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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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Hidden Beneath –
Tsunade and the council were in another meeting dealing with Naruto and his army bent to destroying Konoha Village from the face of their world. The recon team had returned a short time ago and according to the only able body member of the now two member team, they knew they were there before they even reach the first settlement. Shikaku gave a full report before being taken away for treatment as he had to run all the way back to the portal stone, carrying Gai who was poisoned by a floating monster. Their other teammate Kurenai had stayed behind giving him the time he needed to escape with Gai, at the cost of her life.
"That's the report Shikaku gave before he was taken away for treatment. The closest settlement that they found is a mine and a ninja school. The only reason they manage to get to the trash pit was because Naruto wanted them to get there. They knew that the team was there before the team knew that they knew they're there.I'm not going to send anymore teams to there until they have the equipment they need to get back alive," Tsunade said as the council had gotten her to send a recon team to check the layout of the land without the proper gear that they should have had with them, for a mission this dangerous.
"Have any of the other villages going to aid us?" Toshiro Yamanaka asked as they have been trying to get allies from the other villagers to help them when the army of that fox demon attacks them.
"No, none of them want anything to do with us," Tsunade said, "They wrote back that this is cause by the Leaf village and it's our problem alone. No village is going to ally with us. Those who came here for the exam have already reported by bird carrier back to their village of the reason why there's an army that's going to attack us, killing us to the last villager and ninja. And it seems the other villages aren't taking the news as we would hope for. Once we're gone there's going to be a power vacuum that's going to be need to be filled in one year. The other villages are too busy gearing up for battle with each other. So that one of them can take our place after we're gone to help, let alone care what happens to us."
"Damn that demon. We're out number and none of the other villages are going to help us," Hiashi Hyuuga growled, "And my daughter… what has that demon done to her to make her go back to him after he cut her legs off?"
"She's in love with him that's what," Tsunade said bluntly. "She's the only one who cares enough to try to get to know the real Naruto," than in a whisper, "Something that I never tried to do."
"She's going to be trouble that's what," Hitomi Haruno said, "She'll likely side with him and give him information of the defenses and the manpower that we have."
"He should have been kill when he was still little. Than none of this would have happen," Wei Jin shouted out.
"If this village would have followed his father's wishes the same one who save it in the first place none of this would have happen," Tsunade angrily shouted back, "I have no idea why I'm still the Hokage of this damn village. The only reason why I stayed as long as I did because Hinata told me a couple of days after Naruto was thought have died that she's going to take my place…" the heat of her voice died down as she said the rest, "She wanted to become the Hokage in Naruto's memory."
The door of the room flew open as Faceless came walking in, being follow by Jiraiya, Kakashi and some of the Anbu members. He tossed a human skull onto the table, it bounced across the table, stopping in front of Tsunade. A Leaf headband is on the skull's forehead.
"Alas… poor, Kurenai. How I knew her," Faceless said as everyone in the room glared at him.
"Why are you here?" Tsunade shouted barely keeping her anger in check as this… monster had shown what happen to the third recon member that didn't came back.
"Wait a moment I want the rest of the villages to see what I'm going to show you all," Faceless said as he pulls out a camera pod out. All over the land, in every Hidden Village their TVs suddenly turn on or the show they were watch suddenly switched to a picture of the council room of the Hidden Leaf Village, "There that's better. Don't want this to be kept hidden."
"Keep what hidden?" Jiraiya ask.
"In do time, in do time," Faceless said, "But first I have this to say. If you're going to send a recon team you'll better have them be better than the one you sent earlier. It was too easy to lure them into a trap, as if Kurenai could still talk she could tell you."
"Why are you so interested in Naruto?" Kakashi ask as the reason why Faceless took him in was never reveled to them. He's also boiling up in rage as he and Kurenai have been dating and seeing her skull on the table… It's taking all of his self control stopping him from attacking the man in front of him.
"Why do you want to know?" Faceless ask, "You never bother teaching him besides that one time when you showed him how to walk up trees before. Always too busy with the Uchiha heir to ever pay any attention to him. Putting all of your time and energy into the student you favored among all the others. Believing that it's better to train a genius then someone you would have to actually put effort into training. I'm disappointed in you. I would have thought you would have learned better than that from me."
"Who are you under that mask?" Jiraiya ask. His mind is racing with an idea he has who Faceless is but it's impossible.
"How about I show you," Faceless said as his metal mask started morphing into a blood and flesh face. Hair sported as ears, eyes and other face features formed on his faceless face. When his transformation was done everyone in the room and those watching on TV were speechless.
"Arashi?" Tsunade ask seeing her old friend in front of her again. He looks like an older Naruto as she has never through of how much father and son look so much alike before. (1)
"Yes the hero of this village is alive in a way but I don't answer to that name anymore. I became a demon in the afterlife and fought my way out of hell itself, when I learn what became of my son," Arashi now Faceless said, "I'm disappointed in how this village I gave my life for has done to Naruto."
"Sensei," Kakashi said to his old teacher.
"Don't you ever call me that again," Faceless said with an ice cold voice, "You're nothing more than a disappointment of a student, as I did my best but if the student doesn't have the will to learn what the teacher teaches it isn't the student who fails not the other way around. Why I bother to train you I'll never know."
"Does…" Tsunade began to ask be was cut off by Faceless.
"Yes he does," he answer, "After he's done with this village I'm next to die at his hands. After what I put him through thinking that this village would follow my wishes with my son… It's the only way I can ever make it up to him. My life for the childhood he has lost."
"Arashi how can you turn on your own village?" Toshiro Yamanaka shouted at the former Hokage.
Faceless turn to him, "Tell me something? Why should I side with a village that turned my son into a person with a close heart that won't accept others. When I first met with him in the forest six years ago he was already in the stages of becoming a demon who would only know rage and hatred. I did all that I could do to keep him from becoming a true monster. The scars that he has run deep and how he is now, is how far I have gotten in keeping his rage in check. I'm hoping that once this village is gone that he'll let others to get to know him and he can start living for more than revenge."
"You can't mean that," Jiraiya said as he couldn't believe what he's hearing from his old friend.
"I made the choice of using my son to save this village, something that I now regret from ever thinking of doing," Faceless said sadly, "Now I'm going to use this village to break the shell he made around his heart to save him from becoming nothing more than a hollow shell of a being. I acted as the Hokage back than, now all I can do now is act as the father… that I should have acted all those years ago."
Faceless turns around and started walking out of the door as everyone was still shell shock of what just transpired. It was Tsunade who broke the silences of the room, "Wait isn't there any other way?"
Faceless stop, "Maybe, just maybe if Hinata can show Naruto that he's truly loved by her. She should have died on the bridge, but something in my son, kept him from killing her. But as long as this village still stands, he'll never be able to break away from his haunted past."
"What do you want of us than?" Hiashi Hyuuga asked hoping there's a way to save the village.
"Just one thing I want out of this village… for you all to die," Faceless voice echoed as he left the room, leaving no hope for this village in his wake.
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Author's Notes
1 – Bet that none of you saw that one coming.
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