinding his teeth. He was currently inside his mind trying to eliminate all of the poison chakra flowing through him.

xxx Mindscape xxx

Naruto opened his eyes and gazed at what was all around him. He was standing in the middle of a huge flowery meadow with a forest at all ends of it. He gazed at all of the different flowers around him as well as the pond a few feet from him and smiled, remembering when his old sewer mindscape changed to this. He looked up into the sky only to see a dark purple cloud above him. He thought of how he was going to cure himself when he was torn from his thoughts when he saw a woman walking towards him.

The woman looked to be around twenty-five years of age and around 5 foot 8 inches tall. She had dark red hair that cascaded down to the small of her back and red-slitted eyes that emitted love and kindness. She wore a deep red kimono with white foxes on it, and had nine red and white-tipped tails lazily swaying behind her. On a closer inspection a collar could be seen around her neck with the kanji for "seal" on it.

The woman stopped in front of Naruto and pulled him into a hug, to which Naruto returned happily.

"Isagi-kaa-san" Naruto said as he hugged the woman tighter

"My little kit, it so good to see you again. If only it could have been under better terms" Isagi replied

Naruto looked up and asked, "Can you help me get rid of all of the poison chakra?"

Isagi smiled and hugged Naruto tighter. Bright red chakra began to emit from Isagi and it went into the sky. The bright red chakra began to fight the purple chakra back. After about five minutes the purple chakra was destroyed, and the bright blue sky returned to normal.

Isagi released the hug and said to Naruto, "There, its done. Just make sure not to let it happen again okay?"

Naruto nodded and said, "Of course Kaa-san. I'll be more careful from now on"

"Good, not its time for you to get back up. That girl...Tsuki I believed she called herself, is trying bargain her way out of fighting, using you as her bargaining chip. Spoil her fun okay?" Isagi said

Naruto grinned and started to vanish. Before he vanished completely his fading voice said, "Happily"

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"So what will it be?" Tsuki asked crossing her arms

At this time Naruto began to silently get up, not alerting Tsuki.

Neji saw this but didn't react, instead he just said, "No, I don't think we will"

Tsuki's eyes widened, "What? Do you not care whether or not your teammate..." She turned to Naruto to emphasize her point, only to find him gone, "Wha..." She was unable to finish her sentence as Naruto appeared behind her and knocked her out.

Naruto caught Tsuki as she fell and held her bridal style. He walked over to the others and placed her down next to the bag.

Naruto then walked over to the others as they looked down at the bag, "So, these are Raiga's eyes huh?"

"There's a human inside" Neji said as he crouched down and opened the bag.

Naruto's eyes widened as the bag was opened. Inside the bag was a child of no more than eight years old (Doesn't specify age in anime). The small boy had light purple hair and dark, dull red eyes, he laid there, staring into space, not giving any attention to the three looking at him.

Lee crouched down next to the boy Ranmaru and said, "The one who stopped me in my dreams was you, was it not?"

"It wasn't me" Ranmaru said, "Raiga and I are together"

"Together?" Lee asked

"Always, ever since that time..."

xxx Flashback Jutsu xxx

A small peaceful farming village was disturbed by the sound of screams, slashing flesh and blood spilling. A patrol of Kiri ANBU looked over the piled bodies and left to search more. An ANBU walked up to the door of a house that lied on the top of the hill, his twin swords dripping with blood. Breaking down the door with three strong kicks the man walked in to see a lump hidden under a yellow sheet.

"I know that your feigning sleep. Anyway, your going to die" The man said

The bundle moved and the man said, "Don't move" as he jammed one of his swords down, pinning the sheet to the floor.

"A spy from Kirigakure has snuck into this village. We've come to kill him, but...I've forgotten who I'm supposed to kill. That's why I'm doing this randomly" The man said

The bundle grunted and said something quietly to itself.

"What? What are you saying?" The man asked

The man used his extra sword to pull up the sheet and he saw two bright red eyes looking at him.

"That's fine, if it is you who will be killing me" The now known small boy said

"Eh? Why is it okay if it's done by me?" The man asked

"You were always crying"

"Huh? I was crying?" The man asked

"In your heart, you were always searching for the meaning of life" The boy said

The man slightly gasped as he reached up and took off his mask, showing Raiga's face.

"I was...always watching you" The boy said

"What are you?" Raiga asked

"I am the same as you. It is painful to be alive. I don't know what it means to be alive. Because of my sickness, I cannot go outside. I am despised by everyone. All I could do was spy on the world from this bed. But, If my death would let you feel even a little bit of meaning in your life, then you can have this useless life" The boy said as he got out from under the covers, showing that it was Ranmaru.

"Take it" Ranmaru said as he bowed, ready for Raiga to kill him.

Raiga's eyes widened and he pulled back his sword and said, "Are you...all alone?"

Ranmaru looked on in confusion and just nodded.

Raiga then walked up to Ranmaru and held out his arms, "Come" He said

Ranmaru held out his arms as well and Raiga picked him up by the armpits, "From now on, you and I are two in one"

Ranmaru just nodded as Raiga carried him piggyback out of the house and into the rain.

xxx Flashback Kai xxx

"Since that day, I have been Raiga's eyes and ears. Raiga became my arms and legs. For the first time I traveled to the outside world. There I was able to experience seeing things for the first time, and there were so many things to see. It was fun. No matter when or where, I was always with Raiga. No matter what the times were like, we were never separated, even for a single moment. We both lived for each other, as we tried to find the meaning of life. We were convinced that was the meaning of life. That's why, if that person, if Raiga died, I would no longer have the power to continue living alone. I would lose my reason to live" Ranmaru said as Naruto listened wide eyed, remembering her words to him.

xxx Flashback Jutsu xxx

"Do you have a precious person?" Haku asked

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"I want to protect my precious person. I want to make his dreams come true. That is my dream" Haku said readying a senbon.

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"There are a lot of people who misunderstand. They sympathize with the person they should kill and don't take his life. To me, that is not mercy or anything at all. Do you believe me? Just living is painful if you lose your dreams and are not needed by someone" Haku said sadly

"What do you want to say?" Naruto asked

"Zabuza-sama has no need of a weak shinobi. You stole my reason for existing" Haku said with a small, sympathetic smile

xxx Flashback Kai xxx

"I no longer need to live" Ranmaru said as if stating a fact

Naruto was on the verge of tears and thought, 'Not another one, I couldn't save Haku because I was too slow. I didn't even know we were related until after the Forest of Death. I won't let the same fate happen again' "Don't say such pathetic things"

xxx Flashback Jutsu xxx

"Naruto-kun, please kill me" Haku said

"What?"

"What are you so nervous about? Now, quickly" Haku said after

xxx Flashback Kai xxx

"What's stopping you?" Ranmaru asked, "With my crippled arms and legs there will be no way for me to move around. Complete your mission. Hurry, finish me off"

Naruto closed his eyes as a single tear rolled down his face '...Haku'

"Our mission is to remove the Kurosuki Family from this village. Without Raiga, this kid will be unable to menace the village" Neji said

"What about the girl?" Tenten asked

"We can put some chakra disruptor seals on her so she won't be a threat" Neji replied as he got up and began to walk away, "Our current problem is the Kurosuki Family, which has lost it's command. If we leave this place, there's no telling what they'll do. This is the last part of our mission"

The other three genin nodded and Naruto asked, "But, what do we do about them?"

Neji just looked back, thinking.

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Ranmaru and a still unconscious Tsuki were tied up together on a wooden post, inside of a small remote hut on the mountain.

Outside of the hut were Team Gai, Lee looked at Neji and asked, "Do you think they're such evil people that we need to tie them up?"

"No, that's not it" Neji said

"At this rate, they'll die, won't they?" Tenten asked

Naruto was at the huts door and said to Ranmaru, "When our mission is over we'll come save you two!"

Naruto then slid the door closed and placed a seal over the door.

"Your even using a chakra sealing tag?" Lee asked

Turning to Lee, Tenten said, "There's no other choice, they are kind of the enemy, after all"

"I think he may have other techniques as well. This is just in case" Neji said after

Team Gai then turned and ran down the mountain, not waiting for Naruto.

Naruto stood in front of the hut's door shaking. He slowly turned around and shakily said, "I promise you, you won't be alone. I won't let you end up like Haku" He then ran down the mountain to catch up with the others.

Inside the hut Ranmaru looked down in confusion 'What did he mean?...Who is Haku?'

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Authors Notes: Well here's another chapter for all of you that have been patiently waiting. Its about the same length as the last one and I just couldn't help but end it here. It just seems like such a perfect chapter end.

Yes I made it so that Naruto learned of his Uzumaki heritage AFTER Haku died because if he learned it before, then Haku would have had a better reason to live and wouldn't have died.

If you all are wondering why I made Kyuubi's name Isagi, well its kinda short for Isagiyoi, meaning Pure

Now all of you know of the new OC. Trust me though, she only acted like that because Raiga got killed, she will act very differently in the future chapters.

The cross-over is still sitting in my hard-drive, waiting to be used. However I promised not to post it until Panda has finished the next chapter for her story, so it might not be out for another week or more

I am currently re-writing The Wish That Changed it All, but I will not post it until I have it done up to the same point that the original is. So there will be at least 10 chapters posted for that in a row.

But for this chapter...

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