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"Talking"

Thoughts, sometimes emphasis on words

-Flashback-

---------- Change of scene

The last chapter sucked and I hope to redeem myself in this one (I really hope to).

Before you read on I would like to say something, because I think that it is confusing some people (unfortunately). Itachi is the only one that Naruto calls by another name, the reason will be explained later on. Sasuke is Sasuke, Sakura is Sakura, and Itachi is Tenchi to Naruto (and only him), but he is the only one that I will have another name for. No one else has another name, unless they heard it from Naruto or something (and that will only be for Itachi). If you need further clarification tell me, so I can try and explain better, because this is an important point. (There I said it!) Now on with the chapter!!!!! (Man that was long...)

Demons Dawn Chapter Fifteen: Promise Me...

He jumped through the trees never having to look around him. He stopped abruptly as he spotted his prey, his prey had not spotted him however. This man was a danger for what he had in mind. Judging from his clothes this man was only a Jôunin, and easily taken out.

He debated briefly on whether to kill him or not. Knocking him out would create problems and the man could repot him to the Hokage when he woke up, but killing him would alert the Hokage that someone unwanted was here. Choices, choices always hard never easy.

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Iruka looked down at the clock. It had only been five minutes since his students had been allowed to leave, half an hour before it had been said to the 'volunteers.' It was foolish how they thought that they would catch them so quickly. Naruto's unpredictability, Sasuke's genius, Tsubasa unknown jutsu of Kiri (Hidden Mist), and Sakura's practical team oriented mind. But of course it would all depend on how well they worked together, if at all.

He sipped away at his drink, never truly aware of the danger so close to him.

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He heard a girl scream behind him, he had no time for this foolishness. He now had a plan that would save him the trouble of possibly meeting the Hokage and still help out his student.

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Sasuke watched in complete awe as he saw Naruto double over.

Naruto too had gone back in years, faceless people were hurting him and laughing as they did so. Naruto was crying as he held his head. Sasuke watched this with mild fascination.

Realization flashed thorough his mind and with that a plan. He would succeed yet.

Tsubasa screamed behind him but he couldn't do anything about that, not now at least.

"You made me break my promise to Naruto-kun. Now I will show you death!" Kagami said his face contorted in anger and his eyes were rimmed red. Sasuke barely dodged the slash of the kunai, Sasuke instinctively knew that if Kagami had been in his right mind he wouldn't have missed. Sasuke tried to do Kawarimi (Body Swap) but Kagami pinned him to the tree, farther away from Naruto and Tsubasa then he would have liked.

So this it...Sasuke thought oddly calm and cool.

"Death awaits you," Kagami's hand got closer to Sasuke's face.

-Flashback-

The night was cool but his face was flushed and hot. He looked on in horror at the sight, he was unable to tear away his eyes away as if in sick fascination. Beautiful fresh flowers were strung everywhere, petals still continued to fall. All a rather beautiful scene, in a morbid way. Petals and broken flower steams clung to bodies twisted and broken in a small pile and strung out much like the petals, everywhere. Standing among the very middle of it all with blood stained lips and clothes a twelve year old crouched.

"Come here Naruto-kun," he extended a bloodied hand to him. The small blond boy wanted to vomit as he saw those hands still dripping fresh blood, but somehow he was able to hold it in.

"K-Kagami?" Naruto whispered his voice small and quite. He prayed to every deity that he knew of that it wasn't Kagami. Prayed that the bodies were nothing more then an illusion, nothing more then a game. But he could smell the blood, felt how his other self became excited by it, whereas it only made him sick.

"Yes it's me," Kagami said as he walked up to him, skillfully going around the bodies without having to look down. A little of Naruto's world cracked then, just a little.

"What did you do?" there was a desperate and insane hope in him that it was all a lie, that maybe he was dreaming.

"I killed them," Kagami said as if it was the most obvious and natural thing in the world. He went to the boy and frowned as he saw the thin arms immediately go up and covered his thin gaunt face. He instantly went on his knees and hugged the boy to him. Naruto stiffened but he lowered his arms and looked into Kagami's eyes. There were bloody prints on his white shirt now. He started to shake violently.

"Are you going to kill me?" his body had stopped shaking and his posture was that of one composed to death. Kagami smiled warmly. And for a fraction of a moment it was not Naruto he saw, it was a little boy with black hair and the same brilliant mischievous sapphire eyes.

"Of course not," he said softly as he ran his hand though Naruto soft hair. Naruto shuddered at the feel of the blood that was not his own, some had even dripped onto his cheek somehow.

"I saw what you did. It was so much like our games of illusions to get food and everything else we needed. You cast the genjutsu and made then see their fears. They only knew terror as they died, you made sure of that. I finely understood why your chakra was often repugnant to me..." Naruto paused then as he saw Kagami's pleased and amused expression he continued, "it's because of the blood, the body releases a chemical when one is afraid kind of like adrenaline. You take that when you taste the blood, or like the taste of it. But it makes you a thing to be avoided, a thing to shun."

"You are observant Naruto-kun!" he said brightly as he stood up and took his hand. Naruto was revolted by the way the still warm blood pressed into his hand. So when he pulled his hand away the red slippery liquid made it all that much simpler to pull away. "What is wrong Naruto-kun?"

"If you ever do that to me I promise I will kill you!" he was a little beast as he said that and saliva flew from his mouth. Kagami was both appalled and hurt.

"I promise Naruto-kun I will never do that!" Naruto's eyes cleared a bit as he heard the words. Kagami walked up to him bent down slightly to his level. He put his lips close to Naruto's ear and even grazed it when he talked a bit. "And Naruto-kun? I promise that if you ever leave me, if you ever desert me. I will find you and kill all those you care about and make them suffer. I will take their blood upon my lips and drink. I will make you feel the guilt until you think you have killed them, until you think that you yourself have tasted of their blood." He had smiled then and stood up to see the shocked expression on his face.

"But I will not kill you," Kagami added as if that could give comfort, and in a dark and twisted way it made all the sense in the world to Naruto, he was safe.

That had been the massacre of the Village of Flowers, down to the last child and the eldest of them that had had the ill-fate of being there.

Naruto had left. He had no one to care about anyways, he now would never let himself and no one ever let him. He gained a certain dislike for shinobi then, but then again there was Tenchi-san that never let it take hold in his soul and dispelled it. There was Tenchi-san who helped seal up the crack a little, and made his world a bit more perfect. Kagami had watched and seen all this. He was the reason that Naruto had went to the Land of the Waves, in some sort of vain hope that he would not cross water. And he was the reason he had met this Tenchi-san of his.

-End Flashback-

He cleared his mind of everything, let his mind go blank of all thoughts.

When Kagami touched him nothing happened.

"Take him down Naruto," he said. Kagami's eyes widened, but he had no time to think as he was pushed harshly from Sasuke and into the ground several feet from his target. Naruto stood smirking at him his sleeves pushed up. His hand was slightly alight with chakra. And behind him stood a smiling Tsubasa.

"How did you break my genjutsu?" he said to all of them.

"It was simple really," Tsubasa said, "Naruto and Sasuke figured it out in time."

"You can't make anything real, as I first thought," Naruto said and with a nod from Tsubasa and Sasuke continued, "you are a master of genjutsu, and that was the real key to it. Your eyes allow you to see a person's thoughts for a fraction of a moment, it's part of your Bloodline. The rest is nothing but trickery. I called it an ability because it is, you make solid clones much like I learned from Tenchi-san but with different characteristics and from whatever you find here not chakra, and change it to your advantage. The way you kept of ranting about fears put us in the mindset so that when you used your Bloodline we would think of our greatest fears and show them to you hoping desperately that you wouldn't see them, and you would take it from there."

"So you figured it out," Kagami said as he wiped away at his lip, it was bleeding he spit out the dark almost black blood. "Took you two years to do it."

"Well back then I didn't have friends to help me figure it out did I? Sasuke really confirmed it for me when he cleared out his mind," Naruto grinned. "It was too bad that we couldn't warn Tsubasa, but I managed to break the spell before the fake Hunter-nin killed her. The needle put her back a couple of years, but its the effect relied on her mindset."

"Why didn't it work on you?" Kagami asked truly fascinated.

"You never really touched me. Your promise kept me safe, so you relied on what you knew about me already and you used the side of the needle that wasn't dipped in that stuff. I knew that you couldn't ever reenact my greatest fear, it would have killed you to exhaustion, the needle disoriented me for a while since I did get some of that stuff in my system despite the way you inserted it, but all you saw was Kage Bunshin in my place, and the rest was figures I made from my chakra, thought I didn't get the faces right," Naruto said half sheepishly. Sasuke looked at him incredulously at him, so that hadn't been part of the plan? Those faceless creatures.

"I will still kill them!" Kagami said and got up, more then ready for a fight.

"I don't think so," someone had grabbed him by his scarf, that awful blood sprayed scarf. It was a Jôunin judging from the clothes or at least something like it. Black coat, over a shinobi outfit, his headband protector covering his head. "You kids o.k.?" They all nodded, except Sakura of course whom Tsubasa had leaned against a tree in a more dignified position, whereas she had been sprawled on the ground.

"What's wrong with that one?" he motioned to a groggy Sakura that barely woke up.

"O, um. Nothing?" Naruto said innocently. Kagami narrowed his eyes and so did the man.

"The promise is broken Naruto-kun, except yours. You haven't killed me yet. But I will return, count on that, I still haven't broken my own promise, there is still time to redeem it!" Kagami said before the Jôunin had time to react the body had burst into fragmented leaves and sticks.

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He was impressed at Naruto's growth, admired it even. He had taught him a few things, but nothing that would have made him into a menace for him! This Tenchi of Naruto's was an impressive teacher, and the only one he would never kill, he was no fool he still held on to life as the dearest thing. He had a new purpose.

Something or someone was ahead of him, he stopped abruptly.

"Leave my student alone," it was a quiet dangerous voice in his ear.

What the!? How did he get behind me!? Kagami thought breaking out in a cold sweat.

"And now let me show you true death, a death that never lets you die." He saw the crimson eyes and was lost in them.

Indeed he would know death.

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"What took you so long!?" Sakura asked even thought her head was still buzzing. The man looked at her coldly and then gave a smile that only made his face look creepier.

"Now don't you worry your pretty little head about it," he said and turned around ready to leave, Sakura cringed a bit when she thought he was going to pat her or something.

"Hey! What about our training!?" a very angry Naruto asked.

"You will continue with it of course! Just because you were nearly killed doesn't give you an excuse to skip your training," he said to them and disappeared with a puff of smoke, and he was off to report to the Hokage. They would catch that boy yet.

"Figures," Sasuke mumbled under his breath, Naruto turned sharply to him and motioned to Sakura.

Sasuke grudgingly offered his hand and she with a flush took it. She was starting to see, why her best friend like him.

"Kagami's ability mimics the Mangekyou Sharingan and awful lot. Wonder what Tenchi-san would think about that..." Naruto said as he lost himself in the contemplation. Sasuke had frozen place.

"What did you say?" Sasuke was immediately on Naruto. Naruto looked at him coldly and pushed him off roughly, but Sasuke still clung to his shirt somehow.

"Get off me, Uchiha bastard!" Naruto said. Sasuke felt that chill again, those eyes were like steel again. That look, that damned look, Sasuke thought that as his hands slowly unfolded from the collar of Naruto's clothes. Naruto refused to answer any of his questions. He sensed danger around that subject and in the end Sasuke felt silent.

"I have an idea!" Naruto said abruptly breaking the silence. They all turned to him, "it would give us something to do other then hide. Why don't we tag them instead! I mean look at us! It would be so simple! " He's got a point, Sasuke thought even thought his anger did not let him quite acknowledge the thought.

"We don't have the tags you idiot!" Sakura said without thinking, she went red and covered her mouth. But Naruto didn't notice the slightly out of character comment from her. She immediately relented as she saw tags, lots and lots of them.

"Some of them are exploding tags," he held two neat packs of them that he had gotten out of Tsubasa's pack. "Man Tsubasa these are perfect, all we have to do modify them slightly!"

With our luck Naruto would attract any weirdo that's in his past! Sasuke thought angrily as he watched Tsubasa and Naruto change the normal tags and Sakura helpfully instructed them how to make it the kind that they needed. But for now they agreed that they needed to rest, the battle with Kagami had worn them out. And they were unsure if he would come back. Thought Naruto assured them that he wouldn't come back, and they had all grudgingly accepted that.

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As they scouted around for a place to set up a temporary defense Naruto thought. I wonder why Tenchi-san came?....

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"So Kakashi? How did they do?" the Hokage asked a certain silver haired shinobi.

Kakashi sighed in exasperation.

"I can't tell you yet Hokage-sama. Naruto was too dense and hardly displayed any ability. Thought he did manage to figure out Kagami's hoax with the help of Sasuke. And he did manage to take out Haruno Sakura, quite well thought I doubt her ability. And Tsubasa still remains a greater mystery since she only used one Jutsu in the whole thing... Unfortunately. But her hearing and speed from what I could tell are excellent, she was able to hear the needle that Naruto attempted to take them out with. And she has room to improve. But Naruto is the one we should watch out for, his potential is immensurable. He was even able to get Uchiha Sasuke to work as a team. I could have seen more but Morino Ibike interrupted the battle and Kagami escaped, thought I do believe they would have had a chance at capturing him," Kakashi said as he handed over a scroll containing all the information he had gathered.

"Excellent, Kakashi," the Hokage said as he took the scroll, "why would Naruto attempt to disable his teammates with needles?" The Hokage asked truly curious.

"The little fool thought he could take out Kagami out all on his own without risking their lives," Kakashi said, "he would have had a better chance with all of them conscious and working as a team, and Ibike wouldn't have had to interrupt."

The Hokage only gave well-mannered laugh at that. Kakashi however only felt exasperated as he thought and knew that he would have to watch them further. A job is a job, he thought he would rather be off doing something else.

End Chapter Fifteen

Next Chapter: Depends!

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So chapter fifteen is done. Wow, Seven pages. I felt so bad about the last chapter it sucked really really bad. I chose to end it here. But the main purpose of Kagami was to get more of Naruto's past in the light for you, thought his teammates, teachers, friends, and everyone else is still slightly in the dark. And explain why he went to the Land of Waves in the first place. If you want to read more of the training just tell me (I mean they have a whole week left to go (maybe I shouldn't have made it that long...)). Or I can skip to other matters. Thanks for the reviews!!!

bLack: Thanks for the info on Akusuki, really helped. I'm not sure were I am, I've read the American Naruto, and anime. I am everywhere but nowhere, if that makes any sense. As to the summary: Really? The summary angsty? I didn't know it was. Seemingly came out of nowhere? Well um, yea this is my first published fanfic if that's what you mean. As to Iruka asking Naruto to do Kage Bunshin, well... I tend to get it confused with the much less demanding Bunshin no Jutsu! Sorry. And no, I'm not turning it into Shone Ai, I agree with you, and I would suck at writing yaoi anyways, so I won't bother. Naruto is really smart in this fic because by the time he was taken in by Itachi he already knew a few things that drove him to become better. And after having Itachi as a teacher it was only logical to assume that his I.Q would go up as well. I mean come on! Itachi is one of the best! So nope, not a dumbass! Hope that helped explained some stuff. Thanks for all the Reviews!!!!

Anonymous :):Just don't think about it too hard (I stopped doing it after a while (sort of)), I just hope that the explanation at the top helped. :). (Wow! You're getting a lot of the story right! Maybe I'll have to change it around a bit now!) I could kind of see why you thought Kagami was Haku, (must have been the mirror thing...oops!) Thanks for reviewing so much!

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