A/N Hello! Hello! Welcome BACK to "The Man With Sage Eyes" last Chapter our hero was captured by some organization and god only knows what was done to him, well god and me muhahah. Sorry it takes so long to update but school is school and with the rewrite I have decided THAT WILL BE A NEW STORY yay. SO without further ado

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same. Everything in between can be dealt with" -Michael Jackson

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What happened? Where was he. Who was he? Naruto... Uzumaki Naruto. Yes that was his name, he sat there all alone, nothing but darkness around him he lay seemingly floating in the darkness

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What happened all he could remember was the mission, what was it? The cave yes it collapsed and somehow he and Sasuke were captured. What happened to them, wait SASUKE , SAKURA, KAKASHI-SENSEI the world seemed to shake as he remembered the name of his team, he couldn't stay like this he had to get up. The world seemed to crack and pop, suddenly he felt a weight on his wrist looking down he saw a snake had wrapped around his wrist, feeling another wait on his other, it was a chain which was made of an evil red chakra. He tried to budge but he couldn't get either of it to move, he bit his lips

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his body trembled with effort, he could fight this, he had been fighting it since Orochimaru first bit him this was simple this couldn't stop him, even with the words echoing in his head he felt the burn of the cursed seal spread across his body, he hissed this wasn't real it couldn't be real he had to get to the real world, he couldn't let this claim him however even as he said that he could feel the kyuubi's chakra run through his body he screamed as all the hatred flowed through him, the two chakras coursed through him combining in Naruto before the shot out of him as a brilliant orange, any other time he would have admired how beautifully orange it was however now he could only attempt to force the chakra down. He was beginning to hear voices in the back of his mind,

"restrain him!"

"how strong is he?"

"what is this power!"

he focused on the voices using them as his anchor he felt the sensation of falling hopefully this would wake him.

In the real world Naruto's body was on a rampage, the ANBU were trying their best to keep him on the bed however he was kicking and thrashing and often times sending ANBU into and through the walls however he regained the light in his eyes and stopped thrashing and settled down however the cursed marks did not recede. He lay there panting eyes looking around crazily as if he didn't know where he was. However he was not moving with that the ANBU slowly moved back ready to spring on the boy again however they all let out a sigh of relief when the marks receded back into the master mark on his neck. For a while he lay there before he looked around and asked

"how am I in Konoha's hospital" he asked with the ANBU ignoring him as they opened the door and said something before they all vanished from sight which got a pout from Naruto "Rude" he whispered to himself. However he smiled widely when he saw who walked in

"Kakashi-sensei" he said a big smile across his face as his Sensei walked into the room.

Kakashi eye smiled at Naruto before he bent over and picked up a chair that had been knocked over in the scuffle and set it down with the back facing Naruto as he sat down in it crossing his arms over the top of the chair.

"Hey Naruto what's up?" he said lightly causing Naruto to shrug

"not much Kakashi-sensei what about you?" he said causing Kakashi to chuckle before he got serious

"listen Naruto I have something important to tell you" seeing that the boy was paying attention to him he continued "as your sensei I've decided something, in light of everything that's happened you are going to have to take leave for a while" the moment he said this he felt a hand clamp around his collar before slamming him into the wall he had a feeling if Naruto was tall enough he would be hanging a bit off of the floor however since the boy was so short that was not possible.

"What the hell do you mean take a leave!" the boy growled at him causing him to sigh before gesturing to their current position

"as of late Naruto you've been tapping into the Kyuubi's more than I feel comfortable withyou need to take a week or two to get yourself back under control before I'm willing to trust you in the field, plus I hear Jiraiya is going out of the village to bring back the next Hokage soonso why don't you ask to tag along and use that time to go with him as a civilian instead of a ninja" he said calmly causing Naruto to growl at him, for what seemed like an eternity Kakashi stared into Naruto's ringed eyes at first neither was willing to back down however it was Naruto who broke eye contact first with a pitiful sigh

"fine Kakashi-sensei I'll trust you plus this might even be fun" he said with a forced grin however he couldn't hide the sadness in his eyes even if it was temporary no one wanted to be forced to leave the service it made them seem like they couldn't handle it, however even Naruto had to admit the amount of stuff that happened was abnormal thinking of all that happened Naruto's head snapped up

"hey sensei what happened after the cave collapsed?" Naruto asked causing Kakashi to sigh

"well I couldn't get to you during the cave in and it took me an hour to find you after it settled down, however when I did it was strange, you two were surrounded by boulders and the like however none of them had hit you... You both seemed to be fine, however Sasuke was not."

"What happened to Sasuke?" he asked causing Kakashi to shake his head

"You have to ask him yourself" he said lightly causing Naruto to go into thought

'so its like whatever happened to us, whoever that man was didn't even happen' however when his hand reached up and rested on his stomach he narrowed his eyes in rage 'no that's not possible, there is no way in hell that I imagined that, so why isn't anything showing?' However before he could continue this line of thought another one occurred to him which caused him to look at kakashi

"where's Sasuke?" He asked causing Kakashi to chuckle

"don't worry he's in the next room" Kakashi said causing Naruto to spring up and run into the next room which got a scream in return before a loud slap was heard and Naruto ran out of that room and into the room on the other side of the door with Kakashi chuckling all of the way.

Busting into the room Naruto was shocked to see Sasuke their with bandages around his eyes, seeing this caused the boy's air to get caught in his throat as he looked at his fallen teammate "Sasuke?" he whispered causing the boy's head to turn to him

"hey Naruto" he said calmly causing Naruto to shudder at his voice, it was different, it sounded defeated... Naruto didn't like that sound.

"how are you?" he asked however even as he asked it sounded stupid

"how am I?" Sasuke Parroted which caused an angry sneer on his face which caused Naruto to visibly cringed "HOW AM I" the now enraged Uchiha shouted before standing up "YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND YOU SEE THE BANDAGES AND YOU WANT TO ASK HOW I AM" Naruto took a single step back however the Uchiha took a step forward a sneer on his face "you know what's the worst part of all this? Is that besides my eyes the doctors can't find anything wrong it's almost like what happened didn't happen, but I bet your fine huh? I bet you didn't lose not only your eyes but all your dreams destroyed" Naruto looked sad at his friends accusations however Naruto gained a glint in his eyes

"so that's all it takes huh?" Naruto asked in a hiss causing Sasuke to look at him with a confused look

"wha-"

"THAT'S ALL IT TAKES TO STOP YOU" Naruto all but roared at Sasuke who gained a shocked look on his face

"what do you mean?"

"You can work past this, THIS does NOT have to stop you. And the fact that you would let it, is pathetic" Naruto saw the punch coming however he didn't do anything about it allowing it to crash into his face. The force of the blow causing his head to snap back and crash into the wall, however he just looked right back at Sasuke before he grit his teeth and growled "well Teme is it going to stop you?" He asked seriously causing Sasuke to shake in rage

"you think that I want this to stop me? You think that I want to quit here? NO I DON'T! But what choice do I have? I can't be a ninja if I'm blind?"

"who said that?" Naruto asked calmly

"what do you mean dobe?"

"I mean you have to find a way, even if it drives you to the brink of insanity, even if you have to work every night and every day you find a way, and when you exhaust every possible resource? Than you can quit however until then you have no right to say that it's hopeless" Naruto said with such conviction in his voice that Sasuke's breath got caught in his throat.

They both stood there for quite some time Naruto staring at Sasuke, and Sasuke staring at nothing, for what seemed like an eternity they stood there with only their breathing making any kind of sound. However after a while Sasuke seemed to deflate in himself

"alright" he said in just above a whisper "I guess I have nothing to lose by trying, so ill try dobe ill try and make something of this situation, after all it's like that crazy proctor said, we have to adapt in order to become great shinobi this is just another situation to adapt to" with every word he said Naruto's smile grew and grew in size until he was positively beaming in joy

"Alright Teme I'll hold you to that, now If you don't mind me I'm going home I'm tired and I don't feel like doing anything else today" walking over to the window he opened before his face got deadly serious "I don't know what happened to us, who that man was, or what he did. But I do know that it did happen and I plan to figure out exactly what happened." He jumped out of the window before he could hear what Sasuke said, becoming only a blur to the untrained eye.
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It was with great hesitance that Naruto walked into his bedroom to go to sleep, ever since he got bit by the snake bastard he had been having nightmares. while up till now he had been dealing with it with all that happened he didn't know if he would be able to. However when he felt just how exhausted he was he couldn't help himself as he fell to the bed, asleep before he even hit the mattress
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He was back in a familiar landscape, hundreds of faceless people walked by him however by this point he was able to filter them out, what he was staring at was the silhouette of man, a man with glowing yellow snake eyes and black wisps smoke coming off of him every once and again.

"kukuku Naruto you have question, so many questions how far are you willing to go in order to answer them." While in most of his dreams he ignored the man, ignored him until he woke this time he was right, he really did have questions.

"if your asking about questions, than that implies that you have answers"

"ooh? What's this? Finally speaking to me?"

"I don't seem to have much of a choice seeing as your one of the few people in my mind" the level of calmness Naruto had achieved startled and slightly frightened him

"such a sudden calmness, one would startled" all of the while they talked something that Naruto barely noticed was happened the silhouette was becoming more real, the wisps were becoming less rare, and he was starting to become solid, by talking to Orochimaru, or whatever Orochimaru left with him, he was making it stronger. So it was a grit of his teeth that he decided to get to the point

"alright you snake eyes bastard, I have questions that you will answer do you understand me?" he demanded getting a laugh from the man

"alright Naruto-kun ill humor you. One question, that is all I'll answer this time" this caused Naruto to go into a deep thought one question, one answer that was all he had so with this he had to choose wisely or he would walk away from this with no more knowledge than before, so closing his eyes he thought very very deeply about his question.

"what exactly are my eyes capable of" he said causing Orochimaru to nod his head

"a good question, one that deserves a good answer so answer it I will. You possess the Rinnegan the third and most powerful of the Dojutsus with the Rinnegan you will be able to learn techniques that will make you godlike in power, and if mastered you will be unstoppable with those eyes one can accomplish much" he said his voice even

"I get that, but what exactly can my eyes do" he said Orochimaru to walk up to him a dangerous smile playing across his lips

"the question is not what can those eyes do, but what can't they do, with those eyes you are everything that I wanted to become, a god in the flesh, one who holds life and death itself in his hands. That is what those eyes are"

"I'm nothing like you" came Naruto's response however when he felt Orochimaru grab is collar and lift him up he smirked

"really, of all the questions you ask, the first ones are what kind of power you can obtain, not if your friend can be fixed, not what was done to you. No you asked about power, which is exactly what I would have done. You see Naruto you and me we are no different, in fact the only difference I can see is..." as he said this his skin began to get color and his form was beginning to be seen "that you are scared to use the power that you are given" with that he was complete and this caused Naruto to gasp in shock for standing right across from him was him however his eyes were that of a snake which showed nothing but malice and hatred. And with that Naruto yelled in shock.
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When he woke he was still yelling in shock, however after a time he calmed however no matter how hard he tried he couldn't stop his breath from coming in shallow pants. Standing up he walked over to the bathroom looking at himself in the mirror, he couldn't help but be disgusted, the cursed seal had spread over half of his body, and his left eye went from being purple to black with all of the rings turning yellow, and the dot in the middle being slit like that of a snake, with a grunt of effort Naruto forced the seal to recede back into it's original form, however as he stared at it he felt anger build up inside of him.

With that anger driving his actions he all but ripped the drawer open before putting his hand in and grabbing the Kunai which was tapped into the top of it, he stared at the mark on his neck gritting his teeth he raised the Kunai and began to saw into it, this caused blood to go everywhere on the sink and the wall, on the mirror, everywhere. However Naruto did not stop, he kept going until the entire slab of flesh was off throwing it away from him not bother to check where it landed he looked in the mirror and smiled.

Even though blood ran down his torso, even though his neck was missing some of his flesh, the mark was gone, he wanted to breath a sigh of relief however when he felt a burning sensation on his neck he looked back at it his skin was healing at a rapid rate, and when it was finished it showed untainted skin, Naruto wanted to jump in joy, however that was stopped when a black mark began to come back, his eyes widened as he felt tears burn at the edge of his eyes, and he heard the voice in the back of his mind in all of it's malice, in all of it's tainted joy it whispered

"you really didn't think that, that would work did you" it was sickly sweet, it was mocking, and Naruto hated it. With a yell of rage Naruto drove his fist through the mirror causing it to shatter and go everywhere. Naruto removed his bloodied hand looking at it before he just let it drop, he took a few steps back and his back hit the wall, he stood there before sliding down to the ground. Grabbing his hair he couldn't help the lone sob that passed through his lips, despite all of what he told Sasuke, despite his brave front. He was falling apart and he could feel it, oh god he could feel it.

And with those thoughts passing through his head Naruto cried into the night a broken boy.

A/N AND THAT'S IT wow that felt dark, did you guys think that was dark? well if you did good that was the intention. So with this chapter you see just how deeply what happened is affecting Naruto, and DON'T worry I didn't forget what happened in that cave, it just won't become relevant again for quite some time so please Read and Review and I'll see you in the next chapter TTFN ta ta for now