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"Talk"
'Think'
"Talk"
'Think'
The color white, that is the color Naruto most despised out of all the colors.
As he opened his eyes he saw the white hospital ceiling, something that brought back a lot of dark memories. Turning his head to the side, he confirmed himself being in a hospital room. But to his surprise the Hokage was sitting by him, and by the look on his face he wasn't happy.
Grunting Naruto sat up, his wounds were healed, but he was still tired from exerting himself.
"Naruto what happened back there?" Sarutobi's voice demanded.
"You saw what happened." Naruto replied, not looking at him.
A pregnant silence filled the air, neither talked for several minutes.
Finally not standing the silence the former blond broke the silence, "So what are you going to do now?"
Feeling his old age getting to him, the Sandaime only sighed, "My hands are tied."
"Oh really? What are the bastard councils asking for? My execution? My banishment? All my assets seized? Or everyone man my home executed, and my fiancees bring used as breeding machines?" he scoffed hearing the Hokage say that.
"And more unfortunately." seeing Naruto's expression darken, he quickly brought out some good news, "However they needed a majority vote from everyone for it to happen. And lets say certain fathers of said daughters, and their friends voted no. However I had to have Inochi do a mental exam to see if you were fit for society."
"And was he satisfied with the results?"
"...He was in there for five minutes, got booted out by the fox, vomited all over me, the floor, and the walls, and muttered that you are seriously fucked up." the Sandaime sighed, remembering how much the bill was to clean the robe.
"And his verdict?" Naruto casually asked.
Sarutobi visibly shuttered hearing that like they were talking about the weather, "Well while he didn't see everything, he saw that you were miraculously stable...for the most part at least."
"Well if that's all then I'm out of here." the white-haired teen said, crawling out of bed.
"And where are you going exactly?"
"I'm leaving the village for good this time." he replied coldly tearing off his hospital gown.
That stopped the Sandaime cold, he quickly got up and blocked the door. "I'm afraid I can't let you leave."
"Can't you see that I'm not wanted here? That Hyuuga bastard blabbed in front of the Genin, they hate me now, and will try to kill me. And whats worse Zabuza and everyone that lives with me knows, they are probably claiming my house as their own now, and will try and kill me once I enter the front yard." Naruto said to the Sandaime, whose face was wincing with every word he said, "Plus I know that they are telling the younger generation as we speak, making the villages hatred grow against me even more. And lets not forget I lost against that little bitch so I'm not in the finals, so I'm taking a few things that belong to me and no one will ever see me agai-"
"You're wrong!" Sarutobi interrupted his speech, as he was growing tired of the angst coming out of his surrogate grandsons mouth.
"Am I?" Naruto asked with sarcasm in his voice, "Or am I one-hundred percent correct?"
"You're one-hundred percent wrong, you won the match, you're going to the finals, and they don't hate you." the old man explained, "They don't care if you hold the Kyuubi the-"
"Bullshit, Neji was told and he was out for blood. And my teammates are plotting ways to kill me as we speak." the former blond interrupted the old Kage, as he put on his shredded hakama pants, and tied what was left of his sash around his waist.
"Neji's in an Anbu cell as we speak, and is getting interrogated. From what we found out he was brainwashed by the Hyuuga Elders, and was promised some great reward. But that's all we can get out of him for now after you..." Sarutobi paused, thinking of what to say.
"Royally fucked him up?" Naruto filled in the blanks.
"Pretty much, but please just give everyone a chance. If I'm wrong I'll give you Sannin travel rights, it'll have no loopholes, no catches like my former students." Sarutobi begged as he walked up to the heavily scarred teen, "Can you just do that for me?"
Normally the begging routine sickened Naruto to no end, and he would have just said no. But something in his mind made him to pause and think. It was a nagging feeling that pissed him off to no end, but it would not go away until he said the words that he clearly didn't want to say. But finally after a minute he relented. "Fine, but I'll hold you to your word Sarutobi. And if you're lieing." he let the threat hang.
Placing his right hand over his heart the Sandaime Hokage responded, "Naruto I promise on the honor of the Sarutobi Clan, and my title of the Sandaime Hokage granted to me by my sensei, Tobirama Senju, that if I'm wrong you'll be granted Sannin travel rights."
Grinning inwardly like a fox Naruto accepted the deal he tricked the Sandaime into, he raised his right hand and shook it with the Sandaime's.
"So how long have I been out?" he asked, really wanting to get back to training.
"Three days, we expected you to be out for a week." Sarutobi told him.
"I see, well I'll see you around then." Naruto replied, before walking out the door, leaving the Sandaime to his thoughts.
The walk to his home was interesting to say the least, everywhere he went the younger generation was mixed. Some looked at him with admiration, a few looked conflicted, a couple were indifferent, and others looked at him with disdain. But there was one thing they all had in common, they all had horrified looks in their eyes seeing his exposed torso.
The looks he got from shinobi however was one of admiration. Those who have seen the horrors of war, or got on the wrong end of a kunai during a mission gave a tip of their hitai-ate's to him. While green behind the ears Genin and civilians shielded their eyes like he was an abomination.
He personally didn't give a shit either way.
However some fool had the audacity to throw a rock at him, with skill of a seasoned warrior he grabbed it without even looking. Once he grabbed it he turned his now hate-filled eyes to the stupid civilian, and crushed the rock like an egg. Turning back his eyes returned to their normal cold blue, and he continued on walking. While he wanted to leap from rooftops to avoid everyone, he was simply too tired to preform such a feet.
It took fifteen minutes total to get back to his place. And while he didn't want to admit it, he was glad that he wasn't getting attacked. But once he opened his door he saw Zabuza waiting for him, his eyes glaring into his skull. Nartuo just stared back, and walked up to him.
The two said nothing for a while, until Naruto broke the silence.
"You got nothing to say?" he asked The Demon of the Mist.
"I'm just thinking over what I should do to torture you." Zabuza replied the the white-haired teen.
"If you want to kill me then you might as well use Kubikiri Haoucho now." Naruto casually responded, eyeing the blade Fuji once used. The blade that chose Zabuza to be his next wielder, if he was to meet his end then it would be by one of The Ten Swords legendary blades.
"What I want to kill you for is keeping us in the dark." the Demon of the Mist retorted, narrowing his eyes at him.
"We all have our secrets, like the reason why you won't tell us why you tried to kill the Mizukage." the white-haired teen coolly replied.
"Touche." Zabuza growled out, "But know this. While you saved my ass, and that Haku loves you unconditionally. This doesn't mean I'm going to forgive you."
"Right away at least." Naruto casually responded pushing past him.
After leaving the former Mist shinobi to take his anger out of a training dummy -no doubt made to look like him-, Naruto went up to the master bedroom, showered to rid himself of the dirt and grime, and dressed in fresh version of his old outfit. Deciding to forgo any of his weapons for the sake of learning from his parents scroll, he left the house without a word.
Heading through the village once again, he went by the hot springs towards the village gates. But he stopped in his tracks when he heard perverted giggling, narrowing his eyes, he silently jumped into the mens side. There he saw an old man in his fifties with long spiky white hair, and finally wearing kabuki clothes. He clearly remembered what the message in his dads scroll told him, and knew that he would enjoy it.
Sneaking up behind him Naruto carefully added a percise amount of chakra into his right leg, aimed, and kicked the old pervert between the legs. Deciding to be extra cruel to the man he screamed out, "Pervert!"
The old man screamed like a little girl as he was kicked where no man wanted to be kicked, and propelled headfirst into the wooden boards of the hot springs. The resounding breaking sound of the fence and the mans skull resounded throughout the area, and a giant splashing sound indicated the man actually was in the woman's hot spring.
In short, the man was screwed, as the various women in the hot springs surrounded him, and looking like they were going to make him suffer...slowly.
Naruto thankfully hid in a nearby tree, as he saw the pervert being attacked by the various women around him, and was viciously beaten up by the opposite sex.
When the beating ended, the women kicked the man out of the hot springs, went back to their side of the hot springs, boarded up the broken part of the wall -where they got the supplies Naruto honestly did not know-, and went back to relaxing in their section of the hot springs from kicking the crap out of the pervert. When the coast was clear, he quietly jumped out of the tree and landed near the the barely moving pervert, and laughed wickedly at the poor man's misfortunate situation.
The said man scowled at him, and would have taught him a lesson. If he wasn't caring for his damaged nuts, and that he was in constant pain. "That was not funny!" the old pervert growled at him.
"I disagree, it was funny for me." Naruto responded coolly.
"What on earth posessed you to kick me there? Didn't your parents teach you any manners!"
"My parents are dead pervert, but my father told me to kick someone in your description in the nuts. And since you haven't changed your outfit in thirteen years, you brought it on yourself." the teen then proceeded to kick the man in the head, grab him by the hair, and drag his broken body outside the village gates.
Little did he know the Sandaime planned this, and ordered the guards to let him by without question.
It would be a few hours before the old pervert woke up, and Naruto buried him in the dirt and kept his head above it. While not the best use for interrogation, it was useful enough. Plus after reading through the scroll he retrieved form his place, he discovered his parents will, and learned exactly who this man was. And with an evil thought in mind he knew the perfect punishment in mind for the pervert.
A few minutes later Jiraiya groaned loudly, "Ugh...it feels like I was hit by Tsunade." he muttered in pain.
"No, it was just my foot going upside your head." Naruto responded, prompting Jiraiya to snap his head up.
"You! Why I outa-" he tried to lunge at him, only to find that his body was trapped in the earth. Let me out this instant! he demanded.
"I don't think so godfather." Naruto spat at him.
That single word stopped Jiraiya's thrashing instantly. Bringing his head up he saw most of his face for the first time, if it wasn't for the white hair, and if the sun wasn't obscuring his head, he honestly would have been experiencing deja vu right about now.
"I see you remember now." the white-haired teen continued looking at Jiraiya, his hair over shadowing his eyes a bit.
"Naruto is that you?" the white-haired pervert asked.
"Who else is the only son of The Yellow Flash and The Red Death?" he casually responded.
Jiraiya honestly was stunned speechless, from Sarutobi's last letter nearly half a year ago informed him Naruto was still missing. But here he was standing in front of him, and clearly not happy at all.
"Do you know what has happened in your absence?" Naruto asked him suddenly, prompting a confused look out of him. "From my parents will. If anything were to happen to them you were supposed to watch over me. However after thirteen years we finally meet up, thirteen years old man." he continued bringing the well deserved guilt on the old pervert.
"I had faith in the village like your father, and from what I see you turned out fine." Jiraiya replied to the white-haired teen, clearly not seeing his face in the bright light.
Expecting that foolish answer Naruto bent his knees, and literally got face to face with the Toad Sannin. Once the perverted hermit looked at his godsons face his heart stopped cold. His frowning face showed exactly what he thought of him, and the distinguishing X-shaped scar going over what would have been his whiskered left cheek showed him he saw battle before. But what disturbed him the most were his eyes. Those eyes were cold as ice, they showed years of pain and hardship, they showed the soul of a cold blooded killer, and of a man who knew the horrors of war. Jiraiya visibly shivered seeing that a boy at thirteen years of age had the blood of thousands on his hands.
And he alone was the cause of his horrible life.
Suddenly he felt the ground beside him shake, he tried to get out but was too compacted to escape. His fingers were separated as the dirt compacted them separately, so he couldn't perform any hand seals for the Substitution Jutsu. The ground started breaking apart leaving him sandwiched in between whatever was happening.
A rotting hand shot out of the ground, and then another. The hands steadied themselves on the ground before pushing against it. Slowly, oh very slowly a figure emerged out of the ground. Once it finally emerged Jiraiya's heart sank. Standing before him was a man that stood around five foot ten wearing the standard but torn and dirty Leaf Jounin flak-jacket, torn and bloodied dark blue pants, blue shinobi-styled sandals, and a short-sleeve long white coat with red flame edges on the bottom. Looking at his face he saw dully lifeless blue and spiky blond hair with chin-length strands framing both sides of his rotting face.
Another hand shot out of the ground alerting Jiraiya that the next figure was coming out next to him.
This one was a woman standing around five foot five, wearing a bloody shirt that had a black top with a red spiral in the middle of her bust that cut off from her chest and showed her rotting hollowed out stomach with long baggy orange sleeves, along with torn black cargo pants and black sandals. She had long unruly red hair that went to the middle of her thighs, and dull lifeless viloet eyes.
Tears brimmed Jiraiya's eyes as he saw the two undead figures of both Minato Namikaze, and Kushina Uzumaki.
Minato's voice rasped out from many years of not speaking, "I can't believe I trusted you with my son Jiraiya. No wonder Tsunade thought you were a worthless perverted idiot!"
"We trusted you with our son to protect him." Kushina coughed out, blood pouring from her lips, "And how do you repay us? You left him to the bastard villagers that tortured our only child for something he couldn't control!" she then proceeded to spit in his face.
"This could have been prevented Jiraiya, if you took care of him he would not have become a murderer." Minato added as saliva dripped from his mouth.
"And now you have to pay for breaking your promise!" Kushina screeched at him, opening her mouth to reveal a mouthful of rotten teeth.
The two then descended on him, ready to tear him apart. By then Jiraiya was now visibly shedding tears, not at the pain he was going to receive -he knew he deserved every single ounce of it-, but at the immense guilt that he was feeling at the moment.
"I'm sorry!" he cried out in pure sorrow, "I trusted Minato's judgment in the village, and thought everyone would follow his last wish. But seeing your son I was proven wrong, please I'll do anything to repent for my mistakes I promise on my life!"
Hearing what he wanted to hear Naruto simply smirked, brought his hands into the tiger seal, and whispered, "Release.". Immediately both Minato and Kushina disappeared completely as they neared the crying perverts face.
"I'll accept your promise then Jiraiya." he said causing the old pervert to open his eyes to see his godson staring at him.
"What? How?" Jiraiya's question was answered when a shadow clone walked out from behind the trees, gave the old man the finger, and dispelled himself.
"That was horrible!" the old pervert yelled at the white-haired teen.
"You deserved every bit of it." Naruto responded coldly, making the man wince. "I'll see you at seven tomorrow, if your late I'll bound you and throw you into the woman's side of the hot springs. Who knows you'll probably get castrated this time." he finished before walking off.
"Aren't you going to get me out of here!" Jiraiya yelled at him as he struggled to free himself.
"Nope." with those words said Naruto disappeared into the forest.
Jiraiya only grumbled once his godson disappeared, but after a few minutes of struggling he gave up for now. For once in his life the old pervert felt useless, and this was worse than him failing to keep Orochimaru from leaving the village, helping Tsunade get over her pain from losing her loved ones, and losing both Minato and Kushina to the Kyuubi attack. No this was something different entirely, this was something he had the power to prevent. He could have made a difference in Naruto's life.
But it was far too late now.
His pondering was put on hold when he heard a sniffing sound. Opening his eyes he saw a dog sniffing his head, he panicked as started moving his body to get out of the ground. But unfortunately for the super pervert the dog lifted his hind leg.
And promptly took a piss on his head.
"AHHHH DAMN YOU NARUTO!" Jiraiya screamed, "OH GOD IT GOT IN MY MOUTH!"
A few minutes out of the forest Naruto heard Jiraiya's screams, a ghost of a smile etched on his face for a second before it disappeared back into a frown. It was getting dark out and he honestly had no place to go. He couldn't go home because Zabuza and the Demon Brothers still needed to vent their frustrations. The Hyuuga Estate was out of the question because of the Hyuuga elders. The Higurashi Weapons Shop was also out of the question, feeling that Tenten needed some time to think about his burden. And he honestly didn't want to bother the members of Team Ten, nor did he know where Kakashi lived, or where he was for that matter.
By the time he was done pondering that he was homeless for the night, the sun had gone down. As the darkness began to fill the village he heard a struggle. Not a struggle like a man trying to force himself on a woman, no this one was the sound of a fight. Speeding off towards the sound the white-haired teen wondered who would be fighting at this time of night. He got his answer when he arrived in the slums.
There were three men wearing identical uniforms consisting of black balaclava masks with their Sound hitai-ate's plastered on their foreheads. Their clothing consisted of a grey yukata with black combat pants and sandals, along with three black straps on their torso's. One went around their waist and one went around both their shoulders.
They were struggling with three individuals that Naruto immediately recgonized, they were the three Sound Genin that lost at the preliminaries. What confused the former blond was why there was a struggle in the first place.
"Let us go you bastards!" Zaku hollered at the shinobi holding him.
"Shut up you little brat Lord Orochimaru still has some use for you three." the Sound shinobi that was restraining Dosu snarled at him.
"We did every thing he told us to do, we held up our deal now let us go!" Kin demanded.
"Shut your mouth you little slut! Your lucky Lord Orochimaru wants you three alive or I would happily slit your throat!" the raven-haired kunochi's captor screamed at her.
'So the snake bastard is the leader of the Sound village, and those three know his whereabouts.' Naruto thought to himself as he observed the struggle. He didn't feel a thing for the Genin, but they held crucial information to where Orochimaru was, and for that only reason he couldn't let them die.
Leaping from his hiding place Naruto grabbed a hold of Dosu's captors neck and snapped it. The sound of bone breaking alerted the other two Sound shinobi, the distraction allowed Kin to grab her assailants groin, and Zaku to stomp on his captors foot. The two let the two go out of reflex due to the sudden pain allowing the two to escape from their grasp. As the two ran towards their teammate Naruto steadily walked towards his last two opponents.
"You fucking brat!" Zaku's captor bellowed at him.
He was the next to die, using his natural speed Naruto sped towards the shinobi. Cocking his right arm back he punched the man in the chest, the resounding snap of his entire chest cavity echoed throughout the area as the bone fragments embedded in his heart and lungs. The man fell to the ground with a sickening thud dying a slow painful death. Naruto then turned to the last Sound ninja and saw that he soiled himself in terror.
Raising his arms into the air he cried out, "I surrender please don't kill me!"
Naruto didn't even accept his surrender, he simply started walking up to the man to finish him off. But suddenly the man coughed up a massive amount of blood that fell through his mask before falling on the ground. And standing behind him was a very angry Dosu with his sound gauntlet on his right arm.
"I thank you for helping us." Dosu panted once his anger recided, "We'll be going now."
"To where exactly?" Naruto asked stopping them before they even moved, "It's clear that Orochimaru's going to kill you three, Stone will kill you two and take the girl. Cloud has closed its borders for the time being, Mist is still in the middle of a Civil War, and you wouldn't survive two days in Wind Country's desert." he continued listing off the places to go, even the minor countries that definitely wouldn't take them.
The three now former Sound Genin looked unsure what to do, their savior just listed off any location they thought they would be safe in.
What were they going to do now?
"You three head to the Hokage Tower and wait for me there, tell him Naruto sent you." he ordered the three.
The three ex-Sound Genin's eyes widened hearing that name. They visibly nodded before sprinting towards the Hokage Tower, the three heard about him during their three days in the hospital. They heard that he was a jinchuriki from the Hyuuga he fought, and during their time recovering they heard what the various patients and doctors said about him. They said he was a monster, demon, abomination, and more hateful things that could make even Orochimaru whistle. Of course they heard about Jinchuriki and knew what they were capable of.
And it was for that very reason they listened to Naruto's order for them to go to the Hokage. Because they knew he would kill them without a second thought if they disobeyed.
Once they were completely out of sight Naruto looked towards a nearby alley. "There's no need to hide Musashi I know your there."
A chuckling sound came from the dark area, and the orange-clad figure of Musashi walked out to greet him.
"I must say Naruto you've improved since the last time we saw each other." the bald man greeted, his smile threatening to split his face.
"Why are you observing me?" the white-haired teen demanded.
The smile immediately disappeared from the mans face. Opening his eyes for the first time that night, his brown eyes were as hard as steel looked into his cold blue ones. "Is it not wrong for two old comrades to look out for each other?" Musashi questioned him, any warmth in his voice already long gone.
"I suppose not, but what you really want to know is why I'm here." the former blond said fully knowing the mans reasons for watching him.
"Nothing gets past you does it?" the orange warrior asked him, when Naruto just stared at him he continued, "That is part of the reason why I'm shadowing you, because after you shared your history of this place with us, and asked our leader to put that horrid genjutsu over you. I find it quite curious to find you here since your departure."
"My reasons are my own." Naruto replied before walking away.
"Those who walk the path of revenge might as well dig two graves!" Musashi called out to his retreating form.
"That's just what I thought a monk of your stature might say." was the white haired-teens response before disappearing into the darkness.
The monk only shook his head hearing that before looking at the three bodies sprawled on the ground, "And you were making great progress." he sighed to himself. He brought both his hands together in prayer, and a second later all three of them simply vanished, before he disappeared without a trace.
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at the three ex-Sound Genin with great suspicion. One minute he was about to head home for the night, and the next he found the three teenagers almost literally busting his door down in fright. Judging from the looks on their faces they saw the devil incarnate.
When he was about to question them, the one with his arms wrapped in gauze told him Naruto's name. That immediately brought the old Kage's thoughts on hold, why would Naruto of all people send three Genin from a different village to him? Before he could question them, the white-haired teen came through his window effectively scaring the four of them at the sudden intrusion.
"Naruto what is the meaning of this?" Sarutobi demanded.
Locking his cold eyes into the Sarutobi's grey ones he answered, "These three work for Orochimaru, but apparently since they failed to qualify to the finals he decided that their use was up. I found them struggling against three high Chuunin level ninjas. At first I thought it was clearly none of my business, but once I learned that Orochimaru was the actual leader of the Sound village they were a priority of information that couldn't be passed up. Need I explain how I killed their captors?"
Sarutobi held back a shutter, he already read enough mission reports detailing his killing sprees to last a lifetime. "No, no, I believe I got the picture." he replied inwardly congratulating himself on keeping his cool. He then looked at the three Genin, who had the decency to look down under his piercing gaze.
"If you three willingly tell us everything my old student is planning, along with the location of your village I'm sure-"
"I want them." Naruto interrupted the old Hokage, immediately drawing surprised and horrified looks from the four.
"Excuse me Naruto?" the Sandaime asked.
"You heard me Sarutobi I'm planning on taking these three prisoners of war back with me." the heavily-scarred teen repeated drawing further looks from the four.
"Prisoners of-"
"Yes you three are now prisoners of war." the white-haired teen clarified Kin's question before looking at the Hokage, "Orochimaru planned to do something with these three, and given his hatred of the village I suspect it's something as big as a war. I honestly don't know what he's planning, but I don't like it one bit, and while I trust your Anbu to a certain extent I believe they would be much safer in my place for obvious reasons."
Sarutobi while a little insulted that one of the Nidaime's legacy's was practically being called a joke he couldn't help but agree. The Namikaze Mansion was the best place to put them, while it looked vulnerable, it was actually protected by many deadly traps created by Kushina herself, along with a variety of seals that prevented any intruders in case they somehow made it past his wife's traps. Plus now that it contained the one and only Demon of the Mist along with two skilled Chuunin assassins, and a powerful ice user the place was very well protected.
Finally after a minute going over the pros and very few cons Sarutobi finally gave his answer, "I'll allow it Naruto, but only because you proved some very valid points. They'll be escorted to your house under the company of Neko and Tenzo for custody, and a formal report to your guests." the Hokage told the former blond.
Naruto only nodded in thanks before turning to his prisoners. "I know you fear me, but do not hate what you clearly do not know."
With that said he wrote a few things down on a sheet of paper on Sarutobi's desk. Went to his window and jumped out of it.
Two weeks passed without further incident and it was productive to say the least.
Thanks to Naruto bringing the ex-Sound Genin to the Hokage they learned of Orochimaru's invasion plans. The three didn't know too much like when the atttack was going to start, or how many men the fallen Sannin was going to use. But they did know the Sand village was allied with him because of a majority of their missions going to them instead of the village itself. But most importantly they told them what the snake bastard was really aiming for during the chaos.
They told them he was after none other than Sasuke Uchiha.
That honestly made sense to the old Kage, he knew his fallen student was obsessed with learning every jutsu there was. And what not better way that the famous Sharingan eye? Upon hearing the information Sarutobi ordered a squad of his most loyal Anbu to watch over the boy, and to patrol the borders of the village. And he also told them to set various traps so they could thin the numbers out once the attack started.
After they were interrogated Sarutobi contacted Neko and Tenzo. Once he told them their assignment they immediately brought the three prisoners to the Namikaze Mansion.
Unfortunately the five ninjas the interrogation lasted until around one in the morning. And after some very loud knocking a very irritable Zabuza answered the door wih that big assed sword of his.
Flashback
Both Yamato and Yugao kept pounding on the door. They both knew it was an ungodly hour to have any visitors, but you could not defy the Hokage's orders.
Finally after a long series of knocking a giant blade sliced through the door, nearly cutting Yamato in half if he didn't back away in time. Once the door fell away cleanly sliced in two there was Zabuza standing in nothing but blue striped boxers and his bandaged mask. His brown eyes were bloodshot and he was panting heavily in anger.
The two Anbu Black Ops steadily stepped back trying to show they meant no harm. After all they fully knew who was standing at the door, this was the man who at the tender age of eight killed all one-hundred of that years students that were much older than him. And forever changed the Mist's final exams forever, said man then graduated one year later, attained the rank of Chuunin at the age of eleven, and Jounin at the age of fourteen. Exactly one year later he would become a member of The Seven Swordsmen of the Mist and barely a six months later he became one of the Mist's powerful Anbu members.
And seeing him now with that legendary blade in his hands showed he was not to be trifled with.
"We're sorry to interrupt you at this time of night Zabuza-san, but this is something urgent by the order of the Hokage." Yamato said to the clearly enraged shinobi.
Zabuza, while angry that he was woken up for the most excellent dream a man worth his salt could think about only nodded.
"One Naruto Uzumaki stopped the abduction on these three former Sound Genin, and rescued them from certain doom for one of Konoha's deadliest enemies. You'll be informed of it tomorrow along with various other Jounin and Chuunin, but in the meantime I was ordered to give you this." Yugao said before pulling out a slip of paper Naruto wrote on.
Zabuza only scowled hearing his name, even though he destroyed several practice dummies that looked like him he still wasn't satisfied. So hefting the mighty blade over his shoulder the Demon of the Mist he brought his right arm out and too the paper.
Bringing it towards his face he silently began reading it.
Zabuza these three Genin will be staying with us from now on. Like you they owe me a life debt like you do me weather they like it or not. Throw them into some random rooms, and train them after they recover, but for Gods sake don't try to kill them or I'll tell everyone your darkest secret.
-Sincerly,
Naruto
Zabuza for his part kept a stoic look, but he knew Naruto was never one to joke around. If he meant to do something he would damn well do it, so with a angry sigh he crumpled the paper before looking at the three new arrivals.
The first one stood around five foot one, and wore the standared hospital gown to cover himself. With wild yet oddly enough tame dark brown hair, and a single coal black eye he remembered the little bastard losing his eye to the Grass Genin in the preliminaries if the white medical gauze covering his right eye was any indication. And other than that giant gauntlet with a bunch of holes in it he looked nothing special.
The second one was even less impressive. Standing at five foot one and a half he barley stood as tall as the first one, he had black eyes, and spikey black hair that defied gravity that disturbenly reminded him of Kakashi. And the only thing he was wearing was a hospital gown like the first one, only both his arms were heavily wrapped in white medical gauze from his ass kicking with that Aburame boy.
And finally there was the female of the group standing at four foot nine. Like her second teammate she had black eyes, and black hair that grew to the backs of her knees that was tied with a purple ribbon. Unlike the other two however she wore a light green sleeveless shirt, black open-toed shinobi-styled sandals, and wore winter camouflage pants and scarf around her neck.
Why did Naruto bring these three home exactly? Because to him they looked nothing more than stray animals.
"Get in here you three, and find an empty room. If you want something you're shit out of luck and'll have to wait until morning." Zabuza said to them in a gruff voice before turning around to go back inside.
The three Genin only looked at each other nerviously before following that man with no other chioce.
Once they disappeared inside Yugao turned to Yamato, "Naruto keeps some...interesting company doesn't he?"
The wood user only shrugged in reply, "Well no one said he was normal."
"I agree and I'm beginning to see why Ibiki is interested in him."
"Having him join the Anbu Black Ops huh? Well I'll admit it won't get dull with him around."
Brushing off Yamato's sarcasm Yugao looked at the open space of the house, and then the broken door lying at heir feet.
Seeing where this was going Yamato only sighed, "I'll get it."
Once Yamato made a new door for the Namikaze Mansion they reported back to the Hokage with details.
And the next day Zabuza, the Demon Brothers, and Haku learned exactly why Naruto brought them to the mansion after the Hokage dismissed everyone minus them. It made sense but that didn't mean they had to exactly like it, but for the Demon of the Mist it gave him something to do to vent his frustration at the former blond.
And he enjoyed hearing their screams.
But where was Naruto you ask? After rescuing the three ex-Sound Genin he just spent the night under the stars. And then he found a very pissed off Jiraiya who spelled like a urinal waiting for him, and he did not look happy at all.
In short Naruto was screwed, while Jiraiya did deserve that and more he definitely paid the white-haired teen back ten fold for doing that to him.
At first he had him doing absolutely insane chakra control exercises, but when Naruto nearly killed himself several times Jiraiya told him to try and focus his chakra. Once he did that he immediately saw the problem, when questioned about it the former blond recounted his encounter with Orochimaru. To say Jiraiya was stunned that he actually survived an encounter with his traitorous teammate was like saying Tsunade had giant breasts.
A big understatement.
And after dealing with it rather painfully in Naruto's opinion, he felt like his old self again. And that made his training easier, but then it escalated into almost near impossible things that Jiraiya could think of.
But in the middle of their training tradgedy struck.
Flashback
The hospital definitely was not Naruto's friend, not in childhood and not now.
Laying in front of him was none other than Gekko Hayate, the man who treated him as a friend, and loved him like a son.
When Yugao first introduced the two to each other Naruto clearly thought this man would try something to harm him. But to his surprise he didn't, the man mearly coughed, smiled, and introduced himself. From then on until the Chuunin Exams started the two because genuine friends. They both admired each others swords, sparred evenly, got him slightly addicted to Sword Fortune, and even taught his a few things to improve himself.
But now this great man was dying in a hospital bed, his entire chest cut open due to a powerful wind jutsu, and he was hooked up so several life support machines. But he was fading with every waking second. At his side was his lover Yugao Uzuki, her eyes eyes refusing to spill any tears.
Walking to his right side he looked at him.
Opening up his eyes Hayate saw both his friend and his lover looking at him respectfully. He struggled to get his breathing mask off, but he could barely move his arms. Naruto took the mask off for him, allowing his to speak.
Coughing a few times Hayate started to speak," Naruto...Yugao I'm sorry." he managed to gasp out.
"There is nothing to be sorry about Hayate-kun, you did your best that is all anyone could ask for." Yugao managed to say clasping his left hand, her eyes starting to water up.
"I've lived...a good life (cough) and I have no regrets. Except one." Hayate whispered his voice starting to fade as a tear fell from his right eye, "I love you with all my heart my beautiful moonflower." he managed to say without coughing for once.
Yugao for her credit smiled sweetly despite seeing the life starting to fade away from his eyes.
Hayate then turned his head to Naruto, "Naruto...my dear (cough) friend you were like a son to me. I only wish we met sooner."
Naruto gripped his right hand, his sword hand to be exact. "I know Hayate, and I thank you for all the kindness you showed me." he responded to the dying man, and for once his eyes weren't cold. They held respect, admiration, and warmth that the two never saw before.
Hayate smiled before he closed his for the final time.
The two ignored the annoying beeping of the man flat-lining, and placed his arms over his chest. Yugao held herself together before reaching behind her, and handed Naruto an object.
He knew what it was. It was a katana that was sheathed in a black scabbard, its red tsuba perfectly matching its black hilt.
"He wanted me to give this to you." the purple-haired woman said as Naruto looked over her deceased lovers sword.
"I accept it, but I'll give it back once I avenge his death." Naruto replied still looking at the magnificent sword.
"Why would you give it back?" she questioned him.
Naruto only looked at the purple-haired woman, his still warm blue eyes staring into her hazel ones, "It wouldn't be right for me to deny his child's birthright."
The dam finally burst, and the strong willed woman finally broke down. Naruto just walked over to her and brought her into a comforting hug which she gladly accepted.
After Hayate's passing Naruto threw himself into Jiraiya's training effectively surprising the Toad Sannin in his sudden fierceness. When he asked his sensei the next day he knew what provoked Naruto's change in behavior to his training.
And this is where we find the two now.
Naruto and Jiraiya could be seen, exchanging punches and kicks fiercely, each hit sounding like a bat hitting a piece of tanned leather. Both of them grew stronger the day they started training together.
Naruto's Yakuta was currently on the ground for the time being so it wouldn't get even more destroyed than it already was, along with Hayate's katana. He grew his hair out until he had chin-length strands framing both sides of his face like his dad, and some of it reaching down to his shoulder blades, which he tied up into a paint brush-style ponytail like various samurai before him -and weirdly enough Iruka-. In order for him to do this he had to do was force some charka into his head in order to make it grow to his specifications, much to Jiraiya's disbelief seeing that his godson found an easy way to grow his hair when it took nearly half his life to get it the way it was today.
Jiraiya changed a bit as well, due to his regular sparring sessions with the former blond he found himself getting stronger. While clearly not a weak man his muscles lost a lot of their tone thanks to his peeping days. But since Naruto nearly broke his bones several times he resolved to get back to his old, but still perverted self. And like Naruto himself he discarded his haori, baggy sweater, and fishnet shirt since they were pretty torn and threadbare since his time with his godson.
The former blond dodged Jiraiya's kick aimed for his head, and spun on the fall of his right foot to kick the perverted Sannin with his left one. While old he did manage to avoid it with a few inches to spare, the Toad Sannin then proceeded to aim a punch at Naruto's torso. The white-haired teen only griped his wrist in reply, and twisted it around, bringing it behind Jiraiya's back. The man grit his teeth, but never cried out. Naruto almost smiled at that. He was slowly starting to like the old pervert.
But then something unexpected happened.
The Jiraiya he was holding simply disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
He then looked behind him to see the old pervert kneeing behind him with his hands in the Tiger hand seal, "Hidden Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu: One Thousand Years of Death!" Jiriaiya yelled out before thrusting his arms up.
And promply gave the last Namikaze an ass poke.
For the first time in a long while Naruto actually showed emotion on his face. It was pure embarrassment with a tiny bit of pain, he promptly grabbed his ass, screamed, and was launced into the distance.
"THAT WAS FOR MAKING A DOG PISS ON ME YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" Jiraiya screamed at him as he flew into the distance.
Meanwhile in one of Konoha's famous hotsprings. The current kunochi that we all know -and mostly love- were relaxing after a hard days work.
Anko was the first to arrive, after torturing some poor bastard Ibiki gave her the rest of the day off. Kurenai and Hinata came later as a reward for the Hyuuga heiress mastering her latest technique, Haku arrived along with Kin -who under disguise of still being loyal to the Sound village- to get out of a house filled with men. Both Ino and Tenten arrived after Haku got into the hot springs, because frankly while they took their jobs seriously there was nothing wrong with being a little feminine every once and a while. Temari came barely two minutes later needing to get out of her stuffy hotel room for obvious reasons, Yugao only went there so she could have some time to herself, and maybe talk to some friends if they were there. And finally Sakura arrived last if nothing else but to relax.
At first it was quiet, if not a little tense. The women talked about various things like training, who was dating who, a few stayed quiet, and other women stuff that any straight man would know nothing about. But for the past two weeks there was one person that always entered their minds.
And that was none other than one Naruto Uzumaki.
Never the one to really keep things to herself Anko broke the ice, "So have any of you seen Naruto lately? Ibiki's been wanting to talk to him for sometime."
Most of the girls around his age immediately quieted, all of them obviously having no idea where the brutal yet compassionate teen was.
"I saw him two weeks ago." Yugao softly replied, peaking the girls interest.
"Where exactly? Because the scarred bear that is my boss won't stop asking about him." the violet-haired kunochi pressed the Anbu member.
"...He was with me during Hayate's-" she honestly couldn't finish her sentence when she said her dead lovers name.
That stopped Anko's prying immediately. She knew that those two were practically inseperable since they were on the same Genin squad. And his death affected all of the Jounin and Chuunin that knew him.
Sakura however had her own comment about the white-haired teen, "I don't see what any of you see in him, he's brutal, sadistic, and completely evil."
Six certain kunochi however completely disagreed with her, and promptly gave her the evil eye.
Yugao honestly wished she could destroy the fangirl for not only tarnishing his name with false lies, but practically spat on the friendship that her lover held between them.
Kin also gave her the evil eye, during her two weeks in the Namikaze Mansion she learned about the person who saved them. While her team disagreed with each other over a bunch of things, they did agree that Naruto was no demon. A demon would have left them to their fate to Orochimaru, and if was a so-called demon did save them he would have killed both Dosu and Zaku, before having his way with her until he grew bored and killed her. In their minds the teen was a saint.
"Brutal and sadistic yes I'll agree with you on that." Ino was the first to voice out making the pink-haired kunochi beam, "To his enemies!" that comment wiped any trace of satisfaction from her face, "From what I've seen he's only killed those that went against him. And while his training methods are sadistic in nature it helped me become a better kunochi."
Her next statement however threw most woman for a loop when a tinge of pink came to the blond-haired girls face, "And he has a gentle side to him, when I took my first life he actually comforted me. He didn't judge me when I cried, he just held me in his arms and stayed with me all night to comfort me."
Tenten while shocked to hear that, agreed with her on that statement, "I'll admit I didn't like him at first, I thought he was another arrogant punk who thought kunochi were inferior to shinobi. But when he held me in his arms I could feel that he was different than many other people. And it just felt right being held there, almost like I had a guardian angel watching over me."
Hinata was the one who spoke up after her, with a heavy blush on her face of course. "He's a great person. During my mission in Wave Country he showed me the arrogant ways of my clan, with two simple justus he defeated the Gentle Fist taijutsu my clan was famous for." she then looked at Kurenai who smiled in return, "He helped me improve my clans style that suited my needs, and thanks to him my father no longer looks at me with cold eyes anymore, and he smiles more often that he usually did."
Haku for reasons unknown to her divulged the first time she met the white-haired teen, "He saved me." she started out drawing the woman's attention, "Mist Hunter Ninja ambushed Zabuza, Gozu, Meizu, and I. They were after our heads because of our infamous status, and nearly succeeded. But then out of nowhere when the leader nearly delivered a fatal blow, his head was taken from his shoulders. And the next thing I knew a blond-haired Adonis dispatched them with quick efficiency."
Most of the women were in awe since it wasn't every day you heard a Genin killing a squad of Hunter ninjas, while it sounded like something out of a cheesy romance novel -which a few owned-. But the blush on the poor girls face told them this was real.
"After taking out the last Hunter ninja he proclaimed us a his "property" due to a life debt for saving us." that statement alone stunned the woman, which made some of them think of him in a bad light, "But to this day he has proved himself to be a good person, he never asked us to do anything that was above our skills, he gave us a map of safe houses to hide in if the Hunter ninjas caught our trail again." she became quiet for the next few moments, "And I honestly can say I love him for everything he's done for us."
Now that threw them all for a loop, did she just admit that she loved him? Both Naruto's fiancees couldn't find the words to speak their minds, and Ino; the one who usually had something to say found words difficult to come by.
"You love that monster?" Sakura screeched out in a disbelieving tone, "How can you love that demon who nearly dest-" she would have said more but the ice user splashed her with the water, before freezing her mouth shut.
"He is not the Kyuubi, and if I hear you call him that again I'll do worse than freeze your mouth." Haku growled angrily, narrowing her eyes towards the frightened pinkette, who immediately dove underwater to try and unfreeze her mouth, and get away from the other girls threatening gaze.
Temari being the only one who didn't speak during the entire argument couldn't help but think about the white-haired teen. When she first met him he looked nothing spectacular other than being a wannabe samurai, but when he held Kankuro's life in his hands, her little respect for him went up a peg. And when he caught that bun-haired girl preventing any further injury in the match he showed the typical Leaf loyalty, but when he berated her, which was completely unthinkable of doing in her village because of Gaara, her respect rose a bit once again. But then the fight with that Hyuuga brat and the revelation of him being a Jinchuriki for the Kyuubi she realized that he and Gaara were a lot alike.
After the match she walked around surveying possible attack positions when she overheard the villagers. She heard all the things that Gaara went through when he was younger, she couldn't blame him for acting this way. But until she came to these springs she was starting to think differently about him.
It was almost a shame that he would die with this village.
Any further thoughts or arguments the girls might of had were interrupted when they heard a screaming noise from above, and them a huge explosion of water in the middle of the womans side of the hotsprings.
The surprised screams of the women erupted thinking they were under attack.
But instead out rose the figure of one Naruto Uzumaki.
The ten female occupants immediately rose up, some planning to pound the white-haired teen, others tried covering up their modesty, while a few were too stunned -or embarrassed- to do anything. Bringing his head completely up any of the advancing women stopped seeing him, his eyes while still icy cold held a little warmth in them, and his hair while still white as snow now cascaded down to his shoulder blades -seeing a floating rag showed them he held it up before his entrance-. They saw that he wore no shirt revealing his still severally scarred torso, while his dirty, torn, and now completely soaked hakama pants showed the naked woman his years of physical training.
Spitting the hot water out of his mouth the angry teen muttered to himself, "When I get my hands on that pervert I'm gonna tear his dick off, shove his balls down his throat, and shove his dick up his nose until it pierces his brain!" done with his rant the former blond saw where he was, if the naked forms of all the women attested to his discovery.
Kyuubi meanwhile was giggling with joy seeing all these women in one place, "D, D, D, C, C, C, B, B, B, and a ironing board. Other than that howler monkey my vessel is in for a treat."
Naruto however had a almost unnoticeable blush on his face. While he slept with two women before, this was a treat that every straight man dreamed about. He would have stayed longer, but he had some punishment to deal out, and he didn't want to get mauled once they snapped out of their odd funk.
"Sorry about that ladies and ironing board, I hope you enjoy the rest of your bath without anymore interruptions." with that said the Kyuubi Jinchuriki quickly jumped out of the springs, and headed towards the village gates.
The silence after his departure was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Almost none of the residents who lived here for most of their lives could believe that someone of the opposite sex literally landed in their side of the hot springs, nor could they believe that he didn't rocket into space from a fountain of blood rushing out of his nose. But it was mainly the three oldest women that realized something, Naruto was the first male to not get the shit beaten out of him for seeing all of them naked.
Not even the Sandaime Hokage was spared when he accidentally knocked over the wall when he was in his thirties.
Sakura was the first to immediately screech snapping them out of their funks, and covering their ears.
"That pervert! How dare he take a peak at us, and just run off like that!" was her resounding and useless screaming.
"Your only mad he called you an ironing board forehead." Ino stated pointing at the pinkettes flat chest.
"Shut it pig!" Sakura screeched at her.
Any other yelling was put to a halt when they heard a girlish high pitched scream. It lasted to nearly five minutes before a small dot was seen overhead before another person splashed into the hotsprings. This time it was an old man and he looked to be in extreme pain, that only lead to more pain once they got their hands on him.
Finally after ten minutes the women promptly exited the hot springs, content with what they did with the pervert.
But a certain teen was still in their heads, some good thoughts, one bad, one that would make Jiraiya die with a smile on his face after he published them in his book.
But for perticular three kunochi they left with a lot on their minds.
The next two weeks went by fast for Naruto, after Jiraiya's beat down that made him end up in the hospital for the next few days he started studying on the scroll his parents left him. After finally reading through the scroll he thought his parents were completely insane.
He read up on their prowess in battle during his time with Shishio, and learned much. In a single battle that prevented Konoha being over runed by Iwa his father planted a series of his prototype tri-kunai around a clearing where the enemy would come from. He stood alone with only a few people overshadowing him as a mere Chuunin against nearly five-hundred Stone Jounin and Chuunin, and once they got into his effective range he simply disappeared. The survivors of that massacre recalled seeing nothing but a yellow flash, and the screams of their comrades falling dead to the ground due to slicing and stab wounds. Only two survived to flee back to the rock they crawled under to inform the Sandaime Tsuchikage about the newly dubbed Yellow Flash of the Leaf.
His mom was no different, when she was just a Genin nearly several years before The Third Great Shinobi War she performed a feat that was considered impossible at the time. While The Hidden Springs Village was still a shinobi village back in the day, their greedy daimyo decided he needed more land to expand the village. Which unfortunately escalated in a three year war between The Whirlpool Village and The Hidden Springs Village. During the last months of the fighting the seven year old newly appointed Genin Kushina Uzumaki along with her team that contained a girl named Rei, and Shishio himself were patrolling the borders. But out of nowhere they were ambushed killing their teammate and forcing them to retreat. The two ran until they found themselves trapped between a rock and a hard palce-literally they found themselves trapped between a slippery cliff, and a gang of nearly three-hundred Springs shinobi. When all seemed lost Kushina calmly stepped onto the large lake that seperated them and calmly waited for the enemy to charge at them. When the man thought they would be captured and interrogated when they charged at them, his mother went through three simple hand seals, and a raging whirlpool disrupted the steady chakra flow the enemy had and dragged them into the raging jutsu, tearing them asunder, and turning the water a dark crimson. The three shinobi who held back fled back to their village to report the Red Death as hey decided to call her. Unfortunately she was so traumatized after the incident she retired right after that mission, and both she and her parents arrived in Konoha where she met his father. And once agin became a kunochi, only for the Leaf this time.
And now holding in his hands were the signature justsu's that made them famous, along with others that supposedly died with them.
While the perverted Sannin was in the hospital, he started to immediately practice them.
The first was his mothers jutsu, but it was unfortunately harder than he thought it would be. The amount of control ot took to keep the swirling pit of death was staggering, he had to keep constant focus in order to keep it circling in its five-hundred mile per second rotation. And for now it was impossible, every time he concentrated deep enough he would lose his balance and fall into the water. His old mans two famous jutsu's were also out because he didn't have the necessary materials to practice them.
So until Jiraiya came back he worked on several of the clone jutsu's his mother learned, and brought over to the Leaf before Whirlpool fell during The Third Great Shinobi War.
For three days he focused his skills in the clone techniques. While it was pretty simple to create the technique known as Shadow Kunai Jutsu. After stealing one from Jiraiya early on when he kicked him in the nuts, he continued throwing the kunai until he created a perfect copy, and continued from there. By the end of the second day he managed to create ten by the time Jiraiya found him on the third day he created twenty.
From then on the old hermit began his ninjutsu training. He handed the white-haired teen some water balloons and instructed him to pop them.
It didn't take Naruto long to pop it after he realized the first step was learning how to burst a water balloon by spinning the water inside in multiple directions at once using only the his chakra, which emphasized rotation. Grumbling that he got it down in under three minutes, the Toad Sannin tossed him a rubber ball and told him to burst it. That took more effort for the former blond since he only poked a hole in the first ten, however realizing that rubber was way thicker than water he forced his chakra to become denser and popped it into obliteration, and proceeded to do it until he could do it in a moments notice.
Because the perverted hermit had to go talk to the Hokage for the next hour or so, Naruto took the opportunity to work on it with his left hand. Since it was his worse hand it took nearly fifteen minutes for him to pop the balloon, and he continued doing it until he could do it in a second flat. Next came popping it with the rubber ball, that took longer than he expected when Jiraiya arrived to see him pouring a massive amount of chakra into it before it exploded.
Impressed that his godson actually thought about doing the Rasengan left handed, Jiraiya showed him the next step to mastering the Rasengan. And the former blond quickly saw that the third and final step was to combine both step one and two by spinning chakra inside a balloon without moving the balloon itself, emphasizing stability of the sphere shape.
So first doing the first part Naruto steadied his chakra, and then he finally did the second step, and the familiar blue orb of the Rasengan was created. Running forward the swordsman thrust his right arm out and collided it with a tree, the poor piece of wood immediately gave was as the powerful technique drilled into the trunk until it toppled over in a big heap of wood.
Panting tiredly Naruto finally collapsed from three days of almost nonstop training, causing Jiraiya to let out a sincere smile for the first time in many years.
It would be the next two days the two would move onto the next part of his training. Without warning the Toad Sannin took the giant scroll he always kept on his back off and unrolled it. He showed the former blond what it exactly was, a summoning contract, but not just any contract. It was the Toad contract, one of the most powerful in existence. The man told him the tale of how he came across it, only for him to give him the "I don't care right now" look. Needless to say Naruto signed it and summoned Gamabunta and oddly enough his eldest son Gamakichi on his first try.
The toad boss actually hit it off with the former blond quite well, much to Jiraiya's frustration because it too him nearly ten years to get the toad boss to respect him even a little bit.
Skipping ahead the last few days we now find Naruto standing in front of his house after nearly being gone for a month. Making sure Hayate's katana was secured in his nearly ruined sash, he walked through the door to be greeted with the sight of an empty house. That wasn't unusual of course, it was almost eleven at night, and the current residents were probably asleep. But silently walking through the house, he jumped up an entire flight of stairs, and landed without a sound.
Looking both ways making sure no one heard him, he softly walked to the master bedroom and opened the door. Closing his eyes he took in the feel of being home, setting Hayate's katana near the door, he turned his back to close the door. Naruto then turned around one last time only to feel his lips press into the familiar ones of Haku.
Armageddon: Hey everyone long time no see. I know a lot of you may be mad at me for taking so long to write this, but I honestly had a serious case of writers block on this chapter. But thanks to VFSNAKE I got past it, thanks a lot buddy. Also I'm in collage so my updating was halted to a crawl. But fear not I will update a much as I can. Anyways enjoy the longest chapter I've written to date, and before I forget D-Reaper INI, happy birthday dude.
Oh and before I forget this I finally got the results for the name change.
Naruto of the Ten Swords: 11
Naruto: Holder of the Ten: 5
The Legacy of the Ten Kings: 7
Looks like everyone enjoys the original, so I'll keep it that way later!
