Hello my good friends, I am here to give you another chapter of Perfection. I am going to try and get this chapter out rather swiftly due to the extended time it took me to write the previous one (This was due to nothing more than my own laziness). Again if anyone has a response thoughts or a question I would love to see it as a review or a private message. Now then, let us being the tale of one Uzumaki Naruto.

Chapter 4: Conversion

*Time: About a year after the end of the last chapter*

'Hmm, this bunch seems rather unremarkable.' Thought one Uzumaki Naruto as he observed a bandit camp that had formed a couple of miles from Konoha and had been terrorizing a nearby farming village. 'Although the one with that axe seems to have more chakra than the others, not by much though, perhaps an ex-genin.' Naruto thought as he looked over the encampment.

Naruto's attire had changed since he met Anko nearly a year ago. He now wore a large dark green coat that concealed most movement and had sleeves that went past his hands, concealing his face leaving only his seemingly glowing eyes and his sharp-toothed smile visible. Had his hands been visible they would reveal sharpened black fingernails reminiscent of claws. He wore a pair of black baggy pants covering him similar to his previous ones; however these were slightly tighter and were designed to not produce sound during movement. He wore black open toed tabi that showed that his toes were clawed similarly to his hands.

The encampment itself didn't seem like anything spectacular, merely a grouping of tents in a forest clearing, a large fire in the middle and a crude wooden wall surrounding it. There were about 20 or so men wandering around the area, while another 10 sat around the campfire laughing and eating their stolen food. There was only one opening in the crude wall on the northern side, which was guarded by 2 men who seemed to be dead on their feet.

'So, about 40 men in all, assuming that some are inside the tents. Not the greatest haul but a good supply, they should last me for the next few weeks.' Naruto thought 'Although I am rather hungry, luckily I won't have a hard time deciding which one to eat.' As he thought this he gazed hungrily at the man with the axes and a larger chakra signature as he sat near the campfire and continued to get himself drunk, unaware of Naruto observing him and his allies from the treetops.

'Well, let's begin the show.' He thought with a twisted grin as he leapt silently from his perch in the trees into the camp, just behind the two guards. Oblivious to this, the guards continued their conversation "Hey Jiha." Said the guard to the left of the gate. "What is it Ushi?" said his partner to the right of the gate "Well, I was just gonna ask if you'd like to play a card game or something, I mean it's not like anyone ever comes to the gate anyway." At this Jiha sighed, saying "For the last time Ushi no we will not be playing cards, you know the boss will kill us if he finds out we were slacking off."

"Oh come on Jiha, he can't kill us if we don't get caught." Suddenly, Naruto spoke from the shadows of the wall "You needn't worry about your boss killing you." Both men spun around quickly and drew their weapons; Jiha was wielding a rusted sword while Ushi held what seemed to be a club with nails in it. "Who the hell are you!" Yelled Jiha "And more importantly, how the hell did you get in here!?"

Naruto was amused with the reactions of the guards, deciding to humor them somewhat he said "I got in here by sneaking through the trees, and as for who I am…" Naruto vanished in the eyes of the guards and appeared behind them "I am your executioner!" He yelled as he thrust both of his hands towards the guards' necks, cleaving easily through them with his sharpened black fingernails.

The two guards never stood a chance and were soon on the floor bleeding out. Naruto smirked as he activated the seal on his left wrist, a simple storage seal that he used to keep his meals relatively fresh. 'They still lose a little flavor but it was better than anything else.' Naruto thought as he sealed away his future meals.

'Now then, on to the main course.' Naruto thought as he grinned darkly at the prospect of the slaughter ahead. Naruto then began walking into the camp, planning to enjoy every minute of this.

*Half an hour later*

A figure was walking through the forest peacefully, paying little attention to what he/she was doing. The figure was deep in thought, pondering the words of its master. Its master had told it that in order to be a proper weapon that it must prove it was better than others, to show that you were not only stronger, but also smarter, quicker, and better in every way. 'But how would one go about proving that you are totally better than another?' the figure thought. 'Maybe I could prove I am better by never killing them, never truly fighting all out… No that would make me seem weak in front of master, and I can't afford that. But what else could there be?' the figure thought, but was interrupted from its thoughts by the sound of screams and the scent of blood. Curious, the figure hopped into the trees and set off towards the source of the sound.

A bleeding man ran through the forest clutching his limb right arm. He was breathing heavily and looking around whenever he could afford it as if he was running from someone. He was near hysterics as he ran in a random direction. In the trees, the figure was watching this man curiously, wondering just what he could be running from. The figure was rather slim and somewhat short, a girl of around eleven years old. She wore a dark green battle kimono and a Kiri hunter-ninja mask with two red lines on the lower half, one going from the bottom corner and swirling around where the mouth would be, and the other line going from the center of the bottom to the right of the first line. She was an orphan who had been found by a notorious missing-ninja named Zabuza. Her name was Haku.

'How interesting…' Thought the figure as it watched the man nearly run into a tree and try to stab it with a kunai in his fear. His kunai became lodged into the tree and the man began trying to pull it out. So distracted with his task was he that he didn't notice the cloaked figure come from the trees and begin walking up behind him. When he finally managed to pull the kunai out the figure was already only a few feet behind him. As if sensing something behind him, the man slowly turned around and screamed out in fear at the figure before him.

The figure chuckled and raised a clawed, blood-covered hand towards the man. "There's nowhere left to run my friend, I'm afraid you've reached a dead end." Said the cloaked figure, surprising the observing girl with its voice, which sounded like the voice of someone even younger than her. "N-no! G-get away from me y-you MONSTER!" Screamed the man as he swung his fist at the figure.

Catching the fist easily, the cloaked figure chuckled and caught the man's fist, brought it up to his face and sank his teeth into it. The man's screaming became even louder and he tried to pull his hand away. He succeeded, but not before the cloaked figure had removed his ring, pointer and middle fingers. Haku watched in interest and some disgust as the figure ate the man's fingers, blood coating his teeth and dripping down his chin.

The figure's face was now revealed, showing him to be a young boy that appeared to be ten years old. The boy had somewhat spiked blonde hair that ran down to his shoulders. His teeth were sharp and while clean would be nearly shining in their whiteness, but now were coated in blood. His eyes were a glacial blue with slits for pupils and his cheeks each had three jagged whisker-like scars running across them.

In the time Haku had taken to make these observations, Naruto had began and nearly finished devouring the man's body, making sure to keep him alive for as long as possible until he had eaten his heart. By now the boy was eating the last remaining parts of the man's organs. 'Well, he is a fast eater…' Haku thought morbidly.

"Ne, Mask-san, would you like some?" Naruto called out to Haku, who immediately snapped her attention to the boy upon realizing that he knew where she was. She cautiously hopped down from her perch on the tree branch and said "No, I do not want any of your… Meal…" cautiously staring at the boy, Haku then asked "Just why would you want to eat that man?"

Chuckling lightly, Naruto said "Well, it's obvious isn't it? I eat it because it tastes amazing, why else would you eat something?" Haku managed to appear unfazed by his words, saying "While that is a reason, there must be some other cause; otherwise you would be eating something else that is delicious like candy or something."

Naruto looked at her with a surprised look, not expecting anyone, much less someone he just met, to look past the reason he gave. "I must admit you surprise me, not many look past my first reason, they all just assume I'm insane. Well, I guess as a prize for managing to look past the first excuse I could tell you my original reason." Naruto gained a much more sinister look and the air began to feel like it weighed a ton. Haku could barely breath from the pressure as Naruto spoke "I eat them to prove that I am better than them, that they are below me and as such are nothing to me but meat." Naruto said as the pressure increased, causing Haku to begin feel as if her knees were about to give out below her.

"When I was younger, people treated me like nothing for no real reason, so now I treat them like they are below me, like the meat that they really are." Naruto said, then looked up at the sky. Haku instantly felt the pressure leave and released a breath she didn't realize she had been holding. "Well, it seems I'd better be getting back, see you later Mask-san. Oh and by the way, my name is Naruto, what is yours?" Haku was slightly shocked by how fast Naruto's mood had changed, but managed to stutter out "H-Haku, my name is Haku."

"Well Haku-san, perhaps we will meet again someday." said Naruto as he began running off into the trees. "Yes, maybe…" said Haku as she watched him run away. 'Wait, didn't he say that feasting on other people is a way to prove you are better than them? Maybe if I do that then Zabuza-sama will think I'm strong…' Haku thought as she looked at the corpse of the man, now mostly a skeleton except for the left arm, which Naruto had left alone for some reason.

'I wonder how it tastes.' Thought Haku as she unconsciously walked towards the body.

'Naruto-san said that it tasted amazing…'

Haku was now standing over the corpse

'Maybe I could just try it.'

She began leaning over the body

'Nobody would ever know.'

She grasped the arm

'I have to try, for Zabuza-sama.'

She brought the arm up to her mouth

'I will not be a failure, I am better than them, and now I will prove it…'

She sunk her teeth into the arm.

*On the road towards Kohona

Naruto stopped in the middle of the road suddenly. He looked back in the direction from which he had come. 'Hmmm, it seems she has joined me on the top of the food chain.' Thought Naruto 'Now I really hope we will meet again.' Naruto smirked as he turned back towards Kohona 'Perhaps next time we meet we can seek our prey together, it might be fun to have a companion to hunt with.' Naruto then began walking towards Kohona again, a dark smile on his face.

And that is the end of this chapter of Perfection. I hope you enjoyed it! Yes, Haku is a girl in this fanfiction, I have my reasons. Also, regarding the eventual pairing in this story, I have decided upon a few people of which to choose from, and as of posting this will be creating a poll so that you can all vote for which one you wish to be with Naruto. You may also suggest new people, however there are a few requirements for the suggestion: 1. You must include a reason for them being with Naruto, and try to make it somewhat within the realm of their cannon personality. 2. They must be somewhere relatively close to Naruto's age (No pairing him with Tsunade or something like that) 3. No yaoi, I understand that others like it and respect their choices in literature, but I do not read it and I will most definitely not be writing it.

Please submit any ideas in the form of a PM or a review, I don't care which. Be sure to vote for whomever you wish to be with Naruto and watch out for the next chapter of Perfection.

Until the next moonlit night,

Musamura