Okay Chapter 21, might be a little longer think of this as part 2 to Chapter 20 I guess but this is sorta the line I'm crossing here with Naruto, some people hate edgy Naruto stuff with our little blond ball of sunshine smoking and drinking and I'm on a neutral standpoint there, really as long as it's handled well I don't care, I might piss people off with this Chapter but please let a homie have this.

Honestly I just noticed that in the Naruto universe, they never really acknowledge how Shinobis abuse substances like Smut books, Alcohol and tobacco. I'm looking at Asuma, Tsunade, Kakashi and Jiraiya. I really wanted to just get into that here. Sorry if it's not that great though really I am, still not the best writer, this is the only thing I've written in my life.

BUT FOR REAL: He'll stop all that smoking and drinking stuff when Anti-thesis ends for him and he's all smiles again, it's not permanent, this is the end of the first half of Anti-thesis that I wanted to do since we're finally planting the seeds of Kiria, the Festival and based Hokuto, I'll railroad back to Rosario Vampire's canon after this chapter.

Really wanna show that while Naruto cripples Anti-thesis in this Chapter, Hokuto's manipulation will still bring the Academy to the brink, anyway here.

Small WARNING: I don't know how this site's rules will change but this one will be a bit bloody and gorey I guess.

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Tsukune wheezed, getting into a push-up position with sweat dripping down his face and body.

"On your feet!" Naruto barked, causing Tsukune to curse and jump onto a standing position, he began running in place while Naruto glared at him.

Now Tsukune really didn't know how strict Naruto could be when teaching but it was educational trauma passed on from Yūgao and Jiraiya that Naruto could be this brutal with his teachings.

"You haven't even been training for two weeks and you asked me a stupid question about Ninjutsu? Butterfly kicks!"

"I'm sorry…N-Naruto!" He spoke through pants, getting back on the ground and fluttering his legs.

It was unreal that despite the burning, Tsukune was really holding on though the Shinobi's eyebrow twitched hearing his name.

"Oh, are we friends now during training?"

Tsukune wanted to kick himself, realizing his mistake.

"Naruto-sensei!"

"Too late! Burpees, now!"

"Kill me now!" Tsukune grits his teeth, getting back into a push-up position and finishing one before getting back up and jumping in the air.

This went on for another painstaking half-hour for Tsukune until finally he hit the grass and could not get back up.

"I'm dead!"

Naruto sighed seeing this and shrugged

"Good enough for now, Yūgao-sensei would've already started kicking me while I was down to start a spar when I'm dead tired and Ero-Sennin would've made me go do his research for him in the Kunoichi section of a village's hot springs to 'improve' my stealth skills." Naruto scowled, recalling his own corrective training when he'd screw up with any of his teachers.

Tsukune kept panting trying to catch his breath, all he could do was give Naruto a weak thumbs-up, though the Uzumaki handed him another Chakra pill and a water bottle

"Good session, man!" Naruto grinned, turning his mode from strict instructor to the normal friend that Tsukune got to know.

"Thanks…" Tsukune mumbled, finally sitting up, catching his breath and resting on the grass.

"Hey, you saw everything at the Hospital right?" The Shinobi suddenly brought up, causing Tsukune to flinch as he gave a slow nod

"Y-Yeah, I did…"

Naruto muttered something that Tsukune couldn't understand before turning to him

"Do you know who it was that hurt Mizore-chan like that?"

Tsukune frowned, and a light scowl appeared on his face

"Yeah, It was this guy called Moroha, I remember him when Saizou attacked Moka-chan and I…" Tsukune rubbed his neck, recalling the pain he felt being slashed like that.

Naruto narrowed his eyes before smiling at his friend

"Cool…thanks…" Naruto merely replied

Tsukune blinked but was really too exhausted to say anything else, he briefly thought back to his time with the other Moka the night before

"That orange energy of Uzumaki's is a lot darker than my own, I could feel it…and I didn't like it...you don't happen to know anything about it do you?"

He hummed lightly, almost not wanting to test his luck after being 'corrected' on his training just a little bit before, though curiosity got the better of him.

"Hey, Naruto?"

Naruto was removing some plastic wrapping on a ramen bowl he had packed to treat himself.

"Yeah?"

"Moka-chan was asking me about this orange power you have…I know you said we humans can't really see Chakra and Monsters can only vaguely notice it but what's that about? She said she clearly saw it as orange…and it was like the Chakra you usually have" Tsukune stated, Naruto went completely stiff, not really expecting something like this.

"I can't…tell him or anyone else, Sensei ordered me…" Naruto gulped before shrugging

"Man, I can't talk about it, Shinobi secret…maybe if you come with us to the Village…" Naruto alluded then sighing

"It's part of the reason I got sent here though, that's all I can say…" He muttered though Tsukune heard him completely and blinked hearing that odd reasoning from his friend

"H-Hey, if you don't wanna tell me it's fine man but it's not really bad?" Tsukune pressed his luck ever so slightly causing him to turn away

"It…could get bad…" Naruto replied as Tsukune frowned, now it was clear he was in some sensitive territory for Naruto and even Tsukune knew not to cross that line

"Dude, whatever it is, it doesn't change the fact you're still my best friend." He reassured while Naruto glanced at him with a small grin

"Thanks…now I gotta go…I wanna visit Mizore-chan before Homeroom starts." Naruto lied before going over to gather his things.

Tsukune exhaled, watching his friend leave as he rested on the grass, wondering if he should at least tell Moka about this.

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Naruto was noticing the clock on his bedside and standing in his dorm's living room along with Ruby.

The Uzumaki took note that making Tsukune wake up even earlier was probably not good for his health at this state but He grew a bit paranoid not always being with the Newspaper Club, Mizore was injured again and his friends could've been killed

Though Naruto understood he couldn't always be around, Shadow clones would just have to do it and one would already be guarding Mizore from the Shadows before her discharge.

Maybe Yūgao was right about him being really attached to them now.

Naruto then went back to counting over how many Kunais and Explosive tags he had and it clearly wasn't enough for what he was going to be expecting in there, it would be a heavy assault on the abandoned train station that he was going to need to pull off.

Striking fast and hard, it should be over before it could attract the attention of anyone in the actual Academy.

It would be much more difficult if he was alone but Ruby actually decided to tag along

"And you left your clone to attend the school day?" She commented looking over the blond Shinobi who nodded

"One for Class and training…the other one is for Mizore." He commented, still worried about the injured Yuki-onna now he really wished he didn't take the day off with Jiraiya now.

Ruby nodded, placing a map on the coffee table along with a cup of tea.

"…Green tea at four in the morning, it's pretty relaxing actually," Ruby muttered taking a small sip, a knock on Naruto's door broke the two out of their thoughts as the Shinobi slowly went over to open it

The Bus driver casually had his cigar smoke and stood outside as Naruto glanced at the still broken smoke detector

"Come in, ya old creep" Naruto grinned as Nurari sighed being called that and stepped inside with a large bag slung over his shoulder

"I'm just here to drop this off, He asked me to provide you with some extra firepower as well…" He spoke, gently laying down and unzipping the bag to reveal old bolt action rifles, enough for around nine clones.

"These can fire a large enough caliber to penetrate most Monsters like Orcs and Cyclops, and I sure as hell ain't letting you touch my new stuff…" The Bus driver took a drag of his cigar as Naruto looked over the weapons.

Ruby nervously glanced seeing those Human firearms and watched as the blond played with the bolt, he nodded, liking the feel of it.

"You don't happen to have like…explosives do you?" Naruto asked, playing with the five-round magazines and the Bus driver shook his head with a frown, his glowing eyes actually causing Naruto to recoil in slight fear.

"I have a lot of things that you're not getting your hands on, I'm lending you these…not giving them and I only have a limited number of explosives I save for myself, either way don't you have those Shinobi tags like Uzuki?" He questioned as Naruto grumbled something to himself before shrugging

"I don't get resupplied often enough and Sensei takes more than half of mine…plus even if I could, they're freaking expensive to buy in bulk…" he scowled, the Bus driver chuckled

"This should still be enough for superior firepower…just hand them back to me when you're done there and collect your reward, I won't be waiting all day when you do" He cryptically spoke but the Uzumaki just nodded watching him leave again through the front door.

"How do you wanna do this then?" She finally spoke up, the Older witch gazing at the slightly nervous blond before he pointed at the outer buildings of the tunnel.

"I'll send a wave of clones on the main entrance with all the Kunais and a little bit of explosive tags to scare and distract them…you and I will just sneak from the side and get inside from there? After that, I guess we can just clear them out!" Naruto proposed causing Ruby to give a slow nod, she then noticed a crow on the Shinobi's window and smiled

"Hold on…give me one quick second." The Witch set her mug down and walked over to open the window.

The Uzumaki watched on slightly weirded out as the Crow squawked and cawed to the Witch only causing her to smile more.

"They're all having a meeting at the train stop right now, most gathered in one place…" Ruby turned back to inform Naruto causing him to stiffen

"D-Did the crow tell you that?" He spoke and Ruby cutely tilted her head

"Yeah, obviously." She replied though Naruto looked impressed

"You sent them to scout the area, damn that's really cool!" Naruto complimented, making note of something like he could use with his toads, he'd just have to find out which one would work, Gamakichi was already way too big for something like that.

Ruby blushed hearing that from him and pointed at the map again before the two got distracted

"Oh…yeah, I don't have enough explosive tags though and I don't want a long fight…just a get in and get out mission…" Naruto trailed off before noticing some of Yūgao's cheaper Alcohol bottles, an idea struck him with a movie he had watched with Mizore a few weeks back.

"Hey, do you know where I can get some rags?" Naruto asked going over to Yūgao's cabinet, endless bottles of hard Alcohol stood before him, the Anbu woman would probably chew his ass out for this later. But he could spare the money to pay her back for this if not…the Headmaster could always cover for him there.

Ruby blinked at the blond and shook her head

She played with her wand in hand and watched Naruto shrug

"That fine I'm sure I got something here"

He managed to take out an old-white t-shirt from a cabinet that was completely stained and ruined.

One of his old training shirts he'd take with him.

Tearing a piece from it, the blond dipped both ends with the Vodka and smirked, it was plugged up well and would work for what he needed.

"This will work…"

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It was still completely dark at the Academy and aside from the dim streetlights in the distance.

"Damn, it's fucking cold…fucking hate graveyard shift" a teenage boy complained with a shiver, he kept his eyes on the dimly lit woods beyond the small train station, the fencing and barbed wire was good enough that no one could get into the tunnel unless they came through the main gate.

"I'm kinda glad we got put with Midou-sama, we killed so many purebred shits yesterday…you should've seen the look on their faces!" a female Anti-thesis member spoke with a smile, already reminiscing on their assault earlier that day.

The boy frowned

"Lucky you, they made me and the rest of the guys set up Comms post inside all freaking day…I don't know why we're still set up here, we were doing better when we were on our own with small groups," he muttered, remembering their early days gathering and recruiting outcasted Hybrids.

"Man, just shut up and keep watch…Midou-Sama is bringing over Kiria-sama to talk about more attacks we can pull off." She shot back, on instant a large gust of wind blew through the front gate, forcing it open and staggering the two gate guards

Kunai then flew through the air and struck the female gate guard in the throat followed by a second one to the forehead

"What the hell!?" The Anti-thesis member shouted, several masked shinobis all jumped through the treelines and through the gate, they jumped up the rooftops of the station's buildings

Without words, the masked Clones moved in as a group, throwing explosive tag Kunais onto the buildings, however, a few clones had bottles of Alcohol in their hands, lighting up a small rag with a lighter they began tossing them onto the small wooden buildings

*Kaboom*

"Oh Kami! What the fuck is happening!?" An Anti-thesis member ran out of the now burning building as one after another was being cut down with Kunais and Shurkiens

*Kaboom*

Another Kunai with an explosive tag hit another building and exploded

Screams were heard as the Hybrid monsters scrambling to fight back looked on in horror at the casualties in front of them.

From the rubble of the smoke, they were seeing the Masked clones already killing the wounded Anti-thesis members.

"T-The Vigilante! There's more than one?!" a Hybrid monster spoke, trying to crush a shadow clone and rally her comrades.

"Fight back! You fucking idiots! If we don't try to fight back we'll die either way!" another Anti-thesis member shouted, she was about to strike again when a clone tossed a Molotov that slammed into her and she caught on fire

"Gahh! Put me out! Please!"

Wordlessly, a Shadow clone used its wind Chakra on a Kunai and threw it, piercing the Hybrid Monster's throat

"Gah..Ugh.." were all the noises heard as she choked on her own blood.

The front of the Train station was now burning,

Everything was in absolute chaos as the Hybrid Monsters tried to make some defensive stance though most actually broke ranks

"Fuck this! I'm not dying here!" One Hybrid monster shouted and dashing towards the entrance.

"This isn't fucking worth it!" another cried out, following after the fleeing Hybrid.

*Crackle*

As the fleeing Yokai neared the gate a muzzle flash was seen from the treetops as more Masked clones holding their rifles began to pick off the Anti-thesis members trying to escape.

One of the Masked Shinobis holding the rifle cursed with the ringing in his ear as he began pulling the bolt back

"I really freaking hate these things, I can't hear shit!" He shouted as another clone fired off more rounds onto the Hybrids trying to escape. Due to their transformed state, it actually took a few shots to put them down.

"I can't hear you! Just shut up and do your job! The Boss should be inside already!" the other clone shouted, before reloading another magazine from a small bag full of ammo pouches and taking aim again

The surviving gate guard cursed, running into one of the burning buildings as the screams of the dying were shaking him to his core, he managed to pick up the phone at the front of the desk

"M-Midou-sama! Midou-sama! The Vigilante is here! There's more of them too!" He shouted before feeling warmth on his leg as a Kunai stabbed into him and a Shadow clone marched right in

"N-No, Kami! Please!" he shouted seeing a Kunai in his hand

On the other line, Midou actually stood there with a cigarette in hand and a phone in the other.

he looked on from the cameras in the train station's old commutations room, managing to barely get it up and running again thanks to a Hybrid monster that happened to be an expert on these electronics.

Though said Hybrid Monster was now on the ground face first in the dirt, dead and just outside while the station burned around him.

"So that's him, huh?" a silver-haired student stood next to him with his hands in his pockets.

Midou took a drag out of the cigarette, watching his underlings being slaughtered by these clones, usually, that would've made him angry seeing these people he got to know being killed like this and yet he noticed something about the so-called 'Vigilante'

"It probably is him, Kiria, no other person I know in the Academy can make doppelgangers like that other than him...this fucker was the one that killed Mako like that…" He gripped the metal surface of the communications system while Kiria smirked

"Yeah, he looks pretty tough doesn't he?"

"When Uzumaki and Aono rescued Akayshia he used something similar…it has to be him…" Midou darkly muttered as Kiria gave a stiff laugh.

"Ha, Well, I'm sure he'll want to know about this, the Newspaper Club really is gonna be a problem for us…you'll take care of him, right?" He spoke

Midou's face softened and gave a slow nod

"Good and even if you fail, I'll look into this Naruto guy, though Tsukune Aono and Moka Akashiya have really caught my interest as well…" Kiria mused scratching his chin before shrugging

"I'll be on my way then, thank you for giving yourself for the cause, Midou-san…no matter the outcome you've made him and myself proud." he finished walking away leaving the smoking Hybrid Monster alone in the room.

Midou watched as the Cameras facing the west side of the station picked up some movement and he smiled slightly, seeing both one Masked Shinobi and Ruby with her wings watching over him.

The Tunnel where he was hiding was just up ahead with the handful of his best Anti-thesis members with him.

If he really was going to die this morning, it would be for Mako and the cause, hell at least he'd get in a good fight for his life on the way out.

After finishing the Cigarette and putting it out, he walked through the door one last time.

Moroha looked on at the entrance of the tunnel with a sigh, he could distantly see the flames from where he stood and noticed a handful of Hybrid Monsters already transformed.

A small round stick rolled on towards them, Moroha looked on with curiosity as it was wrapped in an explosive tag

"Katsu!"

*Kaboom*

Two-hybrid monsters were hit with the shrapnel and screeched.

One unlucky Hybrid lost a leg from being too close and was already bleeding out, though Moroha barely had time to avoid it, throwing himself back.

Ruby made sure she didn't hit her head on the ceiling as the Tunnel was still pretty large for her to move around somewhat freely. There was only a black void behind them as she watched Naruto remove his blade from his sheath.

Two Shadow clones appeared next to him as the masked Shinboi's sword began to glow

"Do you mind helping out my clones at the front? I'd rather deal with this myself and it'll be easier to clean them all up…I already dispelled some of the ones outside the fence and a few got taken out." Naruto spoke in an almost monotone voice.

The Winged Witch held her wand close, nervously glancing at the blond before nodding and flying away towards the entrance.

Naruto took a deep breath, behind his mask, he actually decided to let his anger flow ever so slightly, his whisker marks getting darker, his fangs growing and the hair under his black hood began to stand.

Moroha stood up, narrowing his eyes, just as Midou walked by to join him.

"Uzumaki Naruto?" Midou suddenly said, causing both Moroha and the blond to stiffen hearing that.

"So I was right…" He smirked. The Shinobi scoffed instead

"It really doesn't matter since none of you are leaving alive…" Naruto shot back, with blinding speed Moroha's scythe-like arms barely had time to block a strike that would've cut right through him, it was almost on reflex rather than a reaction.

His breath hitched as a clone appeared behind him and nearly stabbed his back with a Kunai.

A large barbed spiked arm punched into the clone killing it instantly as Naruto growled and jumped away, Moroha gasped barely processing what had just happened.

The Uzumaki narrowed his eyes as several hybrid monsters all surrounded him from every direction.

"Why don't you take that mask off at least? I want to see the look on your face when I smash your skull in…" Midou growled as a crazed look flashed on his face.

Naruto stayed quiet for a few seconds before Moroha started laughing, finally realizing something.

"Wait, wait, since you're Uzumaki Naruto, you're the one that's with that Shirayuki girl huh? Man, I came really close to slashing her into ribbons, is that why you wanna kill us?" He started before smirking seeing the Masked Shinobi glance at him.

"You just don't get it, Uzumaki, it's what people like her deserve…" He spat, causing Naruto to tilt his head ever so slightly.

Midou took advantage of the distraction and slammed his arm on the Uzumaki.

There was silence as Midou frowned, not seeing any blood or feeling anything, only a log underneath them.

"He's still here…"

Moroha still kept up his fake confidence as the Hybrid Monsters looked around, keeping their guard up.

"It's funny, even though she's a purebred, she's more of a freak than we are…who the hell tries to romantically get involved with the gym teacher like that? She's clearly desperate, probably just using you like most Yuki-onnas do." Moroha continued to taunt into the darkness.

The sound of swirling Chakra broke everyone out of their thoughts as Naruto suddenly became slightly visible and slammed two Rasengans down onto the Anti-thesis members.

They let out blood-curdling screams, usually, Naruto would've pulled back his Rasengan but instead, as their body hit the floor, he pushed his arm forward to continue drilling into their flesh.

His mask was all but gone now, red-eyes blazed in front of the remaining Anti-thesis Monsters and some of them took a step back in fear.

Naruto didn't know why he felt such a strange satisfaction seeing that look on their face but he did give a smirk

Finally, another Hybrid Monster rushed the whiskered Shinobi, Naruto held his breath before using his superior speed to cleanly slice off its head.

His Fox-like eyes widened as he felt the blood splatter on him before slowly pushing the now dead Antit-thesis member.

Moroha narrowed his eyes, noticing Naruto was still clam and collected as before, he then smiled, trying to continue his taunts

"You do know what Yuki-onnas do right?" he asked, though Naruto was too focused on the battle in front of him he didn't reply

Another Hybrid Monster yelled in anger seeing his dead comrade and tried to rush the Blond as well, though a Shadow clone appeared next to him with an alcohol bottle in hand, a rag covering the top

The Hybrid blindly swung as the clone avoided it all and the real Naruto just had enough time to avoid an attack from Moroha who gleefully tried another slash at the blonde

"Yuki-onnas…they're the most self interested pieces of shit, up there with Vampires and Succubuses they're not loyal to anyone but themselves the second you give her children, she'll drop you like the sack of shit you are, that's all she wants from you…" Moroha taunted, while Naruto stiffened, stunned slightly before Midou's arm nearly came crashing down on him

"I swear on Mako's grave, you won't leave here alive…" He muttered as Naruto tilted his head to avoid another attack, the Uzumaki then quickly tossed a lighter to his clone.

The Shadow Clone lit the bottle, still gracefully dodging swings and though it looked a little suicidal, the Clone slammed the burning bottle on the Hybrid causing the clone to dispel and fire to engulf the Monster with a small fiery explosion.

It was then Midou finally took note of Naruto's smirking face and blood-red eyes.

"There's no fucking way, he's a vampire too…" Midou growled, preparing himself once again while Moroha gulped, wondering if it was even a good idea to go around taunting him like this.

"No, I'm not…but I'm honestly starting to think I'm something worse now!" Naruto shouted his blade glowing orange with the Fox's chakra beginning to encase him.

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A red-haired girl adjusted her glasses, looking at the old temple in front of her, seeing the red swirl on some rubble, she really didn't like being here

This was the border of the land of fire and the land of water, ruins of a country that was home to her mother and father.

"Man, for a Clan that was cousins to the Senju they really got their shit kicked in." a white-haired teen mocked casually kicking some rubble, only having a regular blade with him, still sour at the fact Zabuza's blade was already taken by the time the team had reached the land of waves.

"Oh shut the hell up, Suigetsu! Did you know it took four fucking Shinobi villages to take out the Uzumaki clan?! And we made sure that for every inch of land we lost they drowned in their own blood getting it!" the girl shouted back,

"Who's this 'we' stuff? You didn't take part in the defense." He shot back, in front of them stood Sasuke Uchiha, looking at the rubble of this village and lost in his own thoughts.

A part of him was hesitant to believe that his old dead last teammate was related to this long-dead powerful clan.

"What do you think, Karin? Is he an Uzumaki?" Sasuke suddenly spoke up as the Uzumaki girl stiffened with a light blush

"W-Well, the way you describe him and what Orochimaru had on him, he sounds like he was a total idiot! And didn't match the description of most of the clan…" She mused then recalling the last bit of information on Naruto

"But I mean, he could just be a half-blooded Uzumaki, I know there was one Uzumaki in Konoha…" Karin added as Suigetsu scoffed

"Why do you care about your old Konoha teammate anyway?" he questioned. Just behind them, an orange-haired Shinobi was muttering about just when he'd get the chance to kill again.

"I don't…but Orochimaru had an interest in this clan and their sealing Jutsu…"

Karin adjusted her classes and puffed out her chest

"Yeah, the Uzumaki clan were experts with Fuinjutsu! So there should be something useful here…now that I think about it I'm sure Orochimaru was looking into this because he might have wanted some way to fix his arms without having to transfer bodies forever…"

"Doesn't really matter now that he's in pieces." Suigetsu added, Both Karin and Sasuke ignored him, trying to get a feel for the entire area.

"O-oh, y-yeah right the masks from the Uzumaki shrine might be gone but the ones here…I think…it's westward!…." She turned away with a light blush walking in that direction with Suigetsu following behind though the stoic Uchiha remained completely silent.

Sasuke nearly couldn't believe that there was such a thing as an Uzumaki clan and now that he thought about his old blond teammate, hearing that he too went rogue from Kabuto…

Something was off about that, the Uchiha knew that idiot wouldn't abandon the village even if he was forced to but still…did he really care? His revenge was far more important right now

Once he unlocked and could understand the Uzumaki clan's secrets, he'd be able to kill his brother even at the cost of his own life.

Karin suddenly gasped, feeling several foreign Chakra signatures coming straight towards them, one of them being extremely powerful, though what worried her more was the amount of Chakra signatures following the powerful one.

"S-Sasuke-kun, I think we have company!"

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Midou roared in anger trying to crush Naruto once again but for every attempt, he seemingly only got slower in his attacks as he tired himself out

Naruto quickly jabbed his blade into his stomach before his hand, now glowing white slammed into the Monster's chest

"Fūton: Reppūshō.."

Midou felt the wind knocked out of him as he slammed into the Tunnel's wall with a large crack, blood was gushing out of his abdomen where his liver would be and he slowly slid down

Moroha wheezed, pushing himself against the wall as well, he watched as the orange energy around Naruto swirled around violently, and yet, he still knew the blond Shinobi was holding back a lot.

"I'll kill you purebred shit!"

The Uzumaki's free hand was glowing white once again as he pushed his open palm into another Hybrid Monster's abdomen, sending the unlucky Anti-thesis member rolling away, another clone suddenly appeared with a Kunai in hand and finally killed him with a quick stab to the head.

He already watched Naruto brutally cut through most of his allies, leaving only himself and a heavily injured Midou now alive.

Moroha cursed, barely able to stand now, he panted heavily as he watched Naruto approach him, his glowing blade dripping in the blood of his former comrades.

"Son of a bitch…" Moroha growled, putting his scythe arms in an x formation and trying to charge at the Shinobi one last time.

Naruto paused for a second and as soon as he neared him, his Shinobi reflexes kicked in, all that training with Yūgao finally came together.

One slash to the stomach stopped his movement, another slash-cut Moroha's arm clean off, hearing the gasp from the Hybrid Monster, Naruto pulled his blade back and slashed his throat.

Blood squirted out of his fatal wound and Naruto watched the Hybrid Monster squirm on the floor, his arm and stomach now bleeding out along with his throat.

The Uzumaki took a deep breath as Midou was already heavily bleeding against a wall as well, finally back in his human form and trying his best to light one more cigarette finally managing to do so

"E-Easy…I know when I'm beat already…" He spoke before giving an exhausted laugh

He turned to see Moroha's lifeless eyes and body, looking at his own fatal wound as Naruto had slashed his stomach and he was slowly bleeding out.

"Kami, that was some fight huh…Moroha…"

Naruto silently stared at him, seeing him now in his Human form, the Uzumaki's red eyes didn't frighten Midou anymore as he took a puff of his cigarette.

"Just let me finish this one… I doubt they have this brand where I'm going." the short-haired blond tried to joke as Naruto finally looked at the corpses around him.

"You're not a monster, huh? Not a purebred or a Hybrid…you never transformed and you don't have a Rosario like Akayisha did, I doubt you're human either…those eyes of yours are something else." Midou suddenly asked, Naruto for some reason just continued watching him before eventually shrugging

"No, I'm not really from here." seeing no reason to lie anymore, after all, Midou would be dead soon.

Midou exhaled smoke as he grinned, looking at the dimly lit tobacco stick on his hand

"Well then…good to know I wasn't taken out by a purebred…you're a strange one Uzumaki, fucking strong too, I can see why the Committee got their asses kicked now." He complimented and actually offered the Shinobi a cigarette

"I always wanted to share one with the guy who cashed in my chips, take the whole fucking pack…I won't be needed them anymore." Midou spoke with ragged breaths and even took out a lighter as Naruto looked at the objects and him.

"Come on, I'm already dying…why the hell not?" he pressed, and after another second of deliberation if only for some basic decency, it'd be rude to not at least answer Midou's dying wish. The Uzumaki actually lit one for himself.

He had no clue how to smoke and coughed a little

"Baby lungs…" Midou grinned, feeling himself get a little bit weaker, he looked at the dark brick wall above him, thinking back to everything he had done up to this point.

"I still hate them, those fucking purebreds always looked down on us, kept us at the bottom of the food chain, they'd harass us and push us around, we had to fight back and stick together…" Midou gently tapped his cigarette's ashes out, feeling his hand already shaky from the loss of blood.

"But I…kinda wish I could've convinced Mako-chan and some of the other guys to jump ship before we started attacking the Academy."

The whiskered Shinobi kneeled down in front of him raising his eyebrow, genuinely hearing regret in the dying student's voice.

"Why didn't you?"

The last Anti-thesis member sighed

"I don't know…it was a passing thought, I never wanted to be like this…this isn't how I pictured my life going but I used to tell myself that it was purebred asshole's fault for pushing me and everyone else this far with their shit…" He started before adjusting himself to a more comfortable position in his last moments.

"You had a choice though, you made the choice to kill those people in the hospital." Naruto glared at him with the cigarette in hand, Midou actually glared right back

"If you ever put up with the shit they put us through, you just might let your emotions get the better of you too…" Midou spoke ending off with a small gasp, now knowing he was at his end

"But…you're right, I did have a choice and I went through with the attack, now I paid for it…I just wish I did at least try to get people out of the group…we had each other. that honestly was enough to put with the shit here," he muttered, seeing his cigarette almost done, Naruto listened

"I think I can forgive myself at least …but I hope I get to see her and everyone else again" He muttered with a small grin seeing an image of Mako in her nurse outfit pass through his mind.

Midou's body went limp and his hand dropped the cigarette.

Naruto only let his words sink in, shaking his head.

Looking at his own tobacco, the Uzumaki frowned, he also began remembering Yūgao's words about smoking, quickly taking one more puff and putting it out.

The memories of his clones already informed him that it was over, as far as he could tell every single Anti-thesis member was dead, the handful who had managed to get past the gate was gunned down by his clones on the outer perimeter.

Naruto almost felt numb given everything that had happened along with the memories of his clones hitting him at the same time. A soul-crushing headache hit him as the Kyuubi's Chakra also retreated back inside him.

The Uzumaki placed his sword back in its sheath and held the leather item in his hand

Naruto slowly began walking towards the entrance of the tunnel, on top of the rails, he was taking note of explosive tags he had left on the walls of the tunnel.

The smell of blood, smoke, and copper assaulted his nose as he glanced at all the bodies.

he could distantly see Ruby's silhouette, her wings spread open casting a shadow and Naruto realized it was already mid-morning.

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"And…it's finally done…" The Headmaster looked out the window seeing a large dust cloud and smoke rising high into the sky. Naruto placed his hands in his pocket looking out with the creepy man and gave a shrug.

"You told me to collapse the damn tunnel entrance too…" Naruto muttered and Mikogami nodded

"Yes, I did want to get it repaired at some point but since it's a pile of rubble now, it seems like more trouble than it's really worth now. " Mikogami prepared himself as Naruto narrowed his eyes on the two scrolls from over his shoulder, they were still sitting on the Headmaster's desk.

"I personally would recommend getting your heritage scroll first…"He spoke with a low voice while the Uzumaki stiffened and though he reached for it, Naruto found himself hesitating, seeing a strange seal that he vaguely could recognize as a blood seal

He didn't have a Kunai on him, instead, Naruto simply used a push-in and stabbed himself, with a few droplets of blood hitting the Kanji, with a light glow he continued to stare at it before and quickly opened the scroll, with two letters.

"For my son…" Naruto stared at the words and began to read it, the first thing he could notice was a handful of blood splatters making a mess of it

"...I don't have much time, The Kyuubi has already damaged the main gate and we've already lost so many Shinobis. You might resent me for what I'm going to do and I don't blame you but it's my duty as the Hokage and your father to put an end to this. I want you to know what really happened tonight…your mother was the previous holder of the Fox."

Naruto paused, seeing a glob of blood spot stain some of the words, the only words he could make out were "Chunin" and "Toads"

Despite that, he somehow felt relieved knowing he wasn't just abandoned as a child.

"Hokage?" Naruto spoke, it took a few seconds for it to click, Minato Namikaze was his father, his own father had damned him with the Kyuubi, all those glares and whispers they were because of him.

His breathing was a little ragged and still, he continued on

"Some Masked Uchiha managed to separate us and extract the Kyuubi from your mother, she's still with me as I'm writing this. I even gave her time to write down her own letter, we at first planned to take the Fox with her to the grave but Konoha needs the Kyuubi and I think you will too…it'll be a useful weapon if the Masked man comes back" Naruto's glare hardened at the word 'weapon' but he kept on reading

"Now that Uchiha is dangerous, my attacks were not making contact at all, I'm assuming it's a space-time Ninjutsu that was what I was up against, if you ever find yourself against him, speed will be your best weapon. I wish I had more time but take care of yourself, it hurts more knowing I won't be there to see you become a splendid Shinobi but you're my son, I'm confident you'll do great things in this world for yourself and for the Village. Whatever danger comes to Konoha I know you'll protect it with your life just like your old man that's why I can trust you with mastering the Kyuubi's power"

"With the Kyuubi's power…" Naruto repeated, a storm of emotions running through him, At first he wanted to let out a flurry of curses and couldn't resist the urge to crumble up the paper

A large part of him really wanted to simply rip the entire thing up in a knee-jerk spiteful reaction but even just crumbling it up made him feel bad about it.

His mind began wondering what his life could've just been if the Fourth had simply taken the Kyuubi with him.

He could've been a normal Shinobi at one point! An average Chunin or Genin or Jounin back in Konoha and maybe he actually would've been adopted by a Civilian family back home! There wouldn't have been any glares or whispers, his life could've been vastly different but his father left him with only the Kyuubi and nothing else.

Naruto went back to looking out the window as the Headmaster's glowing eyes were stuck on him.

"Well?" He spoke, though Naruto glanced at him

"You knew…didn't you?" Naruto asked with a flat tone, there was actually a frown on Mikogami's face

"Jiraiya and Tsunade informed me of everything when you formally arrived, I only knew he was expecting his first child and just how excited he was about it…." He trailed off

"So excited that he chose the village over his family, Haha, yeah!" Naruto sarcastically cut in as the Headmaster simply paused for a second before speaking

"And what would you have Minato do? Take you and your mother and allow Konoha to burn to the ground? All those people have children as well…"

Naruto's face still looked conflicted, he took several deep breaths as his blue eyes slightly shifted purple and his pupils turned feral

"And let's say he did let Konoha burn and take you away when you grew older and understood what he had done…would you still be proud to call him your father knowing how many people he let die and how he had abandoned his duty as a Hokage?" Mikogami finished, the Whiskered Shinobi muttered something under his breath before looking at him

"Pervy-sage and Granny knew about this then?"

"I don't know why they decided to keep it hidden from you for so long, personally I would've thought you would've been ready to know the truth the second you become a Genin…"

Naruto simply let out an exhausted chuckle, still knowing he had his mother's letter to get through, somehow he couldn't bring himself to go through it right now, there was just too much on his mind already.

"I'm…really freaking tired of today and everything, can I just go now?" Naruto muttered again though the Headmaster heard him completely.

"I would dismiss you…but the File…I think you'll really want to see it right now as well." He pointed as Naruto stole a look at the Kanji again

"The Kotsubo-Shirayuki incident…" as if it was taunting him, the Uzumaki scoffed before marching over and opening it up.

He laid his eyes on the contents of it being an Academy Security report, Naruto's face was stoic though as he continued to read it, his eye began to twitch now that everything was in detail about what really happened.

"I knew it was bad but he…really tried to touch her like that…that bastard really…" the rest of Naruto's words died in his throat, before gripping the report, his eyes really flashing red now and the Kyuubi's Chakra was starting to leak again

"...I'll kill him."

Mikogami kept his smile hidden hearing that

"That is technically a favor you're doing for me in getting rid of him once and for all and given your emotional state, I figured it would be nice to give you an outlet for your anger…the file also has everything you'll need to find him including the address to his new job out in Japan…kill him in whatever way you see fit."

Naruto's whisker marks became more feral as he gave a smirk to the man and put the file away.

The Kyuubi's Chakra was already beginning to leave him as Naruto managed to repress his feelings again, he'd be saving that for later.

though now he was a little concerned for Mizore.

the Doctors did overreact a tad with the morphine but Mizore should be completely fine now, at the very least she should be out of the Hospital

"Can you call my clone into your office?" Naruto asked as the Headmaster gave him a strange look

"I need to switch places…I'll head out tonight and get this done too." he elaborated

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Mizore walked out of the main Academy building with a sigh, holding her neck though there wasn't any pain there were still dried blood scabs there.

It made her feel just a bit insecure seeing all the looks students were giving her in the hallways and she really didn't like being the center of attention like that.

And then there was still that uneasy feeling in the Academy in general, four students dead and nothing…though with the Committee patrolling everywhere and more students signing up it wasn't that much of an issue.

On the subject of Naruto, she couldn't help but recall how close her birthday was coming, even her own mother was starting to make plans for the Snow-white Ceremony but at the very least she wouldn't marry someone she didn't love, right?

Still, she wanted to speed things along a little more and savor the freedom she had with Naruto, right now.

"Hey, now that we're finished with the Club today, you wanna come over and play Jenga? Everyone else is gonna be there." Kurumu offered, adjusting her bag over her shoulder as Mizore played with her lollipop then gave her a deadpanned look

"Last time we did, we had a two-hour show-trial if Yukari was cheating using her wand, we didn't even finish the game." Mizore said as Moka gave a soft laugh, recalling that day

"I still reserve my right to remain silent," Yukari muttered under her breath as she sat on a bench next to the Yuki-onna.

"I'd…rather we play just a normal board game!" Moka spoke

"We have like two games, I lost the pieces to Candyland and Battleships is boring as hell." Kurumu grumbled, Tsukune felt queasy again assuming it had something to do with his Chakra network, he quickly went for another Chakra pill he started carrying with him.

"...I got a deck of cards at my place." Tsukune offered as Kurumu snapped her fingers

"Tsukune-kun! You're a genius! Go! go!" She spoke lightly, shoving him in the direction of the dorms.

"I'm back!" Naruto cried out with a smile, though his mind was still in the middle of going through his clone's school day memories and Mizore perked up

"W-Was everything okay with the Headmaster?" Mizore worriedly looked at the blond as he shrugged

"Yeah, I just got to do some Shinobi training tonight with my team from the village." Naruto lied, barely maintaining a straight face but somehow the Yuki-onna bought it

"You're leaving? Again?" She looked dismayed hearing this again, it was really starting to get to her just how busy he was even if they would spend almost every day together, she really wanted more.

"Just for the night! Plus I'll leave late later and I'll be here in the morning!" Naruto offered as he looked over to see Tsukune's retreating form

"Still gotta fix his Chakra control and tree climbing stuff…maybe get him started with water walking by the end of the month…" Naruto muttered under his breath, though no one had heard him

"Can one of you guys tell Tsukune that there's no training session tomorrow?" he added as the girls blinked at him and Moka nodded.

Mizore glanced at her other friends

"I…no offense…I'd like to spend time with Naruto-kun, alone." She tried to start, looking at the Newspaper club.

"No, no Mizore-chan we get it!" Moka spoke with a casual smile, Kurumu placed her arm on Moka's shoulder

"Yeah, no worries, we'll all get together next time."

As soon as Kurumu said those words, Mizore only grabbed Naruto's arm

"We're going to my place, you and I need a lot of talking to do.."

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"Mizore-chan, seriously, what's going on?"

Mizore took a deep breath, kicking the door to her dorm, wide open and lightly tugging the Shinobi in, Naruto was just a bit confused by her actions now.

She eventually even pushed him over the couch.

"Oof"

"Just sit there and wait…" was the only thing she said, going back into her room.

"Are we gonna watch a movie or something?" He then noticed the Yuki-onna go over to the record player that she had just placed on her table.

The Uzumaki watched her place the record disc and a jazz-like melody played, Naruto never heard that type of music and watched the record continue on.

"Come to me, my melancholy baby! Gather up and don't be blue!"

Naruto raised an eyebrow hearing the lyrics that he didn't even seem to notice Mizore was undressing in front of him until she had pushed him back down

"W-what are you doing!?"

"We really need to start discussing our future together, Naruto-kun…" She moved to get on top of him and still despite her healing wound being exposed, she didn't mind only having her top on

"S-Sorry, where did this come from?!" He cried out as the Yuki-onna's face softened

"Is there something wrong?" Mizore spoke, trying to unhook her bra, though Naruto quickly stopped her by grabbing her shoulders.

"Yes, I'm sorry! We can't do this right now, it's not a good time."

Naruto blushed heavily seeing the position they were both in before slowly sitting back up

The Yuki-onna stopped her action, her hair casting a shadow over her eyes as she placed her hands on his chest

"…am I not good enough for you?"

Naruto actually flinched

"Yes! You are!" he cried out as Mizore looked up at him, an awkward pause set in between the two.

"I-It's just…we've been dating for like barely two months! this is a little fast!" Naruto tried to elaborate though Mizore only frowned before turning away, finally pulling away.

"Maybe…but we're gonna have to start thinking about kids soon as well, my fertility period is about to start in a few months." She replied as Naruto handed her sweater and undershirt back still heavily blushing.

"R-Right…"

He sighed while the Yuki-onna got dressed again, it was just one stressful thing after another.

"She's clearly desperate, probably just using you like most Yuki-onnas do."

Those were Moroha's words still ringing in his head, he frowned recalling the file he had just read as well.

Maybe it was just his inexperience with relationships in general, sometimes it was still a forigen feeling to come home to someone but now knowing what he knew about what happened with Kotsubo, how forward and assertive Mizore had been getting.

Then there was just the fact that if he wanted to stay with Mizore, he'd have to go through with a quickly put together wedding, the Snow white ceremony and…having kids.

His own Childhood memories sprang up, wondering how he could even be a father at this stage in his life, barely sixteen and already that deep in a commitment, with Akatsuki, his dream to be Hokage and Sasuke.

"Maybe I should've…known what I was really signing up for…" He mused realizing he had some fault in it, he knew this was ahead but now that the time was approaching and everything really was spiraling out of control.

"We can wait till after the Ceremony, I guess…" Mizore stated breaking his musing, it was almost like she read his mind, that slightly eased his worries that she wouldn't push anymore.

"Y-Yeah, thanks…" Naruto muttered though he realized the issue was still only being kicked down the road.

Now with another awkward pause setting in, Naruto decided to switch the subject, he really also just needed to talk about what he had just learned about his heritage.

"...I found out who my father was…today" he spoke up, going for the crumbled up letter in his pocket, he hesitated for a few seconds before offering her to read it

Mizore blinked now piecing together that this was probably why her boyfriend was acting so distant after returning from the Headmaster's office, she glanced at the blood smears and frowned, skimming through it

"What's an Uchiha?" She asked causing him to perk up

"O-oh, they're a clan that got wiped out when I was a kid…they got some eye-power that makes them super strong, my…friend is one." Naruto tried to explain, though his voice got a little shaky towards the end.

The subject of Sasuke was not a sore spot as it used to be, especially since the Uzumaki could really consider Tsukune a real best friend, but that was mostly due to the fact he just didn't think about Konoha as much.

"Right." She raised an eyebrow but went back to skimming through the letter

"The Hokage…Fourth Hokage…" Mizore's eyes widened, realizing why it was affecting Naruto so much and why he looked so down.

"He sealed the Fox inside you?"

The Whiskered Shinobi gave a slow nod and sniffed

"And then he decided to die…leaving me for the Village like a weapon." He muttered as soon as those words left his mouth, the Yuki-onna wrapped her arms around him.

"First of all…you're not a weapon, don't say stuff like that because you'll be putting bad ideas in your head like that." She stated, before looking over the letter again and nodding

"Second of all he did love you and he really meant every word in that letter" She argued as Naruto scoffed before returning the hug.

"You think so?"

"I'm confident you'll do great things in this world for yourself and for the Village…" Mizore repeated those words to him.

"I think He just has faith in you and knows you'll overcome the Fox…that's paternal love especially with what little time he had left at the time…" Mizore tried to reassure as Naruto actually smiled slightly, it was a different way of looking at it and he liked that.

"Yeah…maybe…"

The Yuki-onna played with her lollipop before sneaking placing it on Naruto's lips and in his mouth

"Wanna watch another Movie before you leave later?" She suddenly offered, hoping to get his mind off his troubles right now.

Naruto held her closer

"Yep!"

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"Man…what a fucking mess…." a Committee member muttered, looking at the rubble that was once a train station.

"Ah, I can't believe this place even had a train station but that does make sense, trains came before buses…" a female member with glasses spoke up.

"Why the hell are we even clearing the tunnel anyway?" Another spoke up watching a fellow Public committee member pick up some of the boulders to move them.

"Keito-sama says there might be something useful so we're looking…" Deshiko informed as she glanced at a large cyclops removing more boulders, a lot of the Committee members were outright in their monster forms

"Dried blood…but all the bodies are gone…man, that's just not right…" Deshiko added as Keito hearing this, nodded and began approaching them

"It was a good thing that there was a track team student who heard the explosion…this is pretty far away from the Academy's grounds, the explosion wasn't big enough to be heard that far away but…the destruction here…" She mused, looking back Keito couldn't even really see the Academy building from the treelines.

Outside the Academy grounds and beyond the Dormitory and shopping locations, it was straight woods with the occasional staff building, further out was some abandoned former Academy buildings and then there was the barrier at the very edge

"I know for a fact those damn Hybrids are behind this" Keito sighed, as a dirty, Committee member with green skin stumbled back towards the group

"K-Keito-sama, I think I got something important!" the Underling was actually a short Goblin who was already out of breath, holding a piece of film up

"I-it's the film from the Security cameras! It's still damaged but they didn't do an amazing job getting rid of this! I know a guy in the film club, I'll ask if he can salvage it and figure out what happened here!"

Keito blankly stared at the Goblin before smirking

"Good…go do that then."

The Goblin blushed slightly before holding on to the damaged film and running off back to the Academy.

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Naruto was lost in his own thoughts, making his way to the Bus stop with his hands in his pocket though he did have a small smile, Mizore being with him did just cheer him up, moments like that reminded him why he accepted her confession and gave the relationship a chance

Now that was over, he had this little personal mission of his and he was already running a little late, Mizore only promised she'd get some sleep.

He even sent a clone to get him some more casual clones and out of his academy uniform given how he'd be in the human world

To be completely honest, Naruto didn't really know how to go about this but truthfully, Naruto would just let it out when he finally found the bastard.

The Bus driver finally perked up from his seat as he adjusted his rearview mirror.

"Ready to head out, kid? You really kept me waiting this time…" He spoke while the blond sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.

"Y-Yeah, sorry about that, I lost track of time."

Nurari sighed, motioning for the bus.

"I got some weapons if you wanna use any…" he stopped mid-sentence, seeing Naruto shake his head

"Nah…I think I know what I'll do…" Naruto declined as the Bus driver's glowing eyes blinked at him before shrugging and starting the vehicle.

Passing through the tunnel, a bright light blinded him before seeing the familiar Japanese highway and streetlights.

Now he had passed over to the Human world and still, Naruto didn't even seem like he was preparing for a mission, just casually leaned back on his seat and looked out the window.

"It's kinda ironic since he got fired from the Academy, he's been working at a seafood company in Sendai City, barely making ends meet as a supervisor." Nurari tried to make some conversation though Naruto just ignored him for a few seconds

"I should've killed him the day he tried to frame Mizore-chan" he muttered, the Bus driver paused to light his cigar, still one hand on the wheel

"You think so?"

"I don't know…or maybe I should've really killed him the first day I got here," Naruto spoke up a little louder, turning his head back to the bus driver.

"Mizore-chan never told me it was that bad, she…didn't really show signs like that." He brought up as the Bus driver nodded, moving to get off the Highway

"Yeah…I guess you came into her life so soon after but just be glad he didn't take it too far." Nurari replied

Naruto's eyebrows furrowed, he recalled what Gin said all that time ago

"I know I got issues, but man Mr. Kotsubo is just something else…" Those same words along with learning about a first-year student that was expelled because she rejected his advances the year prior.

"I'll just make sure, he doesn't do anything like that again."

The Bus driver smiled before, seeing the ocean, from his right side.

"Right…well, we're here anyway kid."

The Bus came to a complete stop in front of a factory as Naruto hopped off, Nurari actually went through his bag and took out a syringe filled with a red liquid

"Here" He offered to the blond who raised an eyebrow

"I don't need anything like tha-"

"It's a gift from me that you can use…" The Bus driver's serious face was making Naruto curious now

"I said earlier that I have a lot of things you won't get your hands on…this is the exception, I owe you one for the entertainment you gave me back at the fancy party with Yūgao, this will make sure your job is way easier, he won't be able to transform and will make him feel…everything." He gave an eerie grin finishing those words and Naruto smiled back at him, actually taking the syringe before giving the man a nod

"Thanks…"

"I'll be parked nearby…" He spoke before going back to his driver's seat and driving off.

Naruto turned back around to see the Company logo and most of the lights off, he took a deep breath before becoming a blur and jumping on the rooftop to find a point of entry.

His breath hitched, pushing through the air vents thankfully the building was large enough to host an air vent he could navigate with some crawling but still, he hated the cramped space

Eventually, he found a dark storage room under him and with a glowing Kunai, began to cut away at the Aluminum gate.

Jumping down, Naruto quickly held up a hand seal and his body turned transparent.

He didn't know if there was gonna be a lot of people but from the information the Headmaster provided him, there shouldn't be too much

"Finishing up for the night?"

Naruto heard people having a conversation and doing his absolute best to remain still as the door opened to reveal two workers coming to pick up some frozen fish boxes.

"Yeah, I'm so fucking tired of this job, man, I swear if that asshole makes me stay another hour without extra pay, I'm walking!"

"Really? You're just gonna quit? Do you know how hard it is to find a job right now?"

"Man I don't care that shit ain't legal…Fuck Kotsubo…" the worker grumbled as the other folded his arms and nodded

"Yeah…we could probably sue the company because of this bullshit."

Naruto debated on if he should knock these two out to gather more information but after some time, he let them go.

This really was between him and Kotsubo, no need to get Humans like this involved, slowly he walked out of the storage room following close behind the two workers as they locked up the room.

Naruto silently moved in the other direction, from what he did gather from those two, Kotsubo had some type of position of power, so no way he'd be down here with the workers.

"Office complex would be…up?" He concluded before sticking to the showers of the dimly lit hallways

The Uzumaki went through most of the area without any luck, apparently, the employees were already closing up for the night and he was about to try his luck by waiting outside until…

"Oh come on, Noroha, don't be such a prude…"

"I already told you no…seriously I have a boyfriend already."

"Please…that wimp? He's off in University while you're working this job to support him, what you need is a real man…"

Naruto grit his teeth hearing that familiar voice and still holding up his Jutsu, he moved in that direction.

He watched his target try to coax a female co-worker into doing something she clearly wasn't comfortable with

"You know I could fire you right?" Kotsubo whispered, getting closer to her.

The woman stiffened feeling his hand on her shoulder

Naruto was seething by this point but a plan finally came to him

With a single hand seal he transformed into the same worker who had just entered the storage room earlier and with a goofy smile…he slammed the door open

"K-Kotsubo-san! I need your help with one of the guys, he locked himself in a freezer!" Naruto cried out, rubbing the back of his head, his henge was working perfectly as the man froze up before glaring at the Uzumaki

"How many times do I have to tell you not to barrage right in Horiuchi-san?"

Naruto pretended to look sheepish, knowing the former gym teacher took the bait.

"R-Right, can you just get him out of there before he freezes to death?" Naruto asked as Kotsubo glanced back at the woman and nodded

"Fine"

Naruto watched as the man, walked out the door and he briefly followed, it was another silence that set in until the blond broke the silence

"So what did you do before coming here?" He asked as Kotsubo raised an eyebrow the fact one of his employees wanted to know more about him was a bit strange

"I used to teach at this private school…" he replied, the Uzumaki nodded, somewhat trying to keep the conversation going.

"Sounds like it was good money, what happened?"

"Students are a bunch of little shits and I was gonna put one in their place, but the Headmaster didn't really like that," Koutsubo answered as Naruto simply smiled in return, they quietly reached the freezing storage room, the blond watched Kotsubo played around with the keys

"Alright, let's get him out of there …" As soon as the door opened, Naruto kicked the man's back from behind and dispelled his Henge, grabbing his syringe from his pocket.

The Uzumaki was quick to jab it into the man's neck and injected the strange red liquid into him

"U-Uzumaki?!" he shouted as Naruto closed the door behind him and dragged the former gym teacher into the freezer, he noticed a dangling swordfish hanging by a hook and warmly smiled at the man

"Kotsubo-sensei! How've you been?" He pretended to keep the friendly tone as the man's vision began to blur though he tried to focus his vision on the Shinobi, Naruto threw a single shuriken and knocked out the only light in the freezer, breaking the glass and it began to flicker, frightening the man even more.

"Don't bother trying to fight back, I wanna draw this out as long as possible." Naruto's eyes turned blood red, his pupils turning into a Fox-like iris and he continued to simply smile in an almost apologetic manner.

"I don't feel bad for what I'm about to do, you know…"

The light on the ceiling began to flicker as Kotsubo already felt himself getting extremely weak, he didn't try to stop Naruto as he grabbed the former gym teacher's arm and extended it

"Uzumaki…what the fuck is this?" Naruto only narrowed his eyes more at the Man in front of him

"Why?...is it for her? She's not…" the words died in his throat as Naruto grit his teeth and smiled at him

"You told me a while back that it took forever to grow back your own limbs…" a glowing Kunai appeared on his other hand as Kotsubo tried to transform into his kraken state.

"Now let's see how this limb regeneration thing of yours works while you're still in your human form…"

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"Dr. Strangelove…she was recruited from the states too…no other better person in studying AI but she just hates everyone!"

Mizore watched on with mild boredom at the corny action movie she had tried to put on, Naruto was gone now and she had woken up from her nap, a bit cranky

She just needed something to pass the time and the Yuki-onna frowned slightly recalling how Naruto had pushed off her advances, she understood why but a part of her almost just wanted to get it over with.

A knock finally broke her thoughts as Mizore raised an eyebrow, glancing at the clock, she almost couldn't believe it was already getting late, still, the girl stood up and walked over to check who it was.

"And I just need to be confident when asking, right?" Moka asked while Kurumu next to her simply shrugged.

"That's all up to you, we're just lucky the Committee gave us a pass with the curfew…" Kurumu mumbled before noticing Mizore standing at the door

"It's almost eleven, what's up?"

Kurumu glanced at Moka once again

"Are you gonna do it or should I?" She asked, Moka shook her head while Mizore blinked at the Pink-haired girl, noticing her unusual nervous mannerism

"U-Uh, Mizore-chan, my other…self wants to know something about Naruto-kun."

Immediately, that caught her attention as the Yuki-onna hesitated slightly before letting her friends into her dorm.

Both girls walked right in while Mizore did some last-minute cleaning

"Oh, you're watching that? Tsukune-kun is obsessed with that Peace Walker movie too…" Kurumu commented, though Mizore only shrugged and turned off the TV.

"Alright, so what did you want to know?"

Moka took a deep breath

"She wants to know about that orange energy Naruto-kun has…she's been bugging me and Tsukune-kun about it for a while…" Moka looked a bit guilty as she continued

"Tsukune-kun…told me that Naruto-kun was sent here because of it, we just want to know what it really is…" She trailed off, recalling the conversation

"Well, I'm sure it's nothing, Naruto-kun has his secrets just like we do…"

"You don't seem to understand…both times that we've felt it, I felt like I was the one who was insignificant that I could be killed in seconds, there was just so much hate there…"

Mizore paused, from what she could already gather herself this was about the Kyuubi and she sighed.

It wasn't her place to give out Naruto's secrets like that and there was still the fact it was a Village secret to Naruto.

"I can't really say what it is…" the Yuki-onna trailed off, watching Kurumu help herself to the Kitchen.

"Hey, do you still have that Egg-nog? I really think I'm gonna need it, right now." Kurumu spoke as Mizore played with her lollipop.

"It's somewhere there, just keep looking…" she replied before glancing back at Moka.

"Why don't you ask Naruto-kun?" Mizore questioned, Moka opened her mouth to reply but was cut off

"It's getting harder too since he's always freaking busy with something," Kurumu answered, returning back to the living room with the egg-nog cart in hand, Moka frowned but nodded in agreement with her friend

"We'll try to, but my other self just wanted to ask you if you knew anything…"

Now Mizore was getting a little impatient with these questions and lightly glared at Moka's Rosario, maybe she was being a little overprotective over the boy she loved but still.

"Even if I did, I wouldn't go around telling everyone…It bothers Naruto-kun when we even talk about his Shinobi stuff."

Mizore was more directing her statement towards the other Moka, almost wanting the Silver-haired vampire to hear it from her seal

Moka perked up and laughed nervously.

"S-Sorry, I didn't mean to do that…I just…Naruto-kun said it could get very bad…and we just…want to know if he's okay" She replied with genuine concern for the blond.

Kurumu grunted, before taking a sip of the cart

"Well, I actually came here for this…not really here to get into Naruto's personal life." She spoke pointing to the cart as Mizore gave her a flat look.

"Right…"

Kurumu suddenly gasped

"H-Hey, now that we're all here though, let's do something!"

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Naruto watched as his clones silently moved several cardboard boxes out of the Storage room, he already had other clones making sure everything was cleared out.

The place had already closed down for the night and any security cams were already turned off and dealt with thanks to a heads up from the Bus driver.

Apparently, the Security guards were extremely obvious as well

Though Naruto looked at the full moon and its light sparkling on the water, leaning on the protective railing and just wanting to get this over with now.

Blood dripped down from some of them as he gave an emotionless stare at them, each box carrying a small weight seal to make sure these would sink to the bottom of the Ocean.

Usually, they were reserved for training Genin with Taijutsu so Naruto did have a few spare ones, they were a gift from Rock Lee during his training trip and now…he was using them to get rid of the evidence

One by one, Naruto watched his clones toss them in

"When people are protecting something truly precious to them. They truly become as strong as they need to be!"

Those parting words Haku had left him usually would've motivated him and given him some relief, recalling his own Nindo to protect his precious people.

Instead of easing his worries, Naruto felt his heartbeat speed up as he quickly went for something under his jacket, taking out the same Cigarette pack that Midou had left him along with his own lighter.

It was an uneasy silence as he sniffed and smelled that disgusting aroma, still despite this being his second one, he was already getting used to it.

"You killed them…Everything they said about you was true."

Naruto went completely stiff out of the corner of his eye, he swore he saw that same Red-eyed counterpart of his but as he turned around, he only saw the Bus driver approaching him from the distance

"Did…you say something?" He asked, Nurari blinked at the Young Shinobi before shaking his head

"I didn't say a thing…" The Bus driver gave his honest reply as Naruto gulped and glanced back at his clones

*Splash*

Naruto watched the last duo of his clones toss one final bloody box into the Ocean pier.

"Gah, Kid, you disappoint me, Smoking that trash though…" The Bus driver grumbled

"Hey, I'm not a freaking smoker, I just…man…after all of that…" Naruto sighed, recalling the entire day from his assault on the train station to his torturing of Kotsubo, he really couldn't believe he had done all of that.

"I just need something to take the edge off…" He muttered as the Bus driver shrugged, shaking his head

"I just think your world's society is pretty interesting… so you're a Genin at twelve and legally you can do all of this stuff but still have the taboo of being treated like kids but once you hit the Chunin mark, you're basically free to do as you please in the eyes of society" Nurari mused, remembering the day before, having to take Jiraiya of all people on his bus to visit Kakashi and Anko.

He really didn't know much about Shinobis and The Great Villages like the Headmaster did, but Jiraiya was an…interesting Character for him to put up with.

"But seriously…don't go making it a habit…" he muttered as Naruto gave a slow nod, exhaling a cloud of smoke before letting out a slow chuckle

"Heh, it's funny, Kotsubo said he was gonna turn Mizore-chan and I into fish food…" Naruto trailed off, hearing the soft waves of the Ocean

"Now, he's down there in pieces…" Naruto muttered, the Bus driver was now a little concerned for the Shinobi's mental state.

"I kinda wish I did more…but he won't hurt anyone anymore…" Naruto stated before taking another drag of the Cigarette, it was already a cool night now and Nurari next to him lit his own Cigar.

"Hey, how come I can't make it a habit but you smoke like a freaking Chimney!" he cried out as the Bus driver glanced at him

"Do as I say, not as I do…"

The Uzumaki had a confused expression on his face as he had never heard that saying in his life but he did notice Nurari began walking away

"Tell you what kid, how about we get you into your first bar in this world…think of it as a reward for taking care of that for the Headmaster…" He spoke as Naruto shrugged, following after

Though the Bus driver had a frown on his face, he did like having Naruto around but something inside the young Uzumaki was starting to deteriorate and he needed to talk to Yūgao and the Headmaster about it.

"Ah, I almost forgot, just as a heads up, before you go see your girlfriend, you should probably get some air fresheners so she doesn't notice the smell."

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One whole day, he had been up for a whole day without rest once again.

Naruto saw the clock on the Bus as they finally passed through the tunnel and back to the Academy, the Uzumaki took a deep breath, feeling his heavy eyes already wanting to close.

He grabbed an air freshener can that the Bus driver had gotten for him, quickly sprayed himself with it, and took out a piece of mint gum. Nurari was nice enough to help him sneak into a nice jazz bar in the City.

After only a couple of drinks, the Uzumaki was done, hell he couldn't even remember what the Bus driver really wanted to talk to him about his heritage and his Academy life now.

Now Naruto was just mentally fried from everything, he thought back to the entire day and even the prior day.

Killing all of the Anti-thesis students, most of them in a brutal fashion, Mizore reminding him of his commitments here, Jiraiya's visit…his Missing-nin status in Konoha…his heritage…

There was just too much too fast, he didn't know if he was feeling sick from the stress or from drinking a little too much. Hopefully, now that most of Anti-thesis was finally dealt with, he could just take it easy.

"Ah, Naruto-kun! There you are!" Ruby lightly glared at him, seeing him stumble slightly.

"I was looking for you after I finished up with the bodies…." Ruby's next words died in her throat as she watched Naruto for a few seconds

"You were drinking?" Ruby questioned as Naruto snorted, folding his arms

"What…gave you that idea?" He tried to smile but the older witch only glared at him more

"Oh screw this…I'm taking you to Mizore-san's room…." She grumbled not wanting to leave the Shinobi alone on campus grounds this late.

Naruto huffed, allowing himself to be led away, somehow the two managed to sneak into the girl's dormitory and Naruto shuddered slightly.

They had just walked by the same place where he had murdered Mako almost two days ago…the blood wasn't physically there and yet he could still see it

"Kami, I really screwed a lot of things up…" He muttered, Ruby held his wrist and turned back

"It all worked out…and if it makes you feel any better…I'm not so innocent myself…" She replied as the Uzumaki blinked at her

"Yeah? Is that right?" He motioned for her to continue with his other free hand and Ruby hesitated before sighing

"Well…those eighteen disappearances weren't all on Lady Oyakata…" was all she said, the Uzumaki gave a short hmph, before the two finally found their way to Mizore's dorm

"Go, I wasn't here and you didn't see me." Ruby turned away as her crow-like wings sprouted out of her back again

"See you around, Naruto-kun."

Naruto watched her fly off as he finally began to slightly sober up and blinked at her retreating form before it clicked

"Wow…" was all he could say, realizing that Ruby had blood on her hands as well, the Uzumaki hummed before grabbing the spare key Mizore gave him and slowly opened the door.

He turned on the small lamp and closed the door behind him.

The girl was fast asleep on the couch with the TV still on-again, he smiled before slowly nudging her awake

"N-No! Please, Stop!" She yelled, her voice cracking and then gasping, Naruto was actually taken back by this.

He had never seen her react like this, Mizore even trashed around before opening her eyes and awkwardly she sat up with her blurry vision

Mizore stiffened seeing Naruto there as her vision focused on him

"H-Hi…I thought you were gonna be gone all night…I tried to stay up."

Naruto still hid his worries behind his usual smile

"Bah, don't worry about it, I'm really tired too…"

Mizore wrapped herself around with the blanket and followed the Shinobi to her bedroom as soon as possible they both threw themselves onto the bed and equally let out an exhausted sigh

"What a freaking day…" Naruto muttered, Mizore had heard him and scooted closer.

Once again, Naruto heard her air conditioners still humming, her clock ticking away, Mizore's soft breathing and actually smiled again before closing his eyes

Though Mizore got closer to Naruto's chest she could smell this strange mixed odor of pines, whiskey, and…tobacco?

She blinked and a part of her wanted to say something but she just couldn't…

Eventually, despite the strange smell, she fell asleep with him again.

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Jiraiya huffed, holding several blueprint carriers into the secret industrial section Tsunade had set up; now security was doubled thanks to her new Root Anbu and still every inch of the area was crawling with them.

He had already noticed Tsunade watching Tenten test her prototype weapons from a safe distance, the Industrial area of Konoha was only getting bigger at this point, the Senju woman had personally purchased the rundown areas herself along with Jiraiya pitching it

Konoha's coffers were running low now though but that's where Hinata's support came in, ever since she had taken power, the new Clan Head had made some…generous donations to Konoha's banks.

Though she had to make a bit more concessions when it came to Naruto.

It was a tad obsessive of the Hyuga girl that she really wanted Naruto for herself, going so far as to throw money at the issue but it didn't seem like it was out of malicious intent, Hinata just had feelings for him and didn't know how to express them

Despite the guilt she felt knowing Naruto didn't have any consent to this, she gave the approval if for the sake of Konoha's future

Though she'd deal with that whole problem at a later date, besides it wasn't like the brat had already found himself a girlfriend…and Hinata wasn't that bad of a catch

It was thanks to Hinata's unwavering support, that Konoha could afford to delve deeper into this new technology and research.

"Break!" Tenten shouted, holding the small prototype cannon down, her goggles glistening with the light as soon as it did a burning projectile flew out and fell exactly where it needed, creating a decent sized explosion.

"Ha! We got it! It actually freaking works!" She shouted as the other Anbu helping her stood still, it was then he noticed his pants caught some of the flames

"Fire! Fuck Fire!" He shouted, putting out a small flame, Tenten clicked her teeth seeing that.

"Shit, okay, we gotta work on more fire safety stuff…" The Weapons mistress muttered before noticing Tsunade watching her from a distance

"T-Tsunade-sama!" Tenten shouted, saluting the blond Hokage as the Anbu next to her stiffened and did the same.

"We got more things for you to look at when you have the time…" Tsunade mused, looking at the young Chunin who looked slightly nervous

"Do…Do you want to see the new Civilian weapons we were working on too?" She questioned, the Senju woman nodded as Tenten motioned for Tsunade to follow in some deeper part of the area.

Jiraiya nervously looked on as several Root Anbu gazed at him, he knew his seal worked perfectly but still it was damn creepy that Tsunade was using them like this.

"Okay…so the design we have is from Kusa…I had no idea they even used these but with the blueprints you gave me, we've been able to cut the reloading time down to just a bolt being pulled back." Tenten mused slightly

"The actual projectile is a bit slower than what we wanted though…" She looked on at the handful of Anbu, actually firing on targets with them, Konoha's new domestically produced firearms were finally born.

Truthfully to Tsunade they looked crudely made but this would give her Civilian defense units a way to fight back while making sure the Shinobis were still on top, not powerful enough to cause a societal upheaval but enough to take out a Shinobi if need be.

"Yeah, I also got stuff for heavy stationary things…" Jiraiya brought up as both Tenten and Tsunade glanced at him

"Good…Tenten, I know I've been overworking you but thank you for this…" The Senju woman genuinely stated and the Weapons mistress blushed

"A-All in a day's work, Tsunade-sama!" She cheerfully replied, Tsunade watched Jiraiya hand her the new blueprints before the two began to make their way out of the facility

"We need to talk about Naruto…" Jiraiya spoke, Tsunade used her hand to shield her eyes from the Sunlight as they exited another building

"What about him?"

"It's about his friends…"

Now that caught Tsunade's attention as she placed her hand on her hip and looked at her old teammate, apart of Jiraiya wondered why Yūgao and Shizune decided to keep Naruto's relationship a secret…this was important information especially now that they had a situation with Hinata.

"So…Naruto's been dating someone there…"

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End

Sorry, I'm equally dead inside right now, I have to get out of here in two weeks, there might be a filler Chapter called 'the Month in between' sorta a pause on the pain and just comfy cute stuff again for a bit, not promises it'll be out soon though

This edgy stuff should have around four chapters left in it before we return to comfortable Rosario Vampire stuff not including the next one.

We have Anti-thesis again with Hokuto and Kiria as you lads saw, I hope I'm doing it just somewhat right, trust me I'm really not trying to be preachy, I really don't care about anything but this story I just wanna tell it even if it's good or bad.

Another fun fact about Naruto as a series: There's actually firearms there, like advanced ones, I don't know why but they're hidden in the background of a few manga chapters and Aoi straight up pulls a Minigun.

So I decided to just hand Konoha and the Shinobi world old repeating rifles, much like the Japanese imperial army had before the Meji reforms and also the age of the Samurai had 'Teppo-tai' or Gunnery units.

Anyway that's done, see ya.