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"Talking!"

'Thinking!'

"Demon!"

One Bad Day

One bad day. Just one bad day is all it can take to break someone. To ruin them forever. Sometimes that forces us to push forward. It could be as simple as waking up on the wrong side of the bed, stubbing your toe on a chair, forgetting your keys, losing your job, your wife dying, or falling in a vat of acid. All it takes is one bad day.

-Taiwan-

A Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules is sitting on an airstrip in one of the many Taiwan airports. Checking through his equipment. Picking up a M1911, pull the slide back and release it. Naruto just stares at the pistol to remembers what has happened in the last two years. It's been two years since Naruto has learned that he has a grandmother. He visits every now and then. Wintergreen is the one that makes Naruto to spend time with her. It was hard at first learning and getting to know Tsunade, as she can be difficult at times. She and Slade don't see eye to eye with how the mercenary is training Naruto.

Tsunade understands that Naruto wants revenge for who killed Naruto's parents. She wants them to pay, but not at the cost that Naruto is paying. She seen the many scars that Naruto has all over his body. Seeing that Naruto needs to learn more then just skills that are met to take life; taught Naruto skills to save lives. And actually Slade agrees with her. Knowing how to fully treat a wound, then just slapping bandages around is better then death. And with Tsunade being one of the greatest doctors in the world doesn't hurt as well.

During his training and visits to Tsunade, Naruto met and learned about her assistant and former apprentice Shizune Kato and her current apprentice Sakura Haruno. And then there is Jiraiya. While Jiraiya taught Naruto stealth and spy work, he tried to in Tsunade's words 'corrupt her sweet grandson' with his perverted ways.

"Young Master," says Wintergreen grabbing the blonde's attention, "Finish getting ready. Master Slade wants you to be ready in five minutes." said Wintergreen.

Wintergreen has always looked after Naruto. While Slade taught Naruto combat skills, Wintergreen made sure that Naruto was educated with the best education that money could buy. Learning from the basic of what children his age should know to high school level of education. Between the education of Tsunade and Wintergreen, Naruto has some of the best education that anyone could have.

Naruto put his M1911 in his hostler and picks up a combat knife. Naruto is ready for his mission. He walks down the ramp towards both Wintergreen and Slade.

"Ah, you are ready. The mission is simple; an island south of Taiwan has gone dark. The island is known for passing ships into the South China Sea. Gato Shipping Company is known throughout the world as one of the biggest shipping companies. Rumor has it that the company has occupy this island. Gato Shipping Company is run by Gato and his two lieutenants Zori and Waraji. What most people don't know that Gato runs a large business in the black market. Smuggling, drug trafficking, human trafficking, you name it. The islanders had enough and manage to get enough money for our service," explained Slade

"What is the mission?"

"Simple, kill Gato and his two lieutenants Zori and Warji. Kill any hired henchmen that don't leave after their deaths,"

"Equipment?"

"Only your M1911 and your combat knife. If you need other weapons, equipment, and items you'll have you pick up on your own,"

"So in other words a P.O.S." Naruto stated, "What about entry and extraction?"

"You'll be dropped of ten miles out from shore. Wintergreen and I will be circling the island every twelve hours. You have seventy-two hours to complete your mission before I head in and end everything,"

"After you make to the shore the client by the name of Tazuna will be waiting for you." Wintergreen quickly chime in.

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The Hercules flies over the ocean making an approach towards an island just south of Taiwan. The cargo door opens up as the plane gets closer to the waters below. Naruto puts his M1911 in a plastic bag before placing it in the back pouch on his belt. The over head light becomes red, then green. Without a second thought the blonde jumps out of the plane and into the waters below. Naruto breaks through the surface. He looks up at the moon then to the island. Naruto breaths into heavily and breaths out heavily, in and out, in and out. He does this before taking one large breath and dives under the water.

Ten miles later Naruto rises out of the water as he makes his way to the shore. Naruto swam ten miles under the water without having to resurface for air. It should be impossible for Naruto to swim that distance without air, but as of lately his body has been changing. First it was his healing. Fighting in Liberia gaining wounds that should of killed him several times over, but yet they healed. Then came his increased strength to superhuman levels, increased stamina, increased endurance, and dexterity. He is natural growing stronger then a normal human, but that's just his mother side finally coming out. The fear to why he was hunted down.

A thick mist rolls in from the treeline. Naruto looks at this with a raise eyebrow. Mist doesn't come from trees, only from the water. He quickly takes out his pistol and knife. This isn't normal mist. A chuckle echoes through the mist.

"So this is who Haku sensed approaching. Just a child." says the voice through the mist.

Naruto aims in the mist with his knife close to his chest. It is a basic stance that Wintergreen taught him to wield both a knife and pistol at once. Take an enemy from afar and then take them up close. The basic to CQC.

"Whose there!?" demands Naruto, "This mist isn't from the ocean. Are you the one making it?"

"Oh, you figured it out. Let me, do you know the eight points of death?"

"The larynx, spine, lungs, jugular, subclavical veins, kidneys, heart, liver. I know all about the eight points of instant death. After all, I use to use them to end anyone that was in my way,"

"A trained killer. So young. Let's see how skilled you are."

the sound of something flying through the air reaches Naruto's ears. Quickly hitting to the deck as a large metal object flies over him and become embedded in a tree. Looking up he can see that it is a large sword. A man lands on the large blade. His chest is bare with only a leather strip going across it to carry the large sword. His hands are wrapped up to his elbows with bandages and the bottom half of his face is covered with bandages as well. He has a headband with a metal plate that is tied sideways. Naruto stares at the headband. He'd seen that symbol before. Then his eyes widen as he remembers that symbol.

"You're part of the League of Assassins?" asked Naruto

"Hehe I was. I am Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the Mist. I was part of the Japan Branch before we had a breach and everything was whitewash. I was one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. The most feared assassins that ever lived and the League of Assassins turned their back on us. But enough talk!" yelled Zabuza.

The Demon of the Mist jumps off of his sword grabbing as he does so and pulls the blade out. He lands on the ground and disappears into the mist. Naruto keeps his cool. He looks around for anything. Listening for anything. Feeling the air flow change right behind him and ducks as the blade swings over his body. Turning around he fires a round off at Zabuza.

Using his strength to bring the heavy sword in front of his body blocking the bullet was easy for the swordsman. He punched Naruto in the jaw, then swings his sword once more. The blonde's balance lose and with the sword coming closer to him; he quickly right himself kicking the flat part of the sword around and fires another round at Zabuza. The swordsman uses his years of experience to help dodge the bullet. Tired of the gun the swordsman swings his sword cutting the gun's barrel off.

Seeing as the gun became useless throws it at the Demon of the Mist. Zabuza hits the gun around of the way, but Naruto comes in with his knife. Swinging both of their blade at one another. Sparks fly at metal meets metal.

"You're good. You have many years of fighting for someone so young. Most likely a former child soldier. What war did you fight in?" asked Zabuza

"The Liberian Civil War. I was known as the Golden Devil,"

Not fazed by that, "Oh, so you are that Golden Devil! I heard of you. I always wonder what happened to you after the war ended. Tell me, how did they brainwash you to fight?"

"They didn't. I joined the fighting to learn,"

"To learn? For what?"

"FOR REVENGE!" shouted Naruto as he pushes the former assassin away.

The battle became vicious and bloody. Neither one backing down or showing remorse to one another. Naruto notice that his knife is starting to crack. Zabuza's sword's weight and strength behind each swing. Seeing how he'll lose his last weapon and will be unarmed for the rest of the fight; forced to flee. Kicking sand up into Zabuza's eyes and runs for the treeline.

Zabuza swings his sword a few times before stabbing the ground with it. He rubs his eyes to try to get the sand out the best he can. He felt someone appear behind him.

"Haku is that you?" asked Zabuza

"Yes, Zabuza-sama. What should we do?" asked Haku

Rubbing his eyes some more, "Nothing. My wounds aren't that bad just the sand in my eyes are. We'll fight again soon, I know that for sure." says Zabuza.

Naruto runs through the forest as fast as he can. The blonde stops when he notice that he wasn't being follow. He looks down at his knife as the blade finally breaks. Tossing the knife over his shoulder.

"Great! I arrive at the island and I get into a fight and lose all my weapons. I don't know where my informant is located. Fubar!" growled Naruto.

Pain surges through his body as his adrenal runs out. Dropping to his knees as the pain runs through his body. The cuts on his body from Zabuza's sword are deep and large, making it so that he is losing a large amount of blood. His vision blurs as the world grows dark.

A few hours later Naruto wakes up in a bed. The sunlight hurting his eyes for a bit. He rolls over out of the sunlight. The door opens up as a woman walks into the room with a bowl of water and fresh bandages.

"Oh, you're awake," says the woman as she places the bowl on the nightstand, "My name is Tsunami. My Father found you wounded near the beach. What were you doing out there? Don't you know it is dangerous?"

"I did," says Naruto as he sits up, "I was hired to end Gato,"

"So I was right. You were the one sent here to kill Gato and his men," says an old man as he walks into the room, "My name is Tazuna, and I am the client that has hired you,"

"Why would they send a child to kill?" says a horrified Tsunami, "How could they do that to child?!"

"Former child soldier," answered Naruto

"Hmm, I may not like it," Tsunami glares at her father, "Okay, I don't like it! But we paid a lot of money for the mercenaries to come and kill Gato. Can you do it?"

"Yes, but when I arrived I was attacked by Zabuza Momochi and lost all my weapons. I most likely will have to raid one of Gato's weapon caches,"

"Gato keeps most of his supplies and shipments at the docks. If you go there you might want to hide your hair because no one of this island have blonde hair. And be careful because there are a lot of guards there at the docks," explained Tazuna

"Thanks for the information," says Naruto as he gets out of bed

"Nope!" says Tsunami as she forces Naruto back on the bed, "You still have injures, young man!"

Tsunami may not like that a child; former child soldier or not is going to go and kill Gato and possible everyone he'd hired, but she wasn't about to let someone who is injured to fight. She removed Naruto's bandages to see that most of his wounds have healed.

"How did you wounds heal so fast?" asked Tsunami

"I heal fast. Do you have a knife that I can use? One that you don't mind not using ever again?" asked Naruto

"Why do you need a knife?" Tsunami dreaded asking the question

"Because I have some hunting to do; and the prey is human." answered Naruto.

A few hours later the sun is slowly setting over the village. Throughout the day Naruto saw what was becoming of the village. Without ships sailing in to drop of goods the village is slowly dying. To make it worst Gato and his men are making it so that the fishermen can't go out to sea and fish to bring in fresh food. Fish is the islanders main food source. The people of the island could farm the land and grow their own food, but it would take two years to make enough food to feed the whole island and plant for the next years' harvest. Two years the islanders don't have.

The blonde is sitting behind a dumpster watching a warehouse for hours now. This is the warehouse that Tazuna talked about. A chain link fence surrounds the whole warehouse with guards walking around it. Three cars drove up and park in front of the warehouse. The gate is opened up as men get out of the cars. That's when Naruto spots one of his targets; Zori. He remebers what his target looks like. Zori is light skin with bluish-white hair. Lined markings tattoos under his eyes. He is wearing a dark purple hat and a blue jacket with multiple pockets. He is also carrying a katana with a blue hilt on his left hip.

Now Naruto's objectives has changed. The first objective is to kill all the guards outside the warehouse silently; cutting off for reinforcements. The second objective gain some type of weapon better then a kitchen knife. The third objective is to kill Zori. And the last and final objective is to destroy the warehouse and anything inside of it.

Zori goes inside the warehouse with the men he came with. Naruto silently stalks one of the guards. The guard goes behind several crates to take a piss. Moving like a shadow the blonde comes behind the guard cutting his throat. Lowering the body silently to the ground the blonde takes the guard's rifle. A simple AK-47 along with two magazines.

"There better be better weapons inside." Naruto mumbles.

Learning under Slade taught Naruto that the AK-47 is a good rifle, but only to those that are going to die use the rifle. You can treat the rifle like its a piece of shit and still use it. That the reason why Slade hates the rifle.

"A rifle that can be used and never needs to be cleaned aren't used be professionals. Professionals use rifles that cost money. By using a rifle that cost money not only shows that you take your job seriously, but also shows that every kill with that rifle is worth that pretty penny." explained Slade.

Forced to use a rifle that he has grown to hate isn't going to be fun. Just sighing in defeat. Oh, well.

Naruto sneaks behind another guard cutting his throat and hides the body. He quietly circles around the warehouse silently killing all the guards. Throughout the whole time he is killing them, he notices that the guards aren't even mercenaries. They're just regular criminals that were hired from the mainland and dressed up as mercenaries.

"Gato must be tightfisted." said Naruto.

Seeing that all the guards outside the warehouse are dead. The blonde spent the next thirty minutes blocking any exits to the warehouse for no one is going to be walking away; slipping inside and barring the way he came. Naruto can see that they have more then just weapons, but isn't going to be bothered by that. He takes his rifle and aims at one of the guards walking around. The time for silence is over; it's time to be loud.

Shots fired echoes throughout the entire warehouse. The guards showing that they are true and trained mercenaries just spray and pray. It showed that Gato is really tightfisted. They couldn't hit Naruto as he runs dodging all the bullets.

"What are you idiots doing!?" yelled Zori, "You'll hit the explosives!"

Naruto fires his rifle at metal canisters with the words 'FLAMMABLE' on them. Liquid fire sprays out of the canisters dousing a few of the guards. They scream as the liquid fire eats through their flesh. Zori draws his katana charging towards Naruto. A blue aura surrounds him as he disappears in a flash of speed. Lucky the blue aura gives away Zori coming from the left. Rolling between Zori's legs and runs away from the blue haired swordsman.

"Get back here!" demanded Zori.

Naruto press his back against one of the creates. He takes the magazine out of the rifle and saw three bullets are left inside of it. A sword blade cuts through the creates. Naruto rolls under the blade takes out his knife. He swings the blade at Zori who disappears in a flash of blue. Blocking an incoming blade swing, Naruto slides back from Zori.

"A kid? What's a kid doing here? How are you killing all my men!?" demands Zori

"The world has seen me as the Devil. As the Devil I kill those that get in my way. For they are weak and stand no chance. The Devil has returned." says Naruto as he leaps towards Zori.

Naruto's movements has changed. He went to use the nickname that he earned back in Liberia; the Golden Devil. While Jack was called Jack the Ripper for the use of blades to kill him enemies; Naruto played with their minds. For some strange reason the enemies feared Naruto for not dying. A whole squadron shot Naruto full of holes, yet he stood back up and killed everyone with no remorse. That's how he got his name. That's how he became the Golden Devil. Not just for his golden hair, but the difficultly for killing him.

Blocking Naruto strike with his blade Zori forces Naruto back. His blue aura surrounds him as Zori disappears once more. Naruto somehow follows Zori even with him using that strange ability. Stalking Zori as he went into hiding.

"What's with this kid? How can he kill with out remorse?" question Zori.

The Golden Devil notice that every time that Zori used that strange ability he becomes slower and slower. Thus making it easier for Naruto to track his pray. He can almost smell his pray. The scent of fear.

"Come to the wolf." whispers Naruto.

Zori is breathing heavy as he hear footsteps, but can't tell which direction they're coming from. Up above Zori, staring at his pray. He slowly and silently crawls down the create. He places the cold blade to Zori's neck and with a swift motion ended Zori's life. Naruto lands on the floor. He stares at the dead body as his eyes lose the coldness to them.

Naruto tossed his rifle to the side and picks up Zori's sword. Looking at the sword better now that it isn't trying to kill him notices that the sword has magic in it. Naruto doesn't really now that much about magic, that the world has it and he can sense it. What gave Zori his strange ability to move so fast was his sword. Now it became Naruto's.

Seeing that everyone is dead Naruto searching the whole warehouse. The blonde quickly finds out that this was not just a warehouse for weapons, but for other things. Drugs for one. There happen to be files of stolen blueprints from different countries from all around the world. Looking through one of the blueprints something caught Naruto's eye. It is a blueprint of a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, but unlike the one that was created in the 60s that could seat only one pilot; this one could fit a whole team of twelve people. A stealth plane that could go into hostel counties without being seen on radar was something that any government would kill for. Seeing that the blueprint is here shows that someone did steal it, but somehow lost it. What a waste for them, but what a gain for Naruto.

Acting quickly since Zori most likely had to radio back to Gato. Naruto grab several duffel bags and fills them full of weapons, blueprints, and equipment. The blonde set explosives all over the warehouse priming them as he leaves the warehouse, then when the blonde is about a mile away set the charges off. The warehouse went up in flames, but with all the ammo and explosives inside the warehouse it was like a fireworks show.

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I LOST THE WAREHOUSE!?" shouted Gato, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY WAS THERE!?"

Gato a short man that runs one of the largest shipping companies in the world; and it isn't enough.

"N- No…!"

It's been forty minutes since the warehouse at the docks exploded. With weapons of different grades, drugs, and blueprints all located in one location probably wasn't the smartest idea, but Gato is tightfisted. He hires cheap criminals, then kills them off so he doesn't have to pay them. Tightfisted indeed.

"We still have the slaves," says Waraji.

Waraji is of tall stature, wears an eye-patch over his right eye and has brown hair which he parts in three, finishing in an elaborate topknot. He has an intricate tattoo that seemingly stretches across his entire left side and left right, inner thigh, as well as a stitched scar on the left side of his forehead, and the left side of his mouth. He wears what seems to be a loose-fitting kimono, albeit not in the traditional manner as the top half of the outfit falls around his waist leaving his upper body exposed. He also wears bandages wrapped around his waist, simple sandals and carries a fairly long sword.

"Luckily the slaves will bring some of the money back, but not all of it. Waraji, I want you to head to The Caves and make sure that the slaves aren't killed or freed. And make sure that the women and girls are virgins! I'll have to double, no triple! I'll triple the price to buy them," ordered Gato

"Maybe the one who killed Zori and blow up the warehouse will come to The Caves?" says Waraji as he leaves.

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Bright and early in the morning, the sun has been up for a few hours. A beautiful young woman walks through the forest just outside of the village. She has long beautiful black hair, large brown eyes, and pale skin close like that of snow. She is carrying a basket full of different herbs that she spent the early part of the morning picking.

She comes across a sleeping Naruto. The young woman recognizes him when Zabuza was fighting him the other day. Seeing him defenseless while sleeping slowly walks over to him. She stretches out her hand to rip out Naruto's throat, but at the last second shacks the blonde's shoulder.

Naruto slowly opens his eyes up. After Naruto blow up the warehouse he went into the forest and hid the duffel bags by burying them. After he did that the blonde decided to rest before falling asleep.

"What time is it?" asked Naruto

"It's a few hours after sun rise. Why are you sleeping out here? You'll catch a cold,"

"I slept in worst places," said Naruto as he sits up and stretches, "Hello, my name is Naruto Uzumaki,"

"I'm Haki Yuki."

Naruto looked at the young woman and he can saw that she's beautiful. Naruto starts to wonder and think. He's been running into a lot of beautiful women. The first to come to his mind is Talia, Sandra, Granny Tsunade, Shizune, and even Sakura.

He looks at the pink dress that she is wearing and notice that it is clean and looked like it was made by a skilled hand. The gears start to move. Everyone one of the islanders have dirty clothes. They couldn't, can't afford something like that right now. Even if they did, they would of most likely of sold it to buy food.

"What do you have there, if you don't mind me asking?" Naruto says hiding his train of thought

"There are several herbs out here that can be used to stop bleeding. I've been picking them for sometime just in case something came up,"

"Styptic? I didn't know they grow in this…" Naruto paused and thought, "Menstrual bleeding, ew!"

"It's a normal thing!" says a heated Haku

"I know that, but still! That's gross! It's bad as listening about The Talk!"

"I will stab you if you bring that up," Haku says in a flat tone while trying to block out the memory of Zabuza teaching her about the Bird and the Bees

"It still is disgusting. Change of subject; do you need some help?" Naruto asks wanting to change the subject.

The blonde still have nightmares from when Tsunade taught about the human body and all of its wonderful glory. Damn Granny! Haku was having the same train of thought. Zabuza had her learn medicine practice so they wouldn't have to pay blacklisted doctors.

"I wouldn't mind the extra hand." answered Haku as she went looking for more herbs.

Naruto helped Haku for the rest of the morning picking herbs. During their time together they talked about themselves without relieving to much about each other. Naruto learned that Haku's mother was killed by her father and then he came at her. That's when she killed her own father in self defense and was chased after by the rest of the villagers, till she was taken in by her master. Haku learned that Naruto lived a similar life like her; Naruto's father being killed before he was born, his mother being killed by the islanders, and him being taken in by his master. It was strange how they both lived similar lives.

"Tell me, what do you fight for?" asked Haku

"What I fight for?" Naruto never really thought about what he is fighting for, just to get the strength he needed to avenge his mother's death nothing more, "I don't,"

"You don't? Then why do you need strength? I believe that one can truly become strong when they are a reason to fight for. My reason is for being of use for my master,"

"I never really thought about it. I'm so use to following orders that I don't think about that. I think I'll look into when I have my revenge. After all, everyone will feel empty after they had their revenge." said Naruto.

Naruto isn't a fool. He knows that after he has his revenge he'll have nothing left in his life. So he knows that he'll have to find something. Something to do with his life; a reason. Maybe he'll work as an assassin like Slade, or maybe go into the medical field. He doesn't know and that's how Naruto wants it to be.

"What about you? What if your master is killed? Then what?" asked Naruto

"Then I'll just end my own life," Haku answered back without a care for in the world

"That's just sad. Wouldn't you want to know more about the world? Or live your own life?"

"No, because there is nothing else. I live to serve for my master."

They both just stare at each other. Then in a flash they locked with knives. Naruto with a new combat knife and Haku with a senbon. Looking into each others eyes. The pain and death. They are like one an other.

"So I was right. You aren't an islander. The way you walk, the way you carry yourself, your clothing, and your accent. Gato hired you didn't he?"

"I can ask you the same thing. You fought against Zabuza-sama and lived. You were hired by the villagers to kill Gato,"

"I think we shouldn't fight now. It'll only end badly for the both of us,"

"I agree, but I think we should reintroduce ourselves once more as fellow apprentices. I am Haku Yuki, apprentice of Zabuza Momochi Demon of the Mist,"

"I am Naruto Uzumaki, apprentice of Slade Wilson Deathstroke the Terminator. It looks like the next time we meet we'll be enemies,"

"Yes, it seems that way. Goodbye for now." says Haku as she takes off with her basket.

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A few hours later Naruto is rushing through the brush. While he was looting the warehouse he found a map marked a location called 'The Caves' north of the village. The blonde went to the gear that he hidden to grab a combat vest along with several grenades and simple handgun along with a few magazines for it. Naruto quickly came to a stop and drops to the deck. Three trucks drive by on an old dirt road. He waits for a few moments then crawls onto the dirt road.

"Where are you going?" questioned the blonde.

A few miles down the dirt road the trucks came to a stop. In front of the trucks is a fallen tree that blocks the pathway.

"What's with the hold up?!" yelled out Waraji

"A tree is blocking the way," yelled out someone from the first truck

"Again?! Clear it! We were suppose to be at The Caves two hours ago!" shouted Waraji.

A week ago a storm came through and wreck the road to The Caves. The storm itself didn't cause that much damage then normal. There has been several trees they had to clear because no one has been to The Caves since the storm.

While Waraji and his men clear the road Naruto cuts through the forest. Thirty minutes later Naruto came to a stop. The treeline ends. Trees have been ripped out of the ground and large boulders lay about giving perfect cover.

On the other side is what are known as The Caves. Old ruins that are overgrown and falling apart. There are three trailers that are sitting on the east side of the ruins with five large cages full of people. A young woman staggers out of one of the trailers. Threes guards follows her.

The young woman tries to escape, but one of the guards throws down his rifle and rushes the woman. He grabs her, slams her into a dumpster full of water. The guard then shoves her head down into the water. The young woman tries to struggle and get fresh air, but the guard just holds her down til she stops moving. Seeing that she drowned the guard unzips her pants and takes them off.

The young woman's face regains her healthy skin color from the pale clammy color by being drowned. Black markings appeared about the woman's eyes. She quickly wraps her legs around the guard's neck, pulls him like a spring then rockets the guard into another before she herself rushes the two guards kicking them back. Then the young woman quickly jumps on the other guard twisting her body and throws him. The guard hits the ground hard enough that he loses conscious. She then slides on the ground and thrust her legs up as one of the guards get up. She kicked his rifle up in the air as a round goes off. The young woman bites the guard's ear off. The guard goes into shock the losing any ear. The last remaining guard just stares at the woman as she spits out the ear. Raising her leg up at a high angle then swinging her leg down onto the guard's balls crushing them.

Naruto who watched the whole fight slowly walks over to the young woman holding his knife out. She turns and sees him slowly making his way over to her without showing any sign of ill intent. The blonde gets closer and was about to cut the rope around her wrists, when all of the sudden the woman shoves Naruto away.

Three other guards open fire at them. The young surrounds herself with a dark mist that lets her teleport dodging the flying bullets. She kicks one guard to the guard, wraps her legs around another guard's neck; using her motion to swing the guard around firing his rifle at the same time to riddle the last guard full of holes. The first guard stands up as he takes out a knife. The woman lowers her body with her arms out. The blade cuts through the rope binging her wrists together.

She grabs the knife, swings her body, throwing the guard she is hanging off of and leaps onto the other. She stabs the guard's neck several times, before jumping off of him and lands on the previous guard and just savagely stab him in the dick.

Two more guards came out of a trailer aiming at the woman. She gets up and picks up the body, using him as a meat shield. Takes a grenade, pop the pin and safety; rushes the guards as the run back into the trailer. The grenade goes off inside the trailer. The guards somehow survived the explosion. The guards open fire onto the woman as she teleports throughout the trailer. A fire started while they were trying to shoot her before one of the guards is kicked into a wall, then the final guard is kicked into a windowsill.

Seeing the fire grow out of control. Naruto picks up a rifle and fires at a water tank next to the trailer. The water rains down onto the trailer putting out the flames. The guard that was kicked into the wall crawls out of the trailer before being shot in the head. The woman walks out of the trailer without her shirt on; showing that she is only wearing boots, a bra, and panties on. She is carrying a sniper rifle and an RPG. She walks over to Naruto and hands him the RPG.

The blonde takes it and then looks at her. She has dark green eyes and short brown hair that is also in a short ponytail. He wonders why she is only in her underwear, but won't ask. Some people are just strange that way. Another thing that caught his attention is that she is the same age as Naruto.

"Naruto Uzumaki. Do I get a name?" Naruto finally asks.

The young woman stares at Naruto for sometime. Trying to get into his head. Trying to understand him.

"Tixij Molchuniya, but people call me Quiet," Quiet says in a low voice like she hasn't spoken in sometime.

"Quiet? What kind of name is that?" but before Naruto can get an answer Quiet looks to the treeline.

The trucks from before break out of the treeline kicking up a dust trail.

"Let's end this." Naruto said before walking towards the trucks.

Quiet runs over to the ruins and climbs up getting into position. Naruto kneels down behind a boulder. Waiting for the trucks to get closer and closer. Naruto inhales then exhales before stepping out from behind the boulder. He takes aim and fires the rocket at the first truck.

The first truck explodes, the second truck rams into the first exploded truck, and the third truck drives around before a bullet flies through the windshield killing the driver. The truck then crashes into a large boulder stopping it dead in its tracks. Naruto just whistles at the damage and destruction that both he and Quiet caused.

Mercenaries get out of the second truck and the crashed truck. They open fire upon Naruto. Naruto himself dives to the ground grabbing a rifle as he did so. Quiet picks off a few before she too takes cover. Naruto rolls onto his stomach firing at the mercenaries. Waraji stumbles out of the truck that crashed into the large builder rubbing his head.

"Kill everyone! Kill them all! I don't care if you kill any of the slaves! We'll just blame it on those who attacked us!" ordered Waraji.

A grenade is thrown by the other truck. The grenade goes off causing the truck to explode. Quiet quickly took advantage of the chaos and kills a few more mercenaries. Naruto jumps up and charges the last remaining mercenaries. The blonde kicks a merc in the chest, punched another in the jaw, and unloads a full magazine into another merc.

Waraji draw his sword in a single motion to cut Naruto in half. Letting his instincts take over the blonde leans back dodging the swing. Taking out his knife in a swift motion to end Waraji in on go, but the old swordsman was faster. The one eyed swordsman swings his sword aiming to take the Golden Devil's arm. Acting quickly the blonde takes out his sidearm and unload a few rounds at Waraji. Waraji does something strange; he moves right before Naruto squeezes the trigger, but hears as they he is still in front of him.

Dumbfounded by this Waraji takes advantage of this with intent of ending this fight. Unfortunately doesn't get to do that as a bullet goes through his head. Naruto snaps out of it looks at the dead Waraji, then over at Quiet.

"I had him!" yelled Naruto.

Quiet says nothing. All she does is pull the bolt to her sniper rifle to eject the bullet casting. Shacking his head the blond heads back to Quiet, but not before taking Waraji's sword. They freed the other slaves that were in the cages. Naruto learns that The Caves are a two-in-one. The slaves are brought to the island by sea and into actual caves that are hidden by jagged rocks, the slaves then are brought through passages leading to the ruins where they are held til a buyer wants them, then finally they are forced to go back through the ruins and passages and back to the caves where they are shipped out.

Most of the slaves are women and children with a few men thrown in there. And seeing that most lost their homes when they were taken decided to stay on the island, but won't come out til Gato is gone or dead. And since Naruto aims to kill Gato it just made it all the better.

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The sun rises over the horizon showing that a new day is starting. Naruto is standing on the same beach that he came when he first arrived. The blonde has a combat vest on and is carrying two combat knives. He is waiting.

Last night Haku appeared in front of Naruto telling him that Zabuza has challenged him. That they will fight first thing in the morning where they first met. So here Naruto is waiting for Zabuza. Quiet is in the treeline with her sniper rifle watching and waiting. After yesterday she followed the blonde for he was strange. She wanted to learn more about him and understand the boy.

The Golden Devil cross his arms and waited, but not for long. Zabuza is walking along the beach carrying his large sword across his back. This time Zabuza is wearing a sleeveless shirt with arm warms on his forearms. The older swordsman stops several meters from the blonde.

"Good, you came. I didn't know that I was fighting the apprentice of Deathstroke the last time we fought. No wonder you were so skilled. You've been busy the last two days," says Zabuza

"Well what do you expect? I have a job that I must do. Can't be siting around on my ass now can I?" replied Naruto

"No, no you can't. So shall we begin?" asked Zabuza as he grab hold of the hilt to his massive sword and swings it out crashing into the sand

"Let's." answered back Naruto as he takes hold of his knives and pulls them out holding them reverse.

They rushed each other at break neck speed. In the middle as they clashed a shockwave is forced out picking up the sand. Sparks fly as metal meets metal. Naruto moves in with one of his knives, but Zabuza raise one of his feet and blocks the knife swing. The swordsman uses the weight of his sword to push the blonde away. Taking advantage and rushes Naruto, Zabuza swings his sword downward with his weight behind the sword swing.

Naruto crosses his knives together and blocks the sword swing, but the weight behind it forces the blonde to drop to his knees. Gritting his teeth as he uses his super strength to slowly stand to his feet and push Zabuza back. Zabuza felt the boy pushing back, but he wasn't having none of that. He leans forward putting more of his weight into his sword. As Naruto and Zabuza struggle with their duel over in the forest there is another battle wedging.

Haku and Quiet stare at each other for the longest time. Quiet stares at Haku; breaking down the young woman. Trying to figure her out and trying to figure out her fighting style. Haku on the other hand is just shock that Quiet is just in a pair of panties and a bra.

"Why are you wearing just a bar and a pair of panties?" Haku finally asked

Rubbing her throat, "So that I can use my powers to their fullest,"

Quiet hated talking. Her powers are that of metahuman. They allow her to teleport and turn invisible for short periods of time, but the trade off is that she can't talk that much; and when she does it causes her throat to be in pain. This forces Quiet to speak very little or not at all. To use her powers to their fullest potential she has to wear very little clothing i.e. a pair of panties and a bra.

"Strange, but everyone has their own." says Haku as she puts on a mask.

A mist slowly fills the air as it becomes colder and colder. A mirror made out of ice forms behind Haku. The masked girl steps back into the ice mirror, slowly becoming part of it. As the mist thickens more ice mirrors form from the cold air. Quiet watches Haku become part of the mirror before disappearing in the image. Black markings appear around Quiet's eyes before she disappears in a black mist.

Sparks burst here and there. Metal clashing metal. Two warriors fighting one another. This is what Zabuza missed. He missed the days where he can enjoy a fight and not have to worry about anything or anyone. The blood rush. The excitement. Zabuza hasn't had a good fight since the Japanese Branch of the League of Assassins was whitewash. He knew it was only a matter of time before he is caught and killed. He understands that his life is going to end in some form or another. Being an assassin meant one thing, but he can still choose when his life ends; and if it means dying against an opponent that is equal to him. And what better opponent then the apprentice of Deathstroke.

The same thoughts are going through Naruto's mind. Choosing to be an assassin meant you'll die very easily. An assassin can only go so far before death comes for them. It is only a matter of time before even he has to face death. Naruto has already made up his mind and will take on the full responsibility of his actions.

This is a battle that those heroes and villains will never understand. While a hero fight crime and brings peace and a villain fights order for self gain; what Naruto and Zabuza are fighting for is life. Only those that understand life can understand death. For they fight for more then order or chaos. They fight for a meaning that will stand through time for those that know this battle took place. That's what it means for fighting in a life or death battle.

Cut, stab, parry, cut, cut, block, parry, parry, and strike. It seems like they have been fighting for hours on end. Neither are giving up. And neither are willing to let this battle end on a sad note.

Zabuza thrusts his sword at Naruto while holding it with one hand. Naruto cross his knives together blocking Zabuza's sword thrust, but that was the swordsman waiting for. He punched Naruto in the stomach. Naruto is lifted on the ground from the impact, he flies back and crashes into the sand behind him. Zabuza takes hold of his massive sword with both hands and with a mighty swings his sword downwards towards Naruto.

Naruto does a back roll to dodge the downward sword swing. Pushing off his feet to leap towards Zabuza with his knives aiming for the neck. Tightening his grip the swordsman brings up his sword to block the attack in time. The swordsman punches the blonde in the face forcing him back onto the ground. The swordsman takes hold of his sword with two hands once more and swings his sword down to Naruto, but then something happened. Something that shouldn't happened. A hole opens up in Zabuza's chest. His strength leaves him by dropping to his knees and letting go of his sword. He looks down at the wound.

"W- What…?" says a shocked Zabuza, "It wasn't suppose to end like this…"

Zabuza fully drops to the ground bleeding out. Naruto dumbfounded by this. This was their duel. This was their battle. Someone took that away from them. A rage lit up inside Naruto. A rage that has been building for years. A rage that his mother gave him. A rage that his people gave him.

"I'LL KILL THEM!" yelled the rage-filled Golden Devil.

Both Haku and Quiet run out of the treeline when they both felt strong killing intent from the beach. Haku's clothes are dirty and cut up, and Quiet's are torn in several places making her almost naked. Their battle was mostly about speed with Haku's ice mirrors and Quiet's teleportation.

Haku seeing her master on the sands of the beach bleeding out; she takes out three senbon needles and quickly created an ice mirror that she just through. Quiet acting quickly because she seen the look in Haku's murderous face. An ice mirror forms behind Naruto with Haku flying out of the mirror. Feeling her killing intent the Golden Devil spins around thrusting his blade into Haku's chest as she cuts his left cheek deeply with her senbon.

Coming to his senses, "No! No! No! NO! Why?! Why did you attacked me!?" demanded Naruto as he lays Haku down onto the sand, taking out his knife from her chest and tries to stop the bleeding.

"Be- Because it was m- my duty…" Haku says as she is choking on her own blood, "Wi- Without Z- Zabuza-sama, I have no life… No purpose; I live to serve him for s- saving m- me…"

"That still doesn't mean you can throw your life away!" pleaded Naruto, "You could've had so much more! Don't die!"

"It- It's too l- late…" says Haku as the light leaves her eyes.

Gritting his teeth together to try and keep his anger under check. Not only did his duel ended early than it should, but he killed Haku when the blond didn't mean too. It wasn't suppose to ended like this. Everything was going as planned, but then that sniper…

"The sniper! where is he?!" demanded Naruto as he looks around for any place, position, or high ground perfect for a sniper to take aim from.

Quiet appears in a black mist with a man that she spent the last few minutes torturing. She was originally was going to stop Haku, but the girl was to fast. But instead saw a sniper sitting in a tree several meters away with little to no coverage at all.

The Golden Devil grabs the would-be sniper, "Who sent you!?"

"Gato," answered Quiet.

Quiet already tortured the man and he gave up Gato real fast.

"Go and tell Gato that I'm coming for him. Tell Gato that the Golden Devil will have his head!"

Naruto shoved the man away before he bolts off to Gato. Naruto drops to his knees as he stares at the bodies of Zabuza and Haku. His honor was robbed. A duel to the death was taken from him and an innocent was taken. Gato is going to die a very painful and slow death; and Naruto has just the right method.

Quiet touches Naruto's injured cheek, "Heal,"

Naruto gently pushed Quiet's hand away from his cheek. He runs his fingers through the wounds. Haku mange to not only pierce his cheeks, but drag them down. The wounds are very deep, so deep the blonde put his finger into one of the wounds and can feel his teeth. Haku cut all the way through his cheek. It will not heal, it will scar.

Naruto kneel down to Haku's body. He takes three senbon from a pouch hanging from her waist. Placing the three senbon between his fingers and with a swift plunges the senbon into his right cheek. The blonde gave himself the same wounds that Haku gave him.

"Why?" questioned Quiet

"Because they are reminders. So that I will forever remember them. Come, we have a little man to kill." said Naruto.

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Gato is panicing. Zabuza and Haku left to fight the one that has been causing the little man problems. The assassin caused the business man millions. Destroying his warehouse full of weapons, drugs, and secret plans that could be sold to anyone, along with all of his slaves freed, Zori and Waraji both have been killed. Seeing that Zabuza was going to kill the assassin; so Gato had one of his men follow the duo. His orders were to watch the fight and kill the winner, but the fucker mussed up. He killed Zabuza, but he didn't wait for the fight to end. Now the assassin is coming for him.

Outside of Gato's mansion a few hundred feet away stands Naruto and Quiet. Naruto turns the computer on and is typing in commands into the mortar. Quiet is kneeling down next to a mortar. She loads an 81mm shell down the barrel. What Naruto has planned will make sure that no one walks away from this. The shell fires up into the air. A parachute opens up causing the shell to slowly fall to the ground.

"Camera up and running," says Quiet while rubbing her throat, then loads another shell into the mortar.

"Fire." orders Naruto as he looks onto a target.

The mortar fires the shell. White clouds explode over the mansion's outer walls. Locking onto another target and giving the order to fire once more. The mansion is bombard with a deadly chemical element phosphorus; that's right it is none other then white phosphorus. Gato had them at the warehouse with the mortar that went with it. The little man didn't know what he had. A deadly weapon that has been called into questioning for it effects on people. The OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) has been pushing the ban on white phosphorus for years now.

Looking on the screen and seeing no more movement meant all the targets have been hit; even part of the mansion has been damage quite a bit.

"No more movement. Let's go and end this." says Naruto.

Both Naruto and Quiet make their way to Gato's mansion. The blonde pushed open the front gate to see the full damage that they caused. Bodies have been charred completely black, vehicles destroyed and are on fire, craters from the shells hitting the ground, there are even some mercenaries still alive begging for help.

"Kept focus Quiet. They'll die soon enough." says Naruto as he ignores the cries for help.

This isn't the first time that used white phosphorus. Back during the Liberian Civil War he used it on villages that didn't join them. It was if you didn't join then you die a painful death. White phosphorus was used for it. It was to send a message to the other villages to join them.

Kicking down the front door to see that the white phosphorus got inside killing those near the door. Quiet disappears by using her invisible. Naruto makes his way up the stairs continue to walk down the hallway. The mansion must of haven't been built too well for white phosphorus made it inside the second floor. Naruto came to a stop hearing the sounds of a man struggling.

He pushed open a door to his right and lo and behold; there lies Gato on the floor burned by the white phosphorus. Naruto stomps onto Gato's spine.

Crying out in pain, "What are you doing!?" demanded Gato

"I'm sorry did that hurt? Let me fix that," Naruto stomps on Gato's spine again, "Does that feel better?"

"You bastard! I'll make you pay for this!" threatens Gato

"No, you won't." says Naruto before stomping in the back of Gato's skull, "Mission complete."

while Naruto went to find and killed Gato, Quiet went around the mansion and killed everyone that survived. After Gato's death the mansion was raid by the islanders after all the bodies was removed. Can't let them see what they did to them. The slaves from The Caves came to the village and were welcome with open arms.

"Thank you for your work," says a graceful Tazuna

"Think nothing of it. I just did my job and killed Gato and all those that he hired. You're free now," Naruto says as he places all the duffel bags on the sand.

"Still you did a great thing here. You're welcome here anytime you wish to visit."

Turning his head over to Quiet, "Quiet, there is something that I need to do. Radio me when Deathstroke arrives." Quiet nods her head as Naruto leaves.

After Gato's death Naruto buried Zabuza and Haku on a cliff that is overlooking the village. Haku has a simple wooden cross for her grave while Zabuza's sword is his grave. The blonde stands in front of their graves.

"For what it's worth you were a worthy opponent Zabuza. Haku… thank you." with that being said Naruto leaves the graves behind.

If he just waited a bit more he would of saw something strange.

"Hehe! Naruto there is still so much that you have to do, but don't worry for you won't be alone. Come along you two. I know where the perfect place for you two go."

-Author's Note-

Yes, Quiet from Metal Gear Solid V is in this. I had to use the scene where she killed those soldiers so violently.

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