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Talking - "Blah"

Thinking - 'Blah'

Demon Talking - "Blah"

Pasa Sword Talking - "Blah"

Naruto quickly dashed out of the window and towards the walls surrounding Konoha before anyone realized that he was to blame but an explosion near by rocked him out of his thoughts. He stopped to remember exactly where he had left all of the clones with the bombs so he could safely plot a route around them because once they go off, Leaf shinobi will flock to them and that is the last place he wanted to be. He quickly gave an order to one of the clones standing by the outer wall to wait until he arrives so that he could use the explosion for cover in case he was followed and began to dash towards the wall. He felt a presence behind him and look back to see two ANBU guards chasing him, one had a cat mask on while the other had and eagle mask. Naruto knew that he could not slow down to fight in case their reinforcements came so he began to throw kunai with explosive tags attached to them farther along the ANBU's path. The kunai began to detonate mere seconds before the ANBU reached them and it was those few seconds that managed to save their life as they dodged out of the way of another one. When the two ANBU regained their footing, they looked for the suspicious character that they had been chasing but could not find hide or hair of him. A few minutes later, a large explosion demolished a good section of the north wall and a lone figure in a black robe ran up the wall and over into the deep woods surrounding Konoha.

Sarutobi, now free of the paralyzing solution thanks to a team of medic-nins, was looking over the ruined remains of the once beautiful city that was Konoha and thinking back to the attack and the loss of his only son brought tears to his eyes. He thought back to the attacker's blond hair and deep blue eyes and knew who attacked him causing even more tears knowing that he had now failed the Yondaime by letting Naruto turn into a heartless killer. Sarutobi wondered why Naruto did not finish the job, it would have been an easy enough kill since he was still under the paralyzing solution but could not figure out why Naruto stopped. The Hokage though back to the attack, remembering every move and facial expression that Naruto had made and realized that there must still be some of the old Naruto left deep inside that Kumo could not have erased all of his emotions which Sarutobi thanked the person responsible.

Many days travel away, Maya was cleaning her lover's room when she let out a loud sneeze and after looking around to make sure no one heard her, she wondered if she was coming down with a cold.

Naruto sat around a campfire in a clearing near the Fire and Rice country boarders thinking about the attack and what went wrong and why he could not finish his mission and kill that old man. He killed six people that night without even blinking an eye but when it came to the Hokage, Naruto just could not bring his sword down and it was driving him nuts trying to figure out why. He sat in the lotus position and began to clear his mind so that he may talk to the fox and the Pasa sword to see if they could provide any answers for him. He awoke still sitting in the lotus position but now he was in waist high water in the depth of a sewer, so he quickly got to his feet and proceeded to head towards the fox's cage first. When he approached the cage, he saw the Kyuubi in his human form and the corporal form of the Pasa Sword standing in the middle and they seemed to be arguing about something

"That brat would have been able to do it if tapped into the power of the sword and we could have returned to Kumo as legends instead of running from Konoha with our proverbial tail between our legs"

"Well forgive the kid for having a twinge of a conscience and not killing the only man who had ever cared about him for the first three years of his life"

"That is the problem, his conscience is what holds him back, if he could get rid of it then he could become one of the best shinobi these lands have ever seen bar none"

"He will never get rid of his conscience because then you will want him to get rid of his emotions and he will definitely never do that because he cares about Maya way too much"

"Yes, you are right, as long as he has love in his life, he will never become what I want him to be so we must kill her"

"I am not going to let you kill Maya and turn Naruto into an emotionless killer like you did your last host Rey Yan and the only reason he didn't was because of the merging with you"

Naruto had finally heard enough and stepped out of the shadows around the cage and into both of their lines of sight and let out a fake cough to get both of the demons attention. The Kyuubi turned towards Naruto with a smile on his face while the Pasa Sword had a scowl on his

"So, is what you say true then? Is that old man the same as the one who looked after me when I was very young? So that would mean that those flashes I saw were actually repressed memories inside my head?"

"Very good kit, you figured it all out by yourself, yes that man was Sarutobi, the same man who looked after you from when you were first born to just under the time you were kidnapped"

"Yes and if you had killed him then we would all be heroes when we arrived back home to Kumo but now we have to tell the Raikage that we failed and he will take that so wonderfully considering the whole invasion plan depended on us killing the old man"

"How could I kill him, if anything I should be thanking him for watching over me when I couldn't protect myself, I owe him a huge debt of gratitude which I will repay if I ever see him again. Now let's get some sleep because we still have three days worth of travel before us until we even see the gates of Kumo."

The next day came with Naruto dashing through the trees at top speed to put as much distance between him and Konoha as he could before they sent out a patrol of ANBU on his trail. He knew it was stupid idea to rest last night but he needed answers and could not afford to be distracted in a battle but a faint rustling noise from his rear brought him out of his thoughts and he pumped more chakra to his legs for speed and headed towards the border.

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Sarutobi looked out over the black suits and dresses as he stared at his son's casket beside him and it did not seem right to him for Asuma to just be laying there not carrying around a cigarette in his mouth. He always thought that it was going to be the smoking that did Asuma in but it looks like he was wrong, a loud sob from the crowd but Sarutobi out of his thoughts and back to his speech laid out in front of him

"Family, friends and colleagues, we are all gathered here to say goodbye to an incredible shinobi Asuma Sarutobi, he died fighting for his village and more importantly he died fighting to protect his family.

He fought an unknown attacker with no knowledge of what skills the attacker possessed or what weaponry, all that was going through his mind was that he had to protect his precious people. He managed to drive the attacker away at the cost of his own life, which I think was too much of a price to pay for now his dream has abruptly come to an end along with all of his hopes and spirit.

I am sorry that Konoha has lost such a good shinobi, I am sorry for all the people here who have lost a friend today, I am sorry that I have to now bury my son instead of the other way around and I am most sorry that now a child no longer has a father and in turn his father will not be able to watch his son grow.

May you rest in peace Sarutobi Asuma and may you look down on us and watch us for the rest of our days here on earth until we join you in heaven"

Taps rang out in the background as everyone in attendance came up towards the casket to pay their respects to the family and drop a rose on the casket as it was slowly lowered into the ground. Konohamaru let out a sob as he clung to his grandfather's robes and watched the casket disappear before breaking down completely and running off with Ebisu going after him. Sarutobi walked over to where Kurenai was standing by her friend Anko trying to hold back her tears and almost succeeding except for a few rolling down her cheeks but as soon as the hokage came into view, she had broken down just like Konohamaru and wept on his shoulder.

Sarutobi looked up at the setting sun and knew that tomorrow would be another day but now the sun would not shine as bright or the air smell as good now that he has lost a piece of his heart forever.

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After the first day of having to avoid the patrols of ANBU sent out by Konoha and finally being able to get across the border, the rest of the trip was pretty easy, Naruto even managed to stop off at one of the villages while he was traveling and pick something up for Maya. It was a fake diamond necklace with a real ruby sitting right in the middle since red was one of Maya's favorite colours and it cost him a fair amount of cash but he knew Maya was worth it.

On the fourth day of travel, the gates of Kumo came into sight and Naruto let out a sigh of happiness for finally being home and being able to hold Maya in his arms once again but before he could do anything, he had to report into the Raikage. With a quick nod to the guards at the gate, Naruto was through and walking as slowly as he could towards the Raikage's mansion to give himself time to think up a plausible story that even the Raikage would believe. With a firm story in mind and after repeating it to himself a few times to make sure he would not forget it, Naruto took off for the Raikage's mansion because the faster he got this done, the faster he could go see Maya. Naruto stood before the Raikage and delivered his report

"I was able to take out the two council members as per mission orders but when I went for the Hokage, someone had tipped them off in advance and there were two ANBU squads guarding every part of the Hokage's office, I could not even get close."

"You know, I would almost believe you Naruto, if it were not for the fact that I know that you are lying to me, my spy told me all about how you froze up while attacking the Hokage and letting your prey go when they were such an easy task"

"I am not lying to Raikage Sir, I told you everything that could have possibly happened, it must be your spy who is lying to you"

"Lying is right up there with treason and the punishment for treason is death but I worked too long and hard into turning you into the perfect weapon to kill you over such a matter but on the other hand you have to learn your lesson so I shall kill your heart"

The Raikage motioned with his hand and two of his elite guard came in and trailing behind them bound in chains was a beaten and bloody Maya in ragged clothing and sporting many cuts and bruises all along her body. Naruto reached for his Pasa sword but before he could do anything, the Raikage had already drawn his sword and plunged it into the chest of Maya causing her body to drop to the ground and Naruto tapped into the Kyuubi's chakra making everything go red. In the back of his mind, Naruto heard the laughing of the Pasa Sword as it absorbed as much of the Kyuubi's chakra that it could but all Naruto cared about right now was making the Raikage pay. With inhuman speed, Naruto charged towards the Raikage with the Pasa Sword held high and the Raikage lifted his own sword to parry the strike but it was no match for the Pasa Sword, which smashed right through it. The Pasa Sword then cut right through the body of the Raikage like a hot knife through butter causing a line of blood to appear down the middle of his face before his body spilt apart in two equal halves. Naruto dropped his sword and quickly ran over to where Maya lay dying on the floor and she looked up at him with a small smile on her face before her last breath was drawn and her life was lost.

For years on from that day, all of the servants would say that the most frightful noise that they had ever heard was the dreadful demonic wailing coming from the Raikage's personal office on that day.

(A/N) :

- I am sorry this update took so long but I had started another story and I wanted to get the first chapter posted before I posted this update

- This is why I did not have Yugito go with Naruto

- Before any of you say that it would not be that easy to kill the Raikage, realize that like many other people in the Naruto universe, he underestimated Naruto.