I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.

Pairings: Naruto x Hinata and Naruto x "Female" Haku

Info: This story follows after Sasuke left leaf to join Orochimaru. Naruto and gang manage to get him back and I'm taking it from there.

English is not my first language; please inform me if there are any mistakes I'll correct them.

I got the idea for this fic from BigAznDaddy's Survival of the Forsaken.

NOTE: Typo in the last chap. It was supposed to be "Sand Nins" not "sound nins"

AN: Hopefully "GONE" will be updated within the next few days or so. Just to let all of you know.

WARNING some OOCness ahead.
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Baki was worried about his new charge; he knew that underneath the emotionless mask that Naruto currently wore was a whirlwind of emotions. He wanted to help Naruto but currently he thought that Naruto needed some time alone to come to terms as to what had happened a few hours ago.

'Dammit how could they do this to me? After all that I have done for them they actually had the nerve to try and kill me. Now I'll never become the hokage nor will I get to see some of the few people who care for me anymore. But I guess it was for the best, but what the hell am I going to do now? Plus I have Gaara and his team with me……I really cant imagine that they would go through all this for me…I will make it up to them somehow." Naruto thought.

"Hey Temari-chan, where are we going now?" asked Naruto.

Temari was initially shocked to see Naruto speak up after he had been silent for almost 5 hours but she was glad that he was taking all of this better than expected.

"I'm not sure Naruto-kun, maybe Baki has some ideas." Replied Temari while looking at Baki.

"I don't really have any destination planned for us at the moment. And we also can't return to sand because we are now officially without any citizenship to any village or any country. And besides I don't think That Sand will welcome us back with open arms because of our past history and because of the alliance with the leaf." Explained Baki.

"Hey hey……if you guys don't care I know of a place we could go for a while. I'm sure they would not mind us staying there." Suggested Naruto.

"Where would that be?" Asked Baki.

"Well I once did a mission in wave country….I'm sure old man Tazuna and Inari with his mom wont mind if we spend a few days there. Explained Naruto.

"Hmm…wave country huh? Well I guess its ok for the time being. Naruto who is this Tazuna and Inari?" asked Baki.

"Oh Tazuna was the old man that we were supposed to protect from some guy named Gato or boto or suto or something. But at the end Zabuza-san died killing him even though he was hired by that guy at first. And Inari is Tazuna's grandson.

"Gato…..do you mean Gatou the deceased businessman? And by Zabuza do you mean the demon of the mist Zabuza? Asked Baki.

"YEAH! That's it! It was Gatou. And yeah Kakashi said that Zabuza was called something like that.

"Hmm I see so you were there when Gatou was killed huh…..and so it was Zabuza who killed Gatou. Very interesting. Anyway we should arrive at wave within a few hours if we keep this speed up. So we don't rest until we reach the border of wave country's forest. Understand?"

Everyone just nodded their heads and resumed their journey.

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While the four weary travelers were nearing the boarders of wave country, they failed to notice 2 figures silently stalking them from the trees in the distance.

"That looks like Naruto from the description we got." Stated the first shinobi.

"Yeah its him alright…..those clothes are a dead giveaway based on the description" replied the second.

"Ok then you go back and report this while I watch them."

"Very well I'll send you the signal on what to do with them, so keep your eyes open."

With that the second shinobi left with a puff of smoke while the first one continued his Naruto watching.

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"Yes I understand I will give him the signal to escort them here" Answered the shinobi to a figure sitting in a room with another male and 2 females.

With that the shinobi concluded his report and left to send the signal to his comrade who was currently trailing Naruto and his companions.

"It's really Naruto-kun isn't it?" asked one of the female's to the figure who gave the order to the shinobi.

"Aa, it's him but it looks like he is traveling not with his old teammates but with some others." Replied the figure.

"Heh I bet the brat s going to go ballistic once he sees the 2 of you here…I can just imagine it now... he'll jump like a monkey up and down while yelling his lungs out. Man the kid is always happy, he sure is something else." Said the second male figure in the room.

Everyone in the room shared a laugh but little did they know that the Naruto that they once knew was replaced by a nearly broken and betrayed boy.

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Hyuga Hiashi was not in a good mood; no in fact his mood screamed that people who pissed him off right now would suffer extreme body harm or even death. He had just found out that Naruto, because of the villagers stupidity has been banished from Konoha and not only that they had also tried to have him executed. This alone was enough to prompt him to take the most drastic action he would ever make as the leader of the Hyuga clan. He only hoped that Naruto could forgive him for acting too late.

Hiashi entered the huge meeting grounds of the Hyuga clan to find that every member of the Hyuga clan waiting for him just as he ordered even the (insert the sneer here) "esteemed Hyuga council".

'Ooohh I'm going to enjoy this' though Hiashi.

"Everyone quite down!" everyone immediately shut up the moment the words were out of Hiashi's mouth.

"Just an hour ago we found out that Naruto has been betrayed by his own village. While I would like nothing more than to administer extreme amounts of pain to the Haruno's and the council its more important to deal with our internal problems before we start planning their punnishm…" Hiashi was interrupted before he could finish.

"Hiashi mind your words. The council and the Haruno's have done all of us and this village a great deed by getting rid of the foul dem…WHAM!" Before he could even finish his sentence the old council member was slammed into the wall by a punch from Hiashi.

Everyone except for the council and a few of their bodyguards were smiling at the idiot council member who just had to open his putrid mouth.

"HIASHI! What are you doing!" yelled an elderly female council member.

"Shut up before I decide that you skull should join his imprint on the wall." Said Hiashi with a tone of voice that sent chills up everyone's shines.

"This is the reasons I have called this meeting today. All of you know what happened 12 years ago on that fateful night, and most of us wanted to take Naruto in as our own, while we tried our best, we did not want to go against our elders words as they were one of the reasons we managed to seal the Kyubi that night. But I have regretted that decision every night these 12 years. Naruto should not have gone through all that he has. As the third said, he is the hero of this village and the people here are too blind to realize that." All of the Hyuga except the elders agreed to that statement. The elders made to say something but they were silenced by a group of Hyuga jounin who appeared in front of them.

Hiashi continued.

"So today I'm making the decision that I should have made 12 years ago. Today I'm banishing the elders from the Hyuga clan, and I'm going to resign my status as a Konoha shinobi and its citizen and I'm going to look for Naruto. I'm also going to elect a new clan leader to replace me"
immediately silent whispers broke out all over the grounds.

Before Hiashi could continue 2 Hyuga members walked up to him and began talking

"Hiashi-sama I speak as a representative of the main house of the clan when I say we will not abandon you or Naruto. If you leave we leave and please do not attempt to change out minds Hiashi-sama we want to do this. Naruto deserves a happy life after all that he has been through and if leaving this village is the only way then so be it. Perhaps that will teach them a lesson." Said the first shinobi.

"And as for the branch house we also stand by our choice of following you Hiashi-sama, we know that things have not been pleasant between the 2 houses but I can safely say that to dwell on such foolish things as that s pure idiocy as Naruto clearly said before.

Hiashi stood speechless for a second before he broke into a small smile.

"Today all of you have proved to be worthy of the Hyuga name and the honor that it carried within itself. Today I hereby strip the 6 council members their name and their rank within the clan. They will hereby be removed from the clan and the seal of fate will be placed upon them. Today I also decree that there will no long be two houses with the Hyuga clan but one and all branch members will have their seals removed immediately."

Hiashi decision was met with wild cheering and praises from everyone there bubt before the celebrations could continue…

"YOU CAN"T DO THIS! You do not have the right! We strip you of your leader status. And we banish you. Guards seize him." Said the leader of the elders while struggling against a jounin. All present there including the Hyuga guards just stared at the elder before Hiashi motioned them to be removed. The jounins and some guards took them to the holding cell until morning where they will be stripped of their status and banished from their clan in front of the hokage. This was a rare thing to happen but once a clan has spoken against one of their own. The village leader has to comply by removing them from the village, as it's the law. But this can only be done with the consent of the whole clan. And in this case the whole clan did comply.

Before anything else could take place Hiashi decided that it would be best to explain to the children and the ones who did not know about Naruto's condition.

Hiashi then proceeded to explain everything that had happened, including what happened 12 years ago. Everyone who did not know what happened 12 years ago were in shock. The women were crying while the men were just rooted to the ground at Naruto's life story. Hinata and Neji were speechless and Hanabi had to hold her sister up as she broke down in tears after she fainted. Neji however just stared at the sky waiting for the first chance he got to apologize for all he had done and said to Naruto during the chuunin exam.

Back at the Aburame estate things were going similar as the Hyuga clan except for the fact everyone even their council accepted Shinogu's decision .

Konoha is going to have its biggest shock every come morning.

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Baki and Gaara were immediately ready to kill the shinobi who appeared in front of them but before they could do anything the shinobi spoke.

"Please clam down I'm not here to fight you as I know I'll only lose my life unnecessarily. I'm merely here to escort you to the center of wave country as there are some people who want to meet you badly. So if you would please follow me we can get this over with."

"Although they were suspicious Naruto and the other 4 decided to follow the shinobi, after all if this was a trick or an ambush their opponents would have just attacked them already.

Soon the 5 of them appeared at wave country's Great Uzumaki bridge.

"Wh..what! Naruto how come this bridge is named after you?" asked a shocked Temari while the other 3 looked at him with a curious expression."

"I..I don't know. I never knew that this bridge was named after me. I guess we can ask old man Tazuna when we get there." Explained Naruto.

The moment Naruto and his companions stepped foot in the small town that Tazuna lived in the wave country he was immediately greeted by a multitude of citizen who were swarming him and praising him as the one who gave them hope to carry on with their lives.

Naruto was shocked at the treatment he was receiving but before he could fully comprehend what was going he was dragged away by Temari towards the shinobi who was walking towards Inari's house.

"Hmm Naruto-kun I guess you made a bigger impact ere that you thought. You truly are amazing." Said Temari.

This elicited a blush from Naruto but one could still see the pain in his eyes.

Soon they were standing in front of Inari's house.

"This is where I leave you. They are waiting for you inside." Saying that he jumped away into the forest.

Naruto tentatively opened the door and what he saw shocked him to the core.

"Hello Naruto-kun. It's so good to finally see you again."

"Haku?" and with that Naruto fainted.