Naruto grimaced, there was practically no real information inside Orochimaru's head other than how to be a pedophile and escape the prying eyes of the ANBU and since Naruto already knew the latter and didn't want to know the other, he was given nothing of real importance.

He turned away and began walking only to be stopped by a rustling of gravel and dirt, out from the shadows came his little group and as well as Hikari who tossed a file to Naruto. "I infiltrated the Hokage's office and found nothing we didn't already know but I checked up on the civilian homes and came out with several of them having papers of recruiting assassins to hunt you down, if you look through the papers you'll find the names of the five past assassins that we killed chasing you this month" She reported. Naruto hummed to himself 'So that's where they came from' he mused before flipping through the papers and frowned when he read some of the names 'The Blood Red Huntress?' that named peaked Narutos interest as he had never heard that name, an assassin he has no information of? That was dangerous.

Naruto gave a curt nod before all of them disappeared out of sight.

The very next day

The Hokage sat peacefully on his desk or perhaps none too little, he looked around his room and his gaze dropped onto Homura and Koharu, his former teammates and bane of his existence. Off to his side was Danzo who, since they had been friends for quite a while, could tell he was inwardly seething.

As to why? He know not of why but he knows anything that made Danzo made either involved his ROOT, which he knew was still operational, or the livelihood of Konoha. Both weren't really ideal.

"Explain to me again why you are here?" Sarutobi groaned out and he would have sworn he saw the ghost of a smile flash on Danzo's face at his expense. Koharu huffed before speaking as if her position were even greater than the Hokage "The Uchiha needs to get stronger, he is weak, Hatake's teachings is not enough I suggest we place him under the teaching of an ANBU operative" Sarutobi bristled at that, the ANBU had better things to do than to deal with the arrogant Uchiha. If he sicked Yugao on the Uchiha, he wouldn't even last a day, let alone an hour. No, the idea would probably end in the civilian section asking for Yugao's head for doing what they asked of her. He will not condemn one of his own to deal with a civilian. No, that would be a fate far too cruel from hell.

"No, Koharu, the ANBU have more pressing matters to tend to than to teach the Uchiha" The sandaime said with a tired sigh, slightly irritated that they seemed to be forgetting who was the leader of the village.

The old woman's face scrunched up in anger before she began doing the passive-aggressive, political way of...well bitching.

Danzo however paid no heed to the woman or his former friend as his mind began to work overdrive. His ROOT had seen the fight Naruto and his band of, what he can only assume, mercenaries beat down a massive contingent of Sound and Sand nin yesterday and he was seething on how his ROOT failed to have come anywhere near such a threat to Konoha and the fact that the Jinchuuriki seemed to be far too powerful for him to manipulate so easily. Nevertheless he had sent out a capture team to bring him in, had he known the Jinchuuriki was actually the hooded man known as sage whose eyes were rumoured to rival the Rinnegan, he would have just killed the boy the moment the report landed on his desk and took his eyes out.

To have such power, he would be unrivaled. He had to suppress a chuckle that was escaping his lips as he feigned himself being interested in the conversation. Which was again talking about the arrogant Uchiha, there are few things he would agree with Sarutobi but this was a matter that the two acknowledged in their younger years, the sharingan was a cheaters way of becoming strong. But he smiled briefly as he rubbed his hand absentmindedly on his bandaged arm, but shinobi don't play fair after all.

With Naruto

The blond sage was currently passing off the remaining amount of time he had in Konoha simply walking around catching the sights, he could briefly recall faces of people he once consider friends when he passed by their homes. Sakura, the banshee of a crush he had, though she wasn't that pretty, she was the only one who would even acknowledge his presence making him crave simply for the attention.

Sasuke, the teme who was arrogant and cocky but even through it the two had a rivalry of power and brotherhood as camaraderie was established even before the academy days and their meeting in the circumstances of his family's death. Something that seemed to shatter Naruto as he could understand Sasuke feelings to an extent as he never really grew up with a family but if he were to lose Gaara or Tayuya or anybody in his group, whom have become family to him, he'd be devastated, no, he'd go batshit insane trying to hunt down the person who did it. Naruto smiled inwardly as he saw a bunch of kids playing in front of the Academy ground and the lone swing in front of it where he would spend his days being excommunicated from everyone else.

Feeling a brief bout of nostalgia Naruto sat down on the swing as he used to before looking at the school longingly. 'I wonder how Iruka-sensei is?' Naruto mused, even though Naruto was young at the time he could see it in his teachers eyes, the only eyes that have ever really accepted him. There wasn't anger and disdain in those eyes instead worry and care that only an older brother would hold.

But his thoughts were cut short when he felt something press on his back. He lifted his head slightly to see Hikari leaning against him, her arms around his waist and her face nuzzled in the crook of his neck. "Bad memories?" She asked, her voice soft and soothing.

"Yea" Naruto answered in an even tone, refusing to seem weak in the eyes of, he considered, his charge. Hikari was young when he met her, one of the first he accepted into this little group. It was a year after he left Konoha, he found her when visiting a village and the two played for awhile but later he father ushered her back home.

Naruto didn't know at the time but when she arrived she was greeted to another boy whom she was supposed to marry. This boy was arrogant, cocky and rude a huge contrast to the company she had moments ago. At that night she stood crying at having to marry a boy she didn't want to marry catching the attention of Naruto who had stopped by to return her a pendant she dropped when she left the area they were playing at.

She told him what happened and Naruto went all out on her parents. That night he learned alot of secrets about her clan, secrets he refused to tell Hikari and even to believe them true but because of those secrets he took Hikari in, even though only being a year older than her, and left the clan house a smoldering mess to quell his anger.

The young red head had always been a little sister to Naruto and after he told her about the fox she remained completely impassive about it, stating that if the kyuubi was sealed in Naruto that would mean Naruto was the jailor and not the jailed. The blond smiled at that memory.

Hikari noticing it raised her eyebrows but didn't press. "You know we could burn Konoha down to the ground" Hikari suggested, but there was no humor in her voice, Naruto sighed at that point, nearly everybody in their group wanted Konoha a piece of ash, all of which connected to Naruto. They would often say that his feelings were their feelings and what they did to him was what they did to all of them and all agreed to burn the village. But the blond sage could no such thing, 'Too many innocent' Naruto thought.

"That's not gonna happen" Naruto said as he listened intently to the sounds of wolves howling into the night and crickets chirping. Hikari nodded her head against his back but kept close to him, she would gladly admit it, alongside the other females, that Naruto was literally a personal heater for all of them. The amount of body warmth he produced was staggering and it helped during the chilly seasons. Plus the fact that he honestly didn't mind being hugged by anyone of them made things far more easier.

"Come on it's getting late we should get home" Naruto said as he raised himself of the swing but had to suppress a chuckled when Hikari simply clung to him tighter, forcing him to give her a piggyback.

He was about to say something when he felt a tingling feeling going down on him, it was the same tingling feeling when he was attacked by a-'A Genjutsu' He thought with wide eyes before turning and gently sliding a ,genjutsu-induced, sleeping Hikari off his back and pulled out the a kunai as he scanned the tree area, his ocular abilities rendered useless for the moment.

Genjutsu was an art Naruto thoroughly hated. Not just because it was impossible for him to set up, without his eyes of course, but when one was casted on him he could barely see using his eyes.

Simply because genjutsu was the art of placing a person in an illusion by practically putting him in a veil of chakra that would affect the area around him. Normally it would mean nothing because of the Kyuubi and his eyes but a particularly strong genjutsu, which was one that was usually put on him, would take a while to break out of but he wouldn't still be affected because his eyes are capable of bypassing a genjutsu entirely but the only problem is the chakra veil surrounding which practical blinds him from seeing any other chakra source outside said veil, making his ocular abilities impossible since he was incapable of seeing the flow of chakra in his opponent to control it.

Chakra is like a raging fire, it cannot be tamed and when it is, it is very unpredictable and difficult. Because of this Naruto needed to see the chakra in order to perfectly control it to either stop the flow completely, which uses an awful lot of concentration mind you, or simply use the chakra against his opponent. But thanks to the chakra veil Naruto has to resort to using his regular eyes, a pair of cerulean eyes he hadn't used in a long time, again.

So without further hesitation Naruto deactivated his doujutsu eyes and continued to scan. But he was literally pissed when he felt another genjutsu being placed on him 'Seriously!' He seethed as he thought of the thrashing he was about to bestow on his enemy.

Out of the trees four, men dressed strangely, wearing plain white masks appeared and ripped out their ninjatos off their backs. "So you escaped the genjutsu eh? Rather quickly I would say" One of the ninjas said. Naruto knew these people, ROOT operatives, victims under the command of Danzo, so he was hesitant in fighting them but knew their minds were too far gone to be saved.

Without further ado Naruto jumped forward and kunai clashed against ninjato as the two dueled only to have it interrupted when another raced forward to grab him. Reacting quickly Naruto dropped to the ground and raced through hand signs before calling out one of the many, non-ocular techniques he had. "Wind Release: Wind Dragon Jutsu" the dragon made of pure air sailed and impacted into the ROOT ninja's body before Naruto unleashed his full speed and rocketed away from his opponent in a sonic boom.

Caught surprised by the move, the ROOT operative had to fight down the urge to cup his bleeding ears from the sound that accompanied their adversary's impressive speed. Before anyone noticed, a faint afterimage of pure blond passed by the group before it disappeared alongside two of their allies. "Wh-what the?" He couldn't finish his sentence as the one who had been hit with the wind dragon disappeared as well.

The ROOT operative made a single step back out of fear before an image shimmered into existence before him, white soulless eyes staring into him with the centre tomoe taking the shape of three interconnected scythes spinning furiously at him. "Penance Stare" Was the last thing he heard before out from the eyes, only one word could explain it, hell appeared.

Bright glowing flames burst from his eyes and burned into his own. Images of people burning and suffering, a world of fire and demons plaguing his thoughts. He was forever trapped in this world as he dropped dead on the ground.

His eyes burnt into stone.

Naruto cupped his eyes in his hands, that technique exhausted him mentally as he needed to think up of the world he wanted to forever entrap the man ,who ruined a peaceful moment, in. So he used what he would describe as hell and simply just left him there for the rest of his life.

The blond turned around and picked up his, charge and walked away, not caring about the ROOT body that was strewn on the ground or his comrades that were laid out in the area, in various compromising positions and areas. He was pretty sure he dropped one of them in the womens changing room at the hot springs. That one was probably gonna have a fun time.

Sigh "And here I thought Konoha would get better" He muttered before he disappeared with a sonic boom and reappeared in front of a hotel.

He entered it and gave a nod to the receptionist who nodded back before discreetly doing hand seals underneath the desk, activating privacy seals. Naruto would very proudly admit of his spy network and loyal soldiers under his commands, however it was harder to get some into Konoha considering some of the peoples, 'grudge' against him but he was capable of sneaking in some of his more well trained soldiers who later took up jobs and became part of the civilian population.

The hotel housing one of his many operatives stationed in Konoha.

After the hotel was perfectly secured Naruto entered a single room at the top of the hotel which held the entire group, minus him and Hikari of course.

"What happened?" Temari asked in worry as she gently lifted Hikari off Naruto's back. "Some of Danzo's ROOT attacked us just now" Naruto grunted out as he pulled began nursing a rather sizeable cut on his arms. One of the ROOT operatives got a lucky hit when he was dragging them away.

"Let me see that" Yang said softly as she performed a medical jutsu on Naruto's arm, it wouldn't really matter because of Kyuubi but the fox would sometimes leave wounds as they are reasoning that it was 'experince for pain tolerance' which actually did make sense. Ever since Kurama stopped healing some of the nastier wounds Naruto learned to grow a pain tolerance and could probably survive at least a half hour of interrogation against Ibiki Morino, and that's saying something.

"Its not that bad really" Naruto tried to reassure her when he saw the worried look on her face "Not that bad, they were inches from hitting an artery!" She retorted heatedly as green chakra began forming on her palms. The blond resigned himself to his fate as he awaited for the jutsu to finish.

"You know we should probably deal with Danzo and his ROOT" Gaara suggested "If anything it'll make things easier for us in the future with our plans of stopping the Akatsuki" Temari added.

Naruto just sighed, in truth he had planned with dealing with ROOT but not so soon, he had planned in using Danzo to find Tobi, the alleged Madara, as his wife, Kami told him. Oh yes, every once and awhile Kami would come down and talk to Naruto, though she'd wear the skimpiest of outfits to tease Naruto and talk about...stuff with him. But Naruto had plenty of other ways to find out about Tobi, but he couldn't ask his wife about it, her reasoning being "If you are to be a god, you need to act like one and do things on your own"

The blond nodded his head in understanding, his idea to use Danzo was now useless as Danzo now will probably know he is the alleged 'Sage' the ninja god. The traitorous man would probably be able to piece everything together somehow. There were just too many variables to leave the man alive. Nodding his head Naruto turned to Gaara and Kankuro "You guys get prepared, most likely we'd be in for a fight for our lives, it won't be like the sand and sound, these guys are trained to deal with guys like us" Nodding their head, the two brothers left to prepare while Naruto turned to the females.

They all exchanged knowing looks before looking at Naruto, fire burning in their eyes, to his credit he didn't flinch "We're going with you" The girls stated in one, except Hikari who was still asleep.

"No" His voice boomed, making sure they understood the gravity of the situation "You girls may have proven competent against the sand and sound troops but they were mere cannon fodder, these are trained assassins that put even the Hokages STEM in shame, you are inexperienced and ill prepared" Naruto looked at Tayuya "You may be skilled in genjutsu but in you physical area you are merely genin material, making you useless for the close quarters fighting" The redhead visibly cringed when Naruto blue eyes that once held warmth were not ice-cold, soulless.

Naruto turned to Temari "You are no different while your abilities with wind jutsu are among commendable levels you are useless without your fan and again in close quarter fighting" The blond lowered her head not wanting to meet his gaze, Naruto looked to Yang "You are the only one of them who I can safely say that can last at least take on two ROOT members alone" This got Yang smiling "But you are limited to your blades, all of your techniques are close quarters making the polar opposite of the other two, which if you were balanced would be alright but you're not and I doubt ROOT would be 'honorable' and fight with only blades" Yang gained a downcast expression and when his gaze landed on Hikari, his eyes soften "I don't need to explain Hikari, she's not physically strong and only knows a few jutsu, most of those few being medical jutsus, she is not capable of defending herself, let alone attacking a ROOT ninja" After stating each of their faults Naruto started casting his gaze to each one, softening as he continued down. "Each of you are strong in your own right but not strong enough"

With that Naruto left through the door, also going to get prepared, leaving the women to think his words through.

In a secluded location (Several hours after the talk)

Naruto sat atop a tree trunk and stared at the underground base that laid ahead. He had changed his clothes drastically.

No longer did he wear the flak jacket but instead he word a chest plate, complete steel and able to withstand even the strongest blade, under that he wore a black shirt with streaks of red on the sleeves. He wore metal greaves and arm bracers alongside metal boots and shin guards.

He now wore a mask, this mask was white and his eye holes, instead of being circular, was instead rectangular with red streaks going down the eye holes as if it was crying bloody tears. The eye holes held nothing but darkness in them, pitch black except for the furiously spinning eyes of Narutos doujutsu.

By his side was Gaara, dressed in a similar armor chest plate but lacked the rest, he wore red steel toed sandals with red pants and shirt. His gourd was still the same except now there were several longer than average kunai strapped around the centre of it.

Kankuro was also no longer wearing his catsuit. Instead he wore a white flak jacket with the kanji for 'Puppet master' on his back and a pair of dark brown pants and shirt. On his head he wore a headband but instead of the symbol for Suna it had the Kanji of 'Death'. On his back was his trust puppet while around his waist were smaller puppets, dolls to be exact. These were his trump card.

Behind them were a row of ninjas. Each dressed the same, all of them wearing white flak jackets with a pair of dark black pants and shirts with black sandals and the headband on their foreheads with the Kanji for 'Light'. These were Naruto's troops, the carriers of his will, of a gods will. 'To ensure peace in the land of chaos' that is their goal, that is Narutos goal, that is the goal of the Village hidden in the Light. Without further ado, he and his team of sleepers, jumped off and prepared for a fight.