Finally, continuing. I feel obligated to tell you all sorry for the late updated, because there was really no reason for me not to post besides the fact that I'm tired almost all the time. It won't be ending anytime soon either, seeing that as of this Friday, I'm a senior in high school. Now, this revision took a lot, because of the fact that I had killed Gai Maito in this chapter. Don't worry, I didn't do it this time, because I actually need him later for the revision.

Chapter 5: Evil grows while hope fades away.

Naruto hastily gathered several things that he would be needing for his mission. He knew it was only a matter of time before Tsunade and the others would be coming for him. After all that he had told Sakura, he still didn't think that she had suffered enough though. He wanted to make her heart bleed just as much as she had made his. After grabbing an entire arsenal of weapons, and sealing them in scrolls, he rushed from the apartment, but had one more thing to do. He knocked on every door, seeing as the entire place was empty except for the land lord. He ran a little further from the building and then looked back. Making one hand seal, he activated the exploding tags he had set all over the building, completely obliterating it.

"I suppose this is when we run like hell?" The fox called with a chuckle. As soon as he finished speaking, the village alarm went off.

'Damn! I thought I'd have more time.' Naruto turned away from the village and darted off into the forest. He jumped into a tree and looked back at Konaha.

'I hope that village burns.' Naruto thought.

"Alright kid, you are starting to scare me. Are we going after the Uchiha brat, or are you going to turn evil for real?"

Naruto grumbled. 'You aren't the ferocious demon every thinks you are.'

"I'M NOT EVIL!!!! I was just bored! You, on the other hand…"

'Don't say it!' Naruto growled at the kyuubi. He turned away from the village again and leapt away. "Besides, you have to come with me whether you like it or not."

"Naruto, as a friend, I think you have completely lost your mind!" Naruto just chuckled at the kyuubi's remark.

As Naruto traveled a kunai flew right at him. He stopped in his tracks and let the kunai slam into the tree he was standing in. "Who are you? Come down here!"

Naruto knew that voice. "It's me Neji!" Naruto said in a very annoyed tone.

"Naruto! What are you doing out here?" Neji had jumped into the tree with Naruto and Hinata was right next to him.

"Hello Naruto-kun! Where are you going?" Hinata said blushing, and seemingly trying to hide behind her cousin. Although she had got over her stuttering, mostly, she still acted kind of weird. Naruto had come to a slight realization about the girl, but not completely. She admired him, she knew, but he didn't know she loved him. He looked away from her. Hinata, just like Ino, could bring out the best in him, and that's not what he needed right now. He needed to go after Sasuke.

"I'm reckoning. Otogakure ninja have been spotted nearby, that's why the village siren is blaring." He hoped they believed him.

"All alone? They didn't send a team with you?" Neji asked.

"Do you know who you're talking too? A team would just slow me down! You should get back to the village in case something happens there." He said and turned to continue his mission.

"Naruto!" Neji called again. Naruto stopped in annoyance once again.

"What is it now?"

"Why do I think you're lying to me? Are you the reason the siren is going off?" He called sternly, already taking a fighting stance and activating his byakugon. Hinata gasped at her cousin.

"Onii-san, what are you doing? N-Naruto-kun would never…" She looked at Naruto herself. His eyes didn't shine like they used to. It was all she needed to know that something was wrong.

"Naruto-kun…what happened to you?"

"Neji, Hinata-chan, don't try to stop me. I'm leaving, but I'll come back. Tsunade and the others can fill you in on what's happening, but don't fight me. If you do, I can't guarantee your safety." He said coldly, though he was pleading. He respected Neji, and held Hinata quite dear.

"Forgive me Naruto, but I can not let you leave unless you tell me exactly what's going on." Neji said.

'Dammit, I can feel the others getting closer already. I don't have time for this. Forgive me Neji, Hinata.' Naruto did a shadow clone, and sent it towards Hinata and Neji. Neji struck the clone, easily destroying it, but didn't expect to see a kunai hurled right behind it. The kunai barely missed him as he dodged. However, there was an exploding tag attached to the kunai that went off a few feet behind the two. Not expecting it, Neji was blown forward, hitting a tree and getting knocked out. Hinata was blown forward right into Naruto. They both fell and hit the ground. She struggled to lean up, as she was on top of him and look him in the eyes. When she did, the world grew black. She appeared in a long ballroom, dressed in a gorgeous white dress. Naruto wore a tuxedo and held his hand out towards her, indicating that he wanted to dance.

Naruto stood, looking down at the unconscious Neji, and the genjutsu induced Hinata. He didn't want to use force against them, but they forced him. What else could he do. Besides, he had to sever his bonds with the village. It would be the only way he could complete his mission of ending Sasuke's life once and for all.

In the village…

"You all will go after Naruto Uzamaki. Do not try to confront him because I can not ensure that you will live to regret it. Please, retrieve Ino Yamanaka before she reaches Naruto." Lady Tsunade had rounded up as many shinobi as she could to try and stop Naruto. "The team led by Gai and Shizune will leave second, giving the team to be led by Kurenai ample time to retrieve help from the village of the sand. Kakashi Hatake's team will be the final group to go. The rest of you will stay here because it has been confirmed that there are Oto

shinobi surrounding our village and we will need as much resistance as possible. Naruto Uzamaki will run into some of their ranks which will give Kurenai's team time to catch up to him. Is all of that understood?"

"YES MAM!" With that, all the teams dispersed. Tsunade was trying her best to sound confident but she was completely worried about Naruto. She could careless about the mist ninja at the moment.

'Please Naruto. Don't give into the darkness like Sasuke did…'

As Naruto ran through the dense trees, he began to hear noises up ahead. He slowed down and hid behind a tree.

'Who are they?' Naruto saw four men sitting down in a clearing and drinking. He looked closer at their headbands. 'Otogakure ninja. Good, they can tell me what I need to know about where Sasuke is.' Naruto ran out into the clearing.

"What the…" One of the men shouted before Naruto slit his throat with a swift swipe of his kunai. "STOP HIM!" Another shouted. Naruto looked at the man with a emotionless expression on his face. The man saw Naruto's eyes and coward as everything went black. The man dropped to the ground with his eyes wide open and his mouth foaming.

"He…he's a monster! Run!" Naruto smiled evilly. He threw the kunai at the shinobi who had screamed. It hit him in the back of the head. Naruto advanced on the last shinobi. The man had crawled to a tree and was crying in fear. He looked up at Naruto as a shadow covered his face so the only thing the man saw was Naruto's glowing red eyes. Naruto smiled again.

"Look at you. You pissed your pants. What a baby."

"Pl-Please, d-don't kill me." Naruto picked the man up by the collar.

"Where is Sasuke Uchiha?" Naruto asked calmly.

"H-he's about two miles North of here with Lord Orochimaru. There is a cavern there where they have made their temporary headquarters."

"Thanks." Then Naruto slammed another kunai into the man's mouth, pinning him to the tree.

"You've broken me kid. I'll do whatever you want. If you need chakra just take it."

'Why the sudden change?'

"You are unstoppable kid. Hey, how about you loosen these bonds a little bit. It's kind of cramped in her."

'You've been in there for seventeen years and now your complaining?'

"Oh, come on."

'Fine, whatever.' Naruto does several hand signs and places his hand over the seal on his stomach. The seal faded but didn't vanish.

"Thanks…HEY CRAZY KID! OVER HERE!" The kyuubi yelled as Ino darted several yards away. She stopped. Naruto got angry.

'You tricked me! By damaging that seal I gave you a connection to this world. You sneaky bastard!' Ino turned and saw Naruto. She rushed towards him. Naruto quickly prepared to do another genjutsu. Ino stopped as she saw the area of bodies that surrounded Naruto. She gasped as she saw the evil look in Naruto's eyes.

"Naruto…what's wrong with you? I agree about the Sasuke thing but this is going overboard." Naruto lessened his chakra.

"You aren't here to stop me?"

"Well, yes. Lady Tsunade says that you aren't strong enough to beat Orochimaru."

"She doesn't know how strong I am."

"Hey, crazy girl, is there something you want to tell Naruto?" The kyuubi could care less about Orochimaru. He wanted Naruto to come completely back to his senses. Ino opens her mouth to tell Naruto how she felt but a hand grabbed her abruptly.

Naruto's evil look returned. "Dammit, you caught up already!" The person that had grabbed Ino was Shizune. She jumped out of the clearing and guided Ino away. Ino released herself from the kunoichi.

"Stop Shizune!"

"I'm doing this to save your life!"

"I was getting through to him! I could have stopped him!" Shizune looked startled. She looked over to where she had just drug the last hope for Naruto away from.

"FALL BACK!" She cried but it was too late.

"RASENGAN!" The explosion blew most of the trees away. All the forces that had come with Shizune and Gai had all been wiped out. Gai himself landed feet away from Shizune and Ino. He struggled to sit up.

"Wow. If that would have hit me, I would have been killed. I've never seen him produce a rasengan that large." Gai called. He stood up and walked back into the clearing, which was even bigger due to the explosion. He looked around at the many bodies that lay strewn throughout the area.

"Naruto…how could you? Me and Lee thought that your flames blew greater than anyone's. How could you let Sakura get to you like this? You just killed the people that you swore to protect." Gai called out, holding back an anger that was inside of him.

"I gave up protecting people who don't want me to. There's nothing left in that shit hole of a village for me, now stand down, or I won't aim the rasengan at the ground next time." He called. Gai's eyes widened. He had done so much damage without hitting a single person.

"I'm sorry Naruto, but I will have to stop you here and now. I can not forgive you for killing so many of our comrades." Gai yelled.

Gai leaped forward, preparing to strike Naruto with a kick. Naruto blocked and returned his own. Gai did the same block, and the two began to exchange rapid blows. Gai punches. Block. Naruto kicks. Block. Gai knees. Block. Naruto punches. Block. They repeated it several times before breaking apart.

'Good. All I have to do is stall until Shizune and Kakashi arrives…' Gai thought to himself. He found it amazing that Naruto was able to keep up with his sparring pace, even without using the kyuubi's chakra. But it wasn't over.

"You are very good Naruto. It is a shame that you had to betray the village like Sasuke has."

"I'm nothing like Sasuke. I'm better. Now stop holding back, or I will kill you next time." Naruto growled. Gai swear dropped. Naruto was serious now. He had seen through Gai's attempts to prolong the battle.

"Fine, then I'll have to stop you here myself." Gai sighed and began to build his chakra.

"First gate, release!" He called. Naruto smirked as Gai's chakra began to flutter around him, and his skin began to turn red.

'I'll have to stop him quick. I can feel Gaara coming…'

His thoughts were stopped as Gai vanished. Naruto was startled for a quick second, giving Gai the upper hand. He delivered a strong kick to Naruto's side, sending him slamming through several trees. Naruto grabbed a branch and slung himself onto it. He didn't have time to analyze the situation as Gai shot at him like a bullet, hitting him with a hook. Before Naruto could go anywhere, Gai grabbed his leg and drew him back into a fist to the gut. Then he began to lay into Naruto with a flurry of punches.

"Had enough kit?"

'Shut up! He caught me off guard. I'll end this now.'

Naruto let Gai hit him several more times before finally catching his fist. Gai looked into his eyes, and saw that he was using the kyuubi's chakra now. Before Gai could attempt to move, Naruto had kneed him in the stomach, knocking him out of the first gate. Then he slung him towards the ground. Naruto jumped down, landing on top of him.

"Take him back to the village! And stop coming after me, or I will kill you!" Naruto growled and kicked Gai's unconscious body back over to Shizune, whom still held Ino.

'Naruto-kun…' Shizune thought. 'What have you done?'