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The time-line is right after Sasuke went to Orochimaru, but Naruto brought him back.
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Chapter 2:
Tsunade snapped up from her dream when she suddenly felt a strangely familiar chakra. It sent shivers down her spine and felt tremendously evil. There was no doubt that this was the Kyuubi's chakra.
'Did the seal break?' she thought. 'Is Naruto all right?'
All the questions she had in mind were making her more worried. If Naruto had problems with the seal, he would surly come to her, right? Another strong wave of red chakra overwhelmed her senses.
The seal couldn't have broken right? No, it couldn't. The forth had set it up that way, it wouldn't be able to break. Not this early in Naruto's life. If there was any chance of it breaking, it had to be in about ten years, since the seal was at it's strongest 15 years after it was first made. So why was the Kyuubi's chakra leaking?
Tsunade was so warped up in her thoughts that she almost jumped in surprise when two chunins came in to her office.
"Hokage-sama!" one of them said loudly. "The Kyuubi holder has fled from Konoha!"
"And he is leaking chakra!" the other one cut in.
"He even had an outburst in the street. There were plenty of witnesses!"
"What should we do, Hokage-sama?"
"Naruto ran off?" Tsunade yelled. She quickly stood up behind her desk and walked over to the two others.
"Where is he?" she said, as calmly as she could. She took a deep breath and tried to keep her voice steady.
One of the chunins bowed his head and said shamefully: "We don't know, Hokage-sama."
"THEN FIND OUT!" she screamed. "And if he have gone out of Konoha's property, send an Anbu-team after him and bring him back unharmed! You hear me! UNHARMED!"
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Naruto breathed heavily. He was getting tired from the running but with an Anbu team in his heals, he couldn't stop and he couldn't get of the sting in his side. Naruto had managed to lay down a couple of kilometres between them, but he knew he'd soon be exhausted from running at this speed. The Anbus was after all trained to track people down, and they had a lot more experience in this then Naruto did. Something he could blame on Kakashi.
Naruto had now been running a good two ours after he passed the Konoha gates. He had thought it wouldn't be so hard to run away from an Anbu team, but they was harder to shake of then expected. They didn't fall for his traps. It wasn't like Naruto couldn't set up better traps but he didn't have the time to do it all through now. And, with the Kyuubi's chakra, Naruto could easily outrun these people, but he had to focus where to run. He didn't want to get lost this early in his escape.
The Kyuubi's chakra was still leaking out of him, but in much smaller amount. Naruto was in charge of the red energy now, because he didn't want the Anbus to track him down easier then it was already. He had wanted to use the chakra to stimulate himself, so that the bothering sting in his side would disappear, but his control over it was just too low. If he'd try, it would have increased his already high chakra tenfold, and anyone could track him down.
That was why Naruto running sweat soaked through the thick forest.
He stopped for a second on a thick branch of a tree to catch his breath. The silence was so thick you could cut it with a knife. There were no birds singing or any sound of animals at all. Naruto stood completely still.
Then he felt something. Or to be more correct, he heard it. Something that cut through the air in an incredible speed. He turned his head to the right slightly. Three kunai where coming towards him and his head was their aim.
Naruto moved his feet gracefully at the tree so that he was facing the objects. Then he caught the first one with his left hand and blocked the other two with it.
'Damn it!' the blond haired boy thought; he could hear fast footsteps coming closer. 'They caught up with me already?' Judging from the sound, it was three of them, and not far away ether. They had to be close to throw kunais on him.
Naruto turned around in the direction he had been following the last two ours, and ran once again. Now he didn't bother to hold in the chakra since the Anbus was on his heals. The chakra made him faster, so he sped up.
But the Anbus didn't seem to give up. Even though he ran at full speed, they always managed to catch up with him. 'I can't keep running away form them,' Naruto though gloomy. 'If I talk to them, maybe I can trick them out of following me.'
Naruto smiled to himself. This could be easy. He just had to stop at an open space and make the Anbus think they have him cornered. Then he'd make a lot of kage-bushins. Then each of them would run at different directions, and he could run away to. In the confusion, the Anbus won't know who the real Naruto is.
After about five minutes, he reached an open field. The green grass was sparkling in the sun, the wildflowers where growing freely and it all smelled wonderful. It was just beautiful. The sunrays where the only thing annoying. They hurt Naruto's ultra sensitive eyes, and because of the red colour it attracted more rays and stung more. He stood still and listened. Footsteps was given away, and the three Anbus were now surrounding him. Though he didn't see them, they were very much visible for his ears.
"Demon-fox!"
They stepped out in the open. Naruto was surprised. He had thought they would fight him hidden from view. A feeling of superior power was building up inside Naruto. Suddenly, he didn't want to trick them anymore. No, he wanted them to bleed, to suffer and to admit defeat. He wanted to be what they always thought he was: a monster. Yes, he decided. It was better to stop them from following him, instead of just slowing them down.
He was going to get revenge.
It was time to give back the lame treatment Konoha had given him when he was just a little boy. It was time to finally stand up to himself and fight, and show the arrogant bastards that call them self villages, that the old Naruto was gone. It was their fault that Naruto had let out the Kyuubi's chakra. And now he wanted to show them that the 'Demon' no longer cared for them, something he should have done a long time ago.
So Naruto turned around, and slowly faced the Anbus with all the hatred he could muster in his eyes.
And slowly, a small grin appeared on his mouth.