Aite so this is sorta the start of the fall for Naruto, maybe a little OC but could you imagine Canon Naruto getting all dark and edgy like Sasuke? Idk but I wanted to see what I could do, I used to not bother with reading flashbacks myself but do please read this one even if it's long anyway, for Konoha tech, I'm going to have to go back to Hussites and medieval Eastern and Western warfare to make some sort of parallel, it'll make sense later

Which reminds me, I'm making Anti-thesis/Outcast Ayashi into more of a real bigger insurgency, organized but decentralized type threat to the Academy since I expanded it to around three to four thousand students there, it gives Naruto something to do and helps Tsukune out a bit too, I'm actually gonna have to replace scene changes as well, I don't know how to go about it though I'll figure it out, anyway here's your chapter, last thing I decided to make the Kyuubi thing something else, sorry, same with the Ghoul stuff, that's next chapter.

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"These people…" muttered an angry pale eyed school girl, watching them all from an Academy rooftop, veins suddenly appeared on temples as her byakugan activated and she glared at the students below

Hanabi Hyuga hated this so called 'mission' she was ecstatic to hear that the Hokage herself needed a prodigy Hyuga such as herself but the second she opened the scroll everything went black, next thing she knew she was here…

In some strange world with Kakashi Hatake and Anko Mitarashi keeping an eye on her and in an even stranger twist, Naruto Uzumaki was in this world as well. She had only vaguely heard from the Village and her Clan that he had been captured by enemy Shinobis, with others saying he had lost it and went rogue.

Though Hanabi recalled her sister locking herself away to mourn the disappearance of the blond Shinobi.

Her lips curled into a frown, not seeing any Chakra in these Students, people tried to approach her about her pupiless eyes only to receive a cold stare and the vague excuse her Shinobi superiors told her to give.

Apparently from what the teachers had talked about, these were Monster students in a Junior school while she'd be transferred to the larger Yokai Academy by the end of this semester.

Monsters, real, actual Monsters at first that bothered her with the things she had heard back home until she realized just how weak a lot of them were, inexperienced in their transformations and overall Childish outlook on life.

No one had really approached her and Hanabi didn't bother to make any friends or really any acquaintances, she didn't need them and truthfully Hanabi began to look down on them, instead she focused on her studies and private training with only an objective on her mind.

More than anything, Hanabi wanted to go straight back to Konoha to contend with Hinata's appointment as Clan head but to get back to Konoha, she'd most likely have to get in contact with Uzumaki Naruto to find out what exactly was happening here.

Information was still the most important thing to a Kunoichi, Hanabi could acknowledge that after graduating early from the Shinobi Academy and given the fact she was completely in the dark with this new environment. she didn't really have any other willing leads like Naruto.

"So, the little weirdo is eating her lunch all alone?" A feminine voice caused Hanabi to recede her Doujutsu and sigh at the fact her peaceful thoughts were now broken.

Ignoring the voice, Hanabi quickly finished eating her food as if nothing happened, she just wanted to be done with this day and get back to her training with Anko.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" The voice hissed, Hanabi turned her head to face a trash bin as a Red-head girl growled at the fact she was being so casually ignored.

Her green eyes narrowed down on the Hyuga girl and a small bat landed on her shoulder.

"Ignoring a Vampire is gonna be your last mistake!"

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There was no moon to be found in Konoha's skyline as it was a cloudy night and the Fifth Hokage alone stood in her office.

Tsunade was holding a letter that she had already re-read several times, and she still couldn't believe it... Taki had broken their alliance.

After everything, Konoha had done for them! They just took Konoha's economic aid and ran, worse, to ally with Ame and Akatsuki...

"Maybe that old Mummy was right, treaties have been torn up for lesser things…" she solemnly thought, thinking back to the last minor and major wars between the Villages and her own participation in it...

Tsunade suddenly heard a knock on her door and she perked up to see her pink-haired student poke her head through the door

"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura spoke up as she slowly made her way into the Hokage's office

There were only a few lamps on, all around Tsunade's desk were endless amounts of files, photos, reports, and everything else.

"Sakura-chan…"

Tsunade's gaze was almost uncaring as she spoke

"You don't have time to revel in your accomplishments, you have another mission, Jounin Haruno..." the Senju woman then threw a new flak vest for the Pinkette to pick up.

Her eyes widened as she did so.

"Jounin…" Sakura's heart skipped a beat as Tsunade took out a file

"You're going to Nami no Kuni's countryside…" Tsunade started, she showed the Haruno a photo of a Kunoichi with mint hair, her light tanned skin, an orange hair clip that matched her eyes, and her forehead protector on her right forearm, those were all features Sakura noted and made sure to memorize

"You're taking Jounin Neji, Chunin Lee, Chunin Shino, Chunin Ino and Genin team Konohamaru to track her down, inform her that Taki plans to surrender her to Akatsuki and Konoha is offering her...sanctuary and a place here." Tsunade handed her student a folder as Sakura gave a slow nod hearing the shuffling of paperwork

"Is she...like the Kazekage?" She questioned, looking at the Photo and the Senju woman nodded, Sakura's eyebrows furrowed.

Akatsuki was still after her blond teammate given what she heard from Sasori, but they were also after these...jinchuriki now where did that leave Naruto in their plans…her emerald eyes widened finally piecing it together in her head about Naruto, his birthday, the Villagers, what Sasuke once said to her about not knowing what it's like to be alone.

"She's the jinchuriki of the Nanabi, Jiraiya's spies caught her currently in Nami no Kuni on a diplomatic mission, Sakura-chan, go gather your team and move fast, I don't know who Taki will send to retrieve her, Ame and Akatsuki are also involved now so the quicker, the better, now go" Tsunade quickly commanded, casually dismissing her Pink-haired student who gave her a hesitant nod due to still being lost in her thoughts.

Tsunade held her breath watching her pink-haired student leave as soon as the girl left, Tsunade exhaled and took out several new proposed laws with her mind on Naruto's situation

Kakashi and Anko were with Naruto now, and her little blond surrogate son successfully fit her criteria to make Chunin, so all was well there.

Though Tsunade had heard from Shizune about potential security leaks concerning Naruto, that did concern the Senju woman.

If the leaks were bad enough, she would have to immediately order Naruto's return and figure out something else but still that's what she had Yūgao for...

Once he'd be able to return and reach the rank of a Jounin, She'd be able to start the process of making him her proper successor and Tsunade could finally retire to a small Senju estate out in the countryside…

Wishful thinking aside, Tsunade figured she might be stretching herself a bit thin now with such useful Shinobis occupied with the Academy and that world, but at the moment in the elemental nations, there was an uneasy political stillness, a droning calm before the storm since Taki broke off its alliance with Konoha.

"Mandatory all-Civilians-serve conscription...well, desperate times call for desperate measures... I'll see how I can make more use of them..." Tsunade looked over the proposed law.

Konoha was straining now with Tsunade's recent ventures with Taki and Kiri, though the former was practically unsuccessful now, the latter has yielded some results with Mei agreeing to visit Konoha soon to formalize a treaty though Kiri had some conditions if they were going to be in an alliance.

It didn't help that Danzo's killing was messier than it really should've been.

All those wounded and fallen Shinobi's families still had to be compensated after all.

The Senju woman sighed, looking over the Third Hokage's old rejected manpower legislation just after the Kyuubi attack.

Danzo had actually approached Hiruzen to solve Konoha's manpower crisis with these extreme measures, and though the idea was thrown around with Iwa's posturing on their border, nothing ever actually came of it.

Tsunade cringed seeing Danzo's name as the man proposing said the new law, still...she was the Hokage, she had to do it, Tsunade stamped the law with approval and quickly put it away.

The blond Kage paused for a second, recalling she hadn't read any letters from Naruto for some time now, she glanced at the envelopes by a paperwork pile and then looked at the clock. A part of her felt bad for ignoring the little brat...but he could wait, right?

"Sorry, Brat, I just don't have that kind of time, right now" She muttered, throwing them all in a file cabinet before exiting the office to check on her prototypes from her new weapons manufacturer...Tenten.

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Yūgao glared across the forest pond as Naruto excitedly in his new Chunin flak vest, his bandaged arm and was shadow-boxing the air, something that she took note of.

"You've been watching a lot of those boxing matches with your friends, haven't you?" Yūgao asked

The Uzumaki stiffened mid-motion before quickly composing himself. Naruto could say he was still refreshed from his Weekend with Mizore and grinned to himself recalling watching a movie about an underdog boxer with the Yuki-onna

"Naruto, before we start today's lesson, there's something I need to bring to your attention," Yūgao spoke as Naruto frowned and began to look a bit concerned

"I understand Mizore-san knows about the Kyuubi, that's completely fine, but she's now the exception, your other friends can't know about it...them knowing about your true identity is bad enough, Do I need to remind you that only a few people are supposed to know we even exist …?" The Anbu woman started, she was about to speak when Naruto cut her off

"B-But... I've known Tsukune since I got here, he helped us set up a DVD player during summer break, and he taught you how to order a cab on your phone... I can trust him! Moka too." Naruto took a deep breath trying to calm himself down as he ranted

"They've known since day one about who I was, and they haven't said anything since, why would it matter if-" Naruto was about to continue until he saw Yūgao hold her finger up to him

"Let me finish…" She replied, Naruto only lightly glared at her.

Yūgao circled her student and gave him a calculating eye.

A part of her really didn't like what she was going to do next.

"You're a Chunin now, you're going to be held to a higher standard, befitting of your new rank, so start acting like it, or you'll lose it, Do I make myself clear?" Yūgao spoke in a low tone.

One thing Yūgao hated about being an Anbu was having to pull rank on another Shinobi, but frankly, She needed to get her point across to Naruto.

Naruto's face softened.

"Crystal."

Yūgao took a deep breath and rubbed her eyes

"I think you're getting too comfortable here…you're going native" Yūgao spoke as Naruto's eyebrows furrowed into confusion

"What?"

"You made commitments here to Mizore-san and her family, you're always consuming their media and junk food, living with them, talking with them, it's only natural to eventually grow attached to this place...but you're a Konoha Shinobi and you have your loyalty to the Village and to the Hokage, I'm simply reminding you of that…" Yūgao continued, Naruto looked at her in disbelief

"You're questioning my loyalty?!" he shouted

The Anbu shook her head and had to take a second deep breath.

"No, Uzumaki! I'm just reminding you that the entire point of being here was to keep you safe from Akatsuki, you're getting attached here while on a mission, and it's going to be a problem in the future, like I said, maybe Mizore-san can be the expectation…" Yūgao softly trailed off, hoping to make this next thing a concession to Naruto, the Purple-haired woman actually tried to give him a warm smile

"... And She can potentially come back with us to Konoha, you two don't have to break things off."

A pit formed in Naruto's stomach as he tried to process everything Yūgao had told him.

Naruto promised Mizore that he would tell the Newspaper Club about the Fox and while Naruto figured they'd respect his privacy if he decided not to.

It still didn't feel right to keep them all in the dark, His friends all saw him lose it with the Committee, they all saw it first hand just how bad it could get.

Now if Naruto wouldn't tell them anymore and if they ever started asking questions about the Fox, how would he be able to lie to them and keep doing so?

Kami and why did this lady also have to remind him of that Marriage Commitment? Naruto felt his palms get sweaty slightly, thinking about it all again.

Even if everything went well like Yūgao was trying to assure him, that would mean Mizore would be in Konoha, a Monster in Konoha.

"I don't think she can be there, Sensei…" Naruto replied as the Anbu blinked

"Yeah, I figured that would be an issue she'd be leaving her family behind like that, but if she did really love you, I think she'd still want to be with you and come with us...am I right?" Yūgao asked

It was a bit wrong to put Mizore on the spot like that, and it made Yūgao a bit sick. She did so, but it was still her mission to reign in on Naruto, so to speak.

Naruto held his breath

"She's a Monster though...a Yuki-onna…" Naruto brought up, thinking about the villagers as Yūgao blinked, not knowing what he was getting at

"Yes, She could maybe pass off as some long-dead member of the Yuki-clan with a backstory… Tsunade-sama could help you cover it all up if need be" Yūgao suggested, Naruto cringed internally hearing Haku's long-dead clan name like salt on an open wound.

"No, No, Sensei, we're jumping through hoops like that, and I can't ask Mizore-chan to leave her family like that either...that's just not right" Naruto grumbled now getting agitated with the Anbu, Yūgao sighed

"Look, Naruto, just remember, you're a Shinobi of Konoha, a member of the Village's Military and you still have your dream to become Hokage, don't forget that," Yūgao said while Naruto merely stood there and remained silent for several seconds to calm himself down

"I can't lie to them…they have a right to know now…" Naruto replied, Yūgao gazed at her student for a few seconds.

"If you tell them, you're going to deal with the consequences yourself…" the Anbu woman stated

Naruto looked somewhat confused

"Consequences…?"

Yūgao couldn't meet Naruto's gaze, she felt a sense of dread and had to choose her next words very carefully.

"The Kyuubi is an S-rank secret of Konoha, if it's told to anyone from the newer generation or spoken publicly, all Konoha Shinobi have their duty and will carry out the death penalty on offenders of this law under orders from the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi…" Yūgao stated with a tone devoid of emotion

The Anbu couldn't actually see Naruto's face though she could feel just how upset Naruto was getting and for a brief second Naruto felt like Yūgao was a stranger all over again when she spoke with that emotionless tone

"Tsunade-sama never changed that law, so it still carries over to this Academy and world, don't forget that." Yūgao finished, the Uzumaki grit his teeth and looked to his side, unable to even look at his sensei.

"You wouldn't…." Naruto trailed off as Yūgao tilted her head slightly and glared at him

"I won't…but if it gets to that point...you will," Yūgao spoke

For a brief second, Naruto felt his heart stop, there were several seconds of silence as Naruto merely tried to get his emotions under control and Yūgao didn't like that silence regardless

"This is just my mission, Naruto, I have nothing against your friends...but the Fox is still a Village secret"

"Mizore-chan would understand, though, right?" Naruto wondered before letting out a sigh

"And think of it this way just imagine what would happen if this Academy found out though, you already deal with enough troublemakers anyway from what I understand now the whole Monster world would lose it finding out there's a Nine-tailed Demon Fox" Yūgao spoke causing Naruto blink

The Anbu began to briefly recall what the Bus driver explained to her about certain Monster species and finding out Naruto had fought a Yoko was a surprise, she knew just how big some like the Kyuubi would be to the entirety of the Monster world

Naruto, on the other hand, slowly got that point, as well, he would be inviting a lot more trouble onto his doorstep at that point and on top of Yūgao's vague threat...

"Fine I get it, if I tell them, I'll have to deal with the Consequences...so I won't!" Naruto tried to put up a grin as Yūgao bit her lower lip and nodded.

Yūgao went back to focusing on Naruto's training instead, at least that talk went better than she really expected.

She had to get her message across to Naruto just how harsh the Consequences were while also not being overall harsh and though she may have overstepped her boundary it seemed to have worked

"Did you remember to pick up the crescent moon scroll?" Yūgao suddenly asked, turning back to him

The Uzumaki gave a hesitant nod and showed her the purple-trimmed scroll, Yūgao smiled slightly seeing her...heirloom, it was strange to think she actually had someone to pass this on to now.

"Great...now this Jutsu is very special to me, it's something I personally developed, I really never planned to have a Student to pass it on to and I almost wanted to take it to the grave with me…" Yūgao paused before shrugging, her mind almost ventured into a place it didn't need to be in.

"I figured you should have it at least," Yūgao spoke, Naruto blinked as he felt his earlier worries somewhat disappear

"The Scroll said I should memorize the stance first..." Naruto spoke, opening up the scroll as Yūgao nodded, motioning both her blade and Naruto's brand-new replacement sword on the ground.

It looked nearly identical to its last iteration, but the blade was thicker.

Tenten's reasoning is that it would be able to better handle Naruto's Chakra reserves at the cost of it being a little heavier.

"Yes you should, it's a Kenjutsu stance but also uses Shadow clones, I guess I got somewhat lucky being stuck with you there...but anyway just try to visualize making a crescent moon as you strike from all three directions," Yūgao stated, suddenly picking up her blade, Naruto gasped and went for his own sword

Sparks flew as Naruto barely had time to block a slash from Yūgao.

Naruto jumped away from the engagement to compose himself as the Anbu woman suddenly rushed him with her blade in hand.

"We didn't spend a lot of time on your Kenjutsu last week, we're going to fix that now!"

The Uzumaki groaned hearing that and prepared himself again.

Yūgao grinned, seeing Naruto slowly compose himself, and finally, she had the chance to shake off his rusty skills on Kenjutsu.

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"That Miserable idiot embarrassed us!" A Student hissed, pacing around an abandoned school building, windows shattered and debris everywhere.

Several students all stood on the main floor as Midou's eyes began to lazily follow the Student with a baseball cap

"I told him losing was unforgivable, but We can't get close to that idiot anymore either, the Safety Committee got their act together really quick after the Fox shitbag was taken care of, and they're keeping an eye out for us specifically…" Midou added with a frown before his mouth formed a line

"Still, Saizou helped us gather more 'Mixed gems for us' these last few weeks. Those of us that aren't purebreds…" Midou suddenly smirked

"We have real cells now, we outnumber the Committee, a hundred of us...barely twelve of them, the Outcast Ayashi can go on the offensive starting to today, and we can take care of Saizou later" He grinned, beginning to make his way out of the school building

"So all of that said, we won't report this to the Higher-ups until we can deal with the Saizou issue, got it?" Midou continued as the Student behind him nodded, figuring out what Midou was going to do

"Now I want to test Tsukune Aono myself" He muttered, continuing to exit the building as the Student following him smirked.

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"And so we discovered that this painting from the Seventh century becomes the foundation for later artistic movements in Japan, such as-"

Kurumu tuned out this lecture as she looked bored to death, scribbling on the papers instead, little doodles of Tsukune and her, going about their lives together.

"I thought this was Art class, not Art history class…and I thought elective classes were supposed to be fun…" the Succubus sat up slightly to see Naruto sitting in front of her completely out like a light, but that was the norm for them.

"Yukari...we've gotta get out of here…" Kurumu whispered over as Yukari sitting next to her kept scribbling away on her notes while trying to stay awake from this boring lecture

"No, You've gotta get out of here, I'm just fine here" the Small Witch replied with a small yawn as Kurumu gave her a deadpanned look

"You can't be serious, I heard from Moka that Ishigami-sensei is teaching her class how to paint. We've had this class since the start of the year, and they don't even let us draw yet!" Kurumu ranted while trying her best to keep her voice down.

Yukari paused her actions before glancing back at the lecture, the Teacher was causally opening his briefcase for something.

"Now over in Europe, the Italia-"

*Boom*

Glitter filled the front of the classroom as the Teacher fell back covered in the sparkling mess. Naruto blinked and lifted his head.

"Shit, did it work?" He yawned before throwing his hands up.

"Art is a blast! Katsu!" Naruto spoke through an exhausted and raspy voice as Kurumu yanked his arm up

"Move it, I want to go before he wakes up, and you don't want Sensei to know it was you, let's go." She whispered, Yukari glanced over at the two of them packing as the Students all ran over to check on the unconscious art teacher

"Holy crap, Sensei's out cold!"

"Should we take him to the infirmary?"

"Yep, that's a perfect excuse and distraction to cut class early," Yukari remarked at the scene, before starting to pack her own thing

Kurumu was relieved to be out of there, and she was still leading the slightly dazed Naruto out of the class with Yukari behind her

"I hope you realize you're in so much trouble if they find out" The Succubus huffed as Yukari sighed with her.

"If they find out…" Naruto reminded them before shaking himself out of her grip

the Uzumaki finally shook off the daze and began to walk ahead of the two, he briefly thought back to his weekend with Mizore and the things she told him

"Is it true Saizou came back and attacked Tsukune and Moka?" Naruto suddenly brought up as he glanced over his shoulder, Kurumu frowned at the sudden change of subject but given Naruto's absence the prior week, she didn't mind.

"Yeah, they're part of some stupid group causing problems, the Committee's been trying to take care of it, but they're stretched really thin" Kurumu added as Naruto blinked and continued to walk towards their Clubroom.

"The Committee?"

"Well just because we took out their leader doesn't mean they completely just left, a few of the members had to pick up the pieces and Senpai said they're nicer now, but I don't know, they did try to kill us…" Yukari pointed out as Naruto shook his head to snap himself out of his thoughts

"Right...so this group?" Naruto motioned his hand for Kurumu to continue

"'Outcast Ayashi' is what Tsukune told us, that's what they're called..." The Succubus spoke as the Shinobi exhaled

"And are we involved now?" Naruto questioned, Kurumu's frown grew, and she turned away

"W-We're just publishing their recent actions around campus, warning students about the dangers of going alone now at night since they already put stricter curfew out on campus and the Student's dormitory" Kurumu trailed off and began to walk past Naruto, Yukari's face fell as well

"Nii-san, they nearly killed a girl that was on the Volleyball team too…they found her just this morning, and they're not even sure she'll make it..." Yukari spoke as Naruto's eyes widened at that piece of him information

"They what?!" Naruto nearly shouted.

Kurumu motioned him to stay quiet as the Shinobi sheepishly gave a weak 'sorry'

"They ambushed her on the campus by the Gym and she couldn't even defend herself...it was pretty bad and the Committee took over from there, we're reporting that story out this week in detail, Me, Moka and Tsukune-kun went around to put up warning flyers already, the new Committee basically asked us to get the word out," Kurumu explained with a shrug as Naruto's eyes scanned his surroundings

"And what the hell is the Headmaster doing about it?" Naruto asked, Yukari groaned

"We don't know, it hasn't gotten bad enough for him to get involved and I guess the Committee can sorta handle it, but they've been busy going around asking students to join up with them as well" the Small witch explained, taking out a small juice box

"Nii-san, these Outcast Ayashi are really out for blood, they're Hybrid Monsters too, a lot of them have been appearing recently and they look down upon purebreds…" She continued, taking a small sip from her drink, Kurumu nodded with her.

"Our Club Pervert told us they've been sorta around for a while but in an always 'hush hush' way, now he says they're getting bolder and could be as dangerous as the Committee…" Kurumu added her violet eyes looking a bit concerned.

Naruto rubbed his temples. A lot had happened in one week apparently, nothing really was ever easy in this Academy.

"Can we just go to the Club now?"

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Things had gone so great for Moka in the morning, it was routine for her at this point to happily wait for some distance away from the Academy's main entrance.

Their Club session the day before had actually gone well, with Naruto back to help them, and he had even managed to finish his section without jamming the copy machine for the first time.

Though it was then that Moka noticed Tsukune coming up to her, he still had his bandages covering his neck and upper body.

"Morning!" Tsukune casually greeted with a smile, fixing his Academy jacket without a care in the world, his tie still undone.

There were some bad habits Tsukune was starting to pick up from Naruto being a little bit messier was one of them, thankfully it wasn't anywhere near how messy Naruto could be.

The Vampiress ignored his greeting though, instead, she was focusing on his bandages

Moka could help but think about what her true self talked about, how her blood would start acting up soon...how it could really hurt Tsukune.

"Ah...Tsukune-kun?" Moka spoke up

the Human was humming to himself and trying to fix his Academy tie while not even making eye contact with Moka

"Yeah?"

"Please tell me what really happened when I injected my blood into you…" Moka trailed off, Tsukune paused mid-motion and raised an eyebrow while Moka's worry grew seeing him stay silent

"It hasn't healed…"

Tsukune frowned and wasn't really sure what to say exactly, Moka waited for anything to come from the Human, then lightly clenched her teeth when nothing came.

"Answer me, Honestly, Tsukune-kun! What am I supposed to tell Kurumu-chan and the others?" Moka took a deep breath and thought back to last week's events.

"I put so much blood in you, I need to at least check if your neck is healed…" Moka approached and reached out for him

"Moka-chan, it's fine!" Tsukune tried to softly get her off but Vampiress only increased her strength

"Please I just need to check!" Moka cried out, Tsukune suddenly pushed Moka's hand off and held her shoulders.

"Stop!" He shouted, trying to catch his breath, Moka flinched hearing his somewhat loud voice

"It's not...your concern." Tsukune's hair cast a shadow on his eyes.

"It's not a problem, Moka-chan, just let me deal with it." He stated and began walking towards an Academy building

Moka watched his retreating form and tears welled up in the corner of her eyes, it was only getting worse and Tsukune wasn't going to let her help.

Midou watched the interaction from a distance, his leather jacket swaying in the wind as he stood on a tombstone

"Now all Purebreds are the enemy, and I'm expecting this purebred Vampire to be my enemy...and yet those two look so weak …really damn weak" He grumbled watching the Human exit the area, Midou then smiled

"We have excellent prey though, don't you think?" Midou added leering at Moka's form

The student with a baseball cap hummed

"Why don't we politely ask her to come along with us, Midou?" The Student spoke before glancing over his shoulder

"We can use her to lure out Aono in a favorable position! Really get to see what this purebred bastard is made of"

Midou suddenly frowned and shook his head

"There's someone else we have to worry about if we're gonna make enemies out of the Newspaper Club but...we'll have to cross the bridge when we get to it, but you're right, Aono is our priority as of now" Midou spoke, walking towards the still stunned Moka

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"So she's taking a personal day off, now?" Mizore raised an eyebrow, papers scattered everywhere on the Lunch table.

Mizore didn't actually care enough to put her makeup school work in a binder yet and usually just shoved her paperwork directly into her backpack

the Yuki-onna was merely also just trying to get as much done for her counselor to finally get her out of the red zone that would potentially get her kicked out

Tsukune sighed, rubbing his bandaged neck, Moka had told him and Kurumu a little later that she would be taking the rest of the day off, that bothered Tsukune more than it did with Kurumu though

It was strange to him, Moka wasn't the type to just do that especially since they both had a Math test coming up later today.

Tsukune could only figure it had something to do with their earlier talk

"Great, So Naruto-kun can leave whenever he wants to train, Moka can take days off but I have to be here every single day and take Saturday class just to stay in the Academy." Mizore pouted with a huff, going back to her work as Tsukune gave a half-hearted chuckle

"We're both taking Saturday classes together, and you literally did not show up to your classes for months, so I think Moka can take a day off when she needs it," Kurumu spoke up taking a seat next to Mizore with her lunch tray the Succubus's eyebrows furrowed, she noticed Naruto still wasn't here.

"Honestly this Chakra stuff seems like more baseline Power source" Yukari casually commented aloud going through Naruto's book, Kurumu filled her mouth with food and glanced at the small Witch, Mizore looked up from her work as well

"Are you even gonna do anything with Chakra?" Mizore spoke up as the Witch mused

"I'm trying to…but I don't really like asking Nii-san for stuff from his Village though…and I'm not even sure if I can extract it as I can with magic..." Yukari trailed off, before looking up at Mizore with pleading eyes

"Mizore-chan, can you ask him for me?~" She asked as the Yuki-onna paused looking up from her own schoolwork

"If you help me with this, sure."

Tsukune watched all of this and couldn't shake off a bad feeling

The Human was hoping this 'Outcast Ayashi' would probably leave him alone after Saizou but Tsukune knew that was most likely wishful thinking, Kami, they barely got through the Committee in one piece now they had to deal with this?

Even Gin was worried about it though he clearly was trying to play things off as normal, this was a situation that was going to get worse and Tsukune could see that and Truthfully Tsukune only wanted to fly under the radar again and for Moka to stop worrying so much about him

Though Moka suddenly going dark like this was worrying him even more.

Subconsciously, Tsukune held his neck and came to a decision, he was gonna look for her and clear this all up.

"Tsukune-kun…" Kurumu called out with concern in her tone, The Human looked up as She inched closer.

"Did something happen between you and Moka?"

Her chest rubbed against Tsukune as the lightly blushing Human looked away, Kurumu blinked and saw the position of Tsukune's hand on his neck

"Tsukune-kun if Moka ever hurts you…I can't forgive her and if you get hurt I can't forgive myself" Kurumu whispered with a frown.

both Mizore and Yukari stole a glance at each other, Tsukune's breath hitched before he suddenly squirmed out of Kurumu's grasp

"No...No...Kurumu-chan, I need to talk to Moka-chan right now, sorry I'll see you guys around"

Tsukune then began to walk away from the group, the girls all blinked at this, seeing Tsukune suddenly break out into a sprint

"T-Tsukune-kun!"

The Human merely kept running down the hallways and trying to get to the main gate, Tsukune assumed he could check the girl's dormitory first.

Finally managing to get off campus onto the dirt road, Tsukune was met with a scene he didn't understand

Naruto was glaring at him from a distance as the Shinobi motioned for him to come closer, Tsukune with some hesitation did.

As the Human got closer he noticed something in Naruto's hand and the Uzumaki shoved it onto Tsukune

"You're so damn lucky I had to take a piss and the West-wing Restrooms were closed," Naruto growled as Tsukune blinked, seeing Moka's Academy bag in his hand

"Those Outcast Ayashi bastards decided to take Moka and leave me with the message, I was about to go look for you guys..." Naruto explained as his anger subsided in favor of worry and fear, Tsukune's eyes widened and panic set in

"They took her?!" He yelled, Naruto was already calming himself down and going through plans in his head as he turned away from Tsukune

"And We're getting her out, so follow me."

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Tsukune glared at the building from a distance as both He and Naruto had taken cover in the tree line, in some nearby bushes that surrounded the Abandoned School zone

The blond Shinobi actually spared the time to send a clone to pick up some of his Shinobi equipment from his dorm, not his entire armory but what he had, would help.

Naruto took out a pair of binoculars to scout out to area while the Human could only vaguely see figures moving in the distance

"So they're really in there?" Tsukune asked, Naruto quickly put them away and went back for his cover.

"Of course they are, there's a lot of them too, they're clearly setting up for a trap trying to use Moka to lure you. Stupid of them to tell me of all people what they were planning but..yeah, they want you" The Whiskered Shinobi trailed off as Tsukune perked up hearing this information

"Me?"

"They think you're some crazy strong Vampire, and they don't like purebreds, much less 'Vampire elitist assholes'" Naruto mocked Midou's mannerisms and made air quotations with his hands.

Tsukune clenched his fists

"What's the plan?"

Naruto scoffed

"Yeah, so those assholes wanted you to walk right in there and into a trap and you're gonna do exactly that" The Whiskered Uzumaki proposed, Tsukune had to double-take and looked at his blond friend

"I'm sorry, are you serious?" He called out as Naruto shrugged

"They probably think I already gave you the message, they aren't expecting anyone like me to take them out, so you go in there, and I'll take care of the rest…" Naruto finished as Tsukune gave him a deadpanned look

"Naruto, they're Monsters, and I'm me!" Tsukune cried out, motioning to his scrawny body, Naruto frowned, his eyes glancing in his direction.

"And somehow you took out Saizou without me?" Naruto spoke up as the Human grimaced, thinking about his conversation with Moka, he was getting more worried when Naruto placed a hand on his shoulder

"If you can tackle one of Mizore-chan's ice dolls to save Moka, you can do this man..." Naruto reassured him with a grin.

"Those things creep me out, I don't know how crazy you were to attack them...Don't tell Mizore-chan I said that though" Naruto added

Tsukune then looked at the grass, he nodded and shot his head right back up, he couldn't really run from this, and he wasn't planning to.

"Just make sure you're watching my back, man" Tsukune spoke before leaving his cover onto the road, leading to the Abandoned building all by himself, Naruto waited and tracked Tsukune seeing him get flanked by two Outcast Ayashi members.

The Uzumaki's lips curled to a small grin before he began to dash from cover to cover and towards the building.

Tsukune had slight sweat coming down his temple as he looked between the men but somehow kept a stoic face.

"Well, now I'm glad you got our invite...why don't you step inside?" The Student with a baseball camp grinned, the Human gave no outer reaction and simply stepped inside.

"I'm here for Moka-chan, I'm here for Moka-chan, Kami how do I keep ending up in these situations…" Tsukune grimly thought as the Monsters flanking him suddenly paused into the lobby of the building

"Tsukune-kun! Why did you come, you weren't supposed to come here!" Moka cried out trying to struggle against her chains on an old couch.

Tsukune was about to move when he felt a hand on his shoulder and his blood run cold

"Now, Now, we had to go through a lot of trouble just taking the girl, we can't go around giving her back so easily" Midou spoke turning over to him with a sick smirk

"If you want her so badly, you'll have to use force, my Vampire friend" Midou added, shoving Tsukune towards the center of the building as a burst of energy suddenly began to surround Midou.

Tsukune fell back to see Midou begin to morph into some hybrid monster, his right arm expanded into a tar-black monstrosity that made the Human pale

Half of Midou's face was covered by these barbed spikes along with his arm.

"I've always hated you, purebreds, sacks of shit, always looking down on us and That's why we have to prove ourselves…"

Tsukune threw himself on the ground and avoided a swipe.

"Kami! Where's Naruto?!" Tsukune mentally yelled, looking at this thing in horror

Moka continued to struggle, tears streaming down her face as she watched Tsukune desperately try to stay alive. The Vampiress whimpered and was about to give up until she felt her chains rattle from something she couldn't see

Naruto exhaled, releasing his Jutsu and his body became visible again, holding on to Moka's chain with one hand and a Kunai coated with Wind Chakra

"Transparency Jutsus are actual live savers," The Uzumaki thought to himself with a grin, cutting Moka out of her binds as the Stunned Vampiress couldn't say anything and was just relieved to see her blond friend.

"N-Naruto-kun?"

"I-is that the Uzumaki kid?!"

Naruto cursed and got Moka out of the way just as Midou slammed his arm on the Couch, the Shinobi saw Moka quickly scramble to get to Tsukune's side

"I should've probably listened to that idiot Saizou when it came to dealing with you first, Uzumaki" Midou growled, the rest of the Hybrid Monsters all began to transform as well.

Naruto gave a nervous laugh, seeing himself and his two friends completely surrounded.

"Why is it taking so long?" was all on Naruto's mind as he spoke

"Haha...W-Well, you guys should mark this day as something special…"

Midou paused not seeing several Shadow clones cast their silhouettes on the ceiling windows, The Outcast Ayashi didn't see it but Naruto grinned a little happy to see them.

"And what's so special about today?"

"This will be the day you almost caught Uzumaki Naruto and Aono Tsukune!" the Shinobi cried out,

The Shadow Clones began tossing Smoke bomb after Smoke bomb into the building

"O-Okay, Next time I need to…*cough*...think through things a bit more." Naruto cried out as a purple haze covered the interior of the building, the Uzumaki lazily made a familiar hand sign

"Tajū kage bunshin no jutsu"

Dozens of clones appeared next to him and disappeared into the smoke.

"Now we should get out of here!" The Shinobi Jumped past both Midou and the Student with a baseball cap.

"N-Naruto, you didn't say anything about this!" Tsukune tried to object as both of Naruto's clone grabbed on to them

"Don't let them get away!"

The Uzumaki's eyes widened, seeing Midou put himself in a position to crush Tsukune with his arm

Naruto suddenly clasped his hands and extended his arms.

A Gust of Wind Shot out and stunned the hybrid Monster ever so slightly while a Shadow Clone's first appeared through the haze and punched Midou.

The Clone disappeared back into the smoke while other clones took shots at Midou, always getting out of the way for the next attack, a cheap underhanded but effective tactic Anko had used on him the week before.

Naruto was about to join his clones when he heard a very familiar plink, the Whiskered Shinobi could only see Tsukune holding Moka's Rosario with a sheepish look.

A burst of oppression energy began to pour out of Moka as her hair turned silver and her emerald green eyes were replaced with blood-red, all the Hybrid Monsters took a step back in fear.

"A-Akashiya really is a Vampire..." Midou muttered, the Silver-haired beauty glanced at the Human kneeling next to her, for a brief second.

Tsukune could see the genuine concern on Inner Moka's face as she suddenly glared at the Hybrid Monsters in front of her.

"I'm glad you brought me out today...I actually do need to hone my skills, and I was getting bored in there." She muttered before a wild smile broke out on her face and she glared at Midou.

"Trash...to think you all had the guts to lay your hands on me! I'll have to put you all in your places" Moka shouted, the Vampiress managed to rush towards Midou. Naruto's clones pulled away to deal with the rest of the Hybrid group

With one kick, Midou flew back and hit the wall, causing the building to shake on impact and several pieces of concrete fell on the Hybrid Monster from the ceiling.

Naruto grinned seeing that before turning to see a student trying to run at him with a large scythe-like arm, the Uzumaki gasped before creating a small Rasengan.

The blade-like limb missed its target completely, as Naruto became a blur and appeared behind the Student, Slamming the Jutsu on the unfortunate Monster's back.

Clones began to coordinate again along with Moka, Naruto held his breath avoiding a large crashing fist before a Clone showed up to assist him.

Tsukune watched both Moka and Naruto completely begin to overpower them, one after another would get knocked out without much issue.

"Screw this man! We can't stay here!" A Hybrid monster called out before bolting for an exit, even more followed despite the heavy smoke it was still somewhat visible for Naruto to see their silhouettes making a break for it.

Moka smiled at them running away in fear, Naruto, however, frowned.

"Oi, move it! Go after them!" Naruto ordered his clones as they all began to follow the Hybrid monsters out, the Clones let out a collective war cry and began to move into the surrounding woods with Naruto himself following, shouts could still be heard in the distance.

Moka huffed, throwing one last punch on a slightly injured hybrid monster, and she was finally done. Tsukune finally exhaled as the smokescreen began to clear out

"So you want to know what's happening to you?" Moka questioned approaching the Human as Tsukune blinked at her.

"Well, there's no easy way of saying this...but have you been having strange dreams?"

Tsukune then took a sharp breath as his eye's widened while Moka placed her hand on his should then slowly be running her palm on his neck

"I'll take that as a yes...well, it means your time is running out."

Tsukune flinched

"Running out? What do you mean by that?" His heart skipped a beat as Moka paced around him

"Your mind is being eaten away by your own blood, it's like a virus, you started the process far earlier, and now you've reached your limit…" Moka tried to smile however

"It's not too late, though, if you're able to get back to the Human World, you'll be able to recuperate and with some luck, there won't be any side effects…but that means you must never return here and never seek out the Monster world again." Moka continued as Tsukune looked on in disbelief.

"B-But that's a joke, right? I can't just leave like this."

Moka's red eyes turned back at him

"Tsukune...you'll get to live, we'll be fine and besides the only one that will really be troubled by not seeing you gain would be the other Moka" She finished as Tsukune stood there not processing what he was hearing.

A few seconds there was nothing until the Rubble where Midou was suddenly moved

"You're idiots! Both of you! Talking in the middle of a fight like this?!" Midou screamed, bursting out of the rubble and slamming his arm into Moka.

Tsukune's breath hitched seeing the blood splatter slightly on him as he stumbled and fell on the ground, Moka growled and suddenly stood her ground…

The Vampiress was pushing away the limb and holding the wound on her side

"Why can't you scum just stay down?!" Moka shouted with a huff as Midou chuckled and saw the Pipes on the ceiling creek and begin to drip.

"Vampires are known to be the strongest monsters...but also have the misfortune of being the monster with the most weaknesses... Holy water, Stakes, sliver bullets, I researched all of them and came up with nothing...but..." Midou smirked, seeing and hearing the loose pipes' creek above him

"This seems to be your greatest weakness! Let's see if it's true, Akashiya!" Midou shouted as the pipes all came down at once and water began to sparkle down

Moka gasped and began to twitch lightly, Tsukune cursed

"Damn it, this is just like with the Committee!" Tsukune tried to get to Moka

"Not so fast, Aono!" Midou nearly managed to hit Tsukune, if Moka didn't somehow move through the pain and block the attack, she continued to growl and twitch

"Still have enough power for that, huh, Akashiya?"

Tsukune's eyes flashed red as he saw Moka's bloodied wound and managed to speed past Moka, landing a clean gut punch on Midou, the Hybrid Monster flew back and once more hit the ground.

The Human hissed as his bandages began to get soaked, and his wounds reopened from just the water hitting him, he staggered, feeling his eyes turn back to normal and began to twitch like Moka.

"Aha ha! Now that's the power I expected from you purebred assholes!" Midou removed the dust and dirt from himself as Moka managed to catch Tsukune

"Damn it why did this idiot have to come here! Now these things won't close up again…" Moka thought, looking worried, while Midou inched closer

"Blood…" Tsukune managed to get out with a small smile

"I need to protect Moka-san...I need blood" Tsukune said as Moka gave a reluctant nod

"You can't die on me..." Moka then bit onto his neck, Midou chuckled to himself as he stumbled forward,

Moka opened her eyes, her teeth still on Tsukune's neck

"Don't have enough time" Moka cursed throwing Tsukune on his feet as she fell back with a gasp Tsukune shot right up, his wounds slowly healing themselves, surprising Midou and Moka, despite all the twitching the Human looked just fine.

His red emotionless eyes now stared at Midou who then smirked

"A Vampire who's just fine getting soaked…" he trailed off

"You're just, full of Surprises, Aono, Don't know if you're strong or weak but…" Midou gave the Stoic Human a crazed look

"Even if I lose here, I'll be a Martyr for the others!" Midou charged the human with blinding speed, Tsukune ducked and somehow managed to see Midou's fist just glaze over him

Time almost slowed down as Tsukune then landed a final fist onto Midou's stomach, a gasp was heard as Midou rolled away on the ground.

The same student with a baseball cap returned, over a pile of rubble, Moka could see him try to haul away Midou's unconscious body and make another run into the woods.

Tsukune exhaled and began to stagger, all the energy zapped from him again his eyes completely now bloodshot red as if he hadn't slept in days, Moka flinched, actually moving over to catch him.

Tsukune's eyes weren't closed, he simply looked at Moka in a catatonic state, and there was still some blood trailing down his lip.

After a few seconds of silence, Moka saw him take a sharp, deep breath again.

"No one's going to try that again…" Tsukune tried to smile, though Moka's red eyes only looked terrified now

"H-He's reached the point of no return now, the next time he gets blood like that…" Moka subconsciously gulped, she had to talk to her other self and finally try to sort this out between the three of them, a sharp feeling of guilt then hit her.

Moka had no idea what kind of pain she was going to put Tsukune through now.

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Naruto frowned slightly, making his way to the girl's dormitory, usually, the tombstones, the night haze, and the full moon would've creeped him out but at this point, he was used to it and was focused on other things.

The last of his clones were actually done with their mission, and he was able to finally process those memories.

Once the Hybrid Monsters started running, Naruto tried to follow with his clones and managed to get some information out of an unlucky and terrified Hybrid Monster, but the rest eerily and orderly managed to scatter into the woods undetected.

The Uzumaki didn't like what he found out and where this seemed to be going at all.

From what he could gather on these group's Anti-thesis and Outcast Ayashi were just common names given to these overall ostracized hybrid Monsters who were now organizing and lashing out, it was a decentralized mess, something Naruto loathed.

He couldn't get any names out of the students, but Naruto knew these groups were also students just like him and everyone else.

Without Kuyō's iron-fisted rule and the rest of the Committee nearly wiped out, these groups were going to get a lot bolder, as they already gravely injured an innocent student.

That was really dangerous to the Academy and with their kidnapping of Moka…the Newspaper Club was on their list of targets, every single one of them, Naruto knew that for sure.

The Shinobi frowned, he would have to have a talk with the Headmaster about this, and maybe Yūgao if he had to, stuff like that was not going to sit well with him anymore.

Suddenly seeing a familiar building, he smiled as he laid his eyes on the familiar building and crouched, trying to not make a lot of noise.

With a burst of speed, Naruto jumped over the fencing and onto Mizore's dorm

Giving the door a light knock, Naruto heard shuffling in the dorm before a small crack was heard and Mizore poked her head out

"Ah, there he is…" Mizore spoke grinned with her lollipop, fully opening the door for the Shinobi to come in

"So what happened after lunch? You never showed up, and Tsukune disappeared too."

"Tsukune and Moka things, I don't wanna get into it right now..." Naruto explained with a huff as the Yuki-onna put up a fake thinking pose

"I see, I see…" She couldn't stop herself from grinning while Naruto looked at her oddly

"Mizore-chan?"

The Yuki-onna only grabbed his hand and began to lead him inside her room Naruto paused seeing a record player on her bedside table

"When did you get that?" Naruto blinked, recalling he had never seen such a device in Mizore's room before.

"Kurumu was throwing stuff out from her dorm and sold it to me for really cheap, it works just fine though, and she gave me those for free." Mizore casually motioned towards a handful of records next to the device.

Naruto observed it with some curiosity, he had never seen anything like it before

"What does it do?"

Mizore rolled her eyes and went over to the records.

"It plays music, Naruto-kun, we don't really use these anymore, they're kinda old and outdated but…" the Yuki-onna trailed off as she went over to grab her favorite piece.

"There's just something nice about listening to music on these," Mizore replied before grabbing a record

"Do you mind?" the Yuki-onna asked looking over her shoulder as Naruto shook his head, Mizore slowly placed the record and sat down on her bed next to the blond

The record began to spin, and a soft piano melody played as Mizore leaned her head on Naruto's shoulder

The Shinobi finally relaxed for the day, it was almost like a light switch now with Mizore he just felt a bit safer.

"Is everything okay with Tsukune and Moka, though?" Mizore asked, Naruto huffed

"Outcast Ayashi kidnapped Moka, Tsukune, and I got her out…" Naruto was about to continue when Mizore titled her head to look at him.

"And you didn't tell us?" She cut in as Naruto waved off

"I was about to! But Tsukune showed up, so I figured I had it handled, and we had to move fast…" Naruto replied, Mizore sighed it was too late to be upset about that now and everything did turn out fine in the end.

"Right, Next time just...let us know at least" She muttered while Naruto flinched and nodded.

"I-It's a one-time thing, but this Outcast Ayashi stuff...could you promise me you'll be a bit more careful?" Naruto asked, looking slightly concerned and looking away from her.

"Are you worried about me?" Mizore replied

"It's going to get worse...in the Academy I mean...and because we're all in the Newspaper club and what happened with that girl...there's going to be more of that" Naruto elaborated, finally meeting her gaze, Mizore gave him a somewhat reassuring grin

"Sure, I can do that, but we're sorta like journalists, it'll always get messy sometimes, right?" Mizore spoke, but Naruto frowned and nodded.

"Ah- Mizore-chan there's something else too…" Naruto muttered, really not looking forward to this conversation, Mizore's smile fell completely as she now looked a bit confused

"I can't tell anyone else about the Fox…" Naruto started, Mizore blinked while the blond took a deep breath

"It's a Village secret, since we're basically a...deterrent from other villages, and it's under the threat of death that no one in this world finds out, you can't say anything, please..." Naruto spoke, his tone slightly shaken as he went on. Mizore stood there surprised for a few seconds.

"A Deterrent?" Mizore asked, Naruto didn't meet her gaze this time

"From other Villages, that's what my Sensei explained to me but Mizore no one here can know about it, they told me you're getting a free pass…" Naruto trailed off, grabbing her hand.

"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you but don't tell anyone." Naruto nearly pleaded, Mizore was somehow able to drone the music and didn't like what she had just heard, especially that Deterrent part, it almost made him sound like something he wasn't...despite that the Yuki-onna actually smiled remembering what she had promised Naruto.

"Hey...it's fine, I told you that I'd support whatever choice you made, so will everyone else, you don't have to tell them anything and I won't say a word." Mizore tried to reassure him as Naruto took a breath.

"T-That's all I could ask...thanks." Naruto was able to put up a small grin while the Yuki-onna sighed

"Feeling better, though?" Mizore asked as she fell back on her bed, Naruto exhaled and joined her

"Yeah, Can we just go to bed like this?"

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"Come in!" Mikogami called out with a sigh as Naruto peeked his head in, it was strange...he had gotten a message from Ruby of all people to show up at the Headmaster's office..., the Shinobi could only wonder what the man wanted since he had to leave Mizore on her own.

"Hi!" He greeted with a wave and let himself in, Tenemi's glowing eyes that usually creeped people out didn't really seem to bother Naruto this time around

"Enjoy your time here so far?" the Headmaster questioned, while the Uzumaki raised an eyebrow at the weird question.

"Sure? Is that all you called me here, Old man? I got a Chemistry test later and I gotta get some last-minute studying in fo-"

"Sit." He cut in, causing Naruto to fall quiet and slowly nod, the Shinobi sat down on the chair in front of the Headmaster as he took out a photo and a file

"Uzumaki, I need you to do something for me…" He cryptically spoke, Naruto gave him a frown seeing the Photo in front of him, it wasn't someone he expected or wanted to see again after his first day here.

"The Academy has threats both external and internal, while I'm truly glad you took care of the Committee for me... They kept all these troublemakers in line more or less, I'm sure you recognize this one…" Mikogami started as Naruto glared at the Photo of Saizou, recalling what the bastard tried to do to Moka and Tsukune on his first day and now his recent attempt the week before, not someone he really wanted to see again

"Yeah, I remember him…"

The headmaster grinned slightly

"Your friends have not informed you about his second assault on Akashyia Moka and Aono Tsukune?"

Naruto's eyes fell, recalling his conversation with Kurumu and Yukari earlier that week.

"Yeah…"

Mikogami then stood up and walked towards the Window, though Naruto couldn't see it, there was a frown on his face.

"So you know He wasn't alone this time though whoever his accomplices were… they got away I have a feeling I know who they might be, and we'll discuss that later...but I need you to make an example out of him…" the Headmaster trailed off as Naruto tilted his head, not sure if he heard the man correctly.

"You said…an Example?"

Mikogami sighed, forgetting how dense Minato's son could be.

"Uzumaki, ...whatever attack Aono or Ayakshia gave him it reopened his wound from your Rasengan, and he's unresponsive for the most part…now as an example, I require you to kill him with extreme prejudice to get a point across."

Naruto held his breath hearing those words, Saizou was a scumbag and frankly, a part of the Shinobi wanted to put him down himself just after hearing about the second attack on Moka and Tsukune.

But to make an example out of Saizou? The Uzumaki subconsciously swallowed, just killing a handful of Human Mercenaries bothered him after the fact, and even then he still didn't like thinking about it.

And all of that aside, a clean kill was one thing...killing someone with extreme prejudice was another

"I... But you said we can't kill students even if they attack us..." He retorted in a low voice, recalling what rules he had heard from Yūgao.

"There's going to be exceptions now, Uzumaki, with the Committee gone all these troublemakers like the Outcast Ayashi are going to start coming out of the wood works causing a lot of problems… not just for the Academy but most likely your friends as well as they've already shown." The Headmaster began to circle him.

Maybe it was a low-blow of Mikogami to use the Newspaper Club as leverage, but Yūgao had already agreed to this so long as it didn't put Naruto into any real danger, and having an Insider among the Students of the Academy was invaluable right now.

"Throughout my years, I've come to understand that some monsters will only respond to fear. Preying on defenseless Humans or otherwise, so I need you to put real fear in these Troublemakers by making this one an example…" Mikogami whispered over.

Naruto's eyes fell, most of this terminology he had heard from Yūgao's lesson on assassination or covert missions, he knew exactly what the Headmaster was alluding to and yet a part of him hesitated still.

"W-When you say stuff like…' extreme prejudice'.?" the Shinobi softly let the question hang while the Headmaster went back to his office chair with a frown

"It's exactly what it sounds like... Uzumaki"

Naruto blinked, snapping himself out of his dazed thoughts and focusing back on his mission.

It was the dead of night at the Academy with the moon out and while Naruto and Ruby continued onto the Academy's main courtyard…on the other side there was an overpass that was used to get from building to building, it was the ideal place for their job.

The Shinobi had his clones hauling away an unconscious Saizou from the infirmary in complete silence, somehow not even alerting the Committee member send there to watch him.

"Naruto-san, are you okay?" Ruby asked in a concerned tone as she walked behind him, finally breaking the silence.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine…"

The Older Witch shook her head, she hadn't gotten the chance to get to really know Naruto like she did with the rest of the Newspaper club, but she did know of the Uzumaki's overall good nature and somewhat Childish mannerism.

Truth be told, Ruby didn't think Naruto had the heart to do what he was going to do, but regardless she was told to assist him, and she would.

"Even if it's your job... I know this is hard for you, but I'll...be here if you need anything" Ruby softly spoke with a reassuring grin if Naruto looked a little closer he might have seen a light blush on her face, though the Shinobi instead was watching his clones finish their preparations.

"Are we really going to do this, boss?" One clone asked, motioning to Saizou's still unconscious form.

Naruto gave his counterpart a frown before nodding and another clone holding a Gas Canister shrugged

"Guess we are…" it muttered, the rest of them finally got into position as Ruby and Naruto made small talk.

"...and Mizore-chan can't know about this, no one can..." Naruto added, the Older Witch glanced around before slowly nodding.

"The Headmaster already told me...this is between just the four of us." She said, watching the Clones lean the unconscious Orc on a streetlight as they moved to tie his neck with a metal chain

Both Naruto and Ruby broke their small talk and fell quiet when they saw the clone douse the wounded and unconscious Orc in Gasoline.

Ruby's mouth formed a line as she anxiously looked at Naruto.

Part of her couldn't believe the Headmaster specifically asked for this, it was really brutal.

Though it was also Saizou, this man had tried to hurt the people who saved her twice, even going so far as trying to touch Moka like that on both occasions.

There wasn't much sympathy for Saizou from Ruby, but she could understand why Naruto was so hesitant to do this...regardless, she would follow the Headmaster's orders if it really was for the safety of the Academy.

Wordlessly and quietly, the real Naruto approached Saizou with a small lighter in hand.

"A-Ah, Boss, if it makes you feel better, one of us can do it, you don't really have to be here, and it's probably safer too..." one of Naruto's clones brought up as Naruto and Ruby turned over to the worried clones.

The one who spoke merely shrugged and offered to take the lighter as Naruto reluctantly nodded and handed it over, the Uzumaki figured it might be easier if his clones at least did it for him.

Naruto gave one last glance at the last three clones behind Saizou holding a chain and all pulling at once, lifting the now wheezing and thrashing monster up onto the railing.

"Ack!"

Naruto felt dread overcome him as he slowly watched another clone lighting Saizou ablaze, the Uzumaki subconsciously gulped seeing his clones dispel as the fire instantaneously engulfed Saizou.

For a split second, there was silence before a loud blood-curdling screech was heard from Saizou.

"Gahhhhhhhhh!"

The Whiskered Shinobi's eyes widened, watching Saizou trashing against the chains and the metal railing, Naruto's ocean blue eyes were seeing the flesh on the Orc began to melt.

"H-He's not gonna break out of that...the Headmaster told us he was already weak from his wounds, right? We should be fine..." Ruby commented, She glanced, seeing Naruto staring at the burning swinging body with an unreadable expression.

The Raven-haired Witch grew more worried and suddenly grabbed the still frozen Naruto's arm.

"Let's go, we can't stay here anymore..."

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It took some time and a lot of talking for Naruto to finally come back to his senses, it still didn't sit right with him, but Ruby had told him to simply try not to think about it too much, easier said than done really but somehow Naruto was able to manage.

Though, the memories he had gathered from the Clones were still there.

In fact, he nearly couldn't even eat his ramen, seeing flashes of Saizou's burning body go by him. He half considered taking the day off but went against it, he somehow had to cover this up and see just how well he did.

After having breakfast Ramen with Ruby, Naruto at least decided to show up to the Newspaper Clubroom first just to make up some work, or he should've been, but the Uzumaki was going through the scroll Yūgao had left him.

"I need to just fix my timing more than anything...that makes sense" Naruto stared at Yūgao's scroll, noticing the stance was a bit familiar, but he simply couldn't place his finger on it.

Before he could get lost in those thoughts

*Bzzt*

Sparkles and smoke caught the Uzumaki's attention, his eyes shot over to the copy machine buzzing and making very worrying noises as Naruto marched over

"Crap! Crap! Crap! Not again!" Naruto cursed, trying to dislodge a stuck Newspaper Copy.

"Naruto! Did the Copy machine fuck up again?" Tsukune called out, walking back into the Clubroom with a box of extra copies

"Dude, we have to get your section on there before tomorrow" the Human added while the Shinobi continued to panic and finally got the stuck copy out, Tsukune had to stop himself from laughing as Naruto huffed holding the now ripped copies

"Kami, sometimes I wonder why we even picked this club!" Naruto complained, throwing away the ripped bits, as Tsukune then set his things away,

"Yeah, man, thanks again for getting Moka-chan out of there…" he spoke as Naruto winced

"And I heard Midou actually got back up...sorry about that but what happened," Naruto said, hearing about it from Yukari in the hallway, Naruto didn't see it but Tsukune actually cringed himself forgetting about the events of the day before.

Everything the other Moka had told him, the experience he had, he just tried to push it out of his head but figured now he should talk to Naruto about it.

"It's cool man, you've saved my life enough times as i-"

"Guys!"

Kurumu busted through the door with Yukari behind her.

"You... You both need to see this right now!" Yukari shouted almost out of breath and frantically pointed outside, Tsukune completely forgot what he was going to say, he looked a bit concerned with his two friends.

Yukari and Kurumu suddenly back dashed out with the Human and now a reluctant Naruto following behind.

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"Stand back! All of you!" a Committee member growled out, shoved a few students as a yellow tape line was laid out between a few poles, only three Committee guards that were still there holding off a wave of students as Saizou's charred body dangled from the overpass.

"Kami…" was all Mizore could mutter as her blue eyes watered at the stench, Moka felt sick just looking at it and her face turned pale, Saizou wasn't a good person, but who would've done something like this? And so publicly, with such brutality and those...words.

The Chains merely rattled as students clamored over to see the horrifying sight.

Mizore frowned, looking at those words and the symbol of a red cloud.

"Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!"

"And that's Saizou!" Kurumu pointed at the body, finally getting through the crowd with Naruto, Tsukune, and Yukari behind her.

Tsukune turned white as a ghost, his nose could catch the disgusting aroma as well

"Oh, what the hell!?"

Naruto bit his lower lip watching more Committee members move in, one being Keito herself, still slightly injured with a patch on a cheek.

"Out, Out! all of you! This is a crime scene now!" She barked as Gin suddenly popped from the crowd, the Committee member growled and motioned for the Werewolf to come to her.

With a Sigh, Gin did so, the rest of the Newspaper Club saw this and followed.

"Great, and I'm assuming you already know what I'm going to ask…" Keito spoke up as Gin folded his arms

"We spread the word and use the paper to keep the Academy safe and sound." Gin replied almost mockingly, the Violet-haired Woman frowned as her sharp eyes glanced at each member who all now knew to stay quiet.

"I mean it, now I have a hostile hybrid issue and a crazy vigilante to deal with, I'm barely holding the damn Committee together if we're disbanded everything here is going to go to shit here" She said in a low voice, Gin narrowed his eyes at her.

"You're only still here and walking free because the Committee needs everyone they can get now, and your experience is still useful don't act so high and mighty anymore, that won't make you any friends, especially right now" The Werewolf reprimanded with a small grin, Keito chuckled

"I'll remember that then…but you still need to look into it, we're too few as is" Keito trailed off before Gin nodded

"You can count on the Newspaper Club to get the word out" He finished, waving off the retreating Committee members as they collected everything, Tsukune blinked as Gin continued to smile, watching the Committee all leave, and soon after the crowd began to disperse

The Werewolf motioned his Club members to all follow him.

"That Lady is stressed out!" Gin tried to joke as the Club only looked worried and the Werewolf sighed

"Well, you guys all saw and heard that, the Public Safety Committee is barely holding it together right now, so it's going to be on us to investigate this." Gin said, Naruto blinked but gave no outward reaction as the group all collectively glanced at each other as Gin continued with a frown

"Look I don't like this either...not one bit but if we're not gonna report on it then who will get the word out?" Gin proposed before taking a deep breath and putting up a Stoic look, that was something the Newspaper Club didn't see every day.

"So, I need you guys to be more careful around campus now...and keep an eye out for any leads, I'm going to be taking this seriously so if you guys find anything tell me, things are gonna get crazy here." Gin said before walking away in the other direction.

"Kami, this Academy is bad." Kurumu huffed

"First, we had a group of power-hungry weirdos now we have this…" Yukari mumbled as the rest of the group all felt uneasy, Naruto watched Gin leave from over his shoulder and couldn't help but frown.

The safety of the Academy was the reason he even did this...but the message was sent now, anyone that tried to hurt other students or worse hurt his friends would be dealt with the utmost prejudice.

It was probably a sick and twisted way of thinking about it, but Yūgao had told him everything in the Shinobi life was how you looked at it from your perspective, especially when it came to killing.

In that sense, he was glad the Orc was dead and in a way did pay for his crimes, on top of that the Outcast Ayashi getting the message and backing off would keep his friends safer, right?

Naruto suddenly felt Mizore grab his hand again, the Shinobi could see just how anxious she was already.

"We still have to get to homeroom...they're probably going to make an announcement about all of this" She muttered, leading the Shinobi away with both Moka and Tsukune following behind.

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Gamakichi happily hopped about through the dirt paths of Mount Myōboku, the toad was humming as he finally stopped near a special type of cobblestone path.

The Toad blinked, in the distance, he could just barely make out a far larger toad talking with a White-haired man, as he hopped closer, the Toad realized it was arguing, he hopped a little closer to overhear.

"Well, you can't blame him, it's not like he knew." Gamabunta grumbled, defending his son's actions as the Toad sage folded his arms

"He's been sending unapproved status updates from Konoha to Naruto, that has to stop Bunta, Pa and the Grand Toad Sage have already agreed to keep up this Facade until the Akatsuki threat is dealt with…" Jiraiya sternly said as the Chief toad closed his eyes

"This still isn't right though and you know it, the brat is going to freak out and he's going to blame you and Tsunade, it's better to just be honest with him. Naruto needs some sort of transparency if he's going to be there for a while" The Chief toad pressed in a softer tone, thinking about the blond brat.

Jiraiya mused, the man did agree with his old friend there, regardless Naruto was going to get curious as to why he hasn't received any letters from his friends on top of that the Fukasaku getting a letter about further training from Naruto had him a bit worried if Naruto was catching on to anything.

He still needed to continue his training further without finding out anything going on back in Konoha.

"Right..." Jiraiya spoke before shrugging

"I'll figure it out Bunta, but he can't know about what's going on here...not right now, things are going to start heating up between the Villages and the Gaki shouldn't be here for that" Jiraiya stated before noticing Gamakichi in the distance, with another sigh Jiraiya motioned for the Toad to come to him

"Look, I'm not mad about what you did…" Jiraya started as the small Toad folded his arms

"Do you think you have any right to be mad, Pervy-sage?" Gamakichi retorted, causing the man to recoil. Gamabunta glanced at his son then took a puff out of his pipe

"Again…You labeled him M.I.A and yet some people still think he's gone rogue or was captured on a mission when the brat gets back to the village, it'll be a problem" The Chief toad said, Jiraiya waved him off

"Akatsuki is off his trail though, right? They still haven't found any trace, who knows…with a little luck they'll eventually give up!" the Toad Sage tried to joke as Gamabunta scoffed

"Sure they're off his case…at the cost of the brat not knowing his friends all believe he's been captured? What about the damn fact the half Village thinks he could be a criminal because of your stupid cover story!" Gamabunta ranted, Jiraiya actually shrank under his gaze before composing himself

"He will come back when it's safe for him to come back, it's not forever, this is just temporary!" Jiraiya sternly retorted before taking a deep breath.

"I know it's not right just lying to him! Do you think I like doing it? I screwed up a lot already by not being there for him, growing up but Kami, I will not let Minato's brat get himself killed out there!" the Toad Sage shouted, Gamakichi even flinched at just how loud it was though his father simply glared at his summoner before taking a puff from his pipe

"Are you really that scared of the Akatsuki leader?"

Jiraiya calmed himself down, glaring at the ground.

"We're…discovering that there was more to the Kyuubi attack than we thought, if there was someone there that could get through Minato, take out Kushina and control the Kyuubi…" He muttered before sighing and looking up

"There's two people…two extremely powerful people that neither Tsunade nor myself can realistically deal with, one with the famed Rinnegan and an unknown individual that was behind the Kyuubi attack. If Naruto is ever captured, it's over…I don't think I'd be able to keep on living with myself, if I failed.." JIraiya finished giving his reasoning, a brief image of Hiruzen and Minato's funeral crossed his mind

Once again Gamakichi grumbled something under this breath that no one heard while Gamabunta began to realize the gravity of the situation with these two powerful enemies.

"Fine, I can't really say no when there's orders from the Grand Toad Sage as well…but when this all blows up in your face, I warned you and Tsunade" Gamabunta bellowed causing the perverted sage to gulp

A pit of dread began to form in Jiraiya's stomach, thinking about how many things he was already keeping from Naruto, his heritage, and the events in Konoha…he'd have to start making compromises with the brat

"I know Bunta, if anything I'll drop by to visit him soon...and I'll figure it all out, you have my word on that." Jiraiya replied with smile before disappearing in a puff of white smoke

The Toad boss looked at the spot where Jiraiya had been and shook his head. What the hell was his summoner and old friend really going to do to fix this

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End

Now, now, I know I promised the Fox stuff but I took a review for advice and did some brainstorming, I wanna tact this with Naruto's fall, I hoped this works, Tsukune's Ghoul stuff is next Chapter with also maybe that Breakfast club filler in between, don't think about it too much and the Ghoul things will mostly be different except not with Midou but you'll see, and I'll even do something Chakra special with it sorry for these things I'm still trying to figure this out, I'm setting stuff up basically for later in like six or seven Chapters

Naruto doing all of that dark stuff might be OC but I wanted to fill an edge or darker arc here alongside Tsukune losing it with the Ghoul stuff, Naruto will start losing it too, putting stress on everyone but none of this is pointless and it won't be so in your face more like a murder mystery or something anyway if you see any mistakes let me know and I'll try to get around to fixing them but time is not in abundance, later my dudes.

Hotfix1: Fixed some stuff and Guest, yeah, Konoha are lying little fucks right now, this is gonna be one of those little arcs and shit, I'm gonna take a College Literature class or something i don't know later, still working on next chapter it'll be a little late.