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Chapter 5--Hello and goodbye

Silence.

In nothing but all totality.

Sitting against the darkened rock of the underlair, His raven streak hair-once worn like a lions mane now was trailing above his shoulders, unkempt. Dusty. Yet he did not care for such things were a nuisance in themselves. Looking towards his left arm, battered from the many kills he had just made yet an arm which had surpassed human pain, the young Uchiha surpressed the excess electric azure that was flourishing from it. His hand crackled with sparks and current energy. His ability to mold lightning was beginning to surpass his physichal means

''Sasuke-kun..you seem to have grabbed the basics quite well. The last gift Kakashi-san gave to you has had its limiter removed. Heaven has also decided to exist on the same plain as you..''

''Whatever...''

A pale face with serpantine eyes and with an unnatural, sickly-beuaty resonated with fire upon looking at the Uchiha's defiance. He loved it. The Young boy's inability to give a damn about anything he said other than the means to train, was making the Exiled sannin, Orochimaru a very, very happy man.

''Sasuke-kun...why dont you try and use that on me? if you can...''

The Famed red eyes flashed open to reveal the comma like dots, markings etched in his eye by blood. His face retained a silent resolution. Kill or Be Killed. The littered bodies of jounin nin were scattered in the murky hall, each embedded with a Hole to ther trunk of the body.

The Uchiha's hand was set alight. The Lightning switch had been turned on and the birds began to scream.

For the twenty-seventh-time

Orochimaru began to cackle as the mainiac he was.

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The wind cycled towards its destination and it blew a gentle, suttle breeze in the path of those who walked aside it, for the wind is such a thing that one can never grasp or command.

But truly, the wind wailed as the boy began to walk.

Naruto carried the brightly coloured clad backpack and made his way towards the leader of the village. He had a feeling that Jiraiya was going to be standing in the very office he was heading towards. The questions to question, the answers he alone would answer.

Time did not pass. Each aisle, each fiery coloured road and the people that busied every area that he walked pass-Endlessly he kept on walking.

Walking away from the village.

He heard the demons charming voice once again

IT SEEMS WE ARE TO LEAVE AFTER THIS SMALL 'INTERVAL' WITH THAT OLD WOMAN. I AM IMPRESSED-YOU DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO SAY GOODBYE TO ANY OF THOSE MAGGOTS.

Naruto was about to protest, severely but there was just something that he could not understand. Something which made him listen. Yet he did not remain silent

'I did not say goodbye simply because…well who would care anyway?'

He heard the demon Snicker

I HOPE YOU ARE NOT TO BE CONSUMED BY HATE. IT WOULD CAUSE ME TO ENJOY THE NEXT HUNDREAD YEARS.

'I want to become strong. I want to bring back Sasuke. I wan-'

YOU HAVE SAID ENOUGH. BASICALLY YOU WANT TO BECOME A 'BADASS' SO THAT YOU CAN SHOW EVERYONE HOW 'AMAZING' YOU ARE. EVEN WIN THAT PINK-HAIRED CHIMP'S APPROVAL.

'S-she isn't a chimp!'

HER FOREHEAD WOULD BEG TO DIFFER

Naruto was slightly offended but it did not stop his inmate to stop his voice booming in the blonde's mind

IF THAT IS THE CASE THEN I MAY ASWELL DESTROY YOU NOW

And Naruto stood still. His body refrained from another step.

'w-h-what?'

I REFUSE TO EVEN, 'AID' SUCH A SOUL WHO STRIVES FOR OTHERS. I WOULD RATHER WIPE YOUR EXISTENCE NOW BEFORE YOU MAKE A FOOL OF ME, AND YOURSELF.

'But you don't understand! I want to pro-'

SILENCE!

The roar had muted Naruto. He could only but listen to what the King of demons conveyed.

Such a thing he conveyed..

I AM RATHER DISGUSTED WITH YOUR ATTITUDE. YOU WISH TO BECOME 'HOKAGE'? WITH THAT MINDSET YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION MAY INVOLVE YOU SERVING BEVERAGES TO YOUR 'FRIENDS'. THEY DO NOT CARE FOR YOU, NEITHER DO THEY TRULY ACKNOLEDGE YOUR PRESENCE. I HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE HEART WHICH WILL SHAPE YOU INTO A TRUE WARRIOR BUT IT IS CLEAR I DID NOT IMPLEMENT YOUR MIND.

Each cycle of the wind was nothing more than a sinister blow of humiliation, the golden locks that grazed ever so loosely over his forehead now rasped as he felt the chill of a wind. Blasting against those strands of gold.

Kyubi really didn't want to waste his time. Naruto was unable to know why, something just this small aspect of the Kyubi's blunt and apathetic towards its hearers'' way of thinking was so…Crude yet time itself allowed those words to leave their grain. Naruto did not retaliate. He only let the icy wind caress his path, once again.

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The two sannin were already stationed in the latters Office, the Hokage's office, harbouring the faces of previous legends and stories, saviours, heroes.

However Tsunade was growing slightly irritated at Jiraiya's presence and the amount of time it was taking Naruto to get to her Office. She knew that he would have realised as par with any mission handed out, all exits and entrances must directly be reported to the Hokage. Yet after twenty minutes of waiting she seemed to be snapping every fountain brush laced with ink that she would use for writing. Jiraiya could only chuckle.

''Well at least you have the patience of a twelve year old''

And blazing green eyes looked at the older looking sannin who could only reply in suppressed laughter '' I, I thought you wanted to be.. young…''

A chime of knocks at the door saved Jiraiya. Tsunade shot daggers at the old man before managing to say.

''Come in''

She observed the familiar blonde head as he walked through the doors…slowly. He seemed to observe his surroundings, thinking unreadable thoughts before announcing

''Tsunada-sama. Im sorry for being late…lets just say I needed to see these streets before leaving..i suppose.''

In every conversation the two had endeavoured, so few had impacted and shaped the thoughts of tsunade.

This was no exception.

''Naruto. It is good to see that you are well. As you may know my former team-mate who I believe you are already aquainted with, is planning to take you away for…an apprentiship under his way of the Nin.''

Naruto just looked on seemingly through tsunade and at the image of the entire village behind her window. Searing itself into his mind.

''I have all the documentation here for your time away. All I need you to do is sign it and you are free to go''

Naruto instantly flicked the fountain brush of the desk with a slight tap of the desk before instantaneously catching it between his right hand, to the point of where he needed to leave his mark.

This display was noted. Jiraiya had the basic idea.

''I'll be going then…Later obaa-chan''

And that had really done it.

''Na-Naruto!''

Before walking of he stopped with his face facing the door.

''Look what is wrong with you? Im not that blind enough to notice that you almost passed on so recently and now you are walking around like nothings happened but-''

''Tsunade-sama''

He said it again

Naruto turned to meet her much concerned eyes. She met ice.

''Im fine. As a matter of fact I have never felt better. This village has hidden far to much from me, and where I may have been informed of some 'truths' be it human or demon, I know what I was meant to know. So its allright. You don't need to keep quiet about me becoming Hokage.''

Tsunade had really opened her eyes now. Jiraiya loved every minute of the drama

''I am the son of the fourth. I choose not to end you all because of that, for I love him and what he has done for me. There is much I love in this village also…please oba-chan. Don't worry about me or my choices or my 'death' because even though I 'died' a VERY long time before sandaime, a time where I was humiliated as a child-really it's allright''

And for a fraction, for the moment in time-- tsunade had seen the eyes of a demon. Yet the eyes of something controlled, something confined, something in flourish.

''Oi Erro sannin''

Jiraiya simply looked up

''Lets get going''

And he walked through the door first

What he would…What he could become

Tsunade could only hope that Jiraiya would be able to tame him and his control

…she also hoped that none of Jiraya's perverse philosophy rubbed off onto the prodigy.

The towering gates of Konoha were presented to the two nin of the leaf as the sunset bathed rays of tears upon the two. Embarking on their journey. The two stood dignified, as the wind drummed its beat into soil, dust trailing of the path the two saw infront of them. The warm summer air had cooled slightly, and Naruto breathed in a tone he would feel would become cooler and colder as the night came.

''Naruto!''

He. Froze.

Just like the feeling he had when he saw Sasuke, edging over the colossal statue at the valley of the end. His knee bent, his shoulder hanging and his eyes confident. Like a devil of war, and seeing those black red eyes marked by blood.

It was the same feeling. A feeling only one of those two could ever give to him.

And Sakura was no exception.

Jiraiya looked at the blonde cross-armed and carefully, viewed his take of the situation. His stance. His form. What would the boy say to this girl?

She stopped at three meter's facing the blonde's back. She saw he was missing his orange jacket which she had grown accustom of seeing, and she saw his mane of hair, unbound by the Bandanna which bore the mark of Konoha nin.

''Narut-!''

She was met with clouded eyes. Ice that bellowed wind upon them. Impenetrable ice, steaming ever so slightly. But stood frozen.

''Sakura…I am sorry''

her face was that of shock and confusion

''I'll bring him back…I made you a promise of a life time and, its not my way of the nin to go back on my word….i will bring him back….i promise you Sakura.''

She choked. And felt even. More. Guilty.

''Naruto..im..sorry! i-I didn't want you t-o get hurt!-you idio-t! you almos-''

Her pitch of voice which rose higher only indicated tears were forming. He did not need to look for he only felt those tears. Yet The Onimous shroud of thought had entered his mind, once again and left the question which changed the response.

Was that an insult?

''Sakura''

She looked up to see nothing but Ice.

''Don't taint my honour. I'm bringing that bastard back. I don't care whether you say yes or no because its exactly what I intend to do. Alone. I'm going away for nearly three years. That's the time we have, Sasuke is safe until then.''

'Naruto?' she suppressed the tears. It was everything she could do at the moment. Even he had grown…so cold? Why was he like….this?

''Jiraiya-sama. Lets get going''

She could feel all the people she cared for slipping away. Just going. Draining. Dying.

She saw him reach into his bag and pull a familiar item

''Give this to Hinata, tell her I didn't mean to take it because at the time I err…well lets just say I needed it.''

He tossed the coat onto a sakura who did not catch. It simply hung on her shoulder.

And he walked on. The sannin could see into the night, and he could see the determination in his eyes. What he would flourish into in three years, was completely under his control.

So he hoped

VERY GOOD! I ENJOYED THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU THREW ASIDE YOUR..WEAKNESS AND MADE THE VOID INTO STRENGTH. HOW DO YOU FEEL? DO YOU NOT FEEL THE COMMAND RUNNING THROUGH YOUR ACTIONS?

'I. feel. Like. Shit.'

The fox could only snicker at the youth.

IN TIME YOU WILL SEE THE BENEFIT. IN TIME. STEP ON OR BE STEPPED ON. KILL OR BE KILLED. IT IS SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE CONCEPT.

'She was crying…'

THAT'S EXACTLY, WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT. ERASE IT. WE WILL BEGIN ANEW.

The Night bled on.

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Time is such a thing. Naruto is moving ahead into the future, forcefully altered by the King of demons. What are his intentions? What will Naruto learn? And will he come back prepared? Stay tuned for a special three chapters taken at different times of Naruto's training!