Damn I actually got another chapter out on time lol. Sorry for making a lot of you sad with Akiko, though I guess I'm kinda happy that I can stir up some kind of emotions with my readers lol.

DISCLAIMER I don't own Naruto blah blah, anything that resembles anything else in this story is complete coincidence unless I admit it.

===Chapter 7===

"Masaru! Can you explain this at all?!" Shouted Shouta panicking slightly due to the look they were getting from Naruto. He may have been a little brat to him before but right now he looked like pure evil.

"It seems similar to that cursed seal but… I can't say I know anything about it…" replied Masaru who also was starting to get a little scared.

"I won't give you guys a chance, just like you didn't give them a chance!" screamed Naruto in his demonic voice. He then sprinted towards them at blinding speed.

"Shit he's a lot faster now!" thought Shouta leaping backwards right as Naruto slammed his hand into the ground where Shouta just was but quickly recovered and in an instant was upon Shouta again.

"Fuck! What is he!"

Naruto quickly before Shouta could evade again, grabbed Shouta's throat lifting him up and thrusting him into the ground crushing his jugular.

Naruto was then kicked hard in the head sending him flying sideways. Masaru after kicking Naruto landed next to Shouta and put him out of his misery.

"I guess I'm not surprised that a bastard like you wouldn't care about his teammates" snarled Naruto whipping some blood from his mouth.

"Sound-nin have no use to care about teammates or friendship" replied Masaru while performing a series of seals, "Doton Doryuudan!" out of the ground appeared a dragon made of mud heading towards Naruto.

Naruto already created a Rasengan and charged the dragon cutting right through it with his Rasengan and continued for Masaru. As Masaru prepared to avoid the Rasengan, Naruto dispelled the jutsu and instead gave a hard kick to Masaru's gut causing him to cough up blood. Not giving him any chance to even try to recover, Naruto began to pummel his fists into Masaru's chest breaking his ribs.

Naruto then held Masaru up by his throat as he looked into his eyes. "Well! Was it worth it!" shouted Naruto but got no response. He then gave a hard punch into Masaru's stomach. "Look at what your wickedness got you! You're pathetic!" said Naruto as he broke Masaru's neck.

Naruto then dropped the body and turned around facing where Akiko and the fishermen laid dead…

"DAMMIT!" yelled Naruto as he repeatedly punched the ground. "I FAILED THEM! WHAT KIND OF HOKAGE WILL I BE IF I CAN'T SAVE A COUPLE PEOPLE FROM TWO STUPID CHUUNIN!"

"Kit… Your still young, you're a ways off from that. You did everything you could, you shouldn't even be able to take out two chuunin one vs two." Said Kyuubi trying to help Naruto.

"B-But I have this demon form thing now! Why couldn't I have gotten this sooner, if only I had a little while longer to train this wouldn't of happened! What good is it to get this power when it's too late!"

"You still saved the rest of the village" replied Kyuubi. "You could of not received the power at all and been killed along with this entire village."

"But that's not good enough!" shouted Naruto.

"I hate to use the asshole as an example but it's just like that Shouta said, this is life. Everything isn't pretty, you should know that. Sometimes bad things will happen, but that doesn't mean you let yourself fall apart."

"I just can't accept it Kyuubi" said Naruto starting to calm down.

"Then train, get stronger, and defeat those who control these ninja to carry out such acts"

"Your right, like always… I broke a promise though…"

"Kit you constantly go about making all these crazy promises, don't beat yourself up over it"

"But if I couldn't keep that promise, then how can I ever be confident about keeping my other promises to everyone, to Sakura…"

"It's a part of growing up, once you see situations like this you realize that you can't control every little thing in your life. You have to learn to know when you can do something and when you might not be able to."

"Do you think I'll be able to bring Sasuke back?"

"I can't say, that is up to you."

Naruto looked over at Akiko's body. "I'm sorry Akiko…" he then dedicated the rest of the day to burying the bodies and making a memorial to Akiko and her parents.

The next day Naruto boarded a ferry bound towards the Mist.

"So umm is this safe? Going to the water country?" asked Naruto.

"Kit, it's not like you're going to arrive inside the Hidden Mist village. At worst there will be maybe a couple Mist ninja in the port but that's it.

A week later Naruto arrived at a port in the water country.

Naruto had long since removed his Leaf headband for obvious reasons and was now walking through the village. He heard a bunch of commotion and being curious scouted it out. A couple of the villagers said that the Mizukage was heading back to the mainland again. Once he got a better view he saw him, the Mizukage. He was a tall middle aged looking man with black hair. But, something about him didn't seem right to Naruto. It was like he wasn't himself, as if he was acting. However, Naruto deciding not to stay and ponder too long, vanished into the crowd.

"Kit, that man just now, the Mizukage. That was Uchiha Madara…" Said Kyuubi in a quiet tone.

"Huh? Uchiha Madara? There's another Uchiha? I thought Sasuke and his brother were the only ones left?"

"No, Uchiha Madara used to be the leader of the Uchiha Clan back before your village was created. He fought the first Hokage and was thought by your village to be dead. However he reappeared thirteen years ago…"

"Thirteen years ago? About the time when you attacked the village?"

"Kit, that man has a sharingan beyond Kakashi, Sasuke and even Itachi. He has the power to control me and forced me to attack your village. I'm powerless against that man's cursed eyes!"

"So that's what happened? He wanted some kind of revenge on the leaf and used his power to control you and force you to attack it?"

"Yes that is correct kit, I hate that man"

"But hold on, if he's as old as you say he is, then how in the world is he still alive? I mean he looked like he was in his 30s!"

"His eyes, like I said his eyes are on an entirely different level and because of that power he is undying"

"Anyways let's get the hell out of here" Said Naruto as he headed out of the village into the wilds of water country.

After a few days worth of travel Naruto came across a nice little lightly forested area with a stream so Kyuubi told him to make camp here for now.

"Alright kit, we will stay here for a month or two. Its secluded so we shouldn't have to worry too much, just wanted you to get some more training in since we have been mostly traveling" Said Kyuubi.

"Okay, so what kind of training am I in store for now?" asked Naruto as he set his supplies down by a tree.

"Don't get too excited, we are just going to work more on your demon form and your taijutsu and speed. Since the stronger you are normally the stronger your demon form will be, doing this for a month or two will give you a nice jump in strength" Explained Kyuubi.

"Alright, as long as I don't got to watch anyone else I know die in front of me in order to use demon form then sure"

"No you won't kit. All you got to do is convert your chakra to demon chakra and focus on your anger and rage then release your chakra and you should start to transform again. Though to get angry enough you might want to try and think back to what happened to Akiko… Demons are naturally filled with bloodlust and anger so you got to match that requirement in order to transform into one"

"Ok so convert my chakra, get pissed, and release. I got it" Thought Naruto as he began converting his chakra and thinking back to that time in the village.

"ARGHH!" Naruto groaned out as he for a second time began transforming into his demon form.

"Well it looks like your pretty talented at this kit" Congratulated Kyuubi as Naruto finished transforming.

"Ok now make some clones to spar with each other while you work on your speed and strength. Since the only thing you can learn from your clones are there experience, any kind of physical training must be done through your real body but you will learn all the different taijutsu moves from them"

And so began Naruto's couple month physical training session…

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Next Update: don't know :(

My finals are this week so I have no clue when I'll get another chapter out, maybe this weekend if not then probably at the end of the week.

Btw for awhile I've been wondering whats up with Madara being the mizukage, if Akatsuki had control of the Rain and Water countries… seems that sometime after this arc that they might add a shinobi war to the series. If you're wondering about what the hell I'm rambling on about, go back and read chapter 404 lol.