I don't own Naruto or YuYu Hakusho. If I did I would have done some things differently...you know what I would have done at this point. That's right, kill Sasuke because he's no doubt going to be more of a pain in the ass than ever with that new Sharingan of his!

"Talk" Human talking

'Think' Human thinking

"Talk" Demon talking

'Talk' Demon thinking

"Talk" Jagan Eye talking

'Think' Jagan Eye thinking

"Talk" Spirit talking

'Talk' Spirit thinking


It was around dusk when the shinobi arrived back in Tanamaki with sixteen captured bandits and three broken women wearing scraps of mismatched bandit clothing. They were all immediately greeted with cheers of applause, pats on the back and tearful thank yous from the immediate family members of the missing girls. Sasuke, Lee, and the women were taken to the town's doctors for a check over regardless when the former wanted it or not, Naruto was almost forced to go, if not for him explaining that it was their blood and not his. Satisfied with their answers, and their concerns gone for the time being they were lead to the town's inn.

The girls were given their own room while the men of Team Gai were forced to share a single room, like wise with Team Seven. Naruto and Kakashi got into their room, the Copycat ninja immediately left to conduct some business with the mayor of the town, leaving his remaining student alone.

With his sensei gone Naruto immediately bolted for the bathroom, tearing the hannya mask off, and pulling down his half mask. The black-streaked blond flipped the toilet lid up, fell to his knees, and threw up everything in his stomach. Tears poured from the corners of his eyes from the force, after dry heaving a couple of times he fell to the right side of the toilet and let out several coughs of disgust.

"Dude that was the biggest barf I have ever seen in my life! Aw man what on earth did you eat?" Ishikawa whistled in an impressed voice.

"Now is not the time Ishikawa, ugh dear Shinigami I cannot believe I did that." Naruto miserably groaned out as he held his stomach.

"Naruto don't be such a pussy." Shinigami spoke up for the first time in a very long while, "You did your job, and you saved those girls when everyone else thought they were dead. And most importantly you saved me a good amount of time by judging their souls for me."

"I know I did my job Shinigami, but I let my rage take control of me after what I saw. I didn't just kill them, I butchered them! It felt so wrong, but-" placing his hand against his forehead he let out a sigh of frustration. "I was just so mad, what they did was completely unforgivable and I lost control."

Swiping his right fist at the former full blonds head, Ishikawa's hand went right through it, causing him to violently shiver in discomfort. "Blondie quit moping it's so not like you!" settling his brown eyes on the shaken pre-teen he ghost slapped him again, causing another shiver to crawl through the young man's spine. "You were pissed off I get it, hell I was pissed off as well. But what's done is done, you didn't make them all needlessly suffer like they deserved, and you prevented more mindless slaughter by using their leaders severed head as a scare tactic, and you saved those girls who everyone gave up for dead." placing a hand on his shoulder he finished his comforting pep talk. "But most importantly you felt bad for doing it, unlike Han who would have loved nothing more than to feel their blood on his armor, you still have a conscience, never forget that okay Blondie?"

Naruto let out a small smile after his haunting specter said that. He honestly didn't know why but he felt much better, Ishikawa was absolutely right, even amongst slaughtering the bandits very few died in absolute agony. He prevented any more needless casualties, saved the women, and was planning on helping them even more before they all left, but most importantly it was the comparison to another jinchuriki like him. Speaking of which.

"Thank you Ishikawa I needed that, but something has really been bugging me."

"What is it?"

"You keep mentioning this Han person, all I know about him is that he's a jinchuriki like me, somehow related to the Tsuchikage, and from what you told me hates humanity. Is he really that bad of a person?"

Rubbing the back of his neck the dead Kamizuru nodded in response. "He's not the happiest person I've ever met, and well let's just say I rather not talk about him right now okay? Just flush the toilet and take a shower, Kami forbid you look like you need it."

Seeing the spirit float away Naruto looked down at himself, his clothing and skin caked with dried blood, and smelling like copper wasn't exactly pleasant. So after flushing his dinner he stripped his clothing and entered the shower to rid himself of the gore from that night.


In the girl's room it was quiet, disturbingly quiet. Sitting on their opposite beds both Sakura and Tenten were deep in thought.

The weapon mistress' thoughts were nothing but professional. With already a full year of active duty under her belt she fully knew that not every mission would be flawless, there was always one instant that could jeopardize everything. That's what happened the other night, but as always it could have been worse. But out of all of the chaos in that camp there was only one thing that disturbed her was the brief thirty seconds she saw Naruto, in the low light she saw a good amount of blood coating his right side.

Thinking back to her academy days, he remembered the short, orange-wearing idiot that made her laugh at several of the pranks he played on the teachers. Tenten frowned when she remembered a teacher that took over for Iruka when he had one of his extremely rare sick days, the man's name was Raijuta, and was a total sexist prick. For three days the man disregarded the kunochi to be as common annoyances, shot down their answers-even though they were one-hundred percent right, and gave so-so marks even though they were exceptional! In fact one the first day that rat bastard gave her a six out of ten on her kunai throwing practice, even though she hit the bulls-eyes every single time.

But soon her smile turned upside down when Naruto popped up. The little blond annoyance defended a good amount of the kunochi by pranking them man with ruthless vengeance. On the first day he tarred and feathered him, made him trip himself, and thumb-tacked his seat. On the second day he somehow switched the grade book so everyone would receive A's for the day, and stink bombed the teachers' lounge. Then finally on the third day he pranked Raijuta right out of the school, the blond at the time first made the man slip on marbles and banana peels, somehow dyed his hair neon pink and turned his skin bright orange, pansed him, laced all his food with laxatives, and somehow out of all of that got the man a vasectomy at the hospital.

Comparing the prank happy academy student to the full-fledged Genin, it was just hard for Tenten to picture the two being the same exact person. She liked the old Naruto, but the new one…she was absolutely conflicted, he was more serious now, he was still thick-headed, but he was more deadly than she ever thought he would be. Naruto Uzumaki was certainly a mystery, and Tenten Higarashi loved a good mystery.

Sakura however was in complete and utter turmoil. During her academy days she pictured her beloved Sasuke-kun rescuing her from an enemy shinobi like a knight in shining armor; the two would then walk off into the sunset and live a happy life as husband and wife. But last night completely shattered that fantasy, there was no glorious victory, there was no brilliant sunset, and being saved…it completely disgusted her.

First it was Naruto who saved her. When he sliced the heavily scarred bandit's throat, screamed at her, and then killed another before bolting away. She was outright stunned from his hurtful remarks, but then when she saw Sasuke and Lee taking damage with the axe-wielding bandit she killed him without a moment's hesitation. But then she was about to get killed again, and it was both Sasuke and Lee who saved her life.

Never in her entire life did she ever feel so useless. She froze up when she killed the sleepy bandit, and caused the whole massacre. And when Naruto screamed at her…she couldn't bring herself to hate him, because he was absolutely right, she was useless, practically cannon fodder. But most importantly her views on him were completely shaken; did he fight like a demon? Yes, but he did save her, even after her mother said he would gladly let her die. Even after all the verbal and physical abuse she put him through, he saved her sorry ass.

Hearing a muffled voice Sakura snapped her head towards Tenten. "I'm sorry what was that?"

"I said are you okay? These were your first kills after all." Tenten repeated herself.

"How did you-"

"I was the same way." the weapons mistress admitted, "I was reflecting my first kill when a mission went wrong. I would like to say it gets easier as time goes on, but it honestly doesn't. You just have to shoulder it, and if it gets too much for you I would recommend talking to a therapist, they can help you to a good extent."

"You weren't the one who started it all!" Sakura blurted out. Covering her mouth she saw Tenten raise an eyebrow, so hanging her head in shame she continued to tell her tale of woe. "I'm sorry, but while you were all busy…doing your duties, I was helping keeping watch. A bandit came out of his tent and yawned; I panicked, and threw my kunai into the man's throat."

"Then he came crashing down onto his tent, waking his bunk mates up, and causing the chaos within the camp." Tenten continued, causing the pinkette to gasp in reply. "Sakura, no one will blame you for what happened. It was a gigantic rookie mistake, but you will learn not to make the same mistake again, you get what I'm saying?"

Pausing for a moment the pink-haired Genin processed what her fellow kunochi was saying to her. Then for the first time since her blunder she smiled, it was a small one, but a smile nonetheless. "Yes, I do. Thank you Tenten, I will benefit from this experience."

Giving her own smile Tenten patted the girl on the shoulder, "Good, I'm sure that you'll do great things after this." With her good deed said and done for the day, the weapons kunochi went to take a shower.

After the door to the bathroom clicked shut, and the sound of running water hit her ears, Sakura dejectedly slumped her shoulders. "I'm sorry Tenten, but my mother has something else in mind."


While all of this was happening Kakashi, Gai, and Neji were reporting to the mayor of the town. The Hyuga was stationed outside of the building with his eyes glaring at nothing in particular.

For all his life Neji was a big believer in fate, fate destined him to be born into the Branch Family, fate allowed his father to die, and fate deemed him to be a prodigy within the Hyuga Clan, thereby making everyone inferior to them.

However there was one thing that was eating away at his stoic façade. Naruto Uzumaki, the so-called 'Demon Brat' of Konoha, the blond pranking prince, and the one person Hiashi Hyuga hated the most. It honestly confused Neji why his uncle exactly hated the former full blond, yes he was a loser, the dead-last, and the not so secret crush of his cousin Hinata. That aside he remembered him from the academy, from his lack of talent in the shinobi arts, to his low grades, and even his kill me orange jumpsuit showed him to be destined as a failure.

That was what he thought at least, but after seeing him for the first time he was not happy to see something he fiercely believed in being-from his point of view trampled on. He couldn't officially take action on him; he couldn't test him without his clan's knowledge either. Clenching his fists together Neji figured he would have to wait for the right time to prove himself right at a later date.

On the inside of the building Kakashi handed the mayor a sealing scroll. "This is everything we took from the bandit camp of value. From your villages stolen merchandise to any other stolen items of value."

Smiling at the Jonin the mayor of the town sighed in relief. "Thank you good sirs, our village thanks you from the bottom of our hearts."

"We were just doing our job, now can you please sign our mission scroll showing we completed it." Gai said to the balding man as he handed him the mission scroll.

"But of course." the mayor tool the small scroll and began signing his name on the dotted line. "By the way what did you do to the camp itself?"

"We burned it and the bodies in it to the ground." Kakashi responded to him.

Gulping loudly the mayor feverishly nodded and began signing his name. "And the bandit leader?"

"His head is in a sack within one of Kakashi's sealing scrolls. We're taking it back to the village for proper identification, just to confirm it's him, and send his head back to his original country for his bounty." Gai said, snatching up the scroll after the mayor signed it.

After watching the two Jonin walk out the mayor sighed in relief and slumped into his chair. "Shinobi are scary." he muttered out.


After an hour to get clean Naruto stepped out of the shower feeling much better than before. With a towel wrapped around his waist and the other drying his hair, the Kurashagan-user deposited his head towel into the basket, placed both his masks on his face, and walked out of the bathroom.

And was immediately greeted with Kakashi walking right into the room, with Sasuke following with gauze wrapped around his head. The three looked at each other in awkward silence for several seconds before Naruto broke the silence.

"Is duck-head going to be okay?"

"Yes, that cream of yours stopped the bleeding; he won't even have a scar." Kakashi replied while Sasuke glared at his teammate.

"That's good to hear." quickly grabbing his sealing scroll Naruto immediately returned to the bathroom. After a few minutes he reentered the room wearing his now usual outfit, minus the steel fishnet chain mail armor for the time being.

However Kakashi was gone once again, leaving Sasuke alone with him. Scratching his head Naruto asked where their sensei went.

"Kakashi-sensei went out for some air." the Uchiha answered, "Now that he's gone I have a question for you." peering at his teammates mask Sasuke asked what was probably on every one's minds, "What the hell happened in the camp?"

"It's quite simple." Naruto answered without missing a beat, "I did my job, I killed those rapists and their boss, and brought the rest of them to justice using fear and intimidation." seeing Sasuke raise an eyebrow he elaborated. "Sasuke what did you feel when you did whatever you did in the camp?"

Feeling a lump in his throat, Sasuke swallowed it as quick as it came. "I killed over a dozen men, I honestly didn't like it. But after some time passed I felt better knowing that these men will never be able to harm another person again."

"The same as me." Naruto confirmed, "I honestly hate the thought of killing, but if I can make the world a better place by killing taking one life I believe I can bear with it." once again his mask formed a face, this time it took on a form of playful seriousness. "Kill one and maybe you can save a thousand."

"A scene from Wanted, nice touch Naruto." Shinigami gave his Avatar the thumbs up.

'Wanted? What is that?'

"…Never mind."

Sasuke took a good long while to let his teammate's words to sink in. First he wondered how in the hell Naruto's demonic mask could switch from an expression of absolute rage and fury, to the other expressions that he would normally give off, like a shocked expression, and at times a smile. Seriously it was creepy. But then he figured that some answers were better left unanswered-except what both he and Kakashi looked like underneath their respected masks.

Then he just shrugged in acceptance. As much as he wanted to deny it Naruto was right, he may have killed over a dozen but those people would never harm another person ever again. He may have hesitated the first time, he may have hated himself afterwards, but next time he would perform much better. He wouldn't like it, but he would live with it.

Hearing the familiar sound of a doorknob clicking Sasuke looked over to see his teammate swinging the door wide open. "Where are you going?"

"I'm heading out for some air. And I guess to see how many shops are still open; I owe Haku and the others for watching the kits." Naruto replied before shutting the door on his way out.

Looking at the nearest clock the Uchiha saw that is was seven thirty, most of the shops were probably closed, but who was he to pop his teammate's bubble. Getting to his feet he figured that he should get himself a decent shower and headed towards the bathroom, but when he opened the door he developed a tick mark above his right eyebrow.

In front of him were Naruto's clothes, even on a mission his teammate left his dirty, smelly clothes on the Kamidamned floor! And the worse thing was that they smelled of dried blood! "Damn you Naruto." he barely muttered out.


After leaving the hotel Naruto took in the sights of the trading town. It definitely wasn't anything like Konoha, but it had a peaceful small town atmosphere to it. The people were nice as well, many of them hard working individuals, it filled him with pride knowing that he actually made their lives better in one fell swoop.

"Hey little one!" Naruto heard someone shout out to him. Quickly turning his head he saw a red haired man waving at him from a booth. Raising an eyebrow for a brief second he headed over to him. Once he arrived the man latched both his hands onto the former full blonds and vigorously began shaking them.

"Thank you, son thank you so much!" the man cried out in joy before pulling the Genin over the booth and crushed him in a backbreaking hug, "Thanks to you my little Ai-chan is back, if you need anything while you're here I'll gladly do it!"

"Then…woul-d it be po-ss-ible to let m…e breathe!" Naruto barely managed to gasp out; the man immediately gained a shocked look and let the pre-teen go. Coughing out Naruto realized two things, even though the man looked average, he was freaking strong! And the second was that the four beings that he unfortunately had going in and out of his head were complete assholes-because he heard their loud laughing within the contents of his mind.

Letting out a laugh of nervousness the vendor scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry about that lad, sometimes I forget my own strength. Ahem, any ways before you leave I hope to assist you in some way."

"Thank you mister…"

"Oh, how rude of me, my name is Jin. The manager of this small, but humble stand."

"Jin-san, I thank you for your kindness. But I'm good." stopping himself for a second he corrected himself. "Actually I would like to know where those three girls are being kept." suddenly Jin's cheerful mood immediately darkened, no doubt from the information concerning their horrible experience from the camp. "I know what you're thinking, I honestly do. But I believe there is something that I can do to get those three women back to normal."

"Are you sure you can help Ai-chan?"

"Just point me where they are supposed to be, and I'll help all three of them to the best of my ability."

After he was given directions to the doctor's office, he hastily ran towards it. Passing the smiling villagers, the closing shops, and an occasional carriage he arrived at the building. Seeing the lights on he knocked on the door and patiently waited for a nurse or a doctor to answer it. A minute passed and he knocked again, then another minute passed-wearing his patience thin. Raising his right fist he violently banged on it, "Hey open up damn it! I'm here to help!"

Bringing his fist down again, he was unfortunately unable to stop his fist from colliding on top of the doctor opening the door, sending the unfortunate man to the floor. Immediately freaking out, Naruto fiercely apologized and picked the man to his feet. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean for that to happen."

"No, no, it's okay kid." the average looking doctor who looked to be in his early fifties said. Holding the bald spot where Naruto hit him, he winced a bit in pain, "Kami boy you sure hit hard."

"I'm sorry about that, but I'm here to help with those three girls." Naruto apologized once again.

Continuing to rub his bald spot the doctor turned the right side of his head to show the Genin four deep, and still bleeding scratch marks on his cheek. "I'm sorry kid but that's impossible, those girls just suddenly went out of control once I tried to examine them. I have Chi in there with them to calm them down."

"What made them go batshit crazy?" the demonic mask-wearer asked.

"Traumatic memories." the doctor announced. "Their minds are basically stuck in those hellish weeks at the camp. Their trust in men are basically non-existent, that's why I have denied all family members to see them for the time being."

"It's that bad?"

"It's bad boy, real bad. It could take years to rehabilitate them, and that's the best case scenario. The worst is that they will lose the will to live and eventually die, taking the little ones with them."

Naruto's eyes bugged out, or at least his mask did the expression in shock. "They're-?"

"They were in a bandit camp, they most likely are."

Clenching his fists together Naruto let out several haggard breaths of fury. "Let me in, I need to-"

"I'm sorry but you can't-"

"I said let me in!" the Kurashagan-user growled out in anger as he looked at the man's eyes. Activating Jagan's mind control ability the doctor's eyes became vacant for a remote second, quietly nodding he lead the Genin into the sterilized building. Following the doctor Naruto kicked his conscience aside for the moment as he was lead to the girls, he knew what he was doing was wrong, and no doubt illegal; at least in his mind. But he needed to do this for those three; he couldn't live with himself if he didn't try to help them.

After the doctor arrived at their destination he swiftly knocked on the door. A woman with long blond hair and honey colored eyes immediately opened it; she made the mistake of looking right at Naruto, and immediately fell under his Jagan Eye's mind control ability. "I'm sorry to do this you two, but I have to do this. Go over to the nearest chairs, and go to sleep. Wake up in thirty minutes and take the credit for helping the girls and you won't remember any of this. Also doctor before you do this please fix your face. Understood?"

Getting slow, robotic nods the two doctors obeyed their orders and went off in different directions. Sighing at what he just did Naruto opened the door and entered the room at his own risk.

After silently closing the door the black-streaked blond quietly looked over to see the girls. Thankfully they were cleaner than when he first saw them, they were in hospital gowns, and they seemed calm…at least until they turned towards him. But instead of attacking, they each withdrew into themselves and futilely tried to conceal themselves under the covers of their beds. Bringing his hand to the scabbard and loudly pulled it out to alert them.

The black-haired one that tugged at his belt the night before peaked from underneath her covers to observe him calmly and slowly setting the deadly weapon against the door. She also saw him take his kunai holster off, his hip pouches, and even his gloves off. After Naruto took everything off that made him look threatening he slowly raised his hands where she could see them and calmly took one step forward. When she didn't recoil he took another step towards her, and then another one, until he eventually was at the foot of her bed.

Despite trying to not look like a threat he could still see her gray eyes holding much fear in them. Honestly not knowing what to do next he softly spoke to her. "Is your name Ai?" seeing her violently shake her head, he looked at her chart at the foot of her bed. "Natsume?" seeing her slowly nod he continued, "My name is Naruto…can I come closer?"

After a few minutes the young woman hesitantly nodded. Slowly nodding Naruto stepped closer to her and watched her body language, she was extremely tense, but she didn't show any signs of retaliation. Soon he was at her bedside, and spoke to her once again. "I'm here to make you forget, to make you all forget. But you will have to trust me for this." when she violently shook her head, he continued to try and persuade her. "What will I have to do to get you to trust me?" when she brought her hands to his belt once again he brought his hands to her wrists. "I'm afraid I can't do that. I'm way too young to be doing that type of thing, is there anything else?" mentally patting himself on the back for keeping a calm voice-while he was inwardly freaking out at her advances, he was twelve for Shinigami's sake!

Natsume put on a cute thoughtful, look before her slender hands went to the sides of his mask. When she didn't see the shinobi resisting she pulled the demonic mask off to reveal to her confusion a black half-mask. She noticed his deep scarring and brought her left hand to his half-mask and pulled it down. After seeing his deep scars she placed the hannya mask on her lap, gently raised her right hand and traced her fingers into the deep crevices of his face. "Hurts?" she quietly questioned him.

"Not at all." Naruto replied before he activated the power of the Jagan Eye. He felt the back of his head throbbing from the strenuous use from yesterday, honestly this wasn't the smartest thing he was doing since yesterday. The 'training video' recommended that new users to not overuse the abilities, and to rest up to a week after using them once so their mind could get used to doing it…so after he was done, everything was going to suck for a while. That aside he felt Jagan doing his work of erasing Natsume's memories from her camp, from the day she was captured to the second she was rescued.

After the process was complete the black-haired woman fell unconscious. Clutching his head Naruto rubbed his temples to sooth the pain, Kyuubi's regeneration ability or not that shit still hurt. After the pain subsided for the moment he tucked Natsume under her covers, moved a few stray locks of hair away from her face, and moved onto the other two women.

Ai, the girl who looked to be sixteen years old with red hair and blue eyes was his next 'patient'. Apparently she was the first person who was taken and held captive at the camp, it took a little longer to rid her of those horrid memories, but he did it. Then the last person a green-haired and eyed woman named Anzu was the easiest to take care of.

With his conscious eased Naruto looked over the three sleeping women, each having a peaceful look on their faces as they slept. "This may not be the happy ending I wanted, but at least I could help them by wiping their memories away." suddenly his vision went blurry Naruto clutched his head in pain and fell to one knee, "I probably won't be able to use Jagan…or see straight for a while, but it was worth it."

After pulling his half-mask up to his nose and placing his hannya mask on his face, Naruto stumbled towards his weaponry. Unfortunately he fell flat on his face and automatically realized this would be harder that he thought it would be. Slowly getting to his feet he grabbed the doorknob to steady himself, he first reached for his kunai holster.

Grabbing it by the straps he carefully snapped the straps together and properly secured it to his right thigh. He then grabbed his hip pouches and placed them on his belt resting them above his hindquarters, and finally grabbed Handanryoku's hilt. Using his trusty katana as a makeshift walking stick until he got outside he exited the room, passed the two sleeping doctors, and went straight out the building.

Pretending that nothing was wrong Naruto waved to the few civilians who were still out at night. Saw, for the most part that, that all the stalls were closed for the night, Jin was gone; thankfully in his opinion, and the streets were pretty much empty. He didn't know how long it took him to get back to the inn, but he did his damned best to not draw any attention to himself.

Clamoring down the hallway the mask-wearer found the room he was staying it, as he was about to bring his hand to the doorknob, the familiar sound of a door opening alerted him that he had company. So spinning on his right heel he saw a double vision of Tenten tilting her head in a cute way if he was honest with himself at him. "Hey Tenten how are you this evening?" he greeted her.

"I'm doing pretty good, and yourself?" she asked him.

"Oh pretty well, just went out for a walk to relax a little bit."

Crossing her arms under her bust the bun-haired teen gave him the famed 'critical stare' that all women were famous for giving men when they were lying. "Oh really? Tell me did that walk happen to take you to the doctor's office?"

"No, I'm A-Okay." Naruto blatantly lied.

"A-Okay my powerful ass, you're doing your damned best to not fall flat on your face." Shinigami barked out.

'Shnigami you're not helping!'

"Don't lie to me Naruto." Tenten narrowed her brown eyes at him. "Your posture is showing me that you're exhausted, in fact I can almost see your knees shaking."

Knowing that he couldn't keep the charade up for long Naruto relented. "Okay, okay, you caught me with my pants down. During the raid on the camp I took a nasty hit to the head with a war club. After taking my shower to look somewhat presentable I went to the doctors, they saw that I had a lump on my head. So after icing it and given some aspirin I was sent back, just in time too because I was getting pretty tired."

'Worst lie ever Naruto.' Tenten thought to herself. She honestly didn't see the point in him lying, he was always truthful ever since the academy he never told a lie, that just added to her curiosity even more. But before she could call him on it the sound of someone shouting 'youth' interrupted her thought process, and a door opening alerted the two of them that they had company.

The person was none other than Neji Hyuga, who no doubt was relieving himself from one of Lee's and Gai's youth rants. "Dear Kami if I have to listen to their rant of youth one more time." he barely managed to growl out in annoyance.

"I can't hear a thing; guess these walls are pretty thick." Naruto commented as he leaned against the door to his room.

"Uzumaki. I honestly didn't expect to see you this late at night." while that sounded rude, it honestly wasn't. "But I'm glad you're here, there was something I've been meaning to ask you."

"Ask me/him?" Naruto and Tenten asked at the same time.

"Correct, normally I would not ask this sort of thing, but that attack. Iron Reaver Soul Stealer, I must know how exactly did you create it?" Neji asked.

Chuckling sheepishly Naruto scratched the back of his head with his left hand, "Actually Neji I kinda stole that technique." seeing their eyes narrow at him he frantically reworded what he meant to say. "What I mean by that is that I used to read a shit ton of manga when I was in the academy. I remember it was called…Inu Yasha, and well the main character had this badass attack, so after I grew my fingernails out all I did was add some chakra into my fingernails and...well." he brought his right hand up and lamely brought it down in a sweeping motion. "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer."

After his explanation both Genin, despite themselves face-faulted. Tenten being the first to recover frantically waved her arms up and down, "What are you crazy! That's copyright infringement Naruto-kun!"

"The author is dead, and the series is done and over with. I honestly doubt that I would get in trouble for it." the demonic mask-wearer replied.

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-Cut scene-

After Naruto said that a black leather chair twirled around showing a dark figure facing the readers. A light shined on him to reveal an average-looking, black-haired, scruffy-looking, twenty year old male revealed himself wearing a black Metallica t-shirt, light blue jeans shredded from years of wear and tear, and plain white sneakers. Placing his left middle and index fingers on the bridge of his glasses, forcing the light to shine brightly to obscure his eyes.

"Hello my faithful reviewers, I won't bore you for long but this is important. Copyright infringement is not cool. I cannot stress that enough; you give credit where credit is due. Also Rumiko Takahashi is not dead; she's still alive and well. And for the record, I was a fan of Inu Yasha until they stopped showing it in America. That said let's get back to the story shall we?"

Clicking his fingers The Fifth Rider of Armageddon was enveloped in darkness. But in actually it was the apartment complex losing power due to a freak lightning storm outside. "Damn it that would have been so cool."

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After leaving his two comrades speechless Naruto bid them good night and entered his room to collapse onto his bed.

"Naruto-kun?" Neji questioned his female companion with a raised eyebrow.

"Shut up Neji!"


"Naruto!" Sasuke screamed his teammate's name for the sixth time. Grabbing his teammate's shoulder and violently shook him to the point where the bed shook. "Come on you lazy bastard wake your lazy ass up!" when he only got a loud and obnoxious snore from his masked face.

Resisting the urge to punch the pain in the ass that was his teammate the Uchiha stopped trying to wake Naruto up the normal way someone would get woken up, and thought what would have been a better way to do it. After a minute an evil smirk came to his face, it was out of character for him, but he was going to enjoy it. "Oh Naruto is that Hinata, Haku and Tenten wrestling in a large pool of ramen?"

Like a sucker Naruto immediately bolted up and frantically searched for what was said to him. Immediately he heard the sound of loud laughing alerted him, and saw his teammate on the ground laughing his ass off. "Sasuke you asshole!" he roared at him.

Composing himself for the most part the Uchiha got to his feet, a few chuckles still escaping his mouth. "Well, at least I know your preference."

"You damn know my preference." the black-streaked blond growled at him, thankfully he wasn't seeing double anymore, but he had the worst headache imaginable. "You being an assbag aside, what do you want?"

Clearing his throat the Sharingan-user told him the reason why he woke him up. "Kakashi-sensei said we were going to leave in two hours, I put those bloody clothes in that scroll of yours, now hurry up." With that said he left the room.

Grumbling about raven-haired douchebags Naruto lazily got out of his bed, and got into his usual routine for the morning-when he wasn't interrupted at least. Falling to his fists he began a series of quick pushups to get his blood flowing and fifty sit-ups to further strengthen his core. It took him ten minutes but he was awake, and after grabbing his scroll and any other objects of his that were in the room he headed out into the village.

"Finally awake?" Sasuke asked as his teammate once he stepped outside.

Seeing his cousin leaning against the building Naruto responded without a beat. "Yep, so what are we supposed to do to pass the time?"

"Well Kakashi said to meet up at the entrance at eleven, so I guess we just keep track of the time and do whatever we want for the time being."

"Sounds good to me."

Without a word the two Genin began to seek out the stalls. Naruto immediately spotted a stall selling some trinkets and was drawn towards it. He was greeted by a hefty bald man who was pretty jolly in his opinion. "Welcome friends I got everything you need, stuffed animals, balloons, and many other goodies you may want." he greeted the pre-teen.

Putting his right hand to his masked chin Naruto observed several of the trinkets on the shelves. There honestly wasn't much that looked good to him, the masks that he saw were cheap-looking, the sweets would not last around him, Zabuza definitely wasn't a snow globe person, but then he saw something that peaked his interest. It was a rabbit, just a simple chibi white rabbit plushy with wide blue eyes.

"I'll take the white rabbit." he said to the store owner.

"Oh-ho! Good choice my boy, the girls love this little critter." pulling the bunny from the shelf the man placed it on the shelf and said, "Now who are you giving this to? The bun-hired girl? Because she would probably like this thing." he pulled down a small crystal ball and placed it next to the stuffed bunny.

"Uh, thanks but the rabbit is-"

"What cha doing Naruto?" a female voice echoed in his ears. When he felt light weight and two soft mounds press into his back caused him to freeze.

"Umm just getting-" he honestly didn't know why he panicked, or why he did what he did, but he blurted out. "I was just getting you this crystal ball."

"How did you know fortune-telling was my hobby?" receiving a hug from the weapons mistress he felt his face heating up when her breasts pressed into his back. "You're so sweet, thank you Naruto-kun." once Tenten took the crystal ball, and left Naruto's brain returned to normal.

"What the hell just happened?" he asked as the shopkeeper let out a deep belly laugh.

After reluctantly paying for both the rabbit, the crystal ball, and honestly wondering what came over him, Naruto continued to look at various other stalls. Since Sasuke disappeared to Shinigami knows where, and Jin's shop was unfortunately closed, he just took some time to himself and picked up a three more other things for the male residents that were forced to care for the fox kits.

"NARUTO-KUN!" the all too familiar voice Rock Lee caused his ears to ring.

"Yes Lee?" Naruto sighed out once the green spandex-wearing teen reached him.

"Gai-sensei sent me to get you, it's almost time to leave!" with the insane strength his fellow Genin had, he grabbed Naruto by the arm, and literally dragged him towards the entrance. Once Lee arrived he finally let go of Naruto's arm and beamed at his accomplished mission.

'Must not strangle Lee…he's a friend and comrade. Must not strangle Lee…he's a friend and comrade, oh fuck it! It's for the good of all mankind.' Naruto thought as he got himself off the ground and brought his hands out in a strangling motion towards the spandex-wearing Genin.

Chuckling to himself Kakashi spoke up before his student went through with his plan. "Now that you're here let's move out."

Mentally groaning in displeasure the demonic mask-wearer brought his arms to his side and followed his sensei's orders…for now. Pumping some chakra into his legs he leaped in sync with everyone and started leaping through the trees. Because they were shinobi they easily cleared an entire mile in less than three minutes.

However unlike everyone who were looking ahead, Naruto looked to the side for just one second, and one second was all he needed. Time seemed to stop when he saw a clearing, and what he saw stunned him. From the various lower tree branches were fifteen bodies, each hung by a hangman's noose on their necks. The last one standing on a chair was none other than Taka; the bandit rose his head up and snarled at him with the most intense hatred he ever saw in his entire life. Then before the man could even open his mouth to let out some kind of curse the chair he was standing on was kicked out from under him by Jin, and he fell to the forest floor.

As a tree blocked his view of the bandit's death, Naruto couldn't help but feel relieved that justice had been served.


One day later the two teams found themselves walking out of the Hokage Tower. Kakashi said he would handle it from here, leaving Sakura and Tenten headed to return to their respective homes, Neji returned to the Hyuga Estate, Lee and Gai went off to do more training to continue to boost their 'Flames of Youth', and Naruto and Sasuke went to relieve Zabuza of their furry residents.

But unaware to all of them Kakashi had another motive for speaking with the Hokage alone. After he handed the old man the mission scroll the legendary shinobi steeled his gaze after reading the fine details and leaned back in his chair. "Is there anything of interest that I should know about Kakashi? Like what you didn't write on the report?" he asked the Jou\nin.

"I'm afraid so Hokage-sama." Kakashi replied. "Before we entered the village the night before Naruto pulled out the Bingo Book. There was a brief argument between the two of us before Gai, Sasuke and Tenten sided with him after reading up on a few of the Missing-nin within the book."

Chuckling in response Hiruzen calmly wiped a tear of mirth away from his eye. "Kakashi I'm not worried about that, in fact I'm actually proud of him learning from his encounter with Zabuza. Gai has been pushing for us to teach the academy students about this for years, and I must say I'm leaning towards having them learning it in the academy next year. But please, what else must I know about this mission?"

After a few seconds to digest his leaders words the Jonin continued his report. "When you said we need to keep tabs on Naruto I created a shadow clone to follow him once we separated in the camp."

"And?" the old Kage pressed or more details.

"What I found out was truly shocking. Whatever skills we thought he had after his supposed 'death' was completely blown out of the water." the Copycat ninja reported. "The first thing I saw was his kenjutsu. It was barely above average, but it was efficient against the bandits we encountered. His motions weren't exactly fluid, his stances had a good amount of openings, but his foot work was amazing. Given proper training he could very well become a master in the next couple of years."

"So now we know his skill in kenjutsu." Sarutobi nodded in a pleased motion. "What of his taijutsu, surely it increased after his slight training period with Gai."

"You would be correct. He has become faster, stronger, and highly efficient with the few taijutsu techniques Gai taught him. From what I saw each punch and kick he delivered critical damage, the placements of his strikes were precise, coordinated, and deadly. He's not on the Level of Rock Lee by any means though."

Nodding in response the Sandaime asked his next question, "How about his mental stability, what were his emotions like when…well you know."

Closing his visible eye Kakashi thought for a moment before answering. "Honestly sir it's debatable." seeing his leader raise an eyebrow he clarified what he meant. "Naruto…he seemed like he could flip a switch. He was cold, calculated, and extremely efficient when everything started going to hell in a hand basket. He showed no restraint when he killed the enemy, but my clone could feel the anger behind his movements, especially in his minor interrogation session. Though after what he saw I can't blame him."

"Interrogation session? Kakashi what did he see?"

"He encountered the bandit co-leader that he later interrogated early on in the day when he disguised himself as a woman. The man let his bodyguard try to have his way with him before they returned to camp. But Naruto killed the man's bodyguard, used a clone to take his place, and once he dispelled it learned everything he could about the bandit camp. However while his clone was undercover he witnessed the bandit leader raping three young women."

His eyes widening in surprise Sarutobi lit his recently repaired pipe and proceeded to inhale the rich tobacco. After a few seconds he let out a stream of smoke and solemnly nodded. "What else can you tell me?"

Taking a deep breath Kakashi dropped a bombshell that would leave the Sandaime speechless. "I also saw him using a new ninjutsu with his claws that he called Iron Reaver Soul Stealer. I don't exactly know how he did it, but all I do know is that it uses chakra concentrated at the tips of his nails. However that is not the biggest shock I saw that night, my lord the boy somehow knows the Exploding Shadow Clone Jutsu, and earth ninjutsu. Not like the minor ones I use, but high powered ones. Like your Great Mud River, and your Mud Dragon Bomb to kill a group of at least twenty highly trained bandits."

Accidentally inhaling too sharply Hirzuen violently hacked up large clouds of smoke in surprise. "What did you say! Are you one-hundred percent sure?"

"I'm one-hundred percent positive Lord Hokage."

Taking several long puffs from his pipe the Sandaime Hokage was silent for several long minutes. Finally he nodded before letting out a sigh of exhaustion. "I'm afraid to ask, but is there anything else I should know?"

Nodding in response Kakashi brought his right hand to the front of his flak-vest and pulled a sealing scroll from one of its three scroll pouches on that side. Setting it on the desk he unrolled it, and in a small cloud of smoke the Sandaime was greeted with Hachi's decapitated head. "His last victim of the night was the rumored shinobi ruling over the camp, his name was Hachi Dokubora; one of Kusagakure's rouge shinobi. My clone caught Naruto impale…more like assassinate him with his katana before the man had the chance to completely run out of his tent."

Hiruzen's eyes steeled when he saw the milky white eyes of the deceased poison master. Bringing his right arm up he snapped his fingers, and immediately appearing next to him was an Anbu member with an eagle mask. "Washi (Eagle) please take the head to the Anbu Headquarters for proper identification, just in case."

"With pleasure my lord." the eagle masked Anbu member responded as he placed the head back in the scroll, and disappeared in a small cloud of smoke.

"That is all I have to report Lord Hokage, I'll take my leave for now." with a bow Kakashi disappeared in a small cloud of smoke.

Leaning back in his chair Sarutobi sighed in frustration. What he just learned threw everything he believed out of the window. Naruto was not the person who he thought he was, he was unstable, unpredictable, and also a hypocrite. With a heavy heart he pressed on the secret button under his desk. "Tenzo (Tiger), Neko (Cat) find Naruto Uzumaki and bring him here immediately."


Meanwhile with Naruto and Sasuke who just got to the place Zabuza and company were residing, the black-streaked blond swallowed the lump in his throat and knocked on the door three times. The two waited for a few minutes before an extremely haggard Gozu answered the door. "Thank Kami you're here!" grabbing the two by the scruff of their shirts he literally dragged them inside.

The inside of the house looked fine, but when they reached the backyard they saw a disaster area. The yard was turned up in a few places, the oak tree was scratched to unholy hell, and a bush was somehow on fire. But most importantly Zabuza and Meizu were frantically trying to get Ichigo out of their hair as he jumped from or head to another. While Haku and Benihime looked on from the sidelines in amusement.

Breaking out in a fit of laughter Naruto leaned on a shocked Sasuke for support. "Oh I'm so proud of him!" he barely managed to wheeze out between his fit of laughter. His voice caused the two fox kits to pipe up and sprint over to him where they began to cutely rub up against his legs. "Aww I missed you guys too, were you good for 'uncle' Zabuza and his two lackeys?"

"Oh Benihime was an angel, but that scar-faced pelt was a little hell spawn!" Zabuza barked out as he pointed to his scratched up face and his ruined shirt. "For nearly a week he tortured the hell out of us, while leaving Haku alone!"

Suppressing a chuckle Naruto bent his knees and rubs the kit's heads, noticing that they grew a little bit when they were gone. "Sorry about that Zabuza, but you guys will be compensated moneywise…within reason of course, and of course the gifts I got from my mission." pulling his sealing scroll out of his right hip pouch he opened it to reveal the gifts he bought them.

Tearing off his ruined wife beater Zabuza immediately put on the black t-shirt with a crimson Oni head in a mist-like shroud on his chest. When Gozu and Meizu held up their crimson shirts they had tick marks over their left eyes when the was big bold black letters on the front and back of the shirts that said 'I'm with stupid' with a black arrow pointing at each other on their respective left and right sides. Haku however was fiercely squeezing the chibi rabbit plushy in her arms, proving once again that no matter how professional a woman was, they still loved cute and cuddly things.

"Once again I thank you all for watching the two on such short notice. Hopefully-" before Naruto could even continue he was interrupted when both his arms were violently bound behind his back.

"I'm sorry Naruto Uzumaki, but you're coming with us."


Armageddon: Well it's nearly a week overdue but I finally got it!

Pvt. Leaf Ranger: Yup I agree...wait why the hell am I here? *looks down at his Private uniform* Gah! I'm in a uniform! How did this happen?

Pvt. Gold Testament: Uhh same here?

Pvt. Liquor: Are these the newbies? Wait how are they in here we wanna know! Also why oh why did you do that cutscene?

Armageddon: *pushes his glasses up* Well in order: Yes they are the new guys. They got here because Leaf Ranger submitted an idea during the first Hell Sharingan...and I completely forgot about it until I looked the last chapter over. I know my bad, my very, very, very bad, for Gold here well he gave me an idea for an alternate ending for chapter eight, but obviously since I can't rewrite it in chapter eight I turned it into an omake, amd added a few more things in to make it longer, and hopefully get a good laugh out of everyone reading this. *snaps his fingers*

(Omake-Sasuke's actual reaction)

Looking up Sasuke's face told him exactly what he thought about it.

However he didn't expect him to speak them out loud.

"YES, YES, FOR KAMI'S SAKE MAN TEACH ME TO AVOID THEM!" Sasuke screamed out. "THEY ARE A LIVING HELL ON EARTH FOR ME, I CAN'T EVEN GO SHOPPING FOR MY FAVORITE FOOD WITHOUT THEM ATTACKING ME. I CAN'T EAT, I CAN'T SLEEP WELL AT NIGHT KNOWING THEY ARE LURKING OUTSIDE MY WINDOW TO STEAL MY SOUL PLEASE NARUTO I'M DESPERATE!" grabbing the front of his teammate's vest he violently started shaking him from all the pent up stress he had developed over the years.

"Okay I get it!" Naruto shouted in order to try and get the Sharingan-user to stop shaking him. "Put me down and tell me, is it really that bad?"

"That bad! Of course it is, don't you remember what happened to Shinta?"

"The guy who was two years ahead of us? Yea, he was the Rookie of the year and a complete prick, kinda like you were."

Ignoring the jab at him Sasuke continued his rant. "Then do you remember what happened to him?" seeing the demonic mask-wearer shake his head, he continued. "Well he was captured by the fangirls, and was never seen again. He was captured, and they have been devouring his soul for the past few years, now it's my turn!"

"Okay then...exagerating aside, we need to find a private place so I can teach you this awesome technique." Naruto sweat dropped.

However unknown to the both of them in the Haruno household, Hibari Haruno shrouded from head to toe with her transformation jutsu to make her look appealing looked at her youngest daughter with a frown on her face. When she got the report that Sasuke Uchiha was out an about, she sent Sakura to gather her hoard of brainwashed puppets to capture him once and for all. Instead she returned home, defeated, and covered in paint with a bullshit story of the Shinigami himself protecting him.

"You know I don't believe in those fake God's." the pink-haired woman scoffed at the mere notion that there were higher powers than the council. "As punishment you are to twenty-four hours in the chamber of fire." calmly walking over she pressed a button on the side of the grandfather clock, the piece of furniture slid sideways revealing a chamber of endless fire. Seeing her daughter sigh, the Genin walked in without complaint as the clock slid shut behind her.

Tapping on the wall next to the clock it swirled around to reveal a barely struggling bound, and gagged body of Shinta.

"Fufufu, oh Shinta-kun no need to get worked up over little old me." smiling at the young man, she quickly stuck her slick forked tongue out like a snake. "I may have not gotten Sasuke today, but I will soon fufufu!"

(End omake)

Armageddon: And third I did that cutscene for two reasons. The first is that I have been watching too much Family Guy.

Everyone: *Face faults*

Armageddon: Haha but most of all I wanted yo uall to know that I do not stand for ripping shit off of people. It's wrong and for future refrences I'll only use Iron Reaper Soul Stealer once like every four chapters of so. Now any more questions?

Lt. RasenganFin: Yes, another cliffhanger? Dude that's not professional.

Armageddon: Actually the last chapter wasn't supposed to be a cliffhanger. I just figured that it would be a good idea to stop it there, I mean who wants to read a chapter that was dragged out when it should have ended at a certain time?

Pvt. VFSNAKE: Not me.

Armageddon: Good, now I have some news for you. The shoutout winner for this chapter is Shinobi of the High Seas by Kenchi618, I highly recommend it because it's the first Naruto and One Piece fic that doesn't suck. And also thanks to Agurra of the Darkness I'm going to do my own Naruto One Piece crossover. I know what you're thinking why the hell would you do that?

Pvt. Fox: Yes why the hell owuld you do that!

Armageddon: Well he convinced me, I mean it's so far out that I had to take a crack at it. So folks keep an eye ouf for my new fic Spiraling Shark! Though to be fair he came up with it, and asked me to write it so the credit goes to him. But I'm still writing it!

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