A/N: I apologize for being so lazy and such a terrible author! Life is giving me hell as usual and I actually rewrote this chapter three times and I still don't find it satisfactory. I have uploaded this because I'm tired of rewriting it over and over, anyway I have another topic to discuss before the chapter. First and foremost, I'd like to thank all of you guys who actually like my story and follow it, secondly, I want you to know that I adore you and to a special guest who said they'd read my story until they died thank you a bunch! You are a star and this chapter is dedicated to all of my fans who adore me and follow my story, I love you guys. In any case I have come across some very shitty comments for reviews. One review goes like this:

Story: Hells Prince: Fates Prophecy

Chapter: 7. Chapter 7

From: Irritated (Guest)

Irritated:You have stolen pieces from other neglect stories, and used shit grammar and punctuation to mash it all up here. If your going to resort plagiarism at least do it right. There is nothing else worth mentioning because the rest of this crap is complete garbage.

A/N: Okay let's get this straight, I have gotten permission from one, singular not plural, author who I based my story off of, to use small pieces of their work to put my story together. No I have not stolen from other neglected stories out there, I have used my imagination to guide me with writing this. I take time and a little bit of effort to write this and have the courage to post it knowing that there are far better stories out there than my own. Akari, Kurosuke, Nanami, Narika, and any other OC's that will come or have shown up all belong to me. I created them from scratch. I do not plagiarise, that is stupid. My grammar is crappy yea I know, I have said all this before, but at least my grammar and punctuation is much better than some people out there. Maybe you forgot I am 15 and just out of grade 10 going to 11, but I am. If anyone thinks my work is garbage, please leave me respectfully alone as well as all those who don't think like that. Please, please, don't continue reading and review again as if I'll stop just because you said so, because I won't. I'm going to work with this story until it's finished, then I will think over a rewrite to change it all.

Chapter: 8. Chapter 8

From: Irritated (Guest)

Irritated:This is more garbage.

A/N: See what I'm talking about? Please don't be like this idiot who seems to think by pilling up his/her flames it will amount to me discontinuing the story.

Chapter: 9. Chapter 9

From: Irritated (Guest)

Irritated:Still more crappy garbage.

A/N: And he/she continued!

Chapter: 12. Chapter 12

From: Guest

:I really hope you ignore this story at least then it will die.

A/N: I don't wanna assume anything but I think that last one was once again the same person as before. If you're so great at writing please write and let me read your story and see how flaming I can be! So please go dig a hole and bury yourself in it with a rock on top, because honestly? There are actually people who want me to continue the story, if you don't like it, no one's forcing you to stay! So go away!

I want you all to know I adore constructive criticism and yes while flames are welcome, please beware that just because I said it's fine to flame doesn't mean that if that flame really gets on my nerves, I won't comment back on it. Thank you for listening to me ranting but I needed to get this off my chest before I let it affect my life.

Any who! On to the story!

'Thinking'

"Talking"

'Thinking'- Demons/summons or in anger

"Talking"- Demons/summons or in anger

Jutsu

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. That's it. No funny comments or little extras. My rant took up time, so please continue...

Chapter 13: Indifference...

Akari's Pov.

I sighed softly, staring out at the surrounding forest. The trees were damp from the morning dew, and so was the grass. I inhaled deeply and took out two fans, it was small ones with gold, black, red and green designs on it. My hands clutched at the individual fans in either hand. I need time to think, seriously, about things, especially after celebrating Naruto's birthday last night. I let my body move in familiar movements that was engraved in my body, heart and soul. I knew that outwardly I looked as if I could take on the world but that was just a protective barrier that was created over the years of hard work, blood, sweat and lots and lots of tears.

'Mito-sensei would be proud of me right now.' I thought to myself as I started spinning gracefully while I thought of the past and the present...

~Flashback~

A red haired girl bounced up and down on the balls of her feet while looking over at the older woman before her. Today she was going to start her own training under the other red head, yesterday it had been her two friends, Naruto and Kurosuke, she had tried asking them about their training but they were tight lipped and down right refused to talk about it, she had to wonder, why their faces were all red and couldn't look her in her eyes. Mito, other older red head, cleared her throat and instantly the younger girl paid attention waiting to absorb any and all information given to her.

"Akari," the woman paused for a moment before continuing."before I start physically training you I need to train you mentally and emotionally. You need to be as composed and intelligent for the path that you follow. I sense a great deal of hardship coming your way and I'm never wrong with these things." Mito eyed her female student with hard eyes, she couldn't go soft on the girl, she needed to be capable to carry both her friends back from the brink of hell if it came to that, worse case scenario, death.

"Yes Mito-sensei!" Akari chimed with smile on her face, that was slowly wiped off when Mito started to train her in etiquette, however, not only the everyday etiquette, but the other ones too, including being a lady of the court. Things were only going to get harder from then on out, but Akari didn't know that, only Mito did, but the younger red headed girl would soon learn.

~End of flashback~

Sitting down slowly and elegantly on the ground, I slid into a meditating trance, my thoughts sliding on to my dark haired friend who had almost died at one point in time...

~Flashback~

Everywhere you looked it was chaos. Ninja fighting ninja. A young red haired girl stood back to back with a young black haired boy who was slightly taller than her. Both were beaten up and bloody. The young boy favored his right leg over his left, taking a closer look you could see the bone sticking out in the wrong place, he was cut up and muddy too, the mud going into his deeper gashes and cuts, stopping the blood. The red haired girl flinched visibly, her left side was cut in deeply under her rib cage while her stomach had a small hole, she too was cut up and muddy. Their enemies surrounded them, there had been a spy in their ranks who had told their opposition who was going to be assigned to which district. It was a blood bath, the army that had waited for them in this district was far exceeding the amount that was first there before they had called for back up seeing as the spy told the ones they were fighting against, their strategy, therefore they were currently surrounded by even more people they started with, many of their comrades dead around them.

"Listen Akari," the dark haired boy started glancing around them as the enemy was closing in on them. "I want you to...go, and find Naruto. Help him, he..." The boys golden eyes darkened into molten gold in anger. "He needs you to stop them from tormenting and hurting him. I can feel it, he is in so much of pain, go get him out of there and then come back for me, that is, if I'm still alive." Behind him the red headed girl shook and started to plead with him trying to find another way, but the boy shook his head. "Do it, damn it! Trust me I'll be fine! Mito-sensei did teach us after all, he needs help and fast, as in now! So go! Go!" He yelled at her and she swallowed thickly before nodding and sprinting away as fast as she could under, over and around the in coming ninja, when they tried to attack her by not letting her leave. Luckily for her, she was flexible and got away.

'Kurosuke-kun!' she yelled inwardly, when she heard a pained scream, she forced herself to move to her other friend who was being tortured and beaten.

An hour later, she had managed to get the bloody form of her best friend out of the hole they kept him in. She massacred all of them after seeing her friend and how badly he- no how horrible he looked, she found a spot to hide him away while she went for her other friend, she would try her best to heal them both with what little chakra she had left.

Stopping at the district she saw every last one of the people who came to fight in the district dead, she searched desperately for her other friend. Eventually she did find him but his heart had already stopped, judging by his chakra system, it stopped at least ten minutes ago. However that didn't stop her from pouring all her chakra into trying to get him alive with a beating heart. She cried and screamed, three swords stuck out of his abdomen, deeper gashes than when she had left him, four broken ribs, two pierced lungs, a broken arm and a broken leg, a kunai inches from his heart, she knew, she couldn't fix that, no one could.

"Please! Please come back! Don't leave us! Come back! Come back! Come back! Kurosuke-kun! D-don't go... please don't go...come back to us... Kurosuke-kun... don't.." Akari balled her eyes out over the still form of her friend's body. She had continued to pour every drop of chakra she had left into his body and trying to start his heart back up. Unknown to her until much later the weapons behind her started glowing a soft green light, her weapon and Kurosuke's, both were pulsing with chakra. Akari's vision blurred with black dots and before she even knew it she past out, as pale as a sheet on top of Kurosuke were there wasn't any weapons sticking out of him.

When she became aware again she was in what looked like a hospital. Glancing around her room she caught sight of Kurosuke laying on the bed next to her, and her eyes widened, jumping out the bed and ignoring her own injuries, she rushed to his side and started checking him over and fussing over the fact that his heart was beating again, she had almost pressed her ear against his chest to hear the beat. That is when Kurosuke woke up, to her softly fussing over him with concern.

"Akari? You're supposed to be resting. Stop it, stop fussing over me 'kay? I'm alive, it's you who I should be worried about!" The boy exclaimed taking hold of both her hands to stop her from fussing anymore than she was and also for her to pay attention to what he just said and what he was going to say.

"What? Why? Your heart is the one that stopped beating so wh-" she started protesting, forgetting any and all etiquette she was taught, however he stopped her by his chilling words.

"Akari! My heart stopped beating for a few minutes but you managed to bring be back! But you...you were dead for two days!"

~End of flashback~

My flashback abruptly ended when someone appeared and popped down in front of me. I blinked slowly when I opened my eyes, just to stare into golden eyes. 'Kurosuke-kun...' I thought softly to myself. As if reading my thoughts he grinned at me, and I raised an eyebrow at him and his smugness.

"Hey Aka! Whatcha' thinkin' about? It's me isn't it? Taken by my charm yet?" He chuckled wiggling his eyebrows at me and I found myself rolling my eyes. 'As if! What charm is he even talking about!' I thought to myself, mentally snorting in disbelief.

"No, keep dreaming. I was thinking about how the meeting with Zabuza and Naruto was going. I wonder if he will decide to trust us and go home." I said outwardly, inwardly I thought to myself, 'Nice save Akari!' I looked at him with all seriousness and he sagged under my gaze.

"Y-yeah, ahem... So uh, how's your project going so far? I heard you asked the shrimp for some seal work since there were so many to be done to make up what you're trying to do." He said trying not to feel intimidated by my unnerving stare. I chuckled inwardly at his poor attempts to make conversation with me, not to say it wasn't working.

"Yes, well so far it's going as smooth as I expected, which is not all that easy. Naruto-kun did in fact help me with spamming out mass amounts of seals of the same type, seeing as although I'm an Uzumaki and have high chakra reserves, I could currently only make twenty at most, you know that. I needed about thirty more, to that twenty, to make fifty so that I could focus on the core seal. This would be a medical break through and Mito-sensei would be proud, since we had just started working on the theory before we left to find, you know what." I admitted to him ending what I said on a softer note so that if anyone was listening in on our conversation they wouldn't be able to hear the last part. Kurosuke nodded seriously at me, he too had been helping me with my project that I had only recently started after having a solid foundation on the smallest details concerning all things medical. I noticed him getting bored and knew what was coming next.

"Well then, how about a M.B? Just us though, seeing as the shrimp has yet to return." He asked with a mischief glint in his eyes and a small grin. I thought about for a little while and decided, why not? I nodded over to him and he grinned wider before suddenly looking thoughtful. "A.P or S.M?" He asked tilting his head to the side slightly. I let a small grin slip onto my face.

"A.P" I stated and he smirked, we both closed our eyes and the next time we opened them, we were in our connected mindscape only Naruto wasn't here with us, we would be having our M.B with only the two of us, while on the outside our bodies were in A.P, just in case there was an attack or something. M.B, meaning Mental or Mind Battle and A.P, meaning Auto Pilot. S.M, meant Sleep Mode, but we definitely couldn't go into that unless we knew we were definitely secure about our surroundings.

"Let the battle begin!" Kurosuke shouted and I couldn't help but shout back that he was an idiot. Here, in our mentally shared space is where I let my childlike personality go and just acted how I wished to act, impulsively, childlike and everything else. I never show my real ways in an unknown area or towards people I don't know really well...

Sakura's Pov.

I sat comfortably on the sofa in the lounge of Tazuna's house, reading an old trap masters book I found back in one of Konoha's book shops. It was all about the history of traps, how they came about, the basics you need to know before learning how to make them, the most simplest traps, more and more about traps. The book store something just called out to me when looking through the shelves for reading materials, aside from the medical text books. The more I read, the more I find myself fascinated and willing to learn about traps and how to make them. One line caught my eye in the book and I couldn't help but repeat it out loud as I closed the book putting a bookmark in place.

"A master of his or her art must always be tactical, creative and knowledgeable about their limits..." I murmured into the empty room. Standing up I made my way to Kakashi-sensei's room to check up on him. He still refused to speak about Naruto to us. It kind of reminds me of the past when certain people did speak about one of my childhood saviour's.

~Flashback~

"Why is it always coming down to Naruto! Have we not apologized over and over again? Sure we knew what we were doing, and didn't expect him to run away because of us, but all people do now a days is talk about him! Oh Naruto-chan, what a poor boy! Oh Naruto-kun, what terrible siblings to have! Oh poor Naruto, always suffering from his sisters bad deeds! Oh-" the young red haired, blond streaked girl was cut off by a sudden slap to her face. The hand which did such a thing belonged to none other than a furious pink haired girl with emerald eyes.

"I might have only met Naruto-kun once, but he is a kind and caring person so stop talking about him like he's the cause of all your problems! You caused your own problems so deal with them properly! Honestly I don't know how he managed to put up with the two of you at all! It must of been a living nightmare!" Sakura yelled at the other girl. They were in their second to last year of the academy and Sakura was already having a bad enough day as it was...

~End of flashback~

"Cha! She deserved that! How dare she talk about poor Naruto-kun like that! I can't believe we got into trouble for doing the right thing! Stupid Iruka-sensei!" Inner Sakura yelled out loud in my head and I felt the start of a headache. Inner Sakura was born that day I let my temper get the better of me and ended up in trouble.

'Inner...we can't be rude to our superiors like that! We'd of only got into more trouble than we were in at that time.' I thought quietly back to her. She was everything I couldn't be, she was self motivated, dangerous and none fearing. She is like a separate person from me, always listening to me in the background of my mind.

"Whatever! At least now we can befriend Naruto-kun! We've waited so long to truly learn what type of person he is from personal experience! So you better grab the chance thrown at you! Oh and talking about that...here he comes! Good luck Outer!" She said cheerfully before leaving me to myself, however I couldn't help but wonder how she felt him before I did, so I filed that for a later thing to look into.

"Hey Naruto-kun! You back already! I thought you were going to be longer, well at least Kurosuke said you might." I said smiling over to him and he sent me a large smile back before it faded and a frown to it's place.

"Sakura? What are your goals in life?" He asked so suddenly, making me look at him in confusion, before I could answer he shook his head and walked out telling me to forget what he just said.

"Well that was certainly weird!" Inner said appearing again out of nowhere. I shook my own head to clear up my confusion. I shrugged and decided to continue reading again from where I'd left off.

Akari's Pov.

The mind battle ended in a tie between Kurosuke and I. For once we sat silently next to each other without the peace being broken. That's when Naruto dropped down next to us, well next to me, therefore making me the middle person. I could easily tell that something was bothering him and I knew Kurosuke could too.

"How did the talk go with Zabuza and Haku?" I asked softly, not wanting to break the tranquility we set up. I glanced at him from the corner of my left eye. He shifted slightly, before he settled down into a more relaxed state.

"If you're asking, did they agree to go back home, then yes. They are actually leaving sometime tonight and I said I'll send a clone with them." Naruto replied equally softly, it seemed as if things were going well for us and he too didn't want to break our moment together. I still, however, felt like there was something wrong with him.

"Then what's up with your aura? You feel a bit off..." Kurosuke said, he too didn't speak loud enough to break the moment. I heard Naruto sigh next to me and a smile graced my face, I knew what he was going to say next before he even said it.

"Yeah, the two of you know me too well, perhaps we need to separate or something." He muttered, while Kurosuke and I chuckled, before he continued on. " But, yes, something is bothering me, it's been bothering me for a while now. I keep on thinking what are my goals in life? Am I doing the right thing? What am I truly getting stronger for? What is my real purpose of living? These are the things that have been bugging me since I decided to leave Kiri. I mean we could of easily stayed back there and had a wonderful life and yet here we are, looking for Mito-sensei even though she said we don't have to if we decide not to. Then meeting Kakashi-nii and having him tell me about that supposed family and how they were looking for me. Guys...what am I missing?" Naruto explained quietly and I turned towards him, looking at him seriously.

"Listen Naruto-kun...if you are unsure of your life goals at the moment, don't worry, they will soon be sorted out as we go along. Are we doing the right thing? I don't know, but what I do know it that you want to prove to your shitty- excuse my language there -family, that you are better off without them, you said so yourself when you decided against getting revenge, but instead having them constantly mourn their loss of you. You're getting stronger for yourself and for those who care for you, for the Uzumaki clan, because you're the heir to their throne. Everyone has a purpose in life and we will all eventually find it. I also get what you're saying with living in Kiri, but we wanted to continue training under Mito-sensei, we want her alive again and we needed to find the Uzumaki weapons. Naruto-kun, you are not missing anything, so stop being so confused and worried over nothing." I said strongly, meaning every word said. Kurosuke turned to face Naruto on my side and snorted.

"You know, for a shrimp you think too much! One day your head is going to explode! Hahaha!" Kurosuke joked, meanwhile Naruto finally settled on an expression to wear and it was one of irritation. "Anyway pipsqueak! What's next on our agenda? And the seal too, when are we finishing it up?" Kurosuke asked standing up and offering me his hand without thinking, his own etiquette lessons kicking in. Once I took his hand we were all standing and Naruto turned towards us.

"I'm just going to ignore your insult this time because I'm the bigger man here, so anyway, next we go back to Konoha, we train, complete our individual projects and gather allies. The seal is almost done, just a few more fail-safes and precautions then we sorted for testing." Naruto said, sending me a proud look. My face flushed with pride and I smiled back at him.

"Thanks for helping me out with drawing out the copies of the rings. I hope I could learn something new at Konoha hospital and their ninja medical system." I stated, sending them a meaningful look. They nodded back seriously, the situation was not pleasant, at least not for Naruto. Kurosuke and I could be pretty indifferent towards the place that birthed our dear friend but, one wrong move and they history. We are not going to play around with useless people. We going there for one thing and one thing only.

3 days later: Konoha

Normal Pov.

The Hokage sat stock still behind his desk, the letter in his hands laying limply. Minato Namikaze was stuck between two emotions, happiness and sadness.

Hokage-sama,

Squad 7 had run into the demon brothers on our mission to wave, things started getting out of control when we decided to continue onwards even though, knowing there would possibly be worse enemies coming after the bridge builder and his family. We were right and encountered Zabuza Momochi, a missing nin from Kiri. Just as I was about to lose the battle, a stranger stepped in, two others following him. The stranger had messy blonde hair along with black and red highlights, he looked no older than my own squad, he had glowing purple eyes and was slightly tan. The other two strangers were a male and a female, the male had black messy hair and golden eyes, while the female had long red hair and forest green eyes.

The first stranger then went about playing around with Momochi, it was hardly a battle, they fought and he won, taking the sword as his prize. After that I had been unconscious, when I came to I found myself healed by a professional medical ninja, who just so happened to be the red head, who I later learned went by the name, Akari Uzumaki. The young girl took care of me until the blond came to see me, that's when I realized who the stranger was. Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze who has been missing for the past six year has been found. He however refused to be associated with the Namikaze in anyway, calling himself Naruto Uzumaki. His teammate with the black hair going by the name, Kurosuke, surname unknown for now.

They have expressed an interest in going to Konoha, to study and complete whatever they were training in.

Awaiting your orders,

Kakashi Hatake, Jounin of Konoha, Sensei of team seven.

Minato covered his face not knowing what to do, his father instinct told him to jump for joy and gladly accept his son back, however, his Hokage instinct told him to be cautious and that made him weary of his own son, thus bringing on the shame he felt for feeling like that and even pain for his past decisions...

Namikaze compound...

Sayuki and Natsumi were playing hid and seek in the house when Natsumi accidentally hid in the only room that was more off limits than her dad's office, her brother's room. At first she felt scared she would get into trouble but then she felt curious and forgot all about the game she had been playing with her best friend.

"Onii-san's room..." She whispered softly, and looked around. The room was as plain as it got, not fancy like her's or her sisters, it was kind of sad and lonely. She walked forward towards the bed and touched the covers, they were clean and dust free. Natsumi found herself drawn to the bookshelf and read as many of the books she could understand, however she still couldn't read some of the titles correctly.

Natsumi walked to the cupboard and slowly opened it up and peeked in finding some clothes in there she reached out and tugged on one of the shirts, pulling it off the hanger and into her waiting arms. She hesitated at first but, soon brought the article of clothing to her face and felt how soft it was, just then she felt her mother's chakra and quickly closed the cupboard and left the room running to her own and hiding the shirt beneath all her clothes, she pretended to be caught by Sayuki and laughed, but she felt nervous of her mother finding out where exactly she had hid.

Two weeks later

The village gates were wide open and waiting for travelers and ninja returning from missions. The gate guards yawned, nothing exciting ever happened around there so they naturally lazed around. Izumo and Kotetsu were the guards normally, but this time they were out on a mission leaving Aoba and Hidaiki as the guards for the time being. In a distance the two noticed a group of seven people coming their way. They instantly recognized Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke and by extension Sai, however, they did not recognise the other three trailing them.

"Good morning Aoba-kun, Hidaiki-kun, we, team seven and I, have just returned from our C-rank mission and would like to sign in. Oh! And those three are with us." Kakashi said giving the gate guards a eye smile. The two nodded smiling back and proceeded to sign all of them in. Once Kakashi and his team were signed in the other three had to sign in as well.

"Names, surnames and ages?" Aoba asked writing on his clipboard. It was standard procedure to for guests, travelers and ninja, to sign in to the village they want entrance to. Very village did it and Konoha was no exception, however as per normal the gate guards were always on autopilot when writing down the names since they have to do it regularly, therefore Aoba didn't actually register their names properly as he was writing them down.

"Kurosuke Katsuno, 13." The dark haired boy said boredly as he took in the view of the village from the gates, he took in the scenery with a grain of salt and basically ignored everything else. Kurosuke made note, however, that the fourth ugly face engraved onto the mountain belonged to the asshole known as Naruto's father.

"Akari Uzumaki, 13." The only female between them stated as she took in the sights laying before her. Her sharp eyes took in every single detail of the surrounding areas, her eyes not missing anything. Akari knew that she would end up at the library after their dreaded talks with the Hokage.

"Naruto Uzumaki, 13." The only purple eyed boy grumbled. He was still upset with the fact that he was already called a shrimp and a pipsqueak, even though he was the same height as Kurosuke but it was worse since he was also the youngest between them as well, after all he had just celebrated his birthday give or take, two weeks ago. He knew all he needed to do was glance over the village once and he would already have it mapped out, which is why he didn't pay attention to it at the moment.

"Ah, alright you guys are all ready, go ahead and welcome." Aoba said finishing up on the clipboard and let them all go ahead. Hidaiki, however, looked shocked and confused. Aoba turned to him. "Huh? Hidaiki, what's wrong?" He questioned curiously, sitting down again.

"Aoba...that boy...that boy just now, was Hokage-sama's son!" Hidaiki said looking at Aoba with wide eyes. Aoba who was drinking water almost choked, spitting it all out in front of him.

"WHAT!?"

~With Naruto and co.~

"So this is Konoha? A bit interesting if you ask me..." Kurosuke said as they walked up the stairs to the Hokage tower while looking out the windows. Akari hummed in acknowledgement and also looked around a bit. Naruto, however, was looking slightly more blank and emotionless the closer they came to the Kage's office.

Knock knock

"Come in!" A voice yelled from inside the office when they arrived outside the office after Kakashi knocked. They group walked in and two pairs of eyes immediately locked, a pair of cobalt blue locked with a pair of glowing violet. The temperature dropped several degrees in the room and a chill went down everyone's spin, Kurosuke and Akari had only ever seen Naruto like this a hand full of times and it always made them feel both scared and protected at the same time. Team 7, however, was feeling it for the first time and this made their heartbeats pick up.

"Naruto..." Minato said softly looking into his sons eyes and feeling his growth.

"Hokage-sama" Naruto spat, emotions going out of control before settling on one that would ultimately determine his actions today.

Indifference...

End!

A/N: Sorry for the rant above. What do you think happens next? If you guess right then I'll make an omake with Naruto and a girl of your choice~

What happens next?

A) Naruto throws a fit.

B) Naruto acts cold.

C) Naruto cooperates.

D) Naruto realise he still loves them.

Pick: A, B, C or D and one reason why you picked your answer. I'll be waiting~

Thank you!

Chow

T.P

Ja ne!