A/N: I'm not gonna apologize for the long wait, nothing I say feels right to me. My only excuse: school's a bitch. End of story. Oh yea, and who ever Shade () is, they get a mental high five, cause they are fricken awesome. Leave me an email address or at least sign in so I talk to you whenever. Nathan, you are still my fav person on here, don't get jealous. Warning: this chapter has some funny bits, some of which you won't understand because they car personal jokes.

"I'm going for a walk," was all the little slip of paper dangling in front of Genma's face said. Naruto was standing off to the side with Snake hanging off his shoulder, with the note in his mouth, looking down at the jonin. Genma froze, for just a second; the genin looked like Itachi, glairing down at his opponent right before he finished them. But the moment passed and Genma shook his head, both to clear the image and to give permission, not that Naruto would have listened if he had said no. The boy reeled in Snake, the bones somehow had started to grow a layer of sickening black, half-rotted skin, unwrapped from the boy's thin neck and slinked to the sandy ground of their camp with a strange dry sounding noise. No one said anything as the boy took off his pack and heavy coat and set it near Dog and Crow, also growing dark skin, who were lazing a way from the others. From his back, a black child-size skeleton crawled off and sat near the pack as well. Without so much as a glance at anyone else, Naruto walked off into the night with Snake following behind him.

As Naruto was swallowed by the shadows, the Suna jonin spoke. "Is it wise to him to walk by himself? Even with the fire, he may loose his way and we don't have the time to search for him. We are running on a short timeline and your team is moving slower than we would be ourselves." Even worse in Baki's opinion would be the boy running into more Suna nin out on patrol. He left this unsaid. "If he gets hurt by anything, then our village can not be held responsible."

"Of course," Genma said, nodding. "Naruto can take care of himself with only one skeleton with him. You saw the bones rise from the ground; now imagine the number of bodies hiding under the 'bloody sands' of Suna." Two of the sand genin shivered. "He also knows when notto attack someone," he said with a hard look at an apathetic Gaara.

"Naruto is far stronger than anyone gives credit." Neji was on watch duty, but no one really expected an attack, so it was only a formality. He was sitting with his back to the fire, watching the shifting sands of the desert. "He has survived more than you would think." Neji said these words almost wistfully, as if he knew something about Naruto than the others did. Everyone was silent was a long time, only the low sound of sand being shifted by the wind could be heard.

A cold wind suddenly blew sparks up into the sky, glinting red on something metallic out past the low dunes. Neji stood suddenly and gripped a kunai in front of his chest, as if expecting a fight. The fire flew up again, but the object didn't reappear. "A knife." Neji put the weapon was in his holster and sat back down. "Snake got somebody. It is too far away to be clear, but Naruto is in no danger."

"You care very much for that beast." Kankuro felt extremely uncomfortable being around two containers, Gaara was more than enough for him. Every time he looked t the skinny blond, every time he closed his eyes, all he saw was the wraith emerging from the sand and the skeletons pulling themselves from the ground. He shivered just remembering it. He couldn't help but hate him, and he had a lot of hate built up over the years.

"Naruto isn't so bad," Tenten said when the other two leaf nin gave the puppeteer a sharp look. "It just takes sometime to get used to him. He can be a little…odd, but that's just who he is."

"That is who he was made into." Neji added on. Kankuro made a contentious sound and opened his mouth to speak, but Neji continued. "He is no beast." He sent a cold look towards his other team member. "You need to listen to yourself and follow your own words. You-"

"Enough." Genma had heard enough. "You are doing nothing but sounding like children arguing back and forth like that." They were also appearing foolish before a group of nin form another village, one that they were trying to form an alliance with. Utterly childish behavior that would get them killed.

"And how are you so knowledgeable, Hyuuga-san?" Baki asked.

"I was assigned to watch over Naruto after Hideaki's," he pointed to the child skeleton for a second, "death and following revival." The group of bone creatures all focused on Neji suddenly, their attention swaying from the sand. Dog raised his hackles and what skin it had pulled back from its fangs in an obvious sign of aggression. Silence fell over the camp and wasn't broken until the nin made their way to their tents to sleep, leaving Gaara and the bones to watch over the camp. No one slept well that night.

Something was calling to Naruto. It was a feeling in his stomach, an itch on his neck, a shiver running down his spine. It was death and a lot of it. A grin unknowingly found its way on the half-crazed boy's face. It was several minutes before Naruto got the first body, bloody from a large puncture wound through a man's chest. He walked on without much care, only wanting to catch the one creating such carnage. All he found were more bodies, creating a red path headed slowly in the direction of Suna. It appeared to be nothing more than a bandit camp, an almost successful one if the smells of alcohol and filth under the one of blood were anything to go by.

Naruto cocked his head to the side, scenting the air, as the wind blew. The desert was hotter than he expected, but the barrenness he loved. It was just like in his forest, surrounded by the dead. Snake let out a dry chuckle that echoed through Naruto's head as they passed a man whose face had been cut vertically in half. 'What is so funny, please, do share.'

'I finally figured out how to stop a clown from smiling.' Naruto stopped and gave the rotten snake a curious look. He continued after crawling up the boy's jacket to settle in his usual position around his neck. 'Hit him in the face with an axe!' Snake laughed hysterically as Naruto rolled his eyes and continued into the center of the camp. In one broken tent, they found a man lying with a woman, both skewered together by a spear. 'Well, at least we know he's as strait as a broken boomerang.'

'Please stop this horribly failing attempt at comedy.'

'No way, this is way too much fun.' As they walked around, Snake kept making jokes, the more Naruto complained, the worse it got. 'Ooh, that man wasn't circumcised,' he commented as they passed what had been used as a bathroom. The man in question was completely bare of any coverings and was held up to the washing bench by several knives stuck through his body. 'Someone should have kicked his sister in the jaw a couple of years ago.'

'Oh, god. I think I'm going even more insane.' Even now, his smile didn't waver; instead it stretched crazily from one side of his face to the other. If the moon was full, its light would have reflected off of the almost bleach white teeth.

'Hey, do you know how to confuse an idiot?' For some unfathomed reason, Naruto felt like joining his Watcher in saying stupid jokes.

'26. How does a crazy person get through the woods?'

'They take the psycho path. Why don-' The bad joke was interrupted by the sounds of bottles breaking and thick voices coming from behind a dune. Naruto didn't bother with stealth because any noise he would have made was covered by the loud talking before him. He stepped around the final large dune blocking the people from his sight, but once he saw them, he kept in the shadows of the night that were not banished by their small fire. Two dirty and drunk men sat next to each other while they huddled to keep warm in the now piercingly cold wind of the desert at night. Naruto had no problem with the cold and hadn't realized how bad it was to other-normal-people. The two were passing a bottle back and forth, each time a little more slowly than the last.

Hey Kazuma, hey, look" the shorter one stood, holding the bottle aloft. "I've got the cheese and you can't have it! I'm th' best..." he fell to the side as his friend stumbled into him and grabbed the bottle.

"No, I've got the cheese and you can't have it." He twirled in a circle like a dancer before falling over into the sand.

The other man stood and pointed at Kazuma. "Give it back, cat face, or I'll sic my zombie army after you!"

"You can not defeat me!" Kazuma puffed out his chest. "I'm a wizard!" He said this proudly despite his companion's obvious confusion.

The drunk stopped dead for a second. He finally spoke, sounding as sober as Naruto had heard him so far. "What the hell is a wizard?"

Kazuma lazily got up and tried to dust himself off. He failed miserably and gave up, leaving half of his face coated in sand granules. "I mean vizard!"

He shook his head as he raised his arms in a warding off gesture and shook head, backing up at the same time "..........You're crazy man."

"I will kill you with my ninja kittens!!!!" Kazuma suddenly leap forward and smashed into his companion. They wrestled for a moment before the other man threw Kazuma off of him.

"You're fucked up man."

If it was possible, Naruto's smile grew even wider as Kazuma tackled the other and they began to tumble in the sand again. He formed hand seals slowly, reveling in the feeling of his twisted chakra running through his veins. On his last hand seal, Snake for slipping into the mind, he focused on the more drunk of the two, Kazuma. "Obieru," he whispered in a gravely tone.

Kazuma suddenly froze, allowing the other to get away from. He retreated to the edge of the shadows near Naruto. Kazuma screamed and held his head, making the other jerk back suddenly at the loud noise. Kazuma's eyes turned completely black and he began to convulse, foamy blood began to bubble up from his open mouth as he twitched on the ground. "Help me, Captain Dark. Please!" He screamed again. "It's in my head. They're in my head!"

"It's the aliens," he sobbed out from the ground. "They're eating my brain and making me see people in wheelchairs! The giant cat, he has my cheese! Please, captain dark, you have to help me get it back!"

The other shook his head and began to back away, almost running into a excited Naruto. He turned, getting a look of the boy and rotting snake and bolted as fast as a man who had never had a single job of liquor. Faster even. Kazuma got up and stumbled in the retreating man's direction but only found Naruto. He couldn't see him, but he could almost feel his impending doom. He stepped back a pace and pulled out a rusted and chipped knife. It blazed red for just an instant as the man ran towards Naruto, but the color died just as he did. Instantly as Snake lunged and pierced his throat, wrapping around him, cutting him with sharp bits of bone that were uncovered.

'Tastes nothing like chicken.'

'More's the pity.' Naruto cracked his neck and back before heading back towards camp, in the same direction as the "Captain Dark" person. His smile never left his face, even when replaced his coat and leaned against his pack to watch the rest of the night.

Naruto and Gaara were staring at each other from across the room, which Tenten and Kankuro found completely aggravating. Neither of them had blinked for the ten minutes their jonin sensei's had left them to go talk with the Kazekage. They had both said that children had no place in such negotiations. Gaara, Temari, Neji, and Naruto had all accepted the order without complaint, but Kankuro and Tenten had looking down. The other two were watching the two warily, as if expecting one to suddenly lash out to the other. After another minute, Kankuro got tired of it and stood.

"Why are both just staring?" Gaara blinked and glared at his brother, breaking contact with the blond container. With a low growl, the sand nin pulled out a small change pouch and tossed the thing at Naruto, who caught it easily. The blond opened it and dumped in into his palm, several coins fell into his hand. Naruto silently counted them and nodded slightly when he saw that they were all there. He quickly put them back into the pouch and placed it into one of his coat pockets. Silently, as always, Naruto pushed off of the wall he was leaning on and stepped towards the door.

He had opened it when Kankuro got up and moved towards him. Snake, the only Watcher in the room, pulled himself up from Naruto's shoulder and focused a slowly forming gold eye on the nin. He stopped instantly. "You shouldn't travel around the village by yourself, people may see you as an invader."

Something passed by Kankuro, making him jump. Naruto caught the object, a crystal badge of sorts, and looked at Gaara, who threw it.

"Let them see that." Gaara said before opening the single window and leaving ass well. Naruto shrugged and pocketed the badge covered in small wind designs. He left to follow the feeling of death he had felt back in the desert. The one who had destroyed the bandit camp was now in Suna. Descending the stairs and walking the streets of Suna was nothing interesting to Naruto. Here was the same as Konoha, everyone went out of their ways to get out of his path and all conversations grew quiet as he passed, the same thing he went through in his own village.

Only once was Naruto stopped, and that was by children offering him a small pear-like fruit for defeating "mean Gaara-san" as they called him. These children were pulled away by their parents and scolded in harsh whispers. They meant nothing to Naruto. He was only interested in finding the one he hunted. His trail lead him to the Kazekage's dome-like tower, but then curved around it and down a disguised alleyway. Following this small road, Naruto felt his insanity returning and his smile forming on his face. He relished in the absolute the person had in their own craziness, they were able to have enough power to catch his interest andhold it but they were not caught as they gave off such an aura. Gaara had an aura as well, but it was nowhere near as strong when affecting Naruto. Either they were powerful, or the Kazekage allowed them to be in his village. Interesting, either way.

Before he could realize someone was behind him, distracted as he was by contemplating his own madness, three people had surrounded him. The grin widened and Naruto began to fight with the reckless vigor of a person desperate for bloodshed. "Kasei: Sune-kudansu," Naruto said while pumping Snake full of chakra. This, unlike Obieru, he had never used in a combat situation before, but Naruto was far too bloodthirsty to think before using. Snake stiffed out straight and what skin he had stretched out to cover the space between the bones, forming a staff-like object. The staff's snake head opened wide and a wicked-looking blade extended from the opening. This all happened very quickly and after only 5 seconds, instead of a rotten Snake, Naruto was holding a fully formed scythe. Naruto handled the scythe with the care of a madman and used it to cut through the people with the skill of a surgeon. Only one was good enough to dodge his first two slashes and even had the ability to push the crazed boy back.

"You shouldn't have come here, but now I'm not bored anymore." The man, obviously a nin in disguise, fell into an odd taijutsu stance and closed his eyes to concentrate. He could hear everything around him, even his friends' labored breathing. He tried to focus on his enemy, as he did in any serious fight, but was unable to do so. The man opened his eyes in confusion, just in time to see a grinning and coatless Naruto cut him horizontally in half at his waist. As the body fell, it sprayed blood all over Naruto, who only raised his face to the spewing liquid. He looked over to where the man had been looking when he was cut down. Naruto nodded at his twin, who was looking on dispassionately, and the twin nodded back before changing into Hideaki, skin and all. Naruto's coat hung off of him and billowed to the ground, but the hollow-eyed boy left it there.

"Interesting. Though they were weak, you took them out in less than five minutes. You are something else." Naruto turned from his fleshed out skeleton companion and focused on a tall white haired man standing in Naruto's way down the alley. But as the constant wind of Wind Country blew towards Naruto, the boy's eye widened almost comically. Naruto didn't care about anything anymore. Not the body, not the blood, not Hideaki. This was the one Naruto had been looking for in the desert. This was the man giving off an aura of controlled madness. This was the one Naruto wanted to test himself against. He moved faster than he thought possible, if he had actually been thinking under his spell of madness, and brought the heavy scythe down on the man. The man brought up his hand and caught the tip of the blade, much to Naruto's delight. He focused his bright green eyes on Naruto's rapidly darkening ones, and smirked. "This should be entertaining."

Enough action for you crazies? Like it? Please tell me. Oh yea…

Obieru- to have a nightmare. The victim looses his mind because he looses all sensory functions.

Kasei: Sune-kudansu- Transformation: Snake Dance. Snake turns into a scythe (like from soul eater). I have more on the way, so look out for new jutsus.