SECRET

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto

WARNING- YAOI (eventual SasuNaru, meanwhile a little KakaNaru and GarNaru), sex, blood, gore, heavy politics, deception, action, horror, at first evil Sasuke, war, assassins, spies, genetic engineering and a lot of out of character.

An unfathomable truth and an intimidating reality

(Chapter one)

"No, you will listen to me! I've had enough. Here is my proof." Tsunade said slamming a bundle of papers onto the table that she had just pulled out of her assistance's hands. Papers went flying everywhere as she continued to yell.

"I have over fifty reports of enemy movement within the Fire Country. They are strategically maneuvering their forces to cut off any available help. Currently they have five out of forty-five troops in position. The five troops have already killed over a hundred and eighty-two villagers to keep this silent. Each troop possesses three hundred ninjas, all bearing either the sound or mist symbols and has at least one hundred and fifty Jurninn, eighty Churninn, and seventy Geninn. Each troop possesses-"

"Why haven't you alerted us of this before?" A council man cried.

"First off, I needed to check the sources creditability, and second I tried to inform you, but you all had your heads stuck up your asses" Tsunade seethed, barely in control of herself. Everyone was quiet.

"As I was saying before interrupted, the troops each possess fifty medic Shinobis. Each of them highly qualified and trained by the former medic of Orochimaru, the deceased Kabuto, in the ways of his specific fighting style. Their style is highly dangerous and their threat in this situation must take priority over the Geninn. If faced, these medics must fight our Jurninn, who've been specifically trained for that sort of combat. I will do that training… Further more each Shinobi clan with a blood trait must stop training in public locations and find a way to maximize their potential-"

"So overall," interrupted a short stern grey haired woman, "This means while not publicly announced at the moment… we're at war?"

"Correct." Everyone hissed through their teeth. Finally they understand, thought Tsunade.

"We must begin preparations immediately!" The council agreed.

Tsunade held up her hand and said "However, at the moment we should probably not announce it publicly. Let us wait at the present moment."

"Fine, but you better make it before we are attacked. Tsunade." An elderly female councilor said, her voice dripping with venom. Did she just insult me? Tsunade asked herself… probably.

TSUNADE'S OFFICE

The meeting had run late into the evening. Plans were being pieced together and certain Shinobi were called before the council. Overall it had been taxing.

Tsunade's lip twitched upwards… her consolation for the whole evening was the fact that she had managed to stay one step ahead of the entire council. Every angle was covered with her information. Every strategy was already thought of and had detailed arguments behind it. She knew how every council member would respond and how to either counter it or ensure it would follow through. She had detailed profiles and some family secrets of every bloodline. She recommended the best sources of training and the best information resources… and it was all because of her mysterious contact.

So mysterious was this contact that Tsunade had never once seen him or known his name. He would slip into her office in the dead of night and pile information onto her desk. Every power she had over the council was due to him. He was the brilliant strategist, unparalleled source of information and once or twice managed to assist her in secretly in violent conquest. One day she and the Kazekage had received a threat from an unknown organization. The next day the organization had been wiped out by an unnamed assassin.

She had once determined that she would recruit this person as her apprentice, however, she was never able to catch him at his work and if she attempted to he would not come. Finally exhausted with her attempts to discover his identity, she gave up and ended up with writing little notes of gratitude. He was the one person who managed to keep her in office and Konoha safe.

Today was no exception as she left her office she quickly wrote a note for him "Thank you, whoever you are." Was all it said. She turned and walked to the door, but abruptly froze as she heard a small whisper "Your welcome." Hoping to catch sight of him, she spun around. But no one was there to her chagrin. Oh it must just be my imagination, she thought to herself and chuckled. She turned back to her desk and paled visibly. The note on her desk was gone a new file of information lay on her desk.

He had been in the room with her and she had been unable to detect him… she was the Hokage. A Seninn… what did that make him?

SAKURA'S APARTMENT

Sasuke gently pulled on his boxers. He's fucked Sakura raw and it hurt like hell. She was in bed crying. Half way through the act she had realized that this meant nothing to him. She meant nothing to him, but a warm body to fuck. He kept mumbling and mumbling under his breath to himself the entire time "why don't I feel anything?" He couldn't answer himself.

Of course he felt the pleasure, the sheer bliss that ended in an orgasm, but he felt no connection to the poor girl. Why was she crying? She'd gotten what she wanted. She had bluntly asked him to take her virginity. Did she think that if she let him fuck her that he'd fall in love with her? However, he was just as delusional. He though maybe he'd finally feel the love that had been taken from him… through a sexual act. He was a fool.

Sasukepulled on his pants and groaned uncomfortably as he zipped them up. He pulled on his shirt and let himself out. Smirking he thought now he'd have to put up with the dobe pathetic tantrums and attempts to beat me. Strangely though… Naruto had been acting more calm and collected and he didn't show up for the meetings often. Of course they weren't Geninn any longer, all three had become Churninn and had found their respective teachers… but after Naruto's returns things seemed to go back to normal. The meetings on the bridge, Sakura always pining over him (though it mostly silent and very subdued) and Naruto the short young man with still a little baby fat.

Sasuke made his way to the bridge and plopped down with a sigh. Resigned to two facts. Even though the Dobe took away his chance for power he didn't have the strength to destroy the boy (though he still hated him and made it quite obvious) and second, today the Dobe would go all out on him. Because Sasuke just knew when Naruto found out about him and Sakura he'd go into a rage. Naruto was a pathetic and useless Shinobi.

Sakura made her way to the bridge. She pulled her knees to her chest and put her head on her knees. Letting silent tears slip down her face. He glanced over at one time… and smirked. She had hickys on her neck and she wore a long sleeved shirt and pants. Hiding her bruises from the rough sex. Oh yah… Naruto would know. He really hoped this would stay quiet, but knowing both of his teammate it would become talk of the town. Wonder if he'd still be the boy prodigy and pride of the village now?

Naruto did appear today. But he wasn't himself. He walked up to the bridge distractedly glance at both Sasuke and Sakura and opened his mouth. Here it comes! Sasuke and Sakura thought at once. But something unimaginable happened he sighed and said to Sakura with a little annoyance as if an older brother to his sister "So you finally got what you wanted. After all these years. Even though I did try to warn you… guess you can be a bit dense too." He didn't say it very loudly.

In fact Sasuke almost didn't hear it, but Sakura sure did and her eyes went wide. "N-n-Naruto," She stuttered confused, "you. Knew this would happen?"

"Eventually. I did want you to get hurt." Naruto nodded distractedly and sat down heavily on the bridge. Swinging his feet casually over the side. Ignoring Sasuke's and Sakura's gaping mouths and saucer round eyes.

"Aren't you going to hit him?" Sakura blurted out.

"Why? I'm not going to get into a battle that you made a conscious decision over. It's not like he rapped you. It was your choice." At this point Sasuke and Sakura looked at Naruto like he'd lost his mind. Conscious, eventually, dense… where had he gotten those words. And his calm reaction, his perfect reasoning. It was so out of place that Sasuke was sure this Naruto must be a fake or something.

Kakashi appeared before them in a poof of smoke. For a second Kakashi was quiet looking Naruto's back up and down. And then he cleared his throat. Naruto didn't turn around. "I'm sorry I was being brief on a decision by the Hokage about-"

"Liar!" Sakura yelled. Then she glanced at Naruto and asked confused "Right?"

Naruto was the one to answer "Wrong." Stood up and walked over to Kakashi and asked the bewildered Kakashi, "Would you like to explain or should I?"

"You should probably. They're your teammates after all."

"What? Did you pull something stupid and got kicked out of Konoha?" Asked Sasuke smugly.

"You wish," Naruto said and then cleared his throat before answering, "I'm leaving team 7 to train as an ANBU." He was clam, quiet and completely sure of himself. Kakashi nodded. Sasuke's and Sakura's jaw dropped before Sasuke flushed red and started yelling.

"That's impossibly. You're a pathetic monster, who can't even dodge a jitsu and is always relying on someone else. You've got to be kidding me." Sasuke turned to Kakashi this time and said "You've got to be a Jurninn to become an ANBU, Naruto never passed the Churninn exams. So how the fuck can he be training as an ANBU?"

Everyone blinked in surprise at Sasuke's outburst… well except Naruto. Sakura and Kakashi were so stunned that they both paled and took a step back. Naruto answered that question "I guess they need a monster then. A Kyuubi monster."

Naruto turned on his heel and left. He walked slowly as if he didn't have a care in the world and like nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In fact he acted like he knew this would happen and he didn't give a shit. Naruto was gone. A stranger walked away from them.

Kakashi and Sakura glared at Sasuke before turning and walking away. Sakura hissed over her shoulder "Don't you tell anyone what happened yesterday. I don't want anyone to know I let myself be fucked by a creep like you!"

Sasuke was utterly befuddled and now he regretted saying what he said. He knew he should be angrier, but some how, now that he'd lost his teammates, one to a new life and the other two to lack of respect for him. He felt oh, so alone. He wanted to go and apologize to Naruto and asked Naruto so many questions that popped into his mind as he had yelled… but his pride got in the way. And he ended up going home and laying still on his bed sobbing.

One the Konoha border (NIGHT)

The former members of team nine, Neji, Ten-ten, Lee and Gai had been making their way back to Konoha, when they were surrounded and attacked. Three Churninn and one Jurninn barely stood a chance against, seven Jurninn level enemies. They were desperately fighting for their lives. All four of the members were close distance fighters and the enemy were long distance, putting them all at a disadvantage. Ten-ten was down with a blade through right hand and a broken left arm. Neji was partially burnt, but still managed to stand and protect the team from flying objects. Gai and Lee, were pretty useless in this combat. Though they tried as desperately as they could to be assets, but only got in the way. Lee had been knocked unconscious and Gai who had a broken an arm was trying to restrain him.

It looked like this might be the end. Neji was panting hard. He knew why they had creased to throw things at them. They believed they had disabled their short distance fighters and were now ready to finish them off. However Neji wasn't just good a long distance, but at short, but he was wounded and tired. The enemy slowly slipped from the shadows. Neji put himself in a fighting stance and signaled them forward. They chuckled and Neji shivered at the malevolence that rolled off of them.

He got distracted for a moment and then he felt a knife pressed to his throat. He choked. Tear began to trickle down his cheeks… he felt so pathetic.

But before the knife could move any closer the knife flew from the man's hand. An ANBU wearing a simple unusual (because it was of no animal) black face mask with a strange cloth the shielded the wearer's hair and neck from sight stood face to face with Neji holding his attacker's hand. Neji blinked surprised, his rescuer couldn't be older than him and he had moved so fast that it was hard to absorb. The haunting ANBU crushed the man's weaponless hand in his fist. The man screamed and the other enemies charged. The battle that ensued was a gory, but glorious one.

The strange ANBU flipped over the first attackers head, releasing the Neji's attacker, who slumped to ground unconscious from the pain. While flipping the black cloaked ANBU reached behind him and grabbed the man's (he just jumped over) left cheek with one hand and yanked his chin hard breaking the enemy's neck.

The strange ANBU still using the momentum of the flip to kick a man hard in the bashing his head into a tree. The man's head cracked and blood trailed down the tree.

The fourth man and fifth men accidentally killed each other, when both charged at him from two sides and somersaulted from between them.

The sixth and seventh man's death were acts of pure athleticism. He jumped upwards aiming a kick at the man's jaw breaking his neck and letting his kick continue into the seventh man, who ducked. However to counter this the ANBU dropped to ground on his hands and swung both his legs in the opposite direction and knocked the man off his feet and follow that smooth movement he landed on the man's chest with an audible crack of bones.

Neji watched this feat with awe and fear. The man's slim muscled body move with the grace of a cat and as he fought, each of his muscles under his shirt grew taunt and bulged when he flexed. He seemed to move to an unheard beat. He was overall amazing. Neji's mind was playing with dirty scenarios, when the ANBU walked over to him, grasped his shoulder and cocked his head to the side.

Quietly he said in a very relaxed and gentle voice "Can you mange to carry your one of teammates? I can carry your instructor and the other male, as wells as the one enemy that's alive. I need to bring him in for an interrogation. Do you think you can handle at least one?"

Neji nodded dumbly at the young man who was surely his own age. "Sure." Was all he could say. And the ANBU put Ten-ten in his arms as he with incredible strength, threw Lee, Gai, and unconscious broken handed enemy over his shoulder in a large pile. It was actually quite comical and Neji laughed. After a moment the ANBU laughed as well. In low harmonic voice. That gave Neji happy tingles.

ANBU head quarters (Later that same NIGHT)

"Did you get the report I wrote on the incident?" Naruto asked taking off his black mask. The man lifted his eye brow and studied Naruto for a moment.

Naruto wasn't the short young man who still had a little baby fat, his mastery of Illusions and his own acting skills were the cause of that. Naruto was tall, slightly muscles, but still thin in way that you'd underestimate his strength. You could call him a scar crow after all he still hadn't completely matured into a man. Maybe gangly was better description. He had narrow feminine shoulders, small hips and a toned stomach. His skin was a darker gold color than if appeared in his disguise, it could almost be called bronze. His bright blond hair was to his shoulder in dreads. His blue eyes were exotically tilted rather than just the dropping large ones, indeed they were still large, just on a more angled appearance. His face was more cat-like and his whiskers more prominent. In his all black ANBU uniform he looked very seductive.

"Yah… I got the report. Long time no see Naruto." Naruto embraced the older man. When Naruto pulled away the man asked "So are you joining the regular ANBU or the Allies?"

Naruto rolled his eyes and smiled "As if I'd get away with being a regular old ANBU! Han, would kidnap me."

"You're right. I'd probably would. Considering we raised you for your position." Han said coldly. The old man jumped and Naruto giggled and punched the intimidating Leader of the Allies of the Night in the arm. Han looked blankly at Naruto, frowned and then couldn't help himself… he snickered. The old man looked shocked at Han, the monster, but glanced at Naruto and smiled. It was Naruto who had this power over so many.

Interlude

Only the people invited into the ranks of the Allies of the Night, knew about it and its purpose. Originally it was created and monitored by the 3rd Hokage, but after dying the Allies of the Night had to rebuild itself.

Its mission was to protect the villagers. Comprised of the most elite, many trained from birth from this position, took the eleven seat of this council. Chosen for intelligence, manipulation skills, acting, resourcefulness and unrivaled power each council member was committed to protect the village with their life.

And so it remained this way, but with the 3rd's death, the council had to rebuild its people. Now once again the eleven seats are filled and finally the twelfth seat belonging to the ultimate weapon and designed inherit was filled. He had finally accepted his place. Now the question was… would they allow the Hokage to know… but that's for another chapter.

The Allies of Night's underground lab

Naruto lay on the examination table as a group of medic Shinobi specifically trained for him, examined him. Among them was Hinata, an Ally of the group, a prodigy medic and Naruto's first teacher. Hinata had always pretended to have a enormous crush on Naruto… not that it was false, but it was over exaggerated, thus allowing her to observe him and touch him when necessary. It would've been easier if they were girl friend and boy friend, but close attachments among the ally members were forbidden. A forbidden love. Truthful though Naruto was gay, so it made no difference either way.

They had already tested Naruto in his physical capabilities, being genetically built to hold the Kyuubi Naruto gained certain physical extremities, his inhuman speed, strength, ability, endurance and energy, were all due to that fact. Being the 4th's son gave him incredible power and now as Hinata discovered having all of the Kyuubi's power, thus devouring Kyuubi's consciousness gave him god-like power and inhuman side effects. He wouldn't age past the age of twenty-five and he had an extended life span, but was by no means immortal. He had heightened senses and possessed some of the Kyuubi's memories. And with his hybrid Chakra almost every jitsu was in his reach.

Hinata walked over to Naruto and whispered in his ear "Welcome home, Naruto-kun."

THE END ... for now...

This is one of my old fics that I never posted. So I decided to brush it up a bit and post it. Don't worry, the 3rd chapter in BURN is almost done... but the other stories are gonna take a few days. I'm working on it though.

If I get at leat 10 reviews, I'll brush up the 2nd chapter and post it in the morning.

-TK