Chapter 4
Slowly he faced the Anbus with all the hatred he could master in his eyes.
And slowly, a small grin appeared on his mouth.
The tree Anbus had matching uniforms; the only difference was the masks. One cat, one tiger and one bird. It seemed like they wanted to keep a good distance between themselves and Naruto, there was no wondering why. Since Naruto's chakra was leaking freely was his strength encased tenfold.
"You're coming back with us, demon." The one in the cat mask said. He seemed like the leader type, arrogant and proud in his movements like he was showing of to his team mates.
But Naruto just kept on smiling that scary smile while roaming his eyes over the Anbus for a sign of a weak point.
"If you don't come with us freely, we are going to get forced to use violence and hurt you!" the one with the bird mask said.
'Hah!'Naruto thought bitterly. 'Even if I had come with them by my own choice, they would still try to beat me up. Those bastards!'
"Don't go with them brat!" a voice growled from inside Naruto's head.
Naruto's eyes turned wide. 'What the heck was that!' he asked himself. His smile disappeared, much to the Ambus' pleasure; they thought they had scared him.
"Oh, for Kami's sake! I don't even know why I'm trying anymore. If you're so stupid that you actually have forgotten…'
"Kyuubi, is that you?" Naruto whispered.
"Guess three times kid." came an irritated replay. "Well anyway, since I now got your attention and you remember who I am, maybe you could tell me your plan?"
Naruto remained silent.
"I'll take that as a 'I don't got a plan'." Kyuubi sighted frustrated. "Gees, brat can't you do anything yourself? I give you power like it is the most normal thing in the world when you fight, but you never think longer than one step ahead of you!"
'Do too!' Naruto answered angrily. 'I never asked you to give me power, now have I? I never asked you to be in my life so people could hate me for something I have no control over!'
"Look gaki, as much as I like to argue with you we can't do that now! The important thing is to get you out of here if you don't want to kill these guys. Now, DO you want to do that?"
'Yes.' was the answer immediately.
"Are you sure? It really isn't the smartest thing to do if you ever plan to go back to the village. And since you haven't thought this all out…"
'Since when did you begin to care about my wellbeing, furball!' Naruto interrupted.
"Well idiot, you see that if you are caught by those akatsuki guys, you are as good as dead. And worse, they're going to use MY power!"
'That does not explain why I wouldn't like to kill these guys!'
"Yes it does! If you kill them, Konoha will have you posted as a criminal. That will lead to assassins, hired by Konoha, who will try to kill you. More people who try to kill you will lead to more people who want MY power.
"Yeah, so?" Naruto thought angrily back. "I could handle them on my own."
"You think so? Che gaki, you can't even handle the only organisation that is after you now."
"Whatever..." Naruto whispered.
"What was that?" The Anbu in the cat mask said.
In Naruto's mind he could kill the Anbus right now if he wanted to. But being Naruto, he couldn't bring himself to do it, even though he wanted to. They were a part of Konoha and though he had escaped from the village and every single adult acted like they hated him, he just couldn't force himself to kill these people. And if he did, then it was no turning back, Kyuubi was right about that.
So, after much consideration (about five seconds), he decided not to kill them. Just have them beaten up to a mere inch from death and then knocking them out.
The Anbus on the other hand, was ready to kill even though the Hokage said not to. This was a chance every grown-up person in the village had been waiting for and this was not something they were going to let go of.
The tiger masked was the first to make a move. After summoning a large amount of chakra, dashed the high-ranked ninja with an incredible speed towards Naruto, kunai ready. The chakra was impressive and the speed was lighting fast, but nothing for Naruto. For him the Ambu was running in slow motion.
When the tigeranbu lashed out with the kunai, the leader (cat masked) began to make handseals. The one in birdmask, was clearly left over and just stood still. His job was to observe how Naruto moved, and form a strategy.
When the tiger masked were to close for comfort and the kunai barley a inch away from Naruto's face, Naruto got to action. First he caught the kunai blade between his index finger and thumb. Then, after gripping the kunai tightly in his palm, he flipped the Anbu over, so he was now standing back to back with him. Quickly he created two kage bunshins. One turned around and went for the tigermasked, another for the birdmasked. The real one went for the leader.
And Naruto wasted no time doing so. He rushed at the catmasked and lashed out with a kunai. This was going to get messy.
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"He did what!"
The roar of Haruno Sakura could be heard all over to the sound-country. For at least 9 miles around Konoha were birds flying up from trees, frightened by the loud sound. Little did they know that it was created by, not a flame throwing dragon, but a flame throwing Sakura.
She had just heard the news about Naruto storming away from the village with chakra practically melting off him. Although she had felt his presence fade after a while, she had thought that he had gotten the grip of the chakra, calmed down and relaxed. The thought of him leaving the village had never accrued to her.
FLASHBACK
"WELL I TELL YOU WHAT, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! I DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS TEAM ANYMORE!"
And with that Naruto stormed away.
A par of green, brown-black and black stared wide eyed after him. Or better told, Kakashi and Sakura were staring wide eyed after him, while Sasuke, who was actually curios, just stared. It wasn't because he was less surprised then the others, but it just wasn't in Sasuke's nature to stare wide eyed, therefore he stared.
"Alright, can somebody tell me what's going on?" Kakashi asked, not moving his eyes from the furious Naruto who was about to get out of their line of vision. Naruto had never been like this before, even though it was a usual event that Naruto and Sakura would practice their weaknesses while he would teach Sasuke new moves.
"Well…" Sakura kept the sentence hanging in the air.
"Well what?" Kakashi asked harsh. "What did you guys say to him?"
They didn't answer.
"Well, I guess it doesn't matter now. We have to get him out of that rage." Kakashi stern voice softened a bit.
"You guys have to go to the Hokage's office and tell her about Naruto. Then go and inform the other teams."
With that was Kakashi gone and only smoke was the proof that he'd ever been there.
END FLASHBACK
Now every one of the rocky 9 including Neji, Tenten and Lee were at Tsunade's office. They've gotten the news about Naruto leaving and right now there was a rather loud talking between the usual quiet teams.
"We have to go after him!" Kiba said out loud. A bark from Akamaru said that the dog agreed.
"Why?" asked Sasuke. "He was the one who left, why should we bother going after him?"
"What are you saying? That we sould just leave him out there!" Kiba stepped up against the black haired boy, his mouth in a snarl, showing of his fangs.
"Yes. He was the one who left." Sasuke's arrogant voice was filled with annoyance. Why should he care if the dobe got himself messed up in problems?
"Well, you left too! But we came after you!" this time it was Chouji who spoke up.
"I never asked you to!"
"But we still saved you damned stuck-up-ass from Orochimaru!" Kiba said. "But I guess you never thanked Naruto, am I right!"
"And why should I thank him! He ruined a perfect chance for me to get stronger! A perfect chance for me to kill my brother!" he stopped up a bit. Everybody was now staring at him.
"Why is everyone worrying about him anyway? He got a huge amount of chakra. He even has some special chakra that he never used." Sasuke looked away." That is something I never have been lucky enough to have. The dobe has plenty of chakra that he never uses unless it's really necessary. And he doesn't even deserve it.
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Naruto stood over the unconscious bodies over the Anbus. He was sweaty and breathed heavily, having played with the nins like a cat plays with a mouse before it kills it. He was actually quite proud that he hadn't killed them because at one point during the fight, he had thought that he would lose control over his feelings. Despite the fun he had, he had used up a lot of chakra, and he had gotten a lot of scratches and cuts from the kunais.
The smell of blood filed the air. He had to get out of here, because the smell was strong and it could be picked up by a sensitive nose anywhere.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard someone behind him.
He turned around and saw two persons. With black cloaks. Black cloaks with red clouds.
(AN: Want me to end the chappie now? Well, I don't want to end it so I'll continue!)
"Damn!"
Those words were the only words he could pronounce as he turned around and faced a well known sight of black and red clouds. Itachi and Kisame were now standing a bit less than nine feet away from him, looking quite unnecessary scary. More than regular that is, because we all know Itachi and Kisame, and they ALWAYS looks scary.
"Danm!"
'What am I going to do? What the hell am I going to do?!' Desperate thoughts were now roaming through his head. He felt panic were close and therefore was the Kyuubi's power slowly disappearing. He just couldn't hold on to it.
"You sure did a number on them," Kisame said in a low voice, referring to the Ambus. "I don't they're going to wake up any time soon."
'Kyuubi! Kyuubi, answer me damn it!' he thought desperately. 'I need your help!'
"But that's good for us, though," Kisame started. "It just makes our job easer."
"Naruto-kun," Itachi said and, as he was about to speak his infamous words, he took a step towards Naruto. "You're coming with us."
"As if!" Naruto retorted trying to ignore the fear that now was building up inside of him. "I'm not going with you. Never!" 'If I just had the powers now… damn, I used up too much chakra fighting the Anbus.!"
"Oh please. Not only are you a lot weaker than us but you're in no condition to fight in." Kisame said throwing a look at Naruto and spotting all the wounds he had gotten. "And it doesn't seem like the nine tails is healing you."
'He is right!' Naruto thought desperate. 'But what can I do? Kyuubi isn't answering me. It seems like I have to run away from these guys now… but I bet they're faster then me. No, wait slash that. I KNOW they're faster then me. What can I do?'
"Well, it doesn't matter. Come with us now, Uzumaki, so we don't have to fight and use more time than necessary." Kisame was looking lazily at Naruto through half lidded eyes. From the expression on his face he seemed tired, like he had been running far at a short matter of time, and needed to sleep. Itachi on the other hand was standing right up and down, observing Naruto through expressionless eyes.
"I'll never come at my own choice," Naruto started. 'I guess I'll have to fight…' "because I'll never betray my village…" 'my own way trough this' "Like you have."
'I ran away at my own will'
"I will never become like you! I just ran away,"
'I can go back anytime,' A flash of a village with everyone celebrating he was gone. 'I just don't want to'
"I didn't kill anyone! I even let these Anbus live!" Naruto was slightly raising his voice. His body language was now more confident and it looked like he was going to charge at the criminals any time.
'I don't give a damn about the people in the village… so why can't I betray them?'
"You ran from your village. That's means you're as much criminal as us, kid." Kisame grunted. "Maybe you didn't kill anyone, but you did get three Anbus after you." He was slowly bringing out his large sword.
"I guess this means you won't come without a fight, Naruto-kun." Itachi sighted. You could actually hear the sight (OO).
'I can't betray them…'
"You're damn right about that!" Naruto almost yelled. He didn't know what he could do to get away yet, but he wouldn't go down without a fight.
'… because I know at least one is going to miss me.' A smiling image of Iruka popped into his head.
"Well I guess it is as expected. Heh, I can't wait to take you back to the hide-out and break that spirit of yours." (This is NOT Kisame-Naruto pairing people! Ewwwww!) Kisame said, getting in a fighting stance while lifting his sword.
"Hurry up, Kisame," Itachi said. "We have to get back with him as soon as possible."
"Yeah, well this won't take too long," Kisame said, grinning. "He is only one runt."
With that he set out in a sprint and dashed out with the Samehada towards Naruto's head. The said boy nearly dodged it, before jumping back to safe distance. Then he threw two kunai at Kisame, who once again was sprinting towards him. Naruto had already thought out that distance fighting was best against the shark. But with Kisame's raw strength it wasn't easy to dodge the sword each time it came against him. Not only was he fast but he kept twisting the sword the way Naruto escaped, and soon the blond boy's luck would run out, and he'll get hit.
"Kage bushin no jutsu!" Naruto yelled while doing the needed handseals. Five clones appeared beside him. The two first two stood up against Kisame and held his sword away from the other four. The third ran towards the forest while the fourth and fifth went to guard his place so in case Kisame would break free from the clones, or if Itachi would decide to join the battle the Naruto who ran of to the forest would have back-ups.
Itachi reacted quickly. First, he easily knocked away the two clones, they were swept of their feet, literally, and then Itachi kicked them away. Then, when the he heard the 'pop' that came when the clones disappeared, he went after the Naruto who sat of into the forest, figuring that that was the real one.
But what Itachi didn't know, was that the Naruto in the forest, wasn't the real blond.
The real Naruto was currently at the ground, faced down with his head in the dirt, waiting at a chance to run.
It never came.
The tip of a very heavy and very large sword rested at Naruto's shoulder.
"Forgot about me?" said a smug voice that clearly belonged to Kisame. "Thought you could get away now, didn't you? Well it doesn't matter. When Itachi return we're heading straight back to the hideout. You can't escape anymore, it is over."
Naruto lathed silently inside. So this was it, huh? Had he come all this way for this? He was going to die, so much he knew. But would it be painful? Something inside of him told him to go on, to not give up. He didn't want to either, but these guys were just too much for him right now. He felt a smile play on his lips. He had managed to trick Itachi. And with a simple Kagebushin to top it…
'I guess that's what happens when you graduate way too early.'
Naruto still felt the sword resting heavily at his shoulder. It was slowly devouring the rest of his chakra, the little that was left.
He didn't do anything, he didn't even blink as he felt his powers leave him, he just stared down at the ground just below his face with empty eyes. He was tired of the anger burst he had in the village, when he had lost it and just had ran. He should have thought this more through, he admitted silently.
'But…' Naruto blinked. 'Why hasn't Itachi come back yet? He must have outrun the kage bushin by now…'
Then Naruto felt it. An intense power source, so strong it made Naruto shiver. It was almost terrifying, thinking that something or someone could have that much power. It wasn't Itachi, no, this power was… brighter?
You could feel the vibrations though the trees and earth. The power had encased dramatically.
"What the hell is that?!" Kisame yelled. He actually sounded scared.
Naruto wanted to move. He had the chance now to push away the sword and try to escape again. But the only thing he could do right now was to hold his breath at the inhumanly strong power displayed before him.
Then it disappeared. Like it just vanished to thin air.
Naruto laid perfectly still. The sword was now at the ground beside him, forgotten by a gaping Kisame, who had lost the sword on the ground and was now staring in the direction the power had come from.
It was silent a moment, before they heard running footsteps coming towards them.
"That would be Itachi." Kisame said startled. "He better explain that chakra."
But Naruto knew better. He knew those footsteps weren't Itachi's. They were far to light, and coming to fast. Before he knew it he was trying to get up, so he could se this incoming person better. For all he knew this could be an even more threatening enemy.
But when Kisame spotted movement from Naruto, he picked up his sword fast, while saying: "I wouldn't get up if I were you. I may have to cut of a leg."
"But I wouldn't do that if I were you," a soft voice said from behind them. "It would stink, so anyone with a proper nose could find you, and it would be far to much blood. You could get it at your cloak."
Naruto turned around. There, right in front of them, was a girl. She had long blond hair down to her waist, black sweatpants and a light blue shirt. And her eyes where sky blue.
Naruto's eyes winded. They were just the same as his.
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Wow! Long chapter. It is 8 pages! -
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