The Rise of a Warlord
Chapter 14: Eyes Colder then Ice Pt. 1
(I own nothing)
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"Speaking"
'Thinking'
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Warning-
Naruto will be darker...
There will be harsh language...
There may be lemons...
This list may grow in time...
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(AN: A while back, someone reviewed that Saki was spelled as 'Sake' and not 'Saki'. Well that is partly true, there is three ways to spell it depending on the writers preference and I just like to use the 'I' instead of the 'E'. So no matter if it's spelled, 'Sake', 'Saki', or 'Saké' it's all the same. Also, this is the first time in my life where I actually used a 'é' in anything, in fact, I just discovered how to type it on this...)
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At the end of her day, Tsunade finally got the chance to just lean back in her chair and drink a bottle of chilled saki without having to risk Shizune walking in and bitching her out. She usually worked from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon, going over papers, reports, requests... the multiple torturous vile things that she hated more than her dead former teammate, and for some reason, her apprentice took her assistant job way too seriously and frowned on her drinking during the day, even going so far as to take the hidden stash of bottles she had in her desk early one morning before she got in. Making her do this crap sober!
Propping her feet up on the corner of the desk, she reflected on her day with the bottle in hand.
This morning she had released two of the Sound Four, the dead snake Sannin's personal guards and his supposedly most loyal subjects from ANBU holding cells and into Naruto's custody. She had thought about revoking her order and putting them back on death row with the others for a few hours afterward but held off on it, wanting to believe that Naruto could handle things. Besides, the two had their chakra sealed and wouldn't have the seals removed until later.
A little while after lunch... or a couple hours ago, she had gotten a scroll from Naruto containing the information that the two knew about Orochimaru's bases, safe houses, partners, projects... so much that she had found two separate scrolls sealed near the bottom, one from each ninja.
The Sound Four had resisted the interrogation and torture without giving in but Naruto did it with ease, making the master of mental torture, Ibiki look foolish.
Taking a sip of her Saki she hummed lowly, "Naruto-kun, you sure are one impressive man..."
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"Ha, we finally tracked you down, Naruto!"
Standing in the middle of a training ground with Konohamaru and his two friends, Naruto turned his head to see Sakura and Ino jump into view with triumphant looks on there faces.
Ino looked to Sakura, "Good idea using the kids to find Naruto." she said lowly.
Hearing that, Naruto's head snapped back over to the three traitorous little brats who were giving him nervous little smiles.
"Hehehe... sorry Boss... but she gave us so much candy!" Konohamaru said with a grin, "But you'll still teach us right?"
"Oh I'll teach you alright," he said darkly, but the tone was missed by the three.
"Cool-" they started the cheer only to feel a cold wave wash over them. Looking back to the blond they saw him surrounded by a cold aura and gulped.
"I'll teach you to sell me out you little brats!"
They looked at each other, "Oh shit!" Konohamaru exclaimed before being pushed towards the blond by his female friend, Moegi as a distraction before the girl turned and ran, yelling 'Every ninja for themselves!' over her shoulder as she and the other boy, Udon made a break for it with Konohamaru scrambling to follow.
Catching the boy by his shirt, Naruto yanked him off his feet and dangled him in the air.
"AH MOEGI, UDON HELP!" he screamed for is friend only to be left behind. "Boss please I'm sorry!"
Wrapping an arm around the top of his head, Naruto rubbed his knuckled back and forth across the boys head while said boy yelled for mercy and struggled to free himself.
Ino and Sakura sweat dropped.
"You little rat bastard, I should dangle you from a light pole by your ankles in the middle of the village with nothing on... or maybe even throw you into the girls side of the hotsprings!" he growled out while continuing his assault on the academy student's skull, not at all effected by the flailing limbs and pleas for mercy.
"Should we help him?" Ino whispered to the girl next to her, "I mean, it is our fault, we made Konohamaru help us."
Knowing that the Blond teen in front of them was close to the Third Hokage and his grandson, Sakura had the idea to get Konohamaru to help find Naruto. As luck would have it, the boy indeed did know where Naruto would be later that day seeing as he and his two friends were going to with train Naruto that afternoon.
But the three refused to tell them exactly where they would meet Naruto and the same went for them tailing the kids to the area. The idea of following them from the shadows later on had crossed their mind but if the rumors about them were true, they'd probably lead them into a trap/prank and warn Naruto about the two girls looking for him.
So Sakura had an idea, why not bribe them with what every little kid liked?
They hadn't been cheap about their price either, the two girls had to give them a large bag of candy just so that they could follow them into the training grounds later that afternoon.
Finally, Naruto released the boy, letting him fall down onto the grass where her clutched at his head, his dark brown hair flattened out with a part down the middle from where Naruto's knuckles kept on rubbing. The boy swore he felt his hair smoldering while the others thought that they saw steam floating up into the air.
"Get out of here," Naruto said with a huff as he looked down at the kid, "And think about what will happen the next time you decide to sell me out,"
"Yes Boss... Sorry Boss!" Konohamaru quickly spoke before getting up and running off, leaving a trail of dust behind him .
With Konohamaru gone, his retreating back hidden by walls of trees and other foliage, Naruto turned his attention back to the two girls, "Now, what do you two want? Must be something important for you to have to bribe Konohamaru and his friends."
They drew a blank...
All this time they'd just thought about tracking him down, not exactly figuring out what they would say to him when they did find him.
"Ah well... me and Sakura just wanted to know how your doing..." Ino said weakly, making Naruto raise his eyebrow. She saw this and jumped to defend her statement, "What, we can check up on friends right?"
"Ino..." Naruto deadpanned, "We were never friends... and the most you ever said to me back in the Academy was either to call me names or to threaten me for saying something about the Uchiha,"
She couldn't retort to his statement because it was true, she couldn't remember a single time where she'd been remotely friendly to her fellow blond. Every memory of him was of her picking on him for something, hitting him for sitting next to Sasuke or pushing him out of the seat, or mocking him for not being able to use the basic ninjutsu taught to them in class.
"We wanted to know what happened to you," Sakura interjected suddenly, "Your so different than before,"
"You mean how I'm not jumping around like an idiot, begging you for a date, letting you hit me, and transferred off of the team?" Naruto said while hitting the nail on the head. "The Naruto you knew was a lie, he never existed in the first place. I acted like that so that when it was time to reveal my true self, no one would see me coming."
Looking at a watch on his wrist, Naruto frowned, "Hmm. I'd say I'll see you later but I honestly don't care if I do or not, but I gotta go, unlike some people, I have work to do..."
Watching the blond leave, Ino and Sakura were speechless.
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Within two days, the Fire Lord had sent confirmation back to the village on approving the funding for K.D.S.C.D. as well as saying what a great idea it was to have a unit like that under their employ. The group was a classified secret though so the information on the funding was never told to the council which was most likely a good thing as they'd probably try their damnedest to take it for their own uses.
One of the first things he did with the cash was get each member of his group an apartment at his apartment building along with whatever necessities they needed. Due to her health concerns, Yakumo still roomed with Kabuto but now their new apartment had two bedrooms so neither complained. Jirobo and Tayuya both got their own one bedroom apartment and found that their life under their new boss was much better than it was with Orochimaru.
They had been shocked when they found out that Kabuto also worked for the blonde commander whom was responsible for the death of Orochimaru. Kabuto had always seemed so loyal to the snake sannin... but then again they seemed that way too at the time.
The second thing Naruto did was get approval from Tsunade to have the entire floor that his office was on assigned to him, saying that his team needed the space now that they were growing in numbers. She agreed without pause, that floor wasn't really in use now-a-days, it had been a records room back before the archives had been established but now it just gathered dust.
He was still in the process of deciding on what exactly to use these extra rooms for but he had an idea or two, Kabuto also requested a area to set up as a research and medical facility. To patch one of them up should they get hurt and to continue his research on the various things he liked to study. Hey there was a reason he studied medicine so hard and willingly joined Orochimaru.
The only down side to getting funding was the paperwork that came with it, he had to document everything to ensure that the money was going to good use.
"Tayuya, you shouldn't talk like that,"
Naruto stopped writing as he heard the deep irritated voice of his largest recruit, Jirobo.
Jirobo was only slightly older than him but had a lot of power behind his seemingly overweight frame. He was a quite guy but easily irritated and had the unique ability to absorb chakra from his enemies. A drawback from his ability gave him a large appetite and he was almost always hungry, but at the same time, any chakra he absorbed would act as food for him and satisfy his hunger. Aside from that, his physical strength was impressive and he was quite skilled in taijutsu and with Earth ninjutsu.
"I'll talk however the fuck I want to talk fatty!" came the foul-mouthed retort of his other recruit, Tayuya.
Tayuya was the same age as Jirobo but was much smaller, louder, and overbearing. She had finally gotten her favorite hat back from ANBU and now had it back on with bandages wrapped around the bottom, which made a single fringe of hair fall right over her face and covered part of her nose. She was mainly a genjutsu and summoning user, using her Demonic Flute to cast illusions and control her summons, which were a group of large demons called Doki.
Putting the pen down, he felt his eye start twitching. "Both of you shut the fuck up!" he called out from his desk through the open door, "You argue like a married couple so either shut it or go fuck each other somewhere else!"
Yakumo, who was using the table in his office as a desk to study on, blushed at the language and what he said. Since she hadn't gone to the academy she spent a lot of time catching up on what she missed... or at least what would be useful, who needed to know the history of the kunai like who made it and such? All that mattered was that it was a universal tool that could do many useful things aside from silting someone's throat.
"Eww, fucking gross!" Tayuya exclaimed from the hallway, "I'd never fuck that ass hole!"
"Shut the fuck up then! I have enough to deal with without you two getting on my nerves," He'd normally use a shadow clone but he wanted to do this himself, Tsunade hadn't given him an assignment for awhile now so that he could get everything taken care of.
Tayuya crossed her arms and muttered, "Someone needs to get laid," rather loudly, only for him to ignore her as he flipped through the papers to find them a quick assignment.
"Look, just take this and complete it," he told them while tossing a small scroll to them, "Make yourselves useful."
They never noticed the dark look he gave the pink/redhead as she left.
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Over the next few days, Naruto got his base set up to the way he wanted it to be, he kept his office the same way as it was but now instead of leaving the various pieces of information he had in a single sealing scroll he now had a vault-like room to act as an archive of his own that was kept hidden and locked by seals. Kabuto also got his wish and had a place to go his stuff. In the room across from him, locked with seals was an armory containing anything they'd need, weapons, armor, equipment, vests, masks, smoke bombs, explosive notes... anything.
They left the sealing chamber alone, it still had it's uses.
One of the larger rooms was made into a barracks of sorts should they even be too tired to just go home. It had bunks, a kitchen, a TV and a couch.
But none of that mattered at the moment...
"EARTH RELEASE: SPHERE OF GRAVES!" Jirobo growled out. Using chakra work and his strength, the orange haired teen lifted a large round chunk of ground above his head with ease.
Seeing this, Naruto blinked, "Oh dear..."
They had been sparing in a out of the way training ground now that his chakra had been unsealed but after while of not being able to hit the blond, Jirobo started getting more and more into it to the point where he started going all out.
They were a good distance away from each other so when the teen hurled it at him, Naruto leapt back while quickly grabbing one of his explosive kunai and threw it.
'Ram, Rat, Bird, Boar, Tiger,' he thought to himself as he flashed through the seals before calling out, "Ninja Art: Kunai Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
The one kunai turned into a dozen which stuck into the flying earth and exploded, causing the sphere to break apart with chunks pelting the trees around them while the larger ones left large tracks in the grass or broke branches.
But to his surprise, through the smoke from the explosions came Jirobo with a simple straight punch aimed for his head. He didn't really need complex styles and stances to fight, he knew some good styles but with his great physical strength, Jirobo could use a simple strike with devastating effects.
Dodging to the left, Naruto lashed out with a kick to the back of the larger teens thigh causing him to drop to that knee just long enough to end their match with a kunai against the jugular.
"Good work," he told the teen as he removed the blade and holstered it, "Your chakra control is getting better after your imprisonment."
Anyone who wore chakra suppressors for more than a couple days often found that when the things were taken off, their chakra control was off whack for a while due to not being able to use chakra then having complete and total access. Causing mayhem with the part of the mind that helped them subconsciously mound chakra for anything.
"Keep on training while I'm gone, you and the others will be taking a few missions too." he said while frowning. He'd been assigned a mission outside of the village to guard some movie star while she made her next movie and he'd be leaving the next morning.
Now it wasn't the fact that he was assigned a mission that annoyed him, far from it actually. It was the team he'd been partnered with.
"I'm done for the day," he told Jirobo as he turned to leave, "Kabuto will be taking command while I'm gone so tell him to get a jump on that paperwork. I've got a mission to prepare for.
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"Our mission is to guard Yukie Fujikaze, the actress best known for her role as Princess Gale," Kakashi told Sakura and Sasuke as they sat across from the director in the busy movie studio.
All around them men and women were moving things, packing them into boxes, organizing them and so on, in all the whole place was the definition of organized chaos. The short old director silently smoked a long pipe while two other men flanked him, standing on each side.
"Guard?" Sakura asked with a raised brow, wondering what could happen with a movie crew trying to shoot a movie.
"Well," Kakashi mused while rubbing his cheek, "Maybe not guard... more like escort,"
The younger of the three across from the ninjas had a script rolled up in his hand, patting it on his shoulder slowly, "The next Princess Gale movie is the first one we're shooting abroad and ah..." he stopped shortly to shoot the other man next to the director a look, "I don't need to tell you that our leading lady is a bit of a diva."
The man he'd been looking at frowned a bit, "Sorry," he told them, as he was Yukie Fujikaze's manager, "I do apologize."
The director hummed and blew out a ring of smoke, "I'll tell you," he spoke out loud, "Those Leaf ninja are pretty impressive, especially that blond one... he took out those stunt men turned bodyguards we hired like it was child's play and those are some big fellas."
Kakashi thought about it and sweat dropped, he'd sent his two genin to see the last Princess Gale movie as a way to familiarize themselves with the upcoming mission but for some reason, the third Hokage's grandson and his two friends showed up accusing Sakura of getting them into trouble and that they now had to look around every corner fearing that they'd be attacked as pay back.
Deciding to help his student, he offered to let them go see the movie too seeing that he had a few free tickets from the movie makers due to them taking this mission.
Afterward, when they left the theater, Konohamaru and co found the group of bodyguard/stuntmen chasing after Yukie on horseback and decided to help the woman just as they managed to catch her.
Of course... three barely trained academy students were no match for the large group of men, one of which was about to hit the boy for attacking them.
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"You little punk!" one of the armor wearing men yelled as he held Konohamaru by the shirt, "Who the hell do you think you are!"
Ignoring the sense that this had happened before, Konohamaru tried to escape but failed, kicking the armored plate of the man's torso only made him angrier. "Just let me go dumb ass!"
"Yeah let him go!" yelled the orange haired girl with the snot-nosed boy nodding.
The man raised his fist, "Oh I'll let him go alright! Right after I teach him about respecting his betters!"
Without warning a black blur appeared in midair next to the armored man and lashed out with a kick that sent him to the ground, the black metal mask bouncing down the dirt road next to the other armored figures.
Konohamaru soon found himself free and scrambled to his savior, only to pale as he saw Naruto standing there with his arms crossed. At first he didn't know rather or not to feel relieved that said blond saved him or to worry that Naruto saved him as the teen still had a issue with them from selling him out for candy.
Deciding to go with relief, he continued his previous action and hid behind the teen, "Boss you saved me!" he cried out with a small grin, "That was so cool!"
Naruto gave him a small look, "Don't try to kiss ass, I'm still annoyed with you. The only reason I stopped him is because I own all three of your asses until you work off your betrayal,"
The three quickly found themselves questioning writher or not an ass kicking was worth it or not.
Naruto vanished in a blur of speed. Seconds later, Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon, and the now free Yukie found every armored man laying in a pile, moaning in pain or twitching with dents in their armor.
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The only reason he knew about it was because he'd been passing by at the time. But Yukie's manager had seen the whole thing and was so impressed that he went to submit a specific request that the blond teen join them... and of course, that teen just so happened to be Naruto.
Yukie's Manager, an old man with dark gray hair, small round glasses, and a thick goatee who's name was Sandayu Asama looked at them then glanced around, "Speaking of ninjas... where is the other guy?" he asked, noticing that the blond he requested to join them wasn't there.
Sakura and Sasuke looked confused, "We're the only ones," the girl stated only to look at Kakashi with a questioning look, "Right Sensei?"
"Well not anymore, Mr. Sandayu requested that another ninja join us?"
This time Sasuke spoke to ask, "Who?"
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Naruto sneezed, blowing a small mist of spit through the air in his living room as he leaned back on the couch.
"Hmm... someone much be talking about me," he mused while rubbing his nose, referring to the myth that you only sneezed out of nowhere when someone was talking about you.
Anko's head popped up from his lap, "Maybe your catching a cold." she hummed before grinning, "I hear that the best way to get rid of one is to sweat it out!"
Slowly placing his hand onto the top of her head, Naruto pushed her back down onto his cock, "Then let's get back to business Anko-chan."
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The next morning, Naruto went to the movie studio where he was to meet the film crew to find them nearly ready to leave, they still had a few things to pack for the trip but were still ahead of schedule so they really weren't in too much of a rush.
He met the director and the actress' manager, Sandayu, the one who requested that he join the team on this mission to escort them on the trip. But the man didn't stay too long, he left saying that he was going to get Yukie.
"Hey kid," The director called as he lit his pipe, "I heard about what you did to the stuntmen a while ago, you've got some skill there."
Naruto nodded, "Thanks, but they'd better be happy that I beat them," he mused slowly which made the director raise an eyebrow.
"Oh... and why's that?"
Naruto glanced over to the man just as he was taking a draw from the pipe, "Because the brat that were going to hit was the grandson of the third Hokage." he said while inwardly smirking as he watched the short old man choke on the smoke he'd been inhaling.
When the old man finally caught his breath, he started to say something only for Sandayu to run over, "What's wrong?" the blond asked as he saw the worried, frightened look on the man's face.
"Yukie's not in her room! She's run off again, will you go find her?"
Naruto nodded, "Sure, by the time I get back it should be time to go anyway..." he said before vanishing in a plume of smoke, much to their surprise.
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It didn't take too long to track her down, not many cold hearted bitches were walking around this time of the morning, being mean to children who wanted autographs and generally being a pain in the ass.
Walking into a bar, he spotted the woman sitting alone in the room with only the bartender there serving her drinks.
"You know, most people don't drink until the afternoon," he mused coldly as he walked over to see her staring at a necklace in her hand, which was made of a nice-sized crystal with a silver ring attaching it to the string.
"Who cares..." the woman muttered darkly, "I'll drink whenever the hell I want... and why the hell does it matter to you anyway?"
Raising an eyebrow as she poured herself another cup and downed it all in one go, Naruto watched for a moment, "Your manager sent me to get you, come on it's time to go."
"I'm not going," she muttered as she went to pour another cup full, only to have it taken from her grasp by the blond.
Handing the bottle to the Bartender, he took the cup away and slid it down the bar, "There's two ways that this'll happen," he told her coldly, "One... You stand up and we both walk to the studio and get ready to go... or two, I carry you there over my shoulder..."
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"LET ME DOWN NOW!" Yukie screamed as he walked down the middle of the street with her over his shoulders like a sack of dirt, feet kicking and fists beating on his back, "Do you have any idea who I am! You can't treat me like this!"
"I gave you a choice," he told her in a dead tone, "You refused to walk so now I'm carrying you, get over it."
Her struggling increased tenfold but Naruto never lost his grip the whole trip, only setting her down when they reached the studio where Sandayu was waiting with everyone else, including Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke.
"Good, now that we're all here, we can be on our way..." Kakashi stated before everyone got ready to leave towards the coast, where they'd take a boat to the Land of Snow
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Yukie didn't make anymore escape attempts for the entire trip, opting to just remain emotionless and cold to everyone around her. They stopped a few times to shoot scenes for the movie, which was really the only time she seemed to show emotions at all but once they were done it was back to cold, emotionless bitch mode.
"So Naruto," Kakashi started as they reached the harbor city and waited as the boat was prepared, "It's been awhile, how've you been?"
Glancing over, Naruto saw that the man was actually paying more attention to him over the book in his hand, meaning that the man was actually curious instead of trying to make idle small talk while ignoring what was actually said.
"Busy,"
"Oh? Chunin life is tough... I remember when I first became one..."
Glancing at the man again, Naruto hummed, "You haven't been keeping up with the news have you? I'm not a Chunin anymore, I've been promoted to Special Jonin."
Kakashi's one eye opened wide in shock, "Since when did... how?"
"Classified."
To be continued...
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