Well I appreciate the reviews I received, and I'm glad you all left a comment. Just to clear some things up, there is a reason why the Anbu didn't see him leave the city and some of you may like the reason why. Anko was technically on her way to Konoha when she caught Naruto's trail she followed it. Ok anyways on with the story. Kind of a filler chapter, but this stuff is important to know.

Chapter 2: New Identity

The light of dawn shined once again over the new day in Konoha. A heavily hungover Hokage was freshly awake in her desk she had fallen asleep on the night before. Tsunade was stressed out of her mind at the moment; first the Uchiha kid takes off, second Naruto nearly kills him and she has to spend all day saving his life, and finally Naruto was getting put on trial today for the "attempted execution" of Sasuke which was just plain ridiculous.

Sakura really didn't do her any favors by stirring up the council by telling them about Naruto's fight with Sasuke. She stared at her desk lost in thought, 'Red chakra…why did Sakura have to tell them that.' It would only translate as one thing to them, and that would be the Kyuubi is taking over the boy. It saddened her to think that people could be so heartless all because they were too afraid to see Naruto as a person. She glanced at the pile of paperwork on her desk she had failed to do the day before, and felt her head throb even worse 'There is no way that's getting done today. I should go see Naruto and try to talk to him again about this council thing…he seemed so distant. I wonder what was wrong with him?' the woman thought to herself ashamed that she was too tired to get him to open up.

A knock was heard at the door and Tsunade hoped it was Naruto. "Come in." Sadly though, her hopes were diminished by the sight of Danzo at the door with a dead serious look on his face. "Lady Tsunade, where is the boy?" he demanded. She then felt a bit concerned by the way he was acting. "I last saw Naruto in the hospital late afternoon yesterday right after you left…Why what's happened?" Danzo was pissed judging by the way he was pacing in front of her desk glaring at her. "The two Anbu I assigned to watch him are both dead…as well as four north gate guards. Tsunade's eyes almost exploded out of their sockets, "WHAT!"

Danzo visibly tensed under the Hokage's angry outburst. "They were all found slain in the team seven training grounds…all of them were killed by Kunai to the heart with incisions on their cheeks. Here's the strange thing though, it looks as if they all killed themselves." Tsunade shivered at the thought of what that could mean. "I have to see this for myself," Tsunade pushed past Danzo and hurried down to the tower and out to the forest where the crime scene was. As she arrived, she saw a dozen Anbu covering the perimeter and several Jounin, as well as Jiraiya, all standing around the bodies.

When she arrived, she noticed several medic nin examining the bodies. Jiraiya turned to her and spoke up, "Whoever did this to these men is a genjutsu master…but it would have had to be something terrible to make them all kill themselves." Tsunade looked at the grizzly scene in disgust as she turned to her formed teammate, "You have some kind of lead I'm assuming." Jiraiya had a distressed look on his face and spoke up, "Yeah only one thing could do this to chunin and Anbu…a Mangekyo Sharingan." Everybody at the scene instantly turned their gaze to Jiraiya as everything went silent.

Tsuande knew exactly what that meant, "So Itachi is behind this?" awkward silence filled the air once again at the mention of one of Konoha's number one missing nins. One of the random Jounin spoke up to everybody's surprise, "Why would he kill random gate guards and Anbu?" Danzo who had recently just arrived to overhear Jiraiya's theory replied, "It's the fact that those Anbu were guarding the Kyuubi kid and now he's missing." Everybody was shocked except Tsunade who already heard that news. Jiraiya muttered quietly, "No, that can't be it…that would mean Itachi has kidnapped him." Danzo, being the asshole that he is shot out his theory, "That or the kid is a lot smarter than you all think. I woudn't doubt if he was working for Itachi to kill Sasuke. My ROOT agents have been investigating his movements since he brought Sasuke back, but what you all don't know is he had been sighted in these very same grounds the day before, and was seen breaking into the library that night. My agents went missing the night he went home. Not too long after I left, I heard a testimony from a civilian that he went on a rampage on his way out of the hospital the previous night, and gave the man a concussion."

Jiraiya looked unconvinced by Danzo's accusation, "Naruto wouldn't do things like that…it's just not in him." Tsunade and several other jounin including Kakashi who was also there nodded in unison. "I find it a little too convenient that he almost kills Sasuke and 'gets kidnapped' the night before his trial with the council," Danzo retorted harshly. Joy and wonder soon graced the group of shinobi as none other than Sakura showed up and applied her two cents to the argument, "He was acting different last night when I saw him in the hospital, he left his hitae-ite by Sasuke's hospital nightstand when he left, but not before assaulting me! And his eyes were changing colors from red to blue and purple."

Danzo smiled at the girl and acknowledged her information, "Yes the same red eyes of the..." Tsunade put her hand over Danzo's mouth and glared at him, "DANZO, nobody breaks that law in front of low level shinobi!" Danzo pushed her hand away merely smirked. "What law?" the pink girl whined. Kakashi broke into the little ring of wonder that was going on, "You said he left his Hitae-ite? Naruto would never do that, it means too much to him. I think this is obviously some kind of kidnapping set up to look like he went rogue."

Danzo sighed at Kakashi for derailing his theory. There was unanimous agreement with Kakashi seeing as how everybody knew the boy treasured his Hitae-ite. 'That pink haired girl just ruined my one chance to send hunter-nin after the kid…shit.' Danzo thought to himself as he walked away without another word. He knew he could get the council to back him up fortunately. Sakura took her leave as well saying she had to be by her "Sasuke-kun's side." Tsunade turned to the Anbu and Jounin present and told them to gather at the Hokage tower for a Jounin meeting. Everybody dispersed except the medic nin disposing of the bodies and Jiraiya. The man looked at Tsunade with a worried look on his face, "What would Itachi want with Naruto do you think?"

The hokage taking another look at the bodies sighed heavily, "There's no telling, but he does know Naruto is the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, I wouldn't doubt if he had some kind of sick motive." Jiraiya looked over his former teammate who had a horrified look on her face, "Tsunade-hime, you okay?" The woman snapped back into her proper state of mind and replied quietly so the medics wouldn't hear, "Something was wrong about him when I saw him last night…he wasn't his usual self; he threatened to kill Danzo, and he had this dark attitude." Jiraiya's raised an eyebrow at this, "You're sure it was him and not some imposter?" She looked at him like he was stupid, "I can sense his chakra, no way that wasn't him."

Meanwhile said blonde was jumping through the trees at surprising speed. He had been running all night just in case anybody was hot on his trail. His inhuman stamina was a true gift to be proud of he thought to himself as we wondered what he was going to do. 'Those people from wave country think I'm a hero, maybe I'll stay with them for a bit till I figure out a plan.' The former genin planned as he panted heavily from the long night of tree sprinting. "You can't stay in one place for too long, or they'll find you. This will be a hotspot as soon as they find out you're missing."

Heeding the fox's warning, Naruto started to plan ahead of Wave, 'Where could I go kyuubi?' The demon fox simply answered with a question, "Where does darkness rain?"

Naruto had no clue what that could mean, 'Reign as in rule? Or Rain as in fall?' the fox just laughed in his head. 'Big help…well I guess I'll figure that out later, anyways can you teach me new Jutsu Kyuubi?' The fox stopped laughing briefly and bluntly replied, "Jutsu? HAHAHAHA what do you think I am? Human?" Naruto facepalmed at the fox's ridiculous demeanor. 'You seem to be in an awfully good mood.' The blond landed by the edge of the forest and walked on the path that lead across the Great Naruto Bridge (I forgot the name lol I think that's it)

"I can't directly teach you any jutsu, but I know a place where you could learn some. I just so happen to know the location of a hidden vault in this cave I used to live in. Conveniently, it has treasures I collected from idiot ninja over the years. It is protected by a powerful barrier I placed before I left, so I doubt anyone has found it."

Naruto stopped halfway over the bridge looking into the water again, 'So you have a vault of everything I would ever want? How in the world would I learn any of it without a teacher?' Suddenly Naruto's eyes began to burn again as he saw them change color in his reflection. "With the power of the Rinnegan you can master in Jutsu in very short time…not to mention with your shadow clones the time it would take you master a jutsu would be like five minutes." The fox chuckled in his head. Naruto's eyes were now purple with rings in them. 'So this is the Rinnegan huh?' he said to himself more than kyuubi. The fox spoke to him once again, "I wouldn't suggest staying here…one of these blabbermouth idiots will go spouting off you have purple eyes and half of the shinobi world is going to send assassins after you."

'Why would the other nations send assassins after me? He inquired. "Well the Kages might see you as a threat seeing as how you have the Rinnegan and would likely send nothing short of an army after you."

'How would I live if I can't ever be spotted anywhere?' the blond asked irritated by the notion of living alone. "The time will come when you reveal yourself and can usurp power to challenge the other nations…until that time, we ride solo." 'Fine but where is this cave of yours?' the blond asked curiously. "Well we are currently east of fire country (Mr. Unknown Uchiha killed the north guards to throw the Konoha nin off of his tracks) on this bridge to Wave…if I remember correctly, it is Northwest of the Valley of the End between Takigakure and Otogakure. I can't remember it off the top of my head, but the cave is hidden by a waterfall near the borders of waterfall country."

'For some kind of an all-knowing demon fox god, you sure do act like an old man.' The blond laughed as he began his long trek back through fire country. 'I came all this way and this stupid cave of yours is all the way northwest of Konoha? That's the complete opposite direction!' Naruto yelled at the fox as he set off once again. He looked one last time at his eyes which were still purple as he silently walked away not even glancing back at the village in wave country which was within viewing distance.

He sighed at the mental image of him covering fire country again risking his discovery

One week later in a hospital room a certain raven-haired Uchiha woke in shock, "What the…where am I?" His voice stirred a pink haired girl from her sleep who was lying on a chair next to his bed. Sasuke glared at Sakura not wanting to ever see her face again, 'Shit Naruto must have brought me back.' The Uchiha sat up much to the disapproving whining sounds he heard coming from Sakura, "Sasuke-kun you're hurt don't sit up you need your rest." He wondered if he actually was killed and woke up in hell as he stared at her with pure disgust.

The boy looked down at his chest and saw a lot of padded wrappings around his chest. 'Guess his Rasengan hit me…but how? I had a fully developed Sharingan, I would have seen it. Sasuke was lost in thought thinking of his blond friend completely tuning out everything Sakura was saying. Then to his mighty rescue, Danzo, Tsunade, and two Anbu walked in to greet him.

"Ah Sasuke-san it is good to see you're alive," Danzo said in his normal weasel manner. Sasuke told the guy to fuck off with his eyes and looked at Tsunade for a minute and asked, "Where is Naruto?" Sakura shouted at this comment, "Who cares, he almost killed you, He's gone Sasuke it's for the best." Sasuke just felt like tearing her lame pink hair out for insulting his only friend, "You have no room to insult him bitch, he's my friend…" Sasuke stated coldly as he stood up and made eye contact with Tsunade waiting for an answer.

She had a distressed look on her face and spoke sadly, "He's missing Sasuke…we have no idea what happened to him…some think it's a kidnapping, while others believe he went rogue. Either way the council has authorized the use of hunter nin to bring him in…alive or dead." Tsunade had a defeated look on her face clearing indicating that the council had favored Danzo's theory over Jiraiya's. Sasuke looked pissed at the thought of Naruto bringing him back just to go rogue. "He left his Hitae-ite by your night stand before he disappeared," Danzo added. Sasuke's Sharingan flared as he heard this. Tsunade handed the forehead protector to Sasuke who stared at it fiercely.

"Why don't you fill me in on why you think this is a kidnapping," the raven haired boy requested. Tsunade took several minutes to explain the situation to Sasuke as she stared out a window. Sasuke spoke up after she was finished, "That definitely sounds like a Mangekyo Sharingan…Itachi used that on me before he left." He received wide eyed stares from the inhabitants in the room, especially Danzo. "He wouldn't go rogue…your theory is full of shit Danzo, Itachi has taken him!" Sasuke yelled at the old man who seemed rather confused that the Uchiha would defend somebody who almost killed him.

"Why are you defending him Sasuke?" Tsunade asked in a sincerely curious way. "He was…is my best and only true friend," the raven haired boy said as he seemed less interested in his surroundings and was lost in thought. "What about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Sasuke-kun?" the pink haired girl whined annoyingly. He just looked at her for half a second and started to walk out of the room. As he walked past Danzo and reached the door the man spoke up, "Don't try looking for him, or even think of leaving this village, because I got you under a full squad of Anbu surveillance."

'I want this guy to die…' he thought to himself as he didn't even bother with a response. Then once again to his annoyance Sakura blocked his path with tear-filled eyes, "Why don't you like me!" she sobbed pathetically. "I don't like weak people, and I hate the color pink," Sasuke answered honestly internally laughing at the look on her face. He was under house arrest, so the only thing he could do was go home and train.

Back with our favorite Jinchuuriki, Naruto had made surprising progress through fire country undetected and was nearing on the cave Kyuubi spoke of. He was currently in a small camp he set up briefly. He had a pretty eventful week as he ran through several towns stealing supplies he needed and even managed to find some orange dye that matched the exact color of Kyuubi's fur. "That's so good of my little kit to wanna be just like me" Kyuubi mentioned as he began dying his air orange.

'I figure I'll need a new identity if I'm a missing nin and all. So if I have different hair and eyes they won't think it's me…well unless they get a good look at my whisker marks.' he thought to himself cursing his own logic. "You idiot…it won't matter, because we're going to be spending a lot of time in that cave."

The blond started dying his hair much to the Kyuubi's amusement. As he finished he let it soak in for a few minutes, in the running stream 'I have to live in some stupid cave for how long exactly?' he inquired painfully. "Well that depends on how fast you learn all the bullshit ninja junk I saved. I knew there was a good reason for keeping those scrolls after I killed that one town…" the fox drifted off into a nervous chuckle as he changed the subject, "it's way better than you're going to expect, just trust me on that one kit."

Naruto began to pack up his camp and made his way downriver. "You're going to wanna keep an eye out for twin waterfalls and a huge stone boulder in between them. Once we reach it, use my Chakra,"

He searched for what seemed an hour for this stupid boulder receiving fake praise from the Kyuubi for being a master of awareness. Finally after passing through a shaded forest he found the waterfall at the split of the river. "About time kit, ok now use this chakra…" Naruto felt the familiar red chakra cover his body as he walked through the boulder.

As he walked through the large cavern, he imagined Kyuubi squeezing through the chamber. It was fairly large, but not extravagant or anything. He kept following the trail and finally came upon an open field with grass, water, and piles upon piles of priceless items, food, and scrolls. Strangely though, it had an open sky above it, as well as super high cliffs surrounding it.

"Where are we?" he said out loud to himself. "Welcome to the Fox Den kit, my treasure is stacked over that ninja vault in here. 'How has nobody found it with an open sky above it?' "It was a barrier I placed a long time ago, somewhat like what you would call Genjutsu." The now orange-haired ninja looked around in disbelief… "This is too good to be true."

"Now you see why I kept telling you to leave…but no you had to go all emotionally compromised on me Heh. Anyways, the good news is you're here now." The purple eyed boy went to the scrolls immediately and read the first one, "Wind Mastery techniques…" Somehow right then the blond knew he was going to like it here.

Alright there was chapter two for you guys. Hope you enjoyed, I'll put the third chapter up sometime later this week. Before anybody starts asking…no Sasuke and Naruto will not be having any kind of romance, I merely wanted to emphasize the fact that they were friends and Naruto was one of the few people Sasuke respects. Sorry to all the Sakura fans for the bashing, but I just don't have the best opinion of her. As far as the council and jounin meetings I left out, you can thank me for sparing you the trouble of reading the familiar political bullshit the council always does LOL. There will be some Akatsuki fun in later chapters, but I don't want to rush the plot if you catch my drift. Anko will make a triumphant appearance in chapter 3 for those of you who are sad to have missed her this chapter. Feel free to comment if you have something to mention about the story. I am fire-proof, so feel free to flame me if you felt personally wronged by anything I have said.