Laughter of the Broken

"Speaking"

'Thinking'

"Demon/Summons speaking"

'Demon/Summons thinking'

A/N: Sheesh this story is getting more popular than I could imagine and no, Tayuya will not be the last member of the harem. Like I said I only want three people in this harem and the two that are definitely in are Anko and Kyuubi because seriously you can't have a psychotic, somewhat (and I use the term loosely) dark Naruto without the lovely female Kyuubi. Also please don't suggest a third member because I'm trying to work out some kinks with the one I want to put in, but if it doesn't work I'll put a poll up with some suggestions. Any who, on with the show!

Forest of Death

Anko couldn't believe what she was doing. It was unheard of, unthinkable even! She was Anko Mitarashi for Kami's sake and yet here she was jumping around the forest of death searching for someone she knew nothing about except for one thing, he was one of the only people in the world she was afraid of.

She sighed in exhaustion and sat down on one of the thick branches of the many trees in the forest. She had searched all the places where he thought the guy might be but he was nowhere! It was like he just vanished into thin air! She sighed and thought about just giving up.

"Well, well what do we have here?" said a voice with an amused tone. Quickly Anko sprang into her serpent fist stance and looked for the voice. "Oh come now, my little hebi-chan, do you really believe you can hurt me? You can't even find me!" laughed the voice.

Anko was getting annoyed. "Alright show yourself you goggled son of a bitch!" she shouted. Suddenly she felt a presence behind her and turned quickly already throwing a punch at her target. She was surprised when the blonde boy actually bent so far backwards that the back of his head nearly touched his heels! And he didn't move anything but his upper body!

"A good punch, but next time try to be a little faster," Naruto commented while straightening up. As he straightened Anko looked and saw that where Naruto's feet should have been they disappeared into shadow, her shadow to be correct.

Naruto followed her gaze and smirked. "Let me guess you want to know how I'm part of your shadow, right?" not bothering to wait for an answer he continued. "It's quite amazing really, due to my rather unique nature I can actually manipulate shadows and even travel through them," stated the blonde with a smirk "The only problem is that in order to use them effectively I need either complete darkness or large enough shadows or thousands of tiny shadows," the boy said in mock woe. He laughed not seconds after that, "But you can't have everything, because then life wouldn't be so god damn hilarious," chuckled the boy. His chuckle made Anko shiver, but whether out of fear or something else she couldn't tell.

"Now then, may I ask why you are searching for me?" asked the boy, stepping out of the shadow.

"Yeah, there's a guy down at the T&I that not even Ibiki can break," said the kunochi, putting on a smirk to hide her surprise that the boy knew she was looking for him. "He was caught stealing a weapon called the Raijin from a secret location and the bastard has not only hidden the weapon but refuses to tell us why he did it," Anko told the Uzumaki.

"So you thought that maybe I could succeed where your people have failed? Why not have Inoichi just probe his mind?" asked the blonde, a smile starting to form on his face.

"We tried but the bastard keeps throwing Inoichi out of his head before we can learn anything," Anko said in a frustrated tone.

"Well then lets go see what fun I can have with this guy!" Naruto proclaimed happily. With that he grabbed Anko by the wrist and dragged her with him into the shadows.

Interrogation Room

Ibiki was surprised when his partner Anko and a strange teenager with a black trench coat materialized in the room via the shadows. Anko turned towards her companion and shot him an annoyed glare.

"Never do that again!" she growled.

"Never do what again? Don't tell me you didn't enjoy the shadow travel, while it is creepy the experience itself is quite pleasant," grinned the blonde.

"Just tell me before you do something like that," she said heatedly. Ibiki noticed the pink hue that had appeared on her cheeks and wondered what had happened.

Anko had actually enjoyed traveling through the shadows though she would not tell the blonde that. She expected to feel cold and hopeless but instead the shadows had a peaceful feel. While they had moved through them she had felt how the shadows had caressed her body with a lover's touch, how every touch had sent shivers of pleasure through her body. When she had left she had felt how the shadows seemed to gently push her but lingered as if telling her to come back to them soon.

Ibiki coughed to get the two's attention. They turned to him to show they were listening.

"Right then, I'm to assume that you are the person Anko said could break this guy?" asked the imposing man to Naruto. Naruto grinned at this and shot Anko a glance.

"Yes, I believe I can break this person Ibiki my only request is that you do not interrupt, no matter what,' Naruto told the man with a sadistic grin.

"Fine but just know that you are not allowed to kill the prisoner," Ibiki said, a little unnerved by the smile. He opened the door to where the man was being held and handed Naruto a file on the prisoner. "I'll be watching, so remember, DON'T kill the prisoner kid,"

"Don't worry Ibiki-san, after all a corpse isn't nearly as much fun as a living person," with that the blonde slammed the door behind him, his laughter could be heard from the other side of the door.

Naruto grinned as he approached the man tied to the chair. The man had brown hair and a long scar on his forehead. His brown eyes glared defiantly at the blonde.

"Rokushou Aoi, Jounin of Konoha and found stealing Raijin, the legendary lightning sword," Naruto read out loud from the folder, his tone sounded… playful. "Now how about you tell me where the sword is?"

"If you think you can make me talk then you're wasting your time!" Aoi spat, a triumphant grin on his face. "Naruto got a sadistic grin on his face and threw the folder over his shoulder.

"Great! I was hoping you'd refuse to talk!" exclaimed the blonde happily pulling out a syringe filled with a purple liquid. "Its much more fun when you decide not to talk! That way I get to hear you scream," he chuckled darkly. With that he plunged the syringe into Aoi's neck and injected the serum.

Aoi grunted in pain as he felt all of his muscles start to tighten and stretch in ways that were painful. Slowly his face tightened to the point it looked like he was wearing a giant grin with his eyes stretched wide open. "What the hell did you do to me?" Aoi said through clenched teeth.

"That my friend is a special serum I've created that completely tightens the muscles of the body to the point it hurts, hell right now you are little better than a bowstring ready to snap from strain," explained the blonde pressing down on Aoi's fingers straightened fingers causing them to curl painfully. Aoi wanted to scream in protest but all that came out was a gurgled cry. "If I didn't know better I'd say you were in pain but that smile on your face says otherwise," Naruto giggled cruelly.

"Hmm, you know what? if you want the pain to stop just yell Kitsune, but if you yell Kitsune then you have to tell me where the blade is, agreed?" Naruto said curling one of Aoi's fingers again. The man gave another gurgled scream but glared at the teen in defiance. "Oh good! Now lets see the serum should last for another hour so that gives me plenty of time for me to milk this type of torture then move on to more to more fun!" the blonde said clapping his hands and removing his goggles.

Aoi looked at the blonde in fear. He saw the sadistic smile, the insane glint in those dead blue eyes but what's more he saw the three whisk marks on each cheek.

"Oh ho, so you recognize me? I was actually quite pleased that I would be able to pay someone back for the kindness they showed me oh so many years ago!" Naruto said in a delighted voice, giving Aoi a look that promised pain and suffering and the blonde would enjoy every second of it. "Remember the word is Kitsune but please remember to say it as loud as you can because I've been having trouble hearing lately," he giggled insanely.

That look and that giggle did it for Aoi. He didn't want to be anywhere near this insane child. "KISUNE! KITSUNE! FOR THE LOVE OF KAMI, KITSUNE!" screamed the man as best as he could. Tears were running down his eyes as his eyes rolled in fear. "I hid the blade inside of an abandoned shack in the forest near the memorial stone!" he shouted, the paralyzing effects seemed to have worn off and the man was now thrashing desperately to get away from Naruto.

The blonde just smirked and left.

Anko and Ibiki could not believe what they had seen; here was a genin that had just broken a jounin in no less than twenty minutes! Ibiki was impressed while Anko was both impressed and somewhat in awe of the boy. Said boy walked up to them and gave both ninja a wolfish smile.

"I must admit, I thoroughly enjoyed myself," stated the blonde snapping the two back to reality. "If you need help then here's my card and you know where to find me Anko," stated the boy tossing Ibiki a card.

The man caught the card and was slightly confused at it. It was a regular playing card, a joker to be exact. The odd thing about it though was that on the back of the card was the kanji for fox in green ink. Looking up, he saw that Naruto was gone and a single purple rose was left with a note.

Curious Anko picked up the rose and found it was addressed to her. The message read "Till next time, my hebi-hime," Anko quickly hid the flower before Ibiki could see.

"So what did the flower say?" Ibiki asked.

"Nothing, lets just get this guy back to his cell and report to the hokage," Anko said quickly, avoiding eye contact with her partner. Confused, Ibiki just shrugged and went inside to retrieve the whimpering Aoi.

Next day

Kakashi sat in a tree observing the target his team had been ordered to retrieve… again. This was the third time today and the team was getting tired of it. He sighed and was just about to contact his team when something happened.

Out from the foliage burst some kind of giant dog with brown fur and black spots. The dog was about the size of a pony but had double the bulk. Sitting astride this behemoth was none other than Naruto Uzumaki.

"TIME TO DIE YOU HAIRY BASTARD!" yelled the blonde with a giant smile. The hairy bastard in question dashed off into the forest in pure fear. Naruto just laughed "Shonzi! Lunch time!" with that the hyena gave a barking laugh and raced after its pray.

Kakashi quickly raced after the two with Sasuke and Sakura right behind him. "I thought he was joking when he said he was going to feed that cat to his hyena!" Sakura yelled, both annoyed and terrified.

"Lets just hope Naruto remembers not to kill Tora," Kakashi stated lazily. 'Though in all honesty I wish that cat would die already' thought the silver haired man. Sasuke seemed to be thinking the same thing.

The team quickly found Naruto and his hyena, Shonzi, inside a clearing, but there was no sign of the cat Tora. Naruto was leaning against the beast's side with a very satisfied smirk on his face. The hyena also seemed satisfied and was picking its teeth with its claws.

"Naruto," Kakashi started slowly, "Where's Tora?" he asked fearing the worst.

Naruto grinned, "If you're wondering where that fur ball is, she's not dead," here he giggled, "yet of course,"

"Then where is it dobe?" Sasuke demanded. Shonzi growled at the Uchiha but Naruto waved him down.

"Shonzi ate her, and we've got about 30 minutes till the cat is digested, after that we wait for nature's call," Naruto stated happily, giving Shonzi a scratch behind his ears. Sakura looked horrified, Sasuke seemed disgusted and Kakashi was impassive as always.

"Well then lets get moving, the Hokage's office is a good 10 minutes away and I'm sure Tora could very well die of suffocation or fright as easily as digestion," Kakashi said with an eye smile. Kakashi then turned to leave when he heard an audible gasp from Sakura. He looked to see she was pointing at where Naruto was. He turned to see Naruto and his hyena were gone, with only a few tendrils of shadow showing where they had been.

Kakashi sensed for around for Naruto's chakra signature but he couldn't sense him anywhere. His eye widened in realization that Naruto must have used some sort of shushin technique. 'Where on earth did he learn that technique?' thought Kakashi. Once again Sasuke seemed to be thinking the same thing but he had a very annoyed expression on his face.

Hokage tower, mission room

The hokage was staring at the blonde before him with a stoic expression. Everyone else in the room seemed to be horrified and the Fire Daimyo's wife seemed to be ready to have a nervous breakdown. Naruto just grinned while he leaned and a bored looking Shonzi.

"So, let me get this straight," started the hokage, "Your summons, Shonzi, has eaten Tora but has yet to digest said cat?" he asked.

"Momma was right, I really need to chew before I swallow," stated the hyena with a slight grimace.

"Case of indigestion big guy?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah, I'm surprised that thing is still alive, I can see why you hate trying to catch this thing boss," nodded the big hyena.

"Alright then, open wide and say 'ahh' buddy," Naruto grinned.

Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi had just arrived at the tower and had opened the door to the tower and what they saw… well it wasn't what was expected. Naruto had taken off his trench coat and had his entire arm inside of his hyena's mouth. At some points he would pull out various objects and some of the objects caused some to feel nauseous and others to just stare in amazement.

Behind Naruto was a growing pile of various objects and bones, all of them coated in saliva and/or bile. Currently there seemed to be a at least three skulls, several femurs and arm bones, an entire cow ribcage, a golden chalice encrusted with diamonds, several kunai and shuriken sets and a copy of Icha Icha paradise.

"Is that my book?" asked an amazed Kakashi. "I thought I lost that in my last spar with you! That book was a limited edition copy signed by Jiraiya himself!" said the ninja franticly.

"AHA! There you are ya little bugger!" shouted Naruto triumphantly. With a tug he yanked out a very terrified and saliva soaked Tora. "Here you are ma'am and remember: there are plenty of animals out there that would consider Tora a very tasty treat," said Naruto with a big terrifying grin on his face. Shonzi gave a snigger and eyed Tora hungrily.

With a yelp the woman quickly paid for the mission and ran out the door. Naruto and Shonzi burst into laughter after they went, which caused everyone in the room to shudder. The hokage couldn't help but wonder where the smiling boy that he had known had gone. The rest of Team 7 just wondered how sane their teammate was.

After some time Naruto turned towards the hokage, "So old man, you got any more missions for us? Preferably something a little more challenging," asked Naruto with an amused smirk.

"Well I do have several more D-ra-," he was cut off by a rather annoyed bark from Shonzi.

"What the hell old man? Give the boss a better mission than those damn D-ranks!"growled out the hyena "An alpha like him doesn't deserve to be doing other people's chores, especially not these damned villager's!"

"Naruto, control your summons!" Iruka shouted. He was helping with the missions that day and was just about to lecture them when he heard an annoyed growl. Shonzi was glaring at Iruka with a murderous glint in his black eyes.

Naruto laughed, "You really shouldn't order me like that in front of my summons, they look at me as the alpha male of their pack, second only to their lovely leader Alala," he gave his former sensei a big grin, "In other words, don't go around ordering me like you are my better in front of my hyena, for only the hokage may do so and only because the hokage has my respect,"

"In any event, I do have a c-rank for your team, Kakashi," Sarutobi interjected before things could escalate. Immediately all attention was on him. "All you have to do is escort a bridge builder back to his home and defend him until the bridge is complete," stated the old man.

"Sold! To the maniac in the goggles!" laughed Naruto. "Shonzi! Tell big momma the good news!" the blonde ordered his hyena. The hyena put a paw to his forehead in a mock salute and left in a poof of smoke.

Sarutobi nodded and pressed a button on the intercom, "Send Tazuna in," ordered the wizened hokage. Not minutes later an old man wearing traveler clothes and a sake bottle in hand appeared.

He stumbled a bit and looked over his team. "This is the ninja that will defend me?" Tazuna slurred, obviously drunk, "They look like a bunch of worthless brats! And whats with the one with the creepy smile? He looks like a demented clown!"

In response Naruto just walked up to the man with an open hand. "Sir I can assure you that this clown is more than competent, so how about we shake hands and get this mission started on the right foot, hm?" asked the blonde with a pleasant but eerie smile. Shrugging, Tazuna reached out a hand and the next thing he knew he was on the floor in crumpled heap courtesy of about 5,000 volts of electricity.

Naruto laughed insanely at the electrocuted client and walked out of the office. Kakashi sighed and helped the client to his feet, "It would be wise if you refrained from insulting Naruto," warned the one eyed nin. Tazuna just nodded dumbly. 'This is going to be a looong trip' Kakashi mentally groaned.

A/N: Voila! New chapter up and we have officially started the wave arc. Remember to R&R and check out my other stories. Also for those reading A Shinobi's Metal I'm sorry but I'm having serious writers block with that one. DON'T FEAR! I WILL POST A NEW CHAPTER FOR IT! I REFUSE TO GIVE UP!

OMAKE

Kakashi watched the cat Tora closely. Slowly he contacted his team. "Is everyone in position?" asked the masked man.

"I'm in position," stated Sakura.

"As am I," grunted Sasuke.

"Yup. They're in the missionary position," stated Naruto. "Gotta say Sasuke, I always thought you were gay and Sakura you really need a shave,"

There was silence followed by "WHAT THE FUCK!", maniacal cackling and a perverted giggle.