The group of 6 made their way to Tetsu no Kuni, but stopped near the border on Sengo's order.

"The smithy I have is over there." He pointed to a a large stone building that they could see off in the distance. "I live there too."

"Okay, let's head over." Ryoko was still letting Naruto rest in her lap, for some reason, even though all of his wounds had been healed he was still passed out.

"What's going on with Naruto, normally he wouldn't he be awake by now?" Zennyo took a look at his sleeping friend. All of the cuts were gone and his fatigue should be gone because of the Kyūbi.

Ryoko stroked his hair comfortingly. "Normally yes, but this happened under special circumstances. I'm not sure when he'll wake up. But knowing Naruto, he'll pull trough soon enough."

Naruto's Mind

"Shit, I'm here again." The water in the sewer had risen from where it was before. Now it came up to his abdomen. He jumped out of the water and then used his chakra to stand on top of it. "Well, I did say I was going to see him again soon."

Naruto made his way through the sewer, which had shifted around from the last time his was in there.

"It seems you're back gaki." The Kyūbi didn't even look up from where he had laid his head on his paws.

"Yeah, I'm back. So...what's been up with you?"

"Being a demon, you know. I've been quite bored in here, and taking naps in hard when you feel someone needing their chakra replenished constantly." Just like the last time he was in there, the Kyūbi seemed rather lazy. Not at all like anyone said he was.

"I've been meaning to ask you this, but why did you attack Konoha?"

The Kyūbi sighed and brought his head off of his paws. "We're going to be here for a while, so I'm going to get comfortable." Not bothering to answer, a huge puff of smoke came from the cage.

Standing in place of the Kyūbi was a man with short and messy red hair and deep blood red eyes with a slit for a pupil. Every time he opened his mouth to yawn, his large canines could be seen glinting. He wore a red kimono top with gold lacing and 9-tailed foxes all over it. His pants were also red and he was shoeless.

"You know, I didn't want to attack Konoha. But I don't particularly mind that it happened. Through most of the thing Inwas sleeping in my mind while some strange genjutsu was affecting my body. In the end, when Minato broke the Genjutsu and forced me to wake up, I stabbed him out of anger for disturbing my nap." A yawn came from from his mouth as he snapped his fingers and configured a couch.

"So you're telling me that not only did you not want to attack the leaf, you also stabbed the Yondaime Hokage just for waking you because you're a lazy ass."

"That's what I said, other than the part about being a lazy ass. I'm still the strongest of the Bijū by a long shot. Being split up like this, I could probably take on 5 of the other Bijū by myself." He jumped up and onto the couch, he somehow pulled potato chips out of thin air and started munching on them. "All I'm saying is that if that weird man didn't come to get me out of your aunt, I would've just been content in their until I she was about to die and transferred the me to a new vessel."

Naruto stared in disbelief at the Kyūbi, he was so lazy that a sloth would seem almost normal next to him. "Anyways, I don't care if you're not the big bad everyone portrays you to be. And if I want to call you, saying Kyūbi all the time is annoying, what's your name?"

A deep laugh came from the Kyūbi's mouth. "Do you really think that you're worthy to hear my name! I might be a little lazy, but just like you I have my pride. But you're right, it would be annoying for you to refer to me as Kyūbi all of the time...I've got an idea. If you're N, then I'm K. I'll tell you my real name when you're able to beat me."

"Fine, I'll agree to that. I have a few more questions though. Like why are you so lazy?"

For a second, K had a sad look on his face, but it disappeared once Naruto blinked. "What kind of question is that? Ask a different one."

He must've had a reason, but it was probably much deeper than Naruto expected. "Okay then, do you hate Konoha? I know that we're not there yet, but we're going in less than a month, I don't want you to act up without me knowing."

"Of course. They're all just a bunch of power crazy, military loving scum bags. They'd do anything to eliminate other villages. The only reason Morigakure hasn't been attacked is due to your mother and her friend Ryūjin. The two have drove off every attack on this place basically by themselves for years. Konoha is taking the safer option and staying out of their way."

"How strong are they really? To drive off attacks from entire villages by themselves means that the two are way above Kage level."

"I remember back when I was sealed within Kushina, back when Mori and Konoha were still allies, they were put on a team together with Ryūjin and Minato. Because of that, I witnessed a large portion of her power. Her abilities go far beyond that of a Kage, and even Minato was scared shitless that if he had to fight her in the future he would be obliterated. At the moment, I think her strength is at more than double what it was during the war, she's at least able to beat Madara Uchiha or Hashirama Senju by herself. I'm not even sure if it would be all that difficult for her."

Naruto's jaw dropped. He knew his mother was stronger than basically everyone, but to that degree?!

"Ryūjin is similar. His power at the moment is something that is double what it was. Whenever Kushina watched your mother and him fight seriously, I could feel the power emanating off of her. I hate to admit it, but if she was in Konoha during the attack, I would've been dealt with swiftly. That was another reason she was so pissed about the sealing. The fact that Konoha had sent her off on a joint mission between them and Mori prevented her from saving you. Leading to the sealing and such. It's such a bother to have to tell you all of this, so I'll stop now."

"Goddamned lazy fox." Naruto walked closer to the cage. "I what's it like being sealed.

K popped another chip into his mouth. "It's like having a movie on that you can tune into at any time. Personally, I prefer being sealed in you rather than my last host. Being in Konoha made me sick." He visibly gagged after talking about Konoha again. "Even my host there didn't like it. She only stayed because of the blond bastard known as Minato. It was only natural that she disliked the place though. They sweet talked Uzu into letting Kushina go there for a year of schooling. But halfway through they massacred Uzu and all of its citizens with the aid of Kiri and Kumo. Minato was the only bearable Hokage as well. I remember that when I was back with Mito, Hashirama kept on making unreasonable demands of Uzu. All of them were spurred on by his brother the second though. Tobirama, that scheming bastard. Mito should've killed him when she had the chance."

"So do you only hate Konoha? It seems like they're all you talk about."

"The other ninja villages are somewhat okay. Although they are almost as power hungry as Konoha, they at least have the morals to not let orphans be kidnapped and turned into mindless killing machines. As well as not letting people who experiment on children with a smile on their faces live."

"What? When did those events happen?"

"During the time of the Nidaime and Sandaime Hokage. During the time of the Nidaime, Tobirama, his student Danzō, decided it was best to start a second Anbu division called ROOT. ROOT worked in the shadows of the village, and took care of anything extremely gruesome. Though it might sound like a good idea at first, Danzō started off by kidnapping orphans or children that weren't around their parents and training them up to be emotionless killing machines. Its probably active again now that the old coot is back in the big man's seat."

"So that means during his time the Yondaime was able to destroy ROOT?"

"Not completely. All ROOT members have a seal on their tongues that does two things. One, it prevents you from talking about ROOT to anyone who isn't a part of ROOT and has the same seal. Two, it altered your psyche to be extremely loyal and help rid you of your emotions. No matter how you look at it, after the Yondaime found out, Danzō should've been executed. But due to how much influence Danzō had on the village, and pleas from the Sandaime to not kill his old teammate, he lives. Now, because the Sandaime is just as senile as he was before he was old, he'll probably let ROOT keep running."

"What about the second one? Who was the man they just let escape after everything he did?"

"Orochimaru of the Sanin, former teammate of Jiraiya the Toad Sage, and Tsunade the Slug Princess, and favorite pupil of the Sandaime. Apparently due to his parents dying, he hated the idea of death. With a little nudging from Danzō, he started taking orphans the same way Danzō did, and experimenting with them. In some tests, he tried changing their DNA. In others, he tested how much pain could kill someone. Every test was done with a smile on his face. One of his test even involved injecting 60 kids with Hashirama's DNA, and slowly changing theirs to see if one could awaken the Mokuton (Wood Release). Only one of the 60 survived, and he ended up getting Mokuton. Immediately afterwards, he was taken to Danzō to become his loyal dog." K had a serious look on his face, contrary to the carefree one he always had.

"I'd kill hundreds of adults with no problem. But innocent kids are innocent kids. Doing such cruel things to them, and killing them is something I can't forgive. But during the Kyūbi attack, I wouldn't have been able to do anything anyways. The ROOT bunker was filled with kids that were hidden away, and Orochimaru had escaped the village due to the Sandaime not having the guts to kill his evil former student. All of the adults in Konoha are scum. And soon enough the kids will be too. The corruption lays deep within the roots of the tree that is Konoha."

To say the least, Naruto was surprised. He knew Konoha had done some bad things, but not to this level. "So is Konoha the only thing that makes you angry?"

"Of course not. It just gets me going a lot. That's why from now until the Chunin exams, you'll be training 24/7. Destroy every one of the pitiful Konoha genin, shake up their sensei, and instill the fear that you could beat them. Once youve done that, I'll be able to sleep peacefully and watch the movie that is your life."

"How can I train 24/7? There's now way my body can handle that."

"Your body can't, but your mind can. When you sleep, I'll train you in harnessing that Stigmata you've got. You'll need to be able to use it a lot if you want to scare Konoha."

"Why should I even trust you? We've only known each other for less than a week, and only talked twice. How am I just supposed to accept this and believe you?" He stuck an accusatory finger out at K.

"It's up to you to trust me. But know this, if any of those Konoha scum try talking to you too much, and I don't like 'em, I might get so angry that some of my chakra escapes your body." He seemed pretty adamant about this point, so Naruto didn't even try to refute it.

"That's all I can think of for now. I'll come back tonight to train." Naruto's body started fading from his mindscape, he waved bye to K with the same neutral face as always.

Real World

Naruto awoke on a bed in a room he wasn't familiar with. Bandages covered his abdomen and chest, as well as his forearms. "What the..."

He shot up and started running to the door. When he opened it, he could see several rooms lining a hallway, and stairs at the end of it.

Looking around for a clock was the first thing he did. After looking for quite some time, he found one. "10:37 am. Is this the client's house?"

After walking down the stairs at the end of the hallway, he saw a living room and a dining room. Otohime and Ryoko were sitting in the living room while Zennyo seemed to be in a kitchen of sorts, cooking with Sengo.

"Oh! N, you're awake!" Otohime walked to where he stood at the bottom of the stairs and gave him a hug.

"O-Oh yeah. I feel a lot better now." Being surprised by the hug, he didn't hug back immediately, but eventually did after a few seconds. "Anyways, where is this?"

Ryoko was the one to talk this time. "The client's house. Now that you've woken up and seem to be fine, you've got first guard duty after breakfast."

"Alright." Naruto sat down in the dining room and started eating. When he was done, he and Sengo left the house and went to the smithy right next to it.

When they arrived at the door, Sengo stopped him. "Don't bother me while I'm working. If I need anything, I'll call for you."

The day was relatively boring from then on. The genin and their sensei swapped guard every two hours, so that all of them guarded at least once during the 8 to 9 hours Sengo worked daily.

Naruto and Sengo had gotten somewhat close. As close as one could be to a cold and stoic ninja. On the other hand, Sengo and Zennyo got along quite well. Talking about many things during his shift.

"Today is the day, Raiga is coming back." Naruto was talking with his team and told them.

"What do you mean? I know he said he'd be coming back, but how do you know it's today?"

Ryoko interjected. "Chakra poisoning. When N-kun used his Yin and Yang chakra forms, every cut he made injected one of the two types of chakra into Raiga's chakra network. An imbalance of Yin and Yang chakra that your body isn't used to can cause chakra poisoning. Normally it lasts a month, but due to Raiga's strength, and the small amount of cuts that Naruto made on him, he's probably fully recovered by now."

"Knowing him, he would want to come attack as soon as possible. And this time, he'll take us seriously from the start. I doubt he'll be without back up either." Naruto had made careful deductions. Something he had been doing all of his life. He knew that last time, Raiga had just been playing around with him in the start. If he hadn't, Naruto wouldn't be sitting here now.

"I'll face him today. If there are no interferences, we can finish him off by the end of the day." Naruto said confidently. He was sure to win this time, he had an ace up his sleeve.

No matter how strong Ryoko was, she couldn't anticipate what was about to happen. The fate of the battle would be left in her student's hands.

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An ready Naruto stood guard outside Sengo's smithy. Waiting for Raiga. He got what he wished for when Raiga came at him with blinding speed and hit him far away from the smithy with the blunt side of the Kiba.

"I'm back you little brat! Now where's Ranmaru?!" Raiga held both swords out to his side, lightning sparking.

"We sent him back to where we came from. Once we're back, we'll take care of him and he'll have a better life than helping you in assassinations and such." Naruto curtly replied.

"Damn bastard!" Running with incredible speed, Raiga approached Naruto. Naruto slowly drew open his right eye.

"Tokeigan." With that word, Naruto's right eye opened fully. His eye was icy blue and had glowing chakra radiating off of it. But the real thing Naruto wanted was also there. Sight was different from what he expected. He had been the only of the three to not use their Stigmata at all up until that point, but he felt as if he had perfect control already. Raiga seemed to have had his speed cut down by a third to Naruto, so he simply sidestepped to the right, took out a kunai, and slashed at Raiga's neck.

But even though he was slowed down immensely to Naruto, time moved normally for Raiga, and he was just barely able to block the attack with the Kiba in his right hand.

"Brat, you weren't this fast before. And your eye seems to be open."

"Don't worry, Raiga-chan, it's none of your concern. Just know that you're going to die soon." All was said in his monotone voice, pissing Raiga off even more. That was when Naruto activated his Yin chakra cloak.

An animalistic shout came from Raiga. "Argh!!"

The amount of chakra that was required to keep the Tokeigan active was insane. In his perception of time, he could only keep it up for about 2 minutes in his normal form. To the outside world, the amount of time was reduced by a third, down to a 1 minute and 20 seconds. Using the Yin chakra cloak, that increased the amount of chakra he had access to, that number shot up to 3 minutes for his time, and 2 for his opponents.

Both abilities have huge speed boosts, so using them in tandem was the only way to go. As for the Mirugan, it was better used within this Yang chakra mode. In that form, he needed all of the perception he could get.

"I've been thinking, what if I were to use my full speed in this form. My physical strength wouldn't particularly matter anymore, right?" Using the full speed he spoke of, Naruto used his Kunai and ran Raiga, hoping to end it by stabbing him in the heart.

"Raigeki no Yoroi!" Naruto was fast, but even he wasn't faster than real lightning. Unlike the last time he fought Raiga, this Jutsu seemed to be real lightning rather than electricity created by chakra.

The lightning struck Raiga and the sound of thunder came with it. The shockwave from the lightning was able to throw Naruto back and prevent him from even touching Raiga.

Raiga then spoke, his voice distorted from the lightning. "Now its over kid."