(A/N: Just to let people know, while I write this story I am using both a Southern Translator as well as a Hillbilly one to help write the lines for Android 13. So I hope you like it. Enjoy since I am trying to put some humor into this story since I am using the Abridged versions of the characters.)
Naruto looked around and surveyed his surroundings to see where he had ended up now. The last time he had just teleported elsewhere he had been captured and experimented on by a crazy ass old man who had a massive boner for Saiyan murder. And to be honest he could only hope and pray to whatever gods that exist in this realm or the other he was imprisoned in for years that he died in a gruesome way, and hopefully painfully by his own creations if karma was a real thing. But that was a thought for later since he was no longer in Dr. Gero's hidden cave laboratory and was finally free to walk around for the first time in years. He took a deep breath of fresh air and smiled since he now tasted freedom and it was marvelous to experience this feeling once more after so long. He began to laugh in joy as he floated in the air for a bit since he was genuinely happy that he was able to do that outside of a simulation. He powered up his hands with KI energy as a test to see what else he was able to do outside of the simulation, and as he felt the power he had trained in for years in a simulation he flew high up into the air.
He looked far off into the distance, and to his surprise as well as glee he saw the Hokage Monument with all four of the carved heads upon it, so that meant that he was back in his own world somehow. He would question how the hell that was even possible, but in all honestly he didn't really care and simply counted his lucky stars that he was back here and gifted the opportunity to get revenge against his former family.
Now while the first thing that came to his mind was to fly over there and simply blast them all to hell and let whatever passed for god in this realm sort it out, but he thought about it and decided against it. That was basically what Dr. Gero as well as Danzo would have wanted with him being nothing more than a mass murdering weapon of destruction, and he would be damned if he became what they wanted him to become. So he decided against it and went with the better idea of settling down somewhere and slowly tearing the village apart piece by piece. Why hunt them when instead they would hunt him when his name became infamous? Naruto Uzumaki Nami…. He had to stop that thought since he remembered that he had been disowned by his family so he was simply Naruto now. This upset him a bit, but then again it presented him a perfect opportunity to one day start his own clan, one able to surpass the Namikaze who were one if not the most infamous of them in all the elemental Countries.
He thought about a last name for a bit as he floated there, and it took a bit to decide. He would have gone with Andoroido since in a way he was an android, but that name didn't click in his head since it was way too obvious to anyone who he might meet. He thought of Senshi since it meant warrior and that was exactly what he was trained to become his entire life, but even then it didn't sit well with him. Hell he even thought about Kirā since he was nothing more than a cold blooded killer to the core, but then again most people in this realm were, since being a shinobi was a fairly common profession here. So that wasn't too unique of a last name for him to use and he decided against it.
In the end he smiled though, since he thought of the perfect last name to begin his clan. He would become Naruto Zero, the name clicked for him since it had a double meaning to him. Three times in his life he had been deemed worthless, basically a big fat zero of life, as well as being dubbed Android 0 as well, so the name was perfect to him since he wanted the world to understand that even those deemed worthless could become a force to be reckoned with if given enough time. Or in his case, time as well as an unnatural anomaly that put him in the fairly messed up and insane hands of the aging Dr. Gero, but that was beside the point.
Naruto then simply dropped down to go and collect his pod, since there was no good reason to leave it where others could find it and try to activate it somehow and use it for training like he had for the past several years. It was then that he saw the other three pods that were there as well. He looked through the glass and saw that it was the others that he had trained with over the years, and to be honest he was genuinely surprised to see them here as well since this was not their realm to begin with, but then again he was a stranger to theirs so he stopped questioning it and simply opened their pods to let them out.
It took a few minutes but in the end they opened their eyes and climbed out of their pods and did exactly as he had done and looked around to see where the hell they were.
"Can one of you kindly explain where in the Sam hell we are?" asked 13 who looked around in confusion since the last thing he remembered was being sealed away in a pod in a lab that was hidden in a cave. Now here they were in a forest of some sort which was the exact opposite of where they had been. Android 13 was a muscular man with greenish-blue eyes and long white hair. He wore a yellow-brown vest adorning the Red Ribbon Army logo on his left side, as well as tiny gray suspenders worn underneath his vest, dark green trousers, dark grey boots with black tips, brown gloves, as well as a gray and yellow baseball cap with the Red Ribbon Army logo on its front.
"We are in my old world," said Naruto as he got their attention. They looked in his direction and saw him there. They remembered him from the simulation program that he was in since they had been forced to work together to try and kill the simulation of Son Goku, but had failed countless times to do so until Dr. Gero just gave up on them and sealed them away to work on other projects to try and kill the man he had a vendetta against.
"Right," said 15 as he pulled out a flask and unscrewed the cap on it. He took a quick swig out of it before he continued with what he was saying. "And I am a fairy tale princess that gets to marry a prince and live happily ever after."
Android 15 was a very short and small man. To some extent, he embodied a stereotype of an African American due to his large pink lips and dark skin tone. 15 donned a large green hat with a red ball on top, what some would consider the rendition of a pimp's hat if they were to look at it in the former realm they were in since that sort of thing didn't exist in this one. He had a black and white tuxedo shirt with a dark yellow and blue overcoat. He also wore a red bow tie sporting the "Red Ribbon" logo on it. He wore baggy light blue pants and black boots. Underneath his hat, he also has a white glass-dome cranium which was a major giveaway that he was not human. In addition to that showing just how inhuman he was, without his sunglasses his eyes were also completely mechanical.
"And if you actually think that then you need to stop drinking," said Naruto with a smirk. He wore an unzipped blue hoodie, a white t-shirt/sweater, black shorts with white stripes, and a pair of gray sneakers. "Because it's fairly obvious that you have a drinking problem."
"It's only a problem when I run out!"
"And thus you have only further proved my point," sighed Naruto with a sweat drop.
It was at this point that 14 tried to speak, but as he tried to speak all that came out was an ear splitting noise that was like nails against a chalkboard. Naruto as well as the other two held their hands over their ears since it was fairly painful to listen to.
"For the love of all that is holy, shut your god damn mouth 14," barked out 13 as he held his ears. 14 shut his mouth as he realized what was happening.
Android 14 was a large, heavily built muscular man. He donned a brown brassard and belt combination, large brown gloves, a long green man-skirt, and yellow and black boots. His skin tone was a shade of silver and unlike all other androids created by Gero or his computer he had brown eyes instead of blue.
"Seems like Gero never fixed you speech programming," said Naruto as he rubbed the inside of his ear with a finger to stop the ringing. "We should fix that as soon as possible."
"And what makes you think that we will listen to you boy?" asked 13 with a bit of a glare.
"Couple of things," said Naruto with a glare back at 13 that was just as intense as the one he was receiving, "but the first is that I want to know where this attitude with a mix of confidence came from since I have proven time and time again in the simulation that I can kick not only your ass but those two as well quite easily. And second, I swear that if you call me boy again I will do something you really aren't going to like."
"Well that was all in the simulation," said 13 with a smirk, "and this here is the real world so you aren't a threat to me boy."
Before 13 could say anything else, Naruto quickly pointed his finger towards him and launched a small blast of KI at him. Doing this blasted the trucker hat right off of his head and blew it up.
"NO! MY TRUCKER HAT!"
"That was a warning shot," said Naruto as he pointed lower this time by a few inches, "the next one will be towards your head and just so you know, I don't miss."
The three others all quickly lifted their hands towards him and charged KI in them to blast him.
"Now you done fucked up," said 15 before he took another swig from his flask, "you are outnumbered here short stack."
"Okay," said Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "that's the kettle calling the pot black."
"Okay racist," said 13.
"I meant about the fact that the shortest guy in this group just called me short. It had nothing to do about his race. And spoiler alert, but purple is not a race asshole!"
"You still only got two hands there," said 15 with a smirk, "and there are three of us."
Naruto just smiled as the Adaptive Protocol analyzed this and adapted. KI energy traveled to his eyes and caused them to begin glowing with power. He looked at 15 as he held up his hands and pointed them towards the other two.
"Oh hell nah," said 15, "that's just cheating!"
"Oh I'm sorry," said Naruto sarcastically, "weren't you built with the Adaptive Protocol chip installed? Wait, that's right you weren't since I got the only one because it was a prototype that Gero never worked on again after me."
"Oh yeah, rub it in why don't you!"
"If I truly wanted to rub it in I would just beat your ass literally into the ground and lord it over you. But you see I'm not going to do that since I am going to be the bigger man both metaphorically as well as literally."
"Oh you mutha fu…" started 15 before he was cut off.
"Oh," laughed Naruto as he saw how pissed off 15 was getting, "did I hurt the midget's feeling?"
It was at this point that the three of them blasted their KI at him. He easily dodged the attack, and faster than they could react he simply clotheslined two of them while he double leg kicked 15 who was in the middle. The three of them were launched backwards, but they would live, at least as much as someone who was turned into a mechanical entity could be considered such a thing.
"Do you want to continue this pointless fight, or are you finally ready to listen to me?" asked Naruto as the three of them got up and brushed the dirt off of themselves.
"Okay fine," said 13 as he looked at Naruto. He had to admit to himself that the boy was far stronger than the three of them and there was no sense denying it.
"Well then," said Naruto as he sat down on a log that was there. It seemed like when they came to this dimension the way they did the energy output blasted the trees in the area. "Now that we have all that pent up anger out and done with allow me to explain how my world works."
"You are still an asshole," mumbled 15 as he took yet another swig from his flask.
"Yes I am," said Naruto simply, "but when you are treated like you are utterly worthless not once or twice, but three separate times then you kind of become an asshole to cope with that bit of trauma."
Before they could respond, Naruto went into detail about his world and how it worked. The various villages and their shinobi, the wars they had, the Biju, the various clans, the works. He spent about an hour explaining things to them, and lucky for him they fully understood what he said to them without any sort of complications.
"And so there you have it," said Naruto as he stood up from his seat after he said what he wanted to say, "so any questions?"
"So wait," said 15 a he put his hand under his chin in thought, "then does that mean that you have family here to go back to?"
"I had family," said Naruto simply with a frown.
"So what? They dead or something?"
"They're dead to me."
"So what's the plan now boss feller," said 13 who was wondering what to do with his free time now that he had such a thing.
"Well my idea is to settle down somewhere and become a mercenary for hire," said Naruto with a shrug of his shoulders.
"You make it sound so easy when you say it like that kid," said 15.
"Well think about this logically. We were made to kill one f if not the strongest person in the world who had the power as a kid to wipe out an entire army by himself. That power grew in time and we were made, amplified, and modified to kill him and him alone. Since said person does not exist in this world or dimension our main purpose in life is null and void. So I'm not too worried about fighting shinobi that while they may be strong none of them have the type of power Son Goku possessed."
"Well when you put it that way," said 13 in agreement, "you make a valid point. So hell, I'll join you since in a way we are family."
"Brothers in arms," said 15 as he once again took a swig from his flask, but then he looked at it and turned it upside down. He saw that it was now empty. "Does this place have booze of any sort?"
"Oh of course," chuckled Naruto, "because otherwise you would lose your shit and we would have to put you down."
"That's not funny."
"It wasn't meant to be. At least not to you it wasn't." Naruto then picked up his pod, with the others doing the same and began to fly off in search of a new home to call their own…
(Konoha)
It had been quite some time since Naruto had been left to die in the river by a member of ROOT, and while those who actually knew him thought he had died, life still went on as normal since the number was fairly small. Minato didn't care about it when he was told since he didn't believe that Naruto was worth a damn. His clan had always done this sort of thin when twins were born since there was always just meant to be the one heir to the Namikaze name. He always suspected that Naruto was the weaker of the two and when they came of age had them fight to determine who would stay and who would go.
The fight was meant to be to the death as was the custom, but he had decided that Naruto should be placed into ROOT instead to at least get one or two missions out of him before he died. But then he received word that his son was too stubborn to break and had died from exhaustion with his body being dumped in the river. While he didn't like that last part since his body should have been burned so that it couldn't be recovered by the likes of Orochimaru or the like, but it was as it was. Menma was the prodigal son he wanted who excelled at whatever he put his mind to, just like his old man. And now he had only one year left before he graduated from the academy and made a name for himself. And Minato couldn't be happier. Now if only he could convince Tsunade to come back again it would be the perfect day.
He stood up to leave the office since he had completed the paperwork he needed to complete for the day, and as he stood up he knocked over a picture he had on his desk. It was a picture of him and his son Menma with smiles on their faces when he was only seven, and Minato looked at the picture with pride. Yet out of nowhere the glass covering the picture cracked. This made the hair on the back of his head stiffen in surprise as he got a bit of goosebumps from seeing this since it was so sudden. He thought about it for a second before he simply shook his head since he was not one for superstitious as many were. So he left the picture there to go and buy a new frame for it. If he was still there, he would have seen the frame shatter instead. The picture unfolded on the left side, which showed Naruto as he frowned since that particular day was not one of joy for him.
And if one were to be superstitious, they would see this as a sign of bad things to come…
(Wave Country)
As all that was happening in the village of Konoha, Wave country was dealing with a major problem of their own. For the past several months they had been under the rule of a tyrannical businessman by the name of Gato. The country of Wave was an island country that's entire economy was based around shipping goods via boats. The problem with that was that Gato had snuck his way in and gained control of all shipping yards in the country via buying them out and assassinations against those who wouldn't sell their business to him. In a few months he had full control over the trade of their entire country and thus unofficially ruled over it.
Yet even though he controlled most of the country, there were still those who opposed his rule and one of the main people who stood up to him was a man by the name of Kaiza. The man had become a hero to the people after saving Inari from drowning a while back, and afterwards he taught the boy everything he knew about life, stressing that he must protect the things that were precious to him, saying to always do so "with these two arms". He eventually married Tsunami, Inari's mother, and became Inari's stepfather as well as role model in his life. When Gato began his take over the Land of Waves, Kaiza tried to stop him by trying to rally the people to kick him out. But Gato decided to use Kaiza to scare anyone who hoped to stand against him. To do this, he planned to have his bodyguards cut off Kaiza's arms in a public execution while mocking his statement of "protecting the things you love with both arms", thus scaring the people, who were watching the execution right now all the while voicing out their disapproval.
Gato smiled as he saw this since this would be the turning point in the subjugation of the people. He signaled his henchman to kill Kaiza. The man saw his stepson Inari in the crowd and called out for him to look away. The henchman raised up his sword to kill Kaiza, but he fell backwards when out of the blue a young boy slammed to the ground in front of them. The suddenness of this event caused the people to silence themselves since this was completely unexpected. And even though they were surprised already it only intensified when three others appeared next to him. And it that wasn't enough, four separate metallic objects fell from the sky as well.
"Who the hell are you?" asked Gato as he got back to his feet.
"Just visitors," said Naruto with a shrug of his shoulders. "We were passing through here and saw the gathering of so many people so we decided to see what the hell it was all about. So what exactly is this?"
"This man has openly rebelled against my rule so I am ordering his execution," growled Gato as he glared at the boy, "and if you don't leave my sight in the next three seconds you will join him."
"And just who exactly are you to sanction such a thing," asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow.
"I rule this country you idiot!"
"Well good day your majesty," said 13 with a smirk, "I'd tip my hat to you, BUT I LOST IT!" he shouted that last bit as he glared at Naruto. Naruto wasn't even looking at him and just felt the glare and smiled since it pleased him to piss off what was essentially his older brother.
"Okay," said Gato with a confused look, "you have lost me here. What's your deal?"
"See here," said 13 as he smiled a sinister grin that unsettled Gato and his men, "Our insane creator Dr. Gero deemed us in his own words, defective. Leaving us on the proverbial shelf until well, he didn't quite specify a particular time and so we waited to be set free for some time."
"And who and why did he do such a thing," asked Gato who was far more confused than he was to begin with.
"He could not quite tolerate my dulcet tones, my choice in vernacular, and my particular method of…ar-ti-cu-lation."
"Also you talk funny," said one of Gato's men.
"Oh we know," said Naruto with a grin.
"Now don't you get started," growled 13.
"I already destroyed your hat," said Naruto still with a grin as well as closed eyes, "and I could do so much more if you continue on with that statement." 13 paled as he heard that since he knew Naruto could back up his threats if push came to shove. "So, if we are all done with the introductions…"
"Wait, you never gave up your name," said Gato. Naruto simply smiled as he held up his hand and channeled KI into it as he pointed it at him.
"True," said Naruto in a voice that seemed like a mixture of a robot and a demon, so a mechanical demon, "but then again I never planned to." He then blasted Gato into nothing in a flash of energy that killed not only him but the several henchmen he had behind him. The people who saw this, their eyes opened wider than they have ever done in their lives since this was something that they would have never guessed would happen, not in a million years.
"Now," started 13 as he got into a fighting stance along with the others, albeit Naruto who was busy ripping the nails that had been pierced through Kaiza's hands and feet. He would need medical attention as soon as possible but he would live in the end. "I believe we have some business to attend to! Id Est, laying multiple corpses upon this here land. 14! 15!"
"You got it boss man," said 15 as he took a step forward, but then the stage collapsed where he was standing and he sunk into the ground up to his neck with his head still visible. The three androids looked at him as it did and were gonna laugh about it, but he said something before they did, "You forget you saw this." He then blasted out of the stage and attacked the men who were obviously the late Gato's henchmen since they were armed while the citizens of the village were not.
Naruto had convinced them to stop and aid these people not too long ago. At first they were against it since they really didn't care what happened to them, but Naruto told them it would be a perfect way to get the word out of their abilities. And thus their infamy would begin, and thus they would be sought out to be hired by various people. Mercenaries needed a list of clients to survive, and this was the perfect chance to gain some. Plus he added that Gero was not around to order them to slaughter people anymore like the mad man he was, so they should use their power to at least defend the people since it was better than being the monsters that Gero wanted. So they agreed with his logic and thus did as they did to kill Gato and now his men. They lasted but a few minutes, with a few running away for their live. They didn't get far since the three of them launched KI blast at them and blew them up.
"Well that was a fun distraction," said Naruto as he helped Kaiza to his feet. As he did several people rushed forward and helped by taking off of Naruto's shoulder and began to take him away to get the medical assistance he needed. They stopped though when he asked them to.
"Wait," said Kaiza as they turned him to face Naruto who at the moment was picking up his pod to continue looking for a place to settle down with the others. "Please young man, why did you help us?"
"Oh it was nothing," said Naruto with a smile as his brothers came back and picked up their own pods as well, "but if you'll excuse us then we will continue on our way."
"Wait please, at least tell us your names so that we can remember you by!"
"Oh, that seems fair enough. I am Naruto Zero. This blonde man is 13, the midget is 15 and the silver man with the ponytail is 14."
"Uh," said Kaiza in confusion, and he wasn't the only one confused, "their names are numbers?"
"Oh, yeah," said Naruto as he set his pod down for a second, "We were all experimented on by a crazy doctor with me being the prototype of the experiments he ran on them. I retained who I was and the memories of my past while theirs were erased so they go by the experiment number they were since they have nothing else to go by."
"Oh that is so sad," said Tsunami as she heard this.
"Yeah it sucked," said Naruto with a bit of a sigh, "but since we are done here we will take our leave now."
"No wait," said Kaiza, "please stay! Our village does not have the proper means to defend itself against people like Gato if they were to come once more!"
"And just who in the hell is Gato?" asked Naruto with a quizzical look on his face.
"He was the elderly man with a cane that you blasted to oblivion," said Kaiza.
"Which was awesome!" shouted little Inari, who was amazed that someone was able to do that, especially someone as young as Naruto.
"Inari hush," said Tsunami as she hugged her son.
"No it's quite alright," said Naruto with a bit of a goofy grin, "being able to blast your enemies to ash like that is pretty awesome when you think about it."
"So will you please stay?"
"Hmm," said Naruto as he thought about it, "How much does it pay?"
"Come again?" asked Kaiza since that was not the expected response.
"We are mercenaries that work when paid to do it," said Naruto simply, "so if you pay us we will protect you from anyone else who will try to take over."
"Well about that," started Kaiza as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Our village is poor since Gato stole most of our money when he took over like he did," said an elderly man who appeared next to Kaiza. He was a grey-haired, bespectacled man with a large beard and dark eyes. He wore a sleeveless V-neck shirt with an obi, pants and a pair of sandals. He also carried a towel around his neck and wore a pointed hat on his head. This was the man known as Tazuna, Inari's grandfather and Tsunami's father.
"Oh," said Naruto in thought. While he could simply aid the people out of the kindness of his heart, he and his brothers were broke so they really needed the money since you can't eat if you don't have money. Well he couldn't anyway since he was unsure if the others even ate anything. He knew 15 drank, way too much to be honest, but never ate anything. "Well did the man I killed at least have what I can assume was a big ass mansion of a home?"
"How…" started Tazuna, before Naruto cut him off.
"Just a wild guess there really, since he was apparently a tyrant of a man and they are known to want big houses and such."
"Well yes he did. But why do you want to know this?"
"Because me and my brothers here were looking for a place to settle down and if this place is anything like I think it is it would be the perfect place to do just that. So if you agree to grant us the house then we will consider it payment for protecting you for the foreseeable future."
"Well we would like to do that, but you see it's not that simple."
"Let me guess," said Naruto as he rolled his eyes, "it's full of the money he stole from you and many other places and you want that as well as any valuables he took from you back?"
"Actually yes to all of that."
"Well then go ahead and take it," said Naruto with a shrug, "since we want the house not the decorations or stuff inside of it. We will probably be remodeling it anyway to suit our needs. So do we have a deal?" asked Naruto as he held out his hand. Tazuna took it in his own and shook it to solidify the deal.
"Deal," he said as the people cheered in celebration behind him. They all made way towards the former tyrants house to reclaim what was once theirs from the house…
(1 year later)
Konoha was badly damaged. Several sections of the village were in ruins. Its walls on one section were destroyed due to a large snake summons with three heads on one body, only to be crushed by an even larger summons in the form of a giant toad. As for Konoha itself, its Shinobi were repelling the Sound ninja, and those from Suna joining with them in this fight. Of course, the scheme used by Orochimaru had not gone according to plan, as it was later revealed by Jiraiya that the Kazekage had been killed by Orochimaru, and the Sannin was impersonating him to infiltrate the village for the Chunin Exams.
That made Suna realize quickly that they had been played by the snake Sannin and left in full retreat while they still could at that point, but not before killing as many Sound ninja as they could when leaving. It was chaotic to say the least, as Sound ninja were greatly overwhelmed soon after this happened, and Orochimaru's plan to fight the Yondaime Hokage alone hit a snag when the Kazekage's young son had unleashed the Biju inside of him during the fight he had with Menma. Orochimaru had thought that he had subdued the boy enough with the suppression seal he put on him in the Forest of Death during the second part of the exams, but the combined skills of Jiraiya as well as Minato had easily unlocked it and erased it.
Gaara had been injured during his fight in the Chunin Exams with the Namikaze, which surprised his siblings given their little brother's reputation of sporting what they many considered to be the "ultimate defense" against any and all attacks. After fleeing long enough to recover, the boy unleashed his Biju from the forest onto Konoha and causing further destruction, even with word of Suna in full retreat. When the one-tailed raccoon dog started launching wind bullets left and right, one of them had skimmed right over the barrier Orochimaru's Sound Four had created with enough force to destroy it.
With the powerful barrier down, the Konoha ANBU encircling it had attacked, intent on saving their leader from death since he was injured by the sneak attack, and were able to force Orochimaru to retreat. In the end, Konoha was saved from being annihilated, the village proved it was able to stand against not one, but two Shinobi villages, even if one of the villages was considered minor, and run by a traitorous Sannin.
And so the village was repairing itself from the damage done to it. But they got through only half the repairs before they ran out of the essentials they needed to continue on with it. It was around that point that word of Wave Country completing the 'Great Zero Bridge' came to them. So with that bit of knowledge, Minato sent out some messengers to arrange buying materials in bulk that they needed. And so they did that, but when they returned they did so with surprising news since the main village of Wave Country had become far more advanced than any other village was. The messengers had tried to buy some of their tech for themselves, but the people refused and simply agreed to the sell them the materials they wanted in the first place.
Minato didn't like that the people of Wave were hoarding such technology when it could help aid their village immensely if what he heard was true. Plus he had to get it for their village before another village tried to get it themselves. So he sent a few dozen ROOT shinobi to get some of their tech for study, but they never returned alive. Minato sent a larger group this time, but once more it didn't return. He sent a third, far smaller infiltration team to see why this was the case, and this time there was something that came back since their heads were mailed to Minato with a note stating that no matter how many or how few people he sent to steal what was not his they would perish. It was then that Minato begrudgingly stopped sending ROOT there and instead had Jiraiya try to infiltrate the village with his spy network. And now he had to wait while the shipment of materials they ordered arrived.
What no one was aware of, not even the delivery crew, was that a few Kumo shinobi had infiltrated Konoha in all of the chaos and waited for the perfect moment to claim a Hyuga clan member for themselves. They had tried years ago and failed, but when their Raikage had demanded compensation in the form of the clan head for his dead messenger, Minato simply challenged him to a duel and won. Thus a national crisis was averted and all was well.
And eventually the opportunity they sought appeared before them in the form of Hinata Hyuga, who was walking towards the hospital to visit her cousin Neji since he had been injured during the invasion and she cared for him. He protected her like an older brother for most of her life and she had respect as well a family love towards the man. Yet halfway towards her destination she was drugged and kidnapped by the several Kumo shinobi in the village. And it would be quite some time before anyone even realized what had happened…
(Wave)
Naruto and his brothers had been hard at work remodeling their new home for seven months to fit their specific specifications. They had to quite literally fly around the world, which was mostly wasteland with ruins of various civilizations of long ago, to find materials they needed. They made their home into a fortified compound that was advanced beyond anything else that anyone had seen.
There was a medical bay for Naruto as well as an engineering bay for the others since they were far more mechanical than anything. They used their pods as the blueprints for a training facility. Basically it was the same process they were used to with simulations, and while they had their own private one in the massive basement they had under their house, there was another one for the people in town who wanted to get stronger to protect themselves. There was another medical bay as well, but that was obvious since they weren't going to hoard that type of thing to themselves.
Once their home was completed they helped to advance the town itself one house at a time. They built a hydro power plant which they taught the people how to work it since it was the perfect setting for one being by the water and all. They repaired various construction vehicles and tools to help the people gather more of various materials where they couldn't before. They introduced primitive firearms (Think WW1 era) to help the people defend themselves from intruders since they couldn't be there always to protect the people. There was far more that they built to help better the lives of the people, but they were too numerous to list. All in all the people were happier than they had ever been and they had the newly named Zero clan to thank for it.
Each of the four of them took on various missions in their spare time, which mostly consisted of killing bandits and recuing hostages. But in time their names became known to the various people who spread it around in time. And it was at this time that the people of Wave had finally finished the bridge they were constructing so they didn't have to rely on boats to ship their goods all the time like they had in the past. As they expected, with Gato gone several other shady business men had tried to take over in his place, but Naruto and his brothers kept their word and protected the people from them, for which they were grateful for.
Kaiza had made it a goal to get stronger to protect his family, to which he constantly hit the gym once it was built to get stronger, plus Tsunami liked the muscles he was building up. Inari had begun to idolize Naruto and followed him for weeks and asked to be taught by him. Naruto at first declined since he had no knowledge on how to even train in the art of KI, but in the end he accepted and told Inari he would train him. So that was what Naruto did in his free time, train a kid who began to call him 'big brother' which brought a bit of joy to him to hear such a thing. 13 as well as 14 were construction workers mainly since they were fairly strong and able to fly so getting things where they needed was fairly easy for them.
To the surprise of no one, 15 opened a bar that he built with the help of Tazuna; the two of them hit it off fairly well since they loved to drink so damn much. But not only that, but they brewed their own alcohol such as beer and vodka that was well liked by the people.
Naruto and his brothers knew that eventually people would try and take the technology that they had for themselves and warned the people to never sell it to anyone. The people listened to them, and just like the brothers thought the village of Konoha sent three separate groups to do just that. They eliminated them hoping that the village would get the message to quit it, but it was only after the third time that they sent a literal message back since they were being stubborn. And so far nothing else had happened.
Today though, Naruto was flying through the air as happy as could be since he was alive and well living a life that he made for himself and was loved by the people who knew him. From time to time he flew to various ruins outside of the elemental countries to see what tech he could salvage and fix since he liked to tinker a bit. But as he flew over the border of Fire Country, he saw something that made him stop dead in the air. He saw a young woman with purple hair running for her life from a half dozen grown men who were chasing her. She was cornered in the end and was drugged via a senbon dipped in a paralyzing agent of some sort. Naruto saw this and decided to help the girl.
He slammed down to the ground between the now unconscious young woman and the men who drugged her.
"What the fuck," said one of them who had an eyepatch since he was shocked to see someone just drop from the sky like that.
"I'm not gonna even ask why six grown men are chasing down a woman that is half their age since I'm fairly sure I know the answer. But I will say that I won't let you do it."
"Oh yeah," said the leader of the group with a smirk on his face, "and what are you going to do about it boy?"
"Call me that again," growled Naruto since he hated, HATED to be called 'boy' since in his mind it was an insult since it meant that the speaker underestimated him. "And see what happens."
The group looked at each other before they began to laugh hard. To see a kid who appeared to just be entering his teen years appear before them and threaten them was nothing more than a joke to them, and a good one at that.
"That's a funny joke," said the leader as he wiped a tear away from his eye, "and because you provided us with such a good laugh just now we will let you live if you leave now. So take this once in a lifetime opportunity and leave while you still can b…"
The leader wasn't able to finish that sentence since Naruto had moved faster than they could react and punched his fist through the man's chest. The leader was in shock that this kid had literally punched a hole in him.
"What was that?" asked Naruto with a sinister smirk on his face, "I couldn't quite hear you over that hole I just made in your stomach!"
"Wait," said the man in shock as the pain started to set in and his body shook from it, "we can work something out here."
"Yeah, Yeah. I've heard that bit already over a dozen times. Now let me put this in a way that you will easily understand. I'm about to blow my load all over your insides."
"What the…" started the leader.
"No homo," said Naruto before he blasted the man from the inside with KI. The man died from the hole that was made from the blast, which also blasted him backwards towards his still shocked men. "Now," said Naruto as he smiled and cracked his knuckles, "whose next?"
The men quickly overcame their fear and rushed him with the thought process of they outnumbered him so they could take him, but that only hastened their deaths since Naruto simply killed them all with a shot through the heart with a beam each. When they fell over dead, Naruto walked over to the young woman who was still knocked out and checked for a pulse to make sure she was still alive at least. She was fine, but he decided to take her back home to put her in the medical bay so that he could extract whatever drug they used on her to put her in such a state. So he lifted her up and took her home.
The trip took only about ten minutes, but then again he could fly so it was easy to get places when you can just bypass all obstacles in your way like that. Once back, he put on a medical face mask as was the standard, then he put her on the examination table and let the machines do their thing and analyze what was wrong. They took a quick blood sample and within four minutes developed a counter to the drug she had been injected with. Once it was injected into her, she began to stir as her body was able to move again. She opened her eyes and saw that she was in a brightly lit room with various strange tools surrounding her as a stranger looked over her. Her defensive mindset kicked in at this point and she tried to attack Naruto with her clan's signature Gentle Fist style of fighting. Naruto simply dodged her attacks and held up his hands to signify he was not trying to hurt her.
"Whoa there," said Naruto in an attempt to calm her down. He had to admit he was impressed by her fighting spirit, but now was not the time for admiration such as that, "there is no need for all the hostilities."
"Trying to take me against my will while I was drugged asleep Kumo scum!" she shouted as she prepared to attack him again.
"No," said Naruto as he waved his hands around in a comical fashion, "I saved you from those men who were chasing you. I brought you here to receive medical treatment to extract the drug you were injected with."
"And why would you do that," asked Hinata. Her mother had always warned her about strangers helping her in an attempt at getting her to drop her guard.
"Because it was the right thing to do and I despise rapists with all the hatred I can muster."
"And why do you think they were rapist?"
"Because when does it take six grown ass men to chase one women? Plus they drugged you so I assumed that was the case, wasn't it?"
"Yes and no," said Hinata as she eased up from being so hostile towards Naruto. She sensed no hostility from him so she wasn't as tense anymore. "They were shinobi from the village of Kumo. They kidnapped me to take me back to their village where I would then be raped to breed more of my bloodline for them."
"And what exactly is your bloodline that a village would risk war over?"
"My family possesses the Byakugan."
"Ah," said Naruto as he remembered about the Hyuga clan and their eyes from his youth. It had slipped his mind though until this moment since it wasn't really relevant.
"So what happens now?"
"What happens now is I get you some supplies and you can head home if you wish," said Naruto as he head towards the door, "since you are not a prisoner here. I just wanted to make sure you were okay before you went on your way." Naruto then took off his mask and placed it in the locker by the door and turned around to look at Hinata once more. When Hinata saw his face though she was shocked since standing before her was Menma.
"Menma?" asked Hinata in a confused tone. She wondered how he had saved her and brought her someplace to heal her. But then certain facts began to set in. One being that he didn't know who she was and the other being that while this guy looked like Menma he had what appeared to be birthmarks that looked like whiskers on his face. So no this wasn't Menma.
"Why do people keep assuming I am the son of the Yondaime Hokage?" asked Naruto with a sigh. "I may look like him but if I was him then why do I live in Wave Country while his son would live in Konoha which is in Fire Country?"
"Oh yeah," said Hinata as she blushed in embarrassment and rubbed the back of her head, "I guess you are right."
"Well then," said Naruto as he held the door for her, "let's get you those supplies so you can be on your way. I'm fairly certain your parents are worried sick about you."
"Who are you," asked Hinata as they walked towards a general store for supplies.
"My name is Naruto Zero," said Naruto with a smile, "and might I ask what is yours?"
"Hinata Hyuga,"
"Well Hinata, it's nice to formerly meet you."
As they walked to the few stores that they went to, Hinata saw that the people of the town respected him and went out of their way to greet him as he returned said greetings. Hinata mentally slapped herself for ever thinking that this man was Menma since the two were polar opposites.
Menma was for lack of a better description, a self-centered asshole to the very core. He believed that as a Namikaze that he was entitled to whatever he wanted, much like Sasuke was since the Uchiha were all mostly like that, or at least most of them were since she had seen Itachi himself and he wasn't like the rest of the arrogant dicks that made up the clan. The main difference was that Menma had the skills to back up his boasts, but what was one to expect from the son of such an infamous shinobi who just so happened to have the strongest of the nine Biju sealed within him?
Hinata had disliked Menma for his arrogance as well as his unwanted advances towards her. The only one she hated worse than Menma though was her squad-mate Kiba since he wouldn't stop with his lecherous/perverted advances and she just knew that if the chance presented itself that he would force himself upon her and say hell with the consequences. Menma was an asshole to all he saw and he got away with it to since he was the son of the Yondaime, and Hinata didn't like that. But here was a man who looked exactly like him, but with the exact opposite sort of personality, and she had to admit he was fairly handsome. So was Menma in her mind, but his personality killed that crush quickly.
So once Naruto the backpack he bought her filled with essential supplies such as food, water, and a med kit, he walked her to the bridge that connected to the mainland.
"Well this is where we must part ways," said Naruto with a bit of a sad look on his face, "I would escort you back personally but I am late for a job as is."
"That's okay," said Hinata with a mild blush on her face as she poked her fingers together, "I can make it back from here. You said we were in Wave right?"
"Why yes I did," said Naruto as he held out his hand to shake hers, "well I hope you have a safe trip back home. Come back anytime if you are in the area."
"I thank you for the offer," said Hinata as she shook his hand and turned around to begin the journey back home. But she stopped mid-step and turned back around and kissed Naruto on the cheek. "Thanks for saving me Naruto."
"Well…uh…." Said Naruto with a blush on his face since he was completely speechless on what to say right now. He had just been kissed on the cheek by a girl and he didn't know what to do. Hinata simply smiled as she sprinted off into the distance…
"Ah," said 15, who came out from behind some crates that had been there, "looks like our little man is growing up."
"I swear to whatever gods there are 15," growled Naruto in embarrassment.
"I think its sweet that our little brother 'ere has got himself a little girlfriend," said 13 as he dropped in to add his two cents on the subject.
"Oh for the love of god! What next? 14 gonna appear?" Said Naruto as just as he said that 14 appeared holding a crate. Seemed like he had been here the whole time working. This just caused Naruto to growl in embarrassment even more and begin to walk off from his brothers' teasing. "She is not my girlfriend!"
"Your mouth says no but your attitude says yes!"
This only caused Naruto to growl more…
(A/N: Well I hope you liked this chapter, I am trying to go for a bit of comedy in this one. Yes I use quotes from the abridged series, but that is because it is awesome and hilarious as well. But until next time!)