Disclaimer: yes, I finally own Naruto!... If you actually believed that for a second, go kick yourself.

Sorry for the late update. I mean, I am REALLY sorry! I finally got a good translation engine! I mean, I will offer my blood I am to sorry! I will offer. . . my SOUL! My GUITAR! My sister's complete FLCL DVDs!

. . . not the DVD thing, but seriously, sorry.

Also, the pairing vote is DONE! I have decided. . .

Naruto

X

Nobody.

Sorry all those who are disappointed, but I am a n00b in fanfiction,s o I cant do pairings. At all. Sorry!

Also, check out my sister's fic To The Death. It's a Star Ocean fic. It's really good! Her screen name is Bucklebunny.

'Nough advertising. BEGIN!

Thump thump thump. Thump thump crash. Thump crash bang. Panting, UchihaSasuke gasped for breath as he carried the now unconscious cat through the wilderness of Konoha. It was a hard battle, but the Uchiha's superior baseball bat skills helped subdue the hellish cat. This was the fifth time this week they had to retrieve the cat, not even mentioning the month.

He eventually got back to the bridge that Team Seven meets on, and dropped the evil cat onto the ground and glared at the bored looking Naruto. Naruto offered to do it himself, but Sasuke is better than him and the pink haired Sakura, so he rushed off to do it single handedly right before Naruto had a chance to leave.

Sakura immediately rushed to the duck-haired Uchiha to dress his wounds, but Sasuke simply pushed her away. With a sigh, Naruto hoisted the near-dead cat over his shoulder and walked to the Hokage tower, with Sakura and Sasuke in tow.

"All right, your next missions are to baby-sit my grandson, weed the Forest of Death, and paint the local sport mart."

"No way, Hokage-sama! We have done enough simple missions, Sasuke-kun needs a chance to show his skills!" screeched Sakura, waving her hands around animatedly.

With a sigh, the Hokage pulled out a folder from his desk. "Fine then, I will give you a C-class mission. You are to protect Tazuna to Wave country and continue protecting him as he builds a bridge." As soon as he finished, he waved his hand in a commanding fashion and a rip-roaring drunk man stumbled into the room.

"Name's Tazuna." The man slurred before looking around the room.

"NANI!? You're having these snot-nosed brats protect me!? They look like they couldn't even swat a fly! Especially that Blondie with the blank face. What are you ,a moron or something?" roared Tazuna in outrage. Naruto simply smiled a smile that sent goosebumps up the backs of all the people in the room, before disappearing and reappearing with his boot a couple feet from a very. . . uncomfortable place. Yet, even without contact, Tazuna squealed and clutched his manhood, falling to the ground with a squeek.

". . . I didn't even touch him. . ."

Naruto looked around the room a minute, noticing everyone's shocked faces, before calmly walking through the door.

"PYOONG! Score one for Uzumaki Naruto!"

Thirty minutes later sees Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi, and a scared Tazuna waiting by the North Konoha gate. Kakashi was reading his porn, Tazuna was nervously clawing at the hem of his pants, Sasuke was brooding ("I am an Avenger!") and Sakura was doing what appears to be an interpretive dance, desperately trying to get the Uchiha Survivor's attention.

All of them stopped their respective activities and stared at the bump in the ground racing towards them. Right before it reached them, it stopped and out leaped a certain Uzumaki Naruto, nunchaku strapped to his waist and a guitar case slung across his back.

"Ahh, What's up, doc?"

Sasuke's eye ticked as he tried to look indifferent at the blatant show of skill. Sakura and Tazuna did their best imitations of fishes. Kakashi's one eye widened a moment before gazing back to his book.

Naruto simply walked passed them, unfazed.

"Look at them; they are all amazed at a simple C-class jutsu! What idiots!"

"Hellz Yeah!"

"Hellz yeah." (1)

And so, the group moved steadily through the forests of Fire Country and into Wave Country. Kakashi noticed a puddle of water, which was strange because it hadn't rained for days. Kakashi faintly reached out with his chakra and found two shinobi hiding in the water. Never the less, he continued to move on. He didn't know who their target was. Besides, it would be a learning experience.

Sure enough, two ninja emerged from the puddle as the group passed by. They rushed Kakashi with chain-linked gauntlets. As they were about to close the chain around the Copy-nin, Naruto jumped between them. He extended his arm, which the chain wrapped around, stopping it with his bone.

"Issen Konagonaninaru"(2) Naruto cried as he did one handed seals, and suddenly the chain split into a thousand different pieces, before soaring through the air into the body of one of the enemy nin. It punctured his heart, lungs, liver, brain, and spine before he fell dead. The other shinobi fell to his knees in horror, before attempting to crawl away.

Kakashi had recovered from the shock he and the others had fallen into and calmly tied the ninja to a tree with ninja wire.

"A-are you o-ka-y, Naru-to?" came the frail voice of Sakura, tenderly touching Naruto's arm before he snatched it away.

"I'm fine, Haruno-san, my arm will be functional in a moment." Hissed Naruto coldly, and sure enough, his arm twisted back to its right place, flesh and muscle healed over and with a sickening slurp, his arm was back to normal. Meanwhile, Sasuke was back to brooding and Tazuna was still in shock, while Kakashi interrogated the enemy.

"Who sent you?"

"I'll never tell!"

Naruto calmly walked over and sent his boot into the enemy's pistachios, sending him into a whole different world of pain. Naruto gruffly grabbed his hair and wrenched his head back to meet his eyes.

"If you don't tell us your employer, I'll use Issen Konagonaninaru on your manliness." Naruto threatened, his eyes burning in a way that just screams "fuck with me, I kill you." Sure enough, this worked as the ninja started spluttering nonsense words, the only understandable ones being "Zabuza" and "Gato."

"Good." Naruto purred as he brought out a kunai and slit the nin's throat.

"Wha-WHYED YOU DO THAT, NARUTO-TEME!" Screamed Sakura.

"He would have only caused harm if he was alive. We are ninja, Haruno-san, we risk being killed everyd" He stopped mid sentence as he snapped his head up and to the left, making a masked nin in the trees widen his eyes and leap away through the trees.

"It is not safe here. Come, Tazuna, show us the way." Ordered Naruto as they all walked off down the path, still slightly disturbed at how Naruto didn't even pause to wipe the blood off his face.

After Tazuna explained why there were ninja in a C-class mission, the group finally reached a river, crossing in a small boat. As they walked up the bank, Naruto and Kakashi faintly heard the sound of something flying through the air.

"GET DOWN!" Yelled Kakashi as he hit the dirt, along with Sakura, Sauske, and Tazuna. A giant sword flew through the air straight at Naruto, making Kakashi leap to his aid. Before the sword hit, Naruto grasped his nunchaku and swung it before him, sending the sword reeling back into the trees. A deep, guttural laughing surround them as a man with bandages over his mouth and the sword balanced on his shoulder appeared before the group, right before a lake.

"You got spunk, kid, I'll give you that." Said the mysterious nin in monotone."

"Momoichi Zabuza, S-class Nuke-nin. Wanted for attempting to assassinate the Mizukage. Previously a Mist nin.(3)" Recited Naruto, before rushing with blinding speed towards Zabuza, leaving an after image. Zabuza's eyes widened as he felt the blonde's knee in his stomach, before kicking Naruto back, sending him sprawling into the dirt.

Naruto rose to one knee, before slinging off the guitar he landed on. He took it out and fondly inspected it, before tenderly plucking its strings. Sure enough, one was out of tune.

Naruto quivered with rage as he stood, long hair covering his eyes. When he brought his head up, the eyes had changed from an icy blue to a bloody red. He instantly disappeared, reappearing with his fist in Zabuza's gut. He sent a flurry of combos into Zabuza, gradually getting faster. His finishing blow was a crushing uppercut, sending Zabuza back onto the lake.

Zabuza rose out of the lake, standing with his chakra.

"Fool! Now I am on water, I am unbeatable!"

"Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" A dragon made of water rose behind Zabuza, staring down at Naruto before shooting outwards. Naruto waited until it was ten feet away before he made his move.

"Bad choice. Raiton: Busseibutsurigaku Denkou!"(4) a large lightning blot leaped from Naruto's extended hand, traveling up the water dragon and conducting the whole lake, Zabuza included. Zabuza fainted and sank into the water before Kakshi walked on the water over to Zabuza and logged his body out, throwing it onto the shore. With a flourish of wind and leaves, a shinobi in Mist Hunter-nin uniform landed soundlessly by Zabuza.

"Thank you. I have been searching for him for months. He was an elusive one." The masked nin said as he bowed and picked up Zabuza.

"You're no Hunter-nin. You are a fake working besides Momoichi. You stood by when the two shinobi fought us earlier, that is how I know." Stated Naruto as a flustered false Hunter-nin disappeared with Zabuza, confirming Naruto's theory.

Sasuke snapped out of his stupor faster than Sakura or Tazuna and walked up to Naruto, whose eyes had gone back to normal and was now putting his guitar away.

"How do you know these Raiton jutsus, dead-last!" demanded Sasuke.

"Now, now, Uchiha-san. Jealous? Simply put, I spent my extra time training, not brooding over a certain brother, and I discovered that I am talented with Raiton jutsus." This comment mad the younger Uchiha brother furious and he blindly threw a kunai at Naruto, who simply caught it between two fingers.

With a sigh, Kakashi brushed off the dirt on his pants and gestured to the forgotten road ahead of them.

"Come, let's get this over with."

After 15 minutes of walking, the group finally reached Tazuna's house. Tazuna introduced them to Tsunami, his daughter, who showed them their rooms. Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi bunked together and Sakura had a room to herself. It was getting late, so they all sat down for a nice, warm dinner.

After a time of awkward silence, Tsunami decided to start a conversation by asking how Team Seven's day was, and Kakashi repeated how they had defeated the Demon Brothers and encountered Zabuza (conveniently forgetting about Naruto's part in them, after all, it was fluke.) and how they had learned that their main enemy was Gato. At this, Inari abruptly stood, making his chair fall back with a creatch, as he screamed (on the verge of tears)

"Why do you even try!? Gato will kill you all, there is no stopping him! He is unbeatable, all we can do is suffer!"

Everyone at the table sat in silence, except one blonde, who stood silently.

"If we don't protect the weak, if we can't be strong and take the hit so other people, people who are not as resilient won't suffer, then who will? It will be a vicious cycle of pain and sorrow. The demons are not the ones that inflict the pain, but the ones who stand by idly." Naruto then left the table, excusing himself saying that he needed sleep. Inari walked to his room in a daze, thinking over what was said.

The next morning, the sun stretched lazily over the face of Naruto, waking him from slumber. He meandered downstairs and enjoyed a breakfast with his team before heading out to train.

"All right, I am going to teach you wall-walking. It is an exercise meant to improve your chakra control. First, concentrate chakra to your feet and walk up the tree. Mark you progress with these kunai. Okay, GO!" As Kakashi lowered his hand, Sakura and Sasuke snatched the kunai that Kakashi had placed at their feet and, after concentrating briefly, started to walk up their tree. Naruto, however, simply swung out his guitar and plucked at random chords, which did not go unnoticed by Sasuke.

"What's the matter, dobe? Too hard?" taunted Sasuke upon leaping to the ground after yet another failed attempt. Naruto sighed and clutched his guitar in one hand and walked up the tree without breaking a sweat. Upon reaching mid-way, he concentrated for a moment before supercharging his feet. The result was the tree exploding into hundreds of fragments, one hitting Sasuke in the head and knocking him out.

Naruto landed gracefully on the ground and swiveled on the balls of his feet and exited the clearing. Kakashi frowned, not bothered by Sakura fretting over Sasuke, and followed Naruto out.

Several miles from Sasuke and Sakura, a certain blonde genin sat, plucking at the chords on his electric guitar. He was not startled at all when his silver-haired sensei landed almost silently behind him.

'There is something strange with Naruto, and it's not just his strength. It's… that guitar has something to do with it, I know it.' thought the last Hatake, his seemingly-bored eye drifting over said blonde guitarist. Kakashi sank to his knees, squatting alongside his sensei's legacy.

"So what is the deal with that guitar, anyways, Naruto?" asked Kakashi, his voice sounding uninterested, but his intent proved otherwise.

"… Can I, aniki?"

"…Go ahead, otoutou."

"It was… a gift. From. . . a friend. I guess to explain, I have to go way back."

Flashback!

It was a night six years in the past. It was during the month that it wouldn't stop raining. Surely you remember it, Hatake-sensei, right? Well, it was the month that I had been thrown out of the orphanage, due to Kyuubi. I was only six years old, yet I lived on the street.

I was sleeping underneath a small iron box that I had found in an alley when some drunks came. They were looking for a good time, so they got their kicks by beating me. I had been beaten before, but that was when I had food to sustain me, even if it was rotten given to me by the orphanage. As it was, I was malnourished, so I didn't last long before almost dieing. Luckily, that was when he arrived.

He was a certain Koeishouzen Kanamaru. He was an immigrant from the Rock wars, so he was generally detested. So, naturally, he wasn't one to stand for the beating of a poor orphan such as me. He boldly stood up for me, and got beaten in my place. Eventually, the men had left. The first thing I had heard him say was this:

"You okay, little buddy?"

He had pried off himself from the ground and taken me in his arms and took me to his apartment. There, he patched me up and fed me 'till I got better, which took about a week. By then, I was strong enough to walk again, and we enjoyed each other's company, after living for so many years being detested.

But it had happened on the night that he had offered to adopt me, the happiest and saddest day of my life. At first, I had been thrilled. I was going to have a father! We through a party, with just me and him, with cake and ice cream and even gifts for each other! But, as the day came to a close and the night covered the city, we heard the knocking on the door.

He nervously answered it, and low and behold, it was the men who had confronted me a week before, with more people to boot. They stabbed him over twelve times before they laid their sights on me. As they crept towards me, Kanamaru had grabbed the leader's legs with his near-dead arms. He bought me enough time to flee and hide under the bridge where we meet for team meetings.

As I lay there, listening to the hard pounding of the rain above me, I thought about days earlier when we had carved our names into the underside of the bridge. The names were nowhere to be seen.

The only clues that I have that he ever existed are the guitar he had bought for me on that fateful day, not even his apartment remained when I returned. Apon inquiring it's disappearance to a nearby lady (she answered without looking at me, assuming I was normal. )she told me that it had burned down in a fire in years past.

It was then that I decided, and truly realized, that only I can save myself.

End Flashback.

Kakashi sat in awe, mouth agape, at the horrors the boy had endured as a child. Seeing the only one who had ever cared for him, killed before his very eyes! It kind of reminded him of…

His father…

And…

…

"Obito." Kakashi whispered to himself, unaware that the blonde had disappeared with the night. The jounin unsteadily brought him self to his feet and walked, in shock, dazed, to the house of Tazuna and Tsunamy, where he barely registered that Naruto had not even returned to his bed.

Said boy was currently sitting on his roof, rapped in his green cloak as he pondered his recent actions.

"Why did I do that? Why did I spill my heart out to someone I don't even know?"

"…"

"…Aniki?:

"…"

Silent tears slid down Naruto's face as he lay to rest atop the roof, crying himself to sleep.

The next day, Naruto wakes to find that his face is still wet from his tears, and he had slept in late. He crawled into the window leading to his room to find a note.

Naruto,

We've gone to the bridge for the final day of the bridge building.

-Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke.

Naruto sighed as he gathered his gear, only to hear screaming from the front porch. Naruto jumped from the open window to the front door, to see Tsunami held hostage by two men with swords and a little boy, Inari, rushing them with a pipe in hand. Naruto quickly whipped out two shuriken and with a flick of his wrist, they landed in between the goons' eyes.

Inari stood in awe at the spectacle of his strength, even as the blonde haired savior leaped away.

"The strength to protect others."

Naruto observed silently how the battle on the bridge faired. Zabuza and Kakashi were in a standstill, equal in strength. Sakura was "protecting the client" which basically means she was doing nothing, except stand by and look important. Sasuke was trapped in a dome of ice mirrors, with the reflections of the masked hunter-nin spearing him with senbon needles. He quickly concluded that the black haired Uchiha needed the most help.

Naruto sped into the dome and encountered a steely glare from Sasuke.

"Dobe! Why'd you jump in here? I don't need your help!"

"Cut the crap, Uchiha, you are near dead."

The hunter-nin gazed with recognition at the blonde, recognizing him as the one who managed to incapacitate his superior.

"So you have arrived to fight, you seem a worthy enemy, Though I regret to kill you." Narrated the masked fighter.

"Shut it. I came to fight, not talk." Naruto spat as he spun his twin nunchaku in the air and deflected the hail of needles sent to end his life. But the battle had just began. A continues flood of sendon assaulted both ninjas, and even Naruto's skill couldn't compensate for the sheer number of targets. Sasuke tried to pick out the nin who was flying between mirrors and, slowly, he became clearer. The power of the Mirror Eye, the Sharingan, had awakened.

Yet even the Sharingan couldn't magically stop the senbon waves, one of which hit a fatale area on Naruto's neck, sending him into a near-death trance. Sasuke screamed in rage at this.

"YOU BASTARD! I WAS SUPPSOED TO BEAT HIM, NOT YOU! FOR THIS, YOU WILL BUR-" he was cut off by the dual senbon sent to his neck that put him into the same trance.

Naruto's eyes snapped open when he realized that he was no longer on the bridge of the fight. Instead, he was in a dank and dark sewer. He lugged his body to his feet and walked along the corridors, until he saw a silhouette of a man standing in the distance. The figure turned into the light, revealing a very well known face.

"Aniki! Where are w-"

"HA HA HA HA HA! You truly see me as your older brother, your Aniki? This amuses me, fool. Just like it did when you trusted my voice in your head, and the memories I planted of you mysterious savior, dubbed brother! You are easy to fool, brat, now bear the weight of truth!"

Flashback

A scrawny boy of only six years of age huddled under an iron box in a forgotten ally.

He had tangled blonde hair and three whisker-like marks on each cheek. HE cringed at every sound, even that of water dripping into a puddle. A group of men entered the ally, smelling of liquor. They beat the boy unconscious and dragged his body under a nearby bridge.

Nearby, a precesion was conducting the burial of one Koeishouzen Kanamaru, honorably carving his name into the memorial stone. He died an honorable death, fighting back a scouting party of Rock nin. Or at least, that's what they thought.

The truth was that Kanamaru was a murderer. He had died when the group of victims he was going to kill pulled a knife and, in a display of luck, killed the ninja. This happened outside the barriers of Konoha. With his dieing strength, Kanamaru killed the victims and placed a genjutsu with his final life force, disguising them as Rock nin.

But his spirit did not rest. His hateful force lived on as a ghost as he seeked an outlet to his rage. It came with the body of a beaten, unconscious boy, and his first task was to steal an electric guitar. . .

End Flashback

"That is the truth. Your 'Aniki' is a murdering spirit! I am bored with you, 'Otoutotu,' so I will kill you. . . from the inside OUT!" screamed the spirit of the murderer, rushing Naruto with a blade.

Naruto was on his knees clutching his head, and his eerily cool voice stopped Kanamaru in his tracks.

"So. . . you were always a lie? My entire life, centered around you, was based on a lie?"

"Yes, you stupid, stupid boy. That is correct." Answered the ghost. Naruto rose to his feet, long hair blocking his eyes.

"You tricked me… You made me feel the one sense of belonging I have ever had, then took it away. . . YOU KILLED MY SOUL! SHI-NE!!!" Screamed Naruto as he rushed Kanamaru, his hands forming into claws. He ripped the spirit asunder and was thrust back into the real world.

The moment Sasuek and Naruto's chakra signatures were snuffed out, Kakashi rushed to the scene with Sakura. Sakura weeped and clutched the body of Sasuke as Kakashi checked him, and discovering that he wasn't dead, he used his limited knowledge of medical jutsu to wake him. He turned to Naruto and gasped as his body stood on it's own, ribbons of black chakra rose from him.

Naruto's eyes ripped open with a primal roar as the black chakra engulfed him. His deep cerulean eyes spun wildly, turning to a mere pinpoint of pure dark purple. His gaze rested on the hunter nin as he walked forward slowly.

"You. . . YOU BASTARD! ROT IN HELL, THE LOT OF YOU! BURN!" cracked out Naruto's voice, undistinguishable between that of a human and that of a demon.

Naruto rushed forward with claws of dark energy, bursting the mirror in front of him. This brought the hunter-nin back to reality as he sprung to the farthest mirror from the demonic child.

The ribbons of dark matter separated from Naruto and each penetrated a mirror and went inside of them! The dark streaks flew through the air into mirrors, searching for the enemy. The hunter-nin realized this and leaped from the mirrors just as his previously inhabited mirror imploded with energy.

Naruto's crazed eyes wandered to the ex-nin as he rushed forward, one moment to the left, the next to the right. His legs were bleeding with the overdose of power he was granted. Finally, he reached his victim and he penetrated the other boy's chest with his claw, clutching his beating heart and squeezing!

"Haku!" screamed Zabuza hysterically, running to his aid. Or at least, he tried to, before a dark cloaked figure appeared before him, with a grisly white mask stained with blood and pure black clawed gauntlets. The demon known as the Ender of Days, the Silencer, Shinigami's Avatar,

"Kira. . .!"

"Let the boy fight his battle." Growled Kira, his voice a beastlike mix of primal power. Zabuza sneered and tried to run past the taller man, before stopping. . .

With a clawed gauntlet through the heart. His body slumped to the floor and Sakura screamed. Naruto's eyes scanned over the new threat and he rushed his new adversary. He shot forth a bolt of dark chakra, like a black thunderbolt, which deteriorated before the white mask of Kira. Naruto then decided to simply charge the enemy, and he reaped threw the air with a dark fist.

Kira caught the fist with no effort and pushed the young boy to the side, before backhanding him in the back of the head to the other end of the bridge. Kira seemed to concentrate for a second, as a dark aura surrounded him and the nearby rocks and dust rose in the air (a tribute to the power of a true demon.) and a black orb, with the screams of a thousand souls, engulfed all organic matter, leaving only shades of black and white and echoing silence behind. (5)

Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi were struck blind, deaf, and dumb. Tazuna was not so lucky. He spun around wildly and chose death by high drop rather than even spare a second glance at the demon Kira.

When Kakashi again gained his wits, he saw that the demon Kira was carrieng Naruto in his arms, walking away from the decimated bridge calmly. He stopped a moment and spat some words behind him before disappearing in a black blur.

Those words, Kakashi would never forget them.

"Reap what you sow, demon. That is what you are after all, Naruto said it himself. You sat by and did nothing now, just like every time before."

Naruto's eyes fluttered open as he rose from the dank floor of a dark cave, the only light a small fire with fish roating over it on sticks, a large portion of the light obscured by the hulking figure of Kira. Naruto calmly walked by the demon's side and took the fish offered, before grinning.

"So our plan worked, ne?"

"Indeed it did." Replied Kira, even as his hand moved to take away his mask, revealing blonde hair, blue eyes, and remarkable whisker like marks on his cheeks. But he soon disappeared with a puff of smoke, after all, the kage bunshin's job was done.

Ahh! Finally, done! It's. . . 4;16 AM. Havnt slept this night… well, I promised myself I would finish this chapter this winter break. Eternal apologies that it's so late! Ahh! So, R&R please.

something me and my sister do all the time. First "Hellz yeah!" is done in squeky voice and second is done in a deep black voice. Lol

Issen Konagonaninaru- a thousand metal fragments. Splits any metal object into a thousand shards, controllable by the user's will.

anyone know the names of the hidden villages? I always get them mixed up. (except for Konoha, Oto, and Suna.)

Raiton: Busseibutsurigaku Denkou- Lightning release: condensed thunder. Condensed a bolt of thunder that can conduct water and other liquids. Not as powerful when it jsut strikes a target head on, it gains power with more liquids to conduct.

(5) has no jutsu name. Is just an attack of pure energy.

Night. Im gonna be knocked out now. yawn R&R