Right, well here we go again. Just want to remind you all about the Poll on Pairings. I know it hasn't been up long but I'll need to close it soon as I'm writing these chapters quicker then I'd thought I would.

If you have trouble reading about children suffering then skipping this chapter may be a wise decision. I'll but a quick summery at the beginning of the next chapter for you so you don't miss anything important.

Disclaimer: Naruto and AvP belong to Masashi Kishimoto and 20th Century Fox

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Danzō walked through the underground base. Today was the day Konoha began its assent to greatness. Today was when they began experimenting on the boy. As he entered the main lab Hojo broke away from the group of gathered scientists.

"All preparations are complete." Hojo rambled. "I have spoken with your seal master, he has confirmed that the seal will not be affected by the procedure. In fact he stated it would serve as a second level of protection. Without the charkra system linking them then together the risk of him losing control because of its influence will drastically drop."

"Good. Let's begin" Danzō ordered.

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Naruto Uzumaki didn't know what was going on. He had gone to sleep in the orphanage and had woken up in some kind of empty room. He was cold, hungry and alone. So it wasn't all that different than any other day. As long as he could remember he had been alone. He'd seen older children messing around and pranking each other, so he had started to as well in the hope that they'd like him. They hadn't. They had shouted at him and called him names. Then ran to the adults and told on him, lying and saying it was worse than it had been. Some even began to use him as a scapegoat. This in turn made him angry and resulted in them being pranked worse than before. He had gotten good at it too, no one in the orphanage could prove he had anything to do with the bad things that happened to people. And without proof, they couldn't report him to the police. Was this their answer then? Lock him away so he wouldn't cause trouble.

Naruto was shaken from his altogether too dark and mature, for a seven year old, thought. "Up" Ordered a masked man who had entered through a small door opposite Naruto.

"Why? Who are you?" Naruto asked. His only reply was the back of the man's hand striking his face, followed by a blow to the back of the neck.

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As he woke again Naruto found himself bound to a table and surrounded by several people in white coats. They were all looking over notes or talking amongst themselves. He tried to shout at them to let him go but couldn't, he had been gagged.

"Professor, he has awoken." One of the people said.

"Excellent, excellent." Came the reply. "Now we can finally begin. Everyone to your stations. We have a lot of work to get through." Naruto silently pleaded with them to let him go as they fell upon him. Then there was only pain and burning.

XXX (One year later) XXX

"How is his body holding up?" Hojo looked up to see Danzō standing there awaiting a reply. Hojo didn't bother to conceal his annoyance. The man had been interrupting him at least once a day and often sent his little grunts to oversee the tests. It was quite distracting, not to mention making is unauthorised usage of the 'Liquid' difficult. The substance in large doses caused mutation and exposure proved almost always fatal. But drops, diluted in vast quantities of tea or something else made it safe to consume. At least he had thought it was, turns out it was addictive and his body suffered awful withdrawal symptoms. Even worse was the apparent immunity he was developing, forcing him to take larger doses to stay healthy. Doses close to those that caused the psychological side effects to become apparent. "Well?" Danzō seemed impatient today.

"Surprisingly well" Hojo answered. "It seems we under-estimated the Kyuubi's healing capabilities. His Charkra pathways are still intact, mostly. His body has not mutated too much. Mostly increases in bone and muscle density, although his vocal cords seem to be changing as well. However it's his eyes that I find most interesting. They seem to have adjusted to viewing in a higher level of the electromagnetic spectrum, specifically the infrared portion. His blood has slowly begun to change colour. It's closer to yellow now then the natural red or even green like the 'Liquid'. While it may be a dead end, I would like permission to begin testing his blood. It could be used as a means of augmenting others that lack a healing factor."

"Fine. How long until we can begin testing his abilities?" Danzō inquired. He needed to know just how powerful the 'Liquid' made people and if it justified the lost of their charkra.

"Well will know once these latest batches of result are completed." Hojo told him as he moved over to a monitor. It showed Naruto, once again bound to a table, surrounded by more scientists. "Oh good, I was worried they might have started collecting the samples already. We use a special tranquilizer which paralyzes the body but leaves it victim aware and able to feel what's happening. Pain tolerance training, just one of the many services we offer." Hojo joked.

"Right, so how long until these tests are finished?" Danzō asked.

"Eight weeks, max. Then you can start training our little science project." Hojo commented, never taking his eyes off the image of the screaming boy who was having samples of his bone marrow extracted.

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Naruto sat perched on the roof of a building in the pouring rain. He had been fitted with one of the smaller, mass-produced blade-gauntlets. He watched the small patrol moving back and forth along the roof across from him. Judging from their accents they were from lightning Country. His orders were to infiltrate the small safe-house and kill the one they were protecting. He was not to be detected and was to leave no trace. His ability to see their body heat would make sneaking past them fairly simple, but Naruto rarely passed up a chance to kill when possible. Besides if he could kill them all, then there was no way he would be detected. He backed up to the far ledge before running full speed and jumping. He cleared the street and rolled into his landing. Thankfully the rain drowned out the noise. He shot forward forcing one of the patrolling guards off the roof. He twisted and lashed out with the wrist-blade, opening one of the other guard's throat. The remaining guard panicked and dropped his sword. Naruto's fist lashed out colliding with his face. Naruto then kicked in one of his knees bringing the guard down to his level. Naruto then gripped his head and twisted, killing the man. Naruto waited a moment for the brief feeling of joy to pass. When they had started conditioning him he had refused to fight or kill. That was soon fixed through the 'carrot and stick' method. If he refused he was beaten and food was withheld. If he did as they asked he got food, warm clothing and was injected with drugs to make him feel good. It worked and within a few short weeks he was killing anyone who was dumped into the training fields with him.

"Three down, nine more to go." Naruto said to himself. Looking over the edge to ensure the first guard had died. Naruto smirked before entering he building

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The ROOT agents sent to retrieve Naruto entered the 'safe-house'. The only sound was the dripping of liquid. Fū followed the sound. As he got closer he detected the smell of blood.

"Sir, over hear" called on of the agents with him. Fū followed the woman into one of the larger rooms and was met by the sight of eleven skinned bodies hanging from the roof. A twelfth body, clothing and skin intact, lay on the floor. On closer inspection, Fū saw that it was the one that had been designated as the 'target' for this test. He was headless.

"Spread out and find the boy." He ordered. . Fū was worried. As a Yamanaka, he knew a bit about psychology and so could see that the boy's psychopathic and sadistic tendencies were getting worse. The conditioning had made him a danger to everyone around, combined with his training and little Naruto was a greater risk to the populace of Konoha then he would be with the Kyuubi able to influence him. Even that was there. The erosion of his charkra coils was meant to have the added benefit of severing his link to the beast, yet it still affected him. Flooding its charkra through him regularly to keep some of the coils intact.

Fū's radio buzzed to life. "Found him Sir, on the roof." Fū used the 'Body-Flicker Technique' to arrive almost instantaneously. He saw the boy sitting on the ledge, using a kunai to scrap the skin off a severed head. That's it, Fū decided. Danzō had to be notified about this.

XXX (Six months later) XXX

Following Fū's report, and nearly a dozen similar cases, Naruto got the nickname of 'The Headhunter'. His habit of beheading powerful opponents and his targets couldn't be explained. He was never trained to do so, and no matter how much they tried he wouldn't stop. Hojo theorized that it may be a side effect of the 'Liquid'. Whatever the reason, Danzō decided, it showed that Naruto was becoming uncontrollable. Thankfully, Hojo had made a breakthrough. He believed that using a mixture of Naruto's blood and the 'Liquid' he could stabilize the mutations and create other Super-Soldiers. Before he began he just needed to run some basic tests on Naruto's organs and gather his collect his blood.

"Collect the boy, take him out of the village and then kill him." Danzō ordered his men. "Remember, as little damage to the body as possible"

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Right, that's chapter four out of the way. In the next chapter Naruto goes on a rampage through the ROOT base, kills most of the scientists involved in the research into the Predators and finds himself free to live his own way.

I plan to wait until Sunday before I start writing the next chapter as it will more than likely feature Naruto meeting the person I decide to Pair him with. I want to wait jjust a little longer before I close the Poll.

Before then I might through up a brief outline of what will happen between Naruto's escape and the Chunin Exam Finals, when Naruto will return to Konoha. This is so I can get feedback and see if anyone has ideas I could try out. You know like fights he could pick with powerful people, canon or filler.

Finally Some info on Naruto's character. He will be a 'Bad-Blood'. One who is without honour. This means he will be somewhere between a 'Dark Anti-hero' and a 'Villain Protagonist'. This is because he never had anyone accept him, the Hokage hadn't started meeting Naruto and Iruka still saw him as the monster who killed his family when Naruto was taken, add onto that the horrific treatment by Danzō's scientists and he will be similar to, if only slightly more stable then, Gaara.

Finally can anyone guess were my two O.C scientists, Professor Hojo and Dr. J, come from? Both are characters in other fictional medias.

Well thanks for reading and if you spot any misspellings (Colour is right using the 'The Queen's English' and 'Hiberno-English') or grammar mistakes point them out and I'll correct them.